Box86 and Wine on RPi4

[Troopaking]

@george
Sudo apt-get install qjoypad worked for me as well on a few builds .
Me and RusselB (mainly Russels knowledge) have been working on qjoyoad instead of joy2key in wine . Qjoyoad performs a lot better and can scripted like Russel has done for each game to launch different settings.

All of us have done a good combined effort to make something really cool . Hopefully they will use in retropie offical soon .
Thanks to russel, you and others for the work.

I greatly appreciate the teamwork and community effort .

[RussellB]

@russellb said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

@george sudo apt-get install qjoypad did the trick. Installed version 4.1.

Replace the test for .conf file in "Wine Desktop.sh" with this code. If ~/.qjoypad3 folder does not exist, it ignores the call to qjoypad all together.

elif [[ "${params[0]}" == *.conf ]]; then
    configFile=$(cat "${params[@]}")
    WINEPREFIX=$(configValueForKey WINEPREFIX "$configFile")
    DIRECTORY=$(configValueForKey DIRECTORY "$configFile")
    PROGRAM=$(configValueForKey PROGRAM "$configFile")
    OPTIONS=$(configValueForKey OPTIONS "$configFile")
    QJOYPADLAYOUT=$(echo $(basename "$(dirname "${PROGRAM}")"))
 
    echo "Launching with config file"
    echo "WINEPREFIX: $WINEPREFIX"
    echo "DIRECTORY: $DIRECTORY"
    echo "PROGRAM: $PROGRAM"
    echo "OPTIONS: $OPTIONS"
    echo "QJOYPADLAYOUT: $QJOYPADLAYOUT"
 
    if [[ "$DIRECTORY" ]]; then
        cd "$DIRECTORY"
    fi
 
    midi_synth start
    xset -dpms s off s noblank
    matchbox-window-manager &
    if [ -d "/home/pi/.qjoypad3" ]; then
        if [ -f "/home/pi/.qjoypad3/${QJOYPADLAYOUT}.lyt" ]; then
            qjoypad "$QJOYPADLAYOUT" &
            echo "Starting qjoypad with $QJOYPADLAYOUT"
        elif [ -f "/home/pi/.qjoypad3/WINE.lyt" ]; then
            qjoypad WINE &
            echo "Starting qjoypad with WINE"
        else
            qjoypad &
            echo "Starting qjoypad with default layout"
        fi
    fi
    setarch linux32 -L /opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wine "${PROGRAM}" "${OPTIONS}"
    midi_synth stop
fi
 
 

Found a bug in the assignment of QJOYPADLAYOUT. Missing quotes around the parameter to basename.

[RussellB]

@russellb So to make like easy on the game add-on developer I have created a default WINE.lyt that has the default joypad values for MUGEN. Then, in mugen.cfg I have the following changes:

GameWidth=640
GameHeight=480
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FullScreen=1
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P1.Joystick.type = 0
P2.Joystick.type = 0

;-------------------------------------------------------
; P1 Key config (configurable from M.U.G.E.N)
[P1 Keys]
Jump   = 273
Crouch = 274
Left   = 276
Right  = 275
A      = 44
B      = 46
C      = 47
X      = 108
Y      = 59
Z      = 39
Start  = 13

; P2 Key config (configurable from M.U.G.E.N)
[P2 Keys]
Jump   = 119
Crouch = 115
Left   = 97
Right  = 100
A      = 102
B      = 103
C      = 104
X      = 114
Y      = 116
Z      = 121
Start  = 117

That way all the games can have the same configuration. If you want to have game-specific settings leave the keys alone in mugen.cfg for that game and create a custom layout in qjoypad that maps to that game. Easy peasy.

It occurs to me that M.U.G.E.N. deserves its own system in themes, but I can't find any themes that have a M.U.G.E.N. system. Also need a "Loading..." screen.

[RussellB]

@russellb Because not a lot of themes have a specific theme for MUGEN I made a subdirectory under roms/wine/M.U.G.E.N.. (need to periods so it shows up as M.U.G.E.N. in the ES menu) and put the MUGEN conf files in that folder. I'm using the "windows" theme for wine so this makes sense to me as they run under windows. I'm ok with that. :)

[Troopaking]

@george
Hello again George so Russell's qjoypad code works great. Just awesome stuff .

I'm having a issue with Baldurs Gate(bg). If I opened wine config then start bg works fine . But open through desktop or .conf fails. Has horrible black screen issue unless ran with wineconfig .

