Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu

battlecat

Hello:

I recently followed the instructions to get Retropie working on my i686_64 AMD laptop running Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/

Everything for the build/install went perfectly.

When I went to install Daphne I found that it was greyed out and had a note about how it was for 64 bit version and not for the 32 bit version.

I thought hmm I am on a i686. What is the deal? I found this page from the year 2019: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23550/daphne-install-on-ubuntu-18-04-x86_64/11

Is there any way to get that fix integrated into the main script? It would be great to be able to have Daphne installable by default instead of the script saying it can't do it.

I have no idea who to send this request onto as the actual website has no contact info.

Thanks for your time.

johnodon

Start at this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/263036

You can ask q's in that thread. I have @DirtBagXon's Hypsues-Singe package purring in Ubuntu Server 21.04 using either X or KMS/DRM.

John

battlecat

@johnodon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

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Hi!

Thanks for responding. I have no clue what you mean by "I have @DirtBagXon's Hypsues-Singe package purring in Ubuntu Server 21.04 using either X or KMS/DRM." BUT I will definitly ask in the other forum. :)

BC

DirtBagXon

@battlecat said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

@johnodon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

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Hi!

Thanks for responding. I have no clue what you mean by "I have @DirtBagXon's Hypsues-Singe package purring in Ubuntu Server 21.04 using either X or KMS/DRM." BUT I will definitly ask in the other forum. :)

BC

~~Heya, there is no automatic method to install Hypsesus Singe (Daphne Singe) via the configuration script on X86_64 Ubuntu at this point.~~

~~Follow this post to perform a manual install process that mirrors the Pie install:~~

~~https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/263036~~

Follow the steps to test current RetroPie-Setup pull request below...

DirtBagXon

I have put in a pull request for 'RetroPie-Setup' to install Hypseus Singe vi RetroPie configuration script.

I labelled it in experimental section currently, but should be stable.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3387

If anyone would like to endorse, if that helps, it would be nice :)

Works fine, You would then only need to setup in
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

<system>
  <name>daphne</name>
  <fullname>Daphne</fullname>
  <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne</path>
  <extension>.daphne .DAPHNE</extension>
  <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ hypseus %ROM%</command>
  <platform>daphne</platform>
  <theme>daphne</theme>
</system>

Changing only this line in an existing Daphne installation:
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS hypseus %ROM%</command>

If someone knows how to automate switching emulators in Emulation Station, and where to request changes, please let me know.

mitu

@dirtbagxon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

If someone knows how to automate switching emulators in Emulation Station, and where to request changes, please let me know.

Switching emulators (via runcommand's menu) can be done by modifying the emulators.cfg for a system (i.e. daphne) and add the new emulator command.
In a scriptmodule, this is handled by the addEmulator function.

Is Hypseus meant to be an alternative emulator working for the daphne rom folder or an independent system ? (looking at your PR) You've modified the platforms.cfg to add a new system, but your scriptmodule still tries to create a daphne rom folder.

DirtBagXon

@mitu said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

@dirtbagxon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

If someone knows how to automate switching emulators in Emulation Station, and where to request changes, please let me know.

Switching emulators (via runcommand's menu) can be done by modifying the emulators.cfg for a system (i.e. daphne) and add the new emulator command.
In a scriptmodule, this is handled by the addEmulator function.

Is Hypseus meant to be an alternative emulator working for the daphne rom folder or an independent system ? (looking at your PR) You've modified the platforms.cfg to add a new system, but your scriptmodule still tries to create a daphne rom folder.

It makes most sense to use the Daphne folder for the existing plugin to me.

So should I remove the platforms.cfg changes ?

Sorry first pull request with you guys.

mitu

Sorry first pull request with you guys

No problems, we'll get this sorted out. I'll take a look at the PR and add some comments by tomorrow. But yes, the platforms.cfg additions are not necessary if you wish to use the existing daphne system and rom folder.

DirtBagXon

@mitu said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

platforms.cfg

Thanks @mitu - I've pulled back the platforms.cfg changes now.

johnodon

I just tested the script (commit a928ebb) on my Ubuntu 21.04 Server (Wayland/Sway) and I can at least report successful launches of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. Unfortunately, my test box is hooked up only to a monitor at this point so I can't comment on audio.

Looking good!

John

johnodon

@DirtBagXon I'm seeing this error in the log file when Hypesus is updated (2nd code box below)...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Checking for updates for hypseus
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Update is available - updating ...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Installing dependencies for 'hypseus' : Hypseus Singe - Laserdisc Emulator
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus /home/pi

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Getting sources for 'hypseus' : Hypseus Singe - Laserdisc Emulator
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch RetroPie "https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe.git" "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus"
Cloning into '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus'...
HEAD is now in branch 'RetroPie' at commit '7c8c27556814d1abcc2f4c882dee55c704b0cac4'
/home/pi
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus /home/pi

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Configuring 'hypseus' : Hypseus Singe - Laserdisc Emulator
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Copying default configuration to /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/hypinput.ini
cp: cannot stat '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus/hypinput.ini': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access '/opt/retropie/configs/daphne/hypinput.ini': No such file or directory
/home/pi

DirtBagXon