(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?

DirtBagXon

For anyone who hasn't figured ActionMax install

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/tree/master/00-singe1/actionmax

Current ActionMax status:

These games read specific pixels from the YUV/YV12 video overlay in an SDL_Texture

Reading information from SDL_Textures is problematic as it is contained in GPU memory.

This can be achieved using SetRenderTarget and RenderReadPixels but is already a slow process. It also only seems to be implemented well in X11.

It appears RetroPie (armhf) isn't handling this well at the moment.

ActionMax (armhf) will not work with SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED only in software SDL_RENDERER_SOFTWARE using the -nohwaccel argument.

The issue is then that the CPU has to handle this heavy texture switching and reading, and the Pi struggles.

ActionMax works as expected on (x86_64) and (i386) RetroPie builds using hardware acceleration in X11.

The Windows version (no X11) requires -nohwaccel but CPU grunt handles it fine from there.

Without a major rewrite of the overlay codebase, this is a casualty of the SDL1 to SDL2 porting, until better X11 support is implemented or SDL2 matures.

DTEAM

@DirtBagXon

Hi DirtBagXon, I've install all your games. Nice piece of work!! I have use ffmpeg like you said for the MP4 but I reprocessed them a second time with this line (note : you can do It directly by changing the first (".m2v") by (".mp4") in the command line below).

for %%a in ("*.m2v") do 01-ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vcodec mpeg1video -acodec copy "newfiles\%%~na.m2v"
pause

You have to create a folder named "newfiles"

It reduce your m2v from 567 Mb to 29.5 Mb (timetraveler) and 2.45 Gb to 675 Mb for (Fireandice)The quality drop down probably to much for a TV, but on my handheld screen, It doesn't make difference. It works well. It's a good option to make room on SD cards.

I would like to know if we can increase the time react manually. For titanae, It's pretty fast.

DirtBagXon

@dteam said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@DirtBagXon

It reduce your m2v from 567 Mb to 29.5 Mb (timetraveler) and 2.45 Gb to 675 Mb for (Fireandice)The quality drop down probably to much for a TV, but on my handheld screen, It doesn't make difference. It works well. It's a good option to make room on SD cards.

Excellent news, can I ask what handheld you are using ?

I would like to know if we can increase the time react manually. For titanae, It's pretty fast.

If you hit '9' once the game has loaded you get an options menu, you could try winding difficulty down to 'easy' ?

I would just like to share a logo that has been designed for Hypseus Singe too:

DTEAM

@dirtbagxon
Nice logo !!! I’m gonna add it to my theme!

Does Conan will be added to your list?

@dirtbagxon said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

Excellent news, can I ask what handheld you are using ?

I'm running RetroPie on a handheld build. I did that for a Pi3 more than 2 years ago and I converted It for a Pi4 (It's really tight). I have used recycled materials (screws, old controller, LEGO parts, wooden tin for clementines, door screen, springs, old plank, old pencil basket) and materials from my children's DIY material basket (Popsicle sticks and toothpicks). Maybe It looks like hell but the gameplay is wonderfull , it's solid and the battery is huge (10000 mAh). For the controller, I have used a Teensy LC and for the touchscreen, It's a 5 inch (The touchscreen works well with Drastic for Nintendo DS and ppsspp for PSP ). For USB and HDMI, I have used ribbon wiring. I have used a small amp for the speakers (stereo sound). SD card = 512 GB

It was a really fun creative project to do. I recommend it to everyone. It took me a lot of time to do it. I had to use wooden clamps for each piece. I preferred this project more to the one I did with a 3d printer for a Pi Zero. The wooden project is original and It's not a copy from another project (even the electronic part of it !!)

DirtBagXon

@dteam said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon
Does Conan will be added to your list?

I have no plans, but that doesn't stop you from porting it over. All the info you need is here https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data and there are plenty of examples to work from.

Just check any video in the games does not exceed the 65535 video frame limit before you start or you will have issues. But I think Conan was a Singe 1 game so, unless more video was added, it should be good.

@dirtbagxon said in [(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?]
It was a really fun creative project to do. I recommend it to everyone. It took me a lot of time to do it. I had to use wooden clamps for each piece. I preferred this project more to the one I did with a 3d printer for a Pi Zero. The wooden project is original and It's not a copy from another project (even the electronic part of it !!)

That is really cool idea, far better than anything I could come up with.

DirtBagXon

Further tinkering (v2.5.5):

Laserdisc/CRT artifacts - Scanlines and blanking searches:

timegalv2

cobraab

Badlands

When setup optimally:
lair

DirtBagXon

@dteam said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

Does Conan will be added to your list?

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/tree/master/00-singe1/conan

You just need to locate the Singe .m2v and .ogg files as listed in the README.

They are out there.....

DTEAM

@dirtbagxon
Thanks !!! 👍🏻

DTEAM

@dirtbagxon said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

You just need to locate the Singe .m2v and .ogg files as listed in the README.
They are out there.....

I only found the "mp4" version for Singe2. Is there any way to split this MP4 into multiple m2v as you set in your conan.txt file.