Update Baldurs Gate worked perfect when ran through .sh with startx instead of matchbox .

[RussellB]

@troopaking said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

@george
Hello again George so Russell's qjoypad code works great. Just awesome stuff .

I'm having a issue with Baldurs Gate(bg). If I opened wine config then start bg works fine . But open through desktop or .conf fails. Has horrible black screen issue unless ran with wineconfig .

Update Baldurs Gate worked perfect when ran through .sh with startx instead of matchbox .

I can't find a version of Baldur's Gate that runs properly even in Windows 10 to try it in WINE. :(

[RussellB]

Can someone try this for me?

Testing WINE with 3D Space Cadet Pinball originally for Windows 95. It runs fullscreen fine, however hitting "ESCAPE" key it switches back to a window and then hangs. Can't figure out why.

If I hit ALT+F4 however, it exists back to ES.

Looks like WINE is having a problem closing whatever application is running and it hangs.

NEVERMIND! I see this was noted in a previous post.

EDIT: Using xbindkeys and qjoypad I now have the ability to do a one-button exit back to ES:

xbindkeys is configured to map the "END" key to the command "pkill -f /opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wine".

qjoypad is configured so the "BACK" button send the "END" key

So "BACK Button"->qjoypad->xbindkeys->terminate wine process

I'll test it with other programs but now at least you don't need a keyboard for Pinball anymore!! If this works with mugen (Need to map a different button because I use "BREAK" as "ESCAPE" to traverse back through the menus. Let me do some more testing.

This even fixes the issue I had where on one RetroPie install it failed to exit when selecting the "EXIT" menu item or "ESCAPE". Now I programmed the "Logitech" button on the F710 to send the "END" key and it works great!

[RussellB]

Had to change the kill command to "kill $( pgrep -f "wine/bin/wine\ /")". This command kills the executable that was started so Wine can shutdown cleanly.

So I had to install xbindkeys and xbindkeys-config from apt-get. A custom configuration file to handle the END mapping to the script, and voila.

EDIT: Even easier way to shutdown cleanly:

/opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wineserver -k

[George]

@russellb That's awesome. The escape key problem on Space Cadet pinball always bothered me. I'm going to have to try this!

- George

[RussellB]

@george said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

@russellb That's awesome. The escape key problem on Space Cadet pinball always bothered me. I'm going to have to try this!

- George

Let me know if you want the files to try this out.

[Troopaking]

@George

So I tryed to use your scripts in combo with lutris installed on pi 4 .
Could work take some time to make lutris act right. It's acts funky sometimes .
The .sh would be simpler to code rough example
Bin bash
Cd "/home/pi/...."
Startx &
Qjoypad "blah"
Lutris lutris game id 3

I feel a few things to note/consider
-lutris complied mesa and vulkan itself and your scripts still worked fine.
-lutris can "install" games with a working directory so might be able to remove cd line all together that way .
-lutris has joystick configuration already . Haven't tested it yet . But might be able to remove qjoypad altogether with it .
-metadata for most games is fetched from lutris.net and could be transferred to es in theory .
-lutris takes space on sd with Metadata etc .
-lutris update could cause problems or solutions

[RussellB]

@george, @Troopaking

To get xbindkeys working:

1. sudo apt-get install xbindkeys
2. sudo apt-get install xbindkeys-config
3. Modify 'Wine Desktop.sh':

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xbindkeys -f ~/.xbindkeysrc &
setarch linux32 -L /opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wine "${PROGRAM}" "${OPTIONS}"
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4. Create ~/.xbindkeysrc:

"/opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wineserver -k"
    m:0x0 + c:115
    End

5. Modify the qjoypad layout file you want and assign 115 to the button you want to exit Wine:

Button X: Key 115

Where "X" is the number of the button assigned.

6. Run any Wine game and hit the button you assigned in step 5.
7. Profit!

[roslof]

I noticed the mesa folder generated from the script is almost 2GB in size. The lion's share in:
/opt/retropie/suppementary/mesa/lib/dri/

There are 23 .so files about 85MB a piece. For the RPi4. Wondering if any of these files are being used. I'd like to reduce the storage footprint by nuking any unnecessary files.

Best!

[Troopaking]

@roslof
I can't say if they are need that is rather large though .
Will try and look into it next time I test stuff out .
I assume the pi needs em that's why they are thier but can't conform or denie.

