Box86 and Wine on RPi4

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:

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

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

Create ~/.xbindkeysrc:

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

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.

Run any Wine game and hit the button you assigned in step 5.
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:

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys-config

Modify 'Wine Desktop.sh':
.
.
.
xbindkeys -f ~/.xbindkeysrc &
setarch linux32 -L /opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wine "${PROGRAM}" "${OPTIONS}"
.
.
.
Create ~/.xbindkeysrc:
"/opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wineserver -k"
    m:0x0 + c:115
    End
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.

Run any Wine game and hit the button you assigned in step 5.

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

Gamepad Button converts to single keyboard character using qjoypad
xbindkeys converts single keyboard character into a script that can be executed using xdotool
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!

Troopaking

@ecto
Hello for directx issues I have found best is to get a old install exe of desired directx and install in wine desktop.

For controller issues I use qjoypad and xdotool that me and Russellb use .

shavecat

Hey all im trying to get hunter hunted , but with no luck . one of my favorite~~strikethrough text~~ games

@ecto
Dungeon Keeper 2
it did run for me , but its really SLOW with the main menu start, even the mouse really leg to move... :
Diablo 2
dosent really work right for me , only if i skip the movies in the start if not it get stuck ,
and when i pick my character it go nuts a bit...

George

@roslof said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

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

You probably want to check the installation. All the files in that directory are supposed to be hard links to a single file, so they should not take any more space than a single 87mb file. If you were to copy them from one installation to another, or even FTP them from somewhere, that might turn those hard links into individual files.

- George

Troopaking

@george
Hello so I'm trying to assist someone in install and having issues .
Most where sd card issues . Fixed them .
Now we are having issue where github asking for username and password

George

@troopaking said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

Now we are having issue where github asking for username and password

That's odd. Is that when trying to clone my repo? Perhaps there's a typo? I just checked and it still looks like a public repo.

I just helped someone on the Box86 Discord server get MUGEN running, using your instructions. Nice!

I've been testing out some MUGEN games also. Things seem to work fine, but the sound is choppy with high latency. Have you experienced that?

- George