DirtBagXon

@dteam

Drop me an email to the GitHub page contact. I'll go through options.

DirtBagXon

For anyone following this thread instead:

I have fixed a troublesome, and long standing, Singe frame timing issue in the latest release (2.5.6).

I recommend grabbing it, as it will probably make some of your existing, and some more of the newer games, playable.

I now have more Singe 2 games working through this fix, including some of the latest that have video frames within the < 65535 range:

Files in the usual places in my signature.

DirtBagXon

To ease integration into emulation platforms, there is no longer a need for a 'singe' peripheral data subdirectory.

Hypseus Singe v2.6.1 has added the -retropath argument to Singe games.

hypseus singe vldp -retropath ...<other required arguments>...

This performs an on-the-fly rewrite of the singe data path passed by game LUA from:

singe/timegal/

to

singe/../timegal.daphne/

The 'singe' subdirectory is now purely traversed, so we can simply symlink it in the -homedir to the existing 'roms' folder in the daphne -datadir.

Detailed fully in latest RetroPie documentation and daphne.sh script.

DirtBagXon

I have announced many features here, but the latest release of Hypseus Singe (v2.6.6) - has fixed a fundamental timing bug that has been there since I first got Singe working.

For those helping around that time, you may remember the think_delay() timing issue we were adjusting in order to get video/audio in sync.

At the time the number of 30ms was found to work universally. This was a huge 20ms above the original Singe value of 10ms. This 20ms difference has created issues with event timing and frame rate in Singe games ever since. Many I have worked-a-round, others not.

Well now I finally figured what was creating the issue that required the slower frame rate in the Daphne VLDP. This has been fixed. Singe is now working on the 10ms delay loop once again.

This makes massive improvements and fixes many timing issues that give fluid and smooth gameplay, especially in gun game accuracy and video (framerate) playback.

I suggest you go for the upgrade path.

Important Note: As of version 2.6.4 another massive improvement was made in aiming accuracy within gun games. Alignment changes were a by product of that change, which in turn affected sprite alignment of the Singe 2 ported games.

All the corrected Singe 2 .singe files have been updated in the hypseus_singe_data repo and fix this. But you will need to grab these if making the jump from versions previous to 2.6.4.

DirtBagXon

@pjft said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

There are, however, people still developing fan-made games that make for interesting experiences in this space. I personally am dabbling in re-creating Road Blaster based on higher quality footage. I'll see if that ever gets done :)

I don't know if you got anywhere in your project, but there is now a 4K MPEG-2 (2880x2160) .m2v for Road Blaster that works perfectly in Hypseus Singe:

Road Blaster1

Road Blaster2

I doubt you will get it running at this resolution on the Pi, but you could downsize or play in Ubuntu/Windows :)

pjft

@dirtbagxon oh, wow. Thank you for the heads up - I was not aware of this! Definitely not to run on the Pi, but perhaps I could look into downscaling it or using it as an upgraded source for the version I was making. :)

At the time I finished my version, gameplay-wise, but I didn't finish all the unique death animations. I believe I shared my version at the time with Karis, an active creator of Singe ports, and he had suggested running my source video through a program such as Topaz, but I lacked the hardware for it, so I'm happy someone actually did a great job with it.

Thank you. How are you keeping?

Best.

DirtBagXon

@pjft said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon oh, wow. Thank you for the heads up - I was not aware of this! Definitely not to run on the Pi, but perhaps I could look into downscaling it or using it as an upgraded source for the version I was making. :)

Once it's out there, it good to go with whatever....

I am looking for 4K content for all the Daphne games, as unlike the old Daphne, Hypseus will support the high definition content on all games, not just the Digital Leisure titles in old OpenGL.

Of course these high res MPEG-2 videos will struggle on the current Pi's. But moving forward who knows....

At the time I finished my version, gameplay-wise, but I didn't finish all the unique death animations. I believe I shared my version at the time with Karis, an active creator of Singe ports, and he had suggested running my source video through a program such as Topaz, but I lacked the hardware for it, so I'm happy someone actually did a great job with it.

Yep, Road Blaster was run through Topaz, not by me, but it really has cleaned up nicely.

There is a 1440x1080 version of Cobra Command around too, which plays on cobra, cobraab, cobram3 and cobraconv ROMS.

Thank you. How are you keeping?

No problem bud.

All good here, good to see you around.

DirtBagXon

Lightgun support added:

Sinden and DolphinBar confirmed:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe/discussions/21

Pablo 0

Hi, I'm stuck installing Singe on raspberry pi3b
the installation fails when I give

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../src
make -j

DirtBagXon

@pablo-0 said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

Hi, I'm stuck installing Singe on Retropie
the installation fails

Looks like it has locked up ?

Try make instead of make -j keep compilation to a single core.

Reset, by removing the build directory first:

cd hypseus-singe  
rm -rf build  
mkdir build  
cd build  
cmake ../src  
make

Pablo 0

@dirtbagxon wow, thanks. Time Gal works like a charm