Retropie 4.71: daphne

[jamrom2]

@alturis it's not so much the roms, but how some of the emulators work.

I can help you with a few of them. I've gotten 43 working on my Pi3. But that's not a Pi4. There are differences, but file structure and how to set up should be the same in both builds.

[Alturis]

@jamrom2 The only daphne game I ever cared about or got working was Dragon's Lair LOL. I was able to locate the dle_21.zip roms for it but so far have not found the mv2 and ogg files for it. I tried to use my existing ones from lr-daphne but the game doesnt load and errors out.

At any rate. Sure I would love any info you have.

[jamrom2]

@alturis
No problem. I dont know how lr-Daphne works without the ogg and mv2 files...but to get Dragon's Lair going in Daphne, start with a Google search for 720p version. I can't say where they are (at least I don't think I can for the media files), but it's not hard. The same converted file can be used for ever version of DL. The 2.1 version is good...but it's linear, meaning...same order of screens every time. The 1.1 is better because not only do you get the bridge scene, but the rooms are all random. The other roms are on the Daphne website for free download.

So start there. Google that and tell me when you get the files. You'll have to create an account on the forum you find them on, but it's a great forum.

[Alturis]

@jamrom2 Well I do have the .mv2 and .ogg files that were used with the lair.zip roms and the lair.dat that maps them all. What I meant was that I was trying to use the same .mv2 and .ogg files and .dat file but renamed the .dat file dle21.dat

At any rate it still seems to try and load up using fb neo and I still can't find a way to choose daphne as the emulator for it. Even though I have installed daphne in my retropie setup, it does not offer that as a choice in the run command dialog.

Also: Thanks for the tip. I am downloading the 1080p version of Dragon's lair from that I believe the same forum you mentioned right now.

[stoney66]

@alturis Try putting your roms/folders in .roms/daphne/ instead of arcade and see if that helps. Like jamrom2 said try getting regular daphne emulator working first just to make sure you have your files correct. I never tried lr-daphne so I can't really comment on that. I would assume it would work from arcade folder if you can set the correct emulator to launch. If it's like other libretro emus when you launch the game you need to pick the emulator for that game, maybe fb-neo is your default.

[Alturis]

@stoney66 Yeah that is how I have it.

./roms/daphne/roms/lair.zip
./roms/arcade/lair.daphne/*.dat
./roms/arcade/lair.daphne/*.mv2
./roms/arcade/lair.daphne/*.ogg
./roms/arcade/lair.daphne/lair.command
./roms/arcade/lair.daphne/lair.txt

(updated to reflect where the lair.zip is - fixed my typo )

What I seem to be missing is whatever step it takes for launching the game to recognize this as a daphne rom as it keeps trying to load it as lr-fbneo

But clearly it IS seeing the lair.zip rom set within the daphne folder.

[stoney66]

@Alturis back one level for the directory was what I was talking about. This is how mine is setup as well as how the rpi docs for daphne state.

./roms/arcade/daphne/roms/lair.zip
vs
./roms/daphne/roms/lair.zip

your directories like lair.daphne with all the ogg files etc need to also be in the daphne root folder ./roms/daphne/

[Alturis]

@stoney66 Yes sorry my bad. I just mistyped what I have. I do have the rom zip in that folder

./roms/daphne/roms/lair.zip

[Alturis]

Ok. Not sure how I misread the instructions so badly. But yes, this is what I have now yet it is still not working as lr-fbneo is attempting to run the rom. I still dont get the option to choose daphne as the emulator in the run command startup dialog.

./roms/daphne/roms/lair.zip
./roms/daphne/lair.daphne/*.dat
./roms/daphne/lair.daphne/*.mv2
./roms/daphne/lair.daphne/*.ogg
./roms/daphne/lair.daphne/lair.command
./roms/daphne/lair.daphne/lair.txt

[Alturis]

Was attempting to uninstall daphne and reinstall it from sources, but it seems to hang up forever on copintf.cpp during compile.

Oh wait never mind... just had a wait a LONG time.

Re-installing Daphne from sources seems to have done the trick.

[Alturis]

Actually one more thing I wanted to get setup for daphne games are the arcade bezel overlays.

Typically one would create a <romname>.zip.cfg right in the roms folder along with the <romname>.zip file.

But for daphne the roms are in another subfolder.

I was going to experiment with putting a lair.zip.cfg in either the root daphne folder or the daphne/roms folder but wondered if someone already knows the concrete answer to how these are setup for daphne?

[mitu]

@alturis Bezels via .cfg are supported for RetroArch based emulators, Daphne is not one of those.

[jamrom2]

@alturis Are all good now? Are you using Daphne or lr-daphne?

I was going to post a write-up for you for Daphne, but if you don't need it, I won't bother.

As mitu already posted, native Daphne does not support overlays or shaders. You can try lr-daphne in the quick menu of Retroarch.