[RussellB]

@russellb said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

@george, @Troopaking

To get xbindkeys working:

1. sudo apt-get install xbindkeys
2. sudo apt-get install xbindkeys-config
3. Modify 'Wine Desktop.sh':

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xbindkeys -f ~/.xbindkeysrc &
setarch linux32 -L /opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wine "${PROGRAM}" "${OPTIONS}"
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4. Create ~/.xbindkeysrc:

"/opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wineserver -k"
    m:0x0 + c:115
    End

5. Modify the qjoypad layout file you want and assign 115 to the button you want to exit Wine:

Button X: Key 115

Where "X" is the number of the button assigned.

6. Run any Wine game and hit the button you assigned in step 5.
7. Profit!

So I ran into a problem with this approach. Shutting down the Wine Server prevented Pinball from saving its high scores. It apparently updates them upon normal close of the main window. So I changes to command in .xbindkeysrc to this:

"xdotool key --window $(xdotool search --name '3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet') 'ALT+F4' &"
 m:0x0 + c:115
 End

This shuts Pinball down gracefully and allows it to save high scores.

xdotool needs to be installed (sudo apt-get install xdotool) but once it is it now completes the ability to send key combinations from a controller to a Wine-based game:

qjoypad->xbindkeys->xdotool

1. Gamepad Button converts to single keyboard character using qjoypad
2. xbindkeys converts single keyboard character into a script that can be executed using xdotool
3. xdotool sends the key combination to the actively selected window

This approach does require a different .xbindkeysrc file per game if you want to use the same keyboard character.

I'll probably modify "Wine Desktop" to pick different .xbindkeysrc files as I mentioned above with qjoypad.

This was gonna keep me up at night.. it did last night. Whoo hoo!

Just fixed the 'Exiting' issue from SkiFree as well.

[retropieuser555]

So I haven't been on my pi4 in quite sometime but apparently this emulator that's a modification of visualboyadvance supports local multiplayer and is a 32bit Linux version. It'd be quite cool to see if it works with box86

https://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Emulators/VisualBoyAdvance-Link-103308.shtml

[Troopaking]

@retropieuser555
Why do you need box86 for a Linux app. Wine and box86 are for exe and windows files .
You can launch that linux game with a script from emulation station

[Folly]

@retropieuser555

Softpedia redirects to https://github.com/Jacques-Olivier/VisualBoyAdvance_Link, but that link is down.

So if you want this you have to search for the source code somewhere else.

[retropieuser555]

@troopaking well I haven't tested it yet but the app isn't for arm, it's a 32bit program. Which is what box86 is solving, allowing you to run 32bit programs on an arm build.

@folly ah bummer, I hadn't tried to download it yet but yeah I'll have a hunt around as I imagine it might be floating around the web somewhere, I'll take a look later on or at the weekend

[ecto]

Hi,
so now it happend. I couldn't resist: I opened Pandora's Box and installed Bow86/Wine.

There are some Windows games that complement my Dosbox installation perfectly, which are:

• Fallout 1 & 2
• Diablo 2
• Privateer 2
  *Dungeon Keeper 2 and
• Probably some Civ (3?) or HoMM (3?).

So far I tried the first five, to some success. I've read through the whole thread to get up to date, but I might have overlooked something. What I'm struggeling with are segementation faults. I'm using the .sh approach.

For debugging purposes I'm starting the scripts for the games from the ports romdir through the shell. Usually this ends in a segmentation fault. But if I try again, it usually works after the second or third attempt. Has anyone noticed some similar behaviour? I haven't played the games for long - just enough so that I know sound and input works - so I can't comment on the overall stability.

Now I'd like to ask on some game specific things:

• Fallout 1 & 2: I have installed the Fallout Fixt mod for Fallout 1 and the Restoration Project for Fallout 2 to be able to play in fullscreen. That seems to work, but there are some color errors in some still images and the FMVs. They go away if I select DirectX 7 in the Fallout configs, but then gameplay is sluggish. Do I need to Install any Direct X runtimes, or is that all included in Wine?
• Diablo 2: I have Patch 1.12 with the resolution mod installed. That seems to work pretty well out ouf the box.
• Dungeon Keeper 2 is very picky. My GOG verion has some patched exe for better (?) DirectX support, but so far, I had not much luck starting it. The one time I did, the graphis where somewhat corrupted. Maybe I have to play around the different Windows versions?
• Privateer 2 with an enhancement fan patch . The game starts, but I have no joystick support. I haven't looked into that so far. Do I need any drivers maybe?

That's it so far from my side. Thanks for hearing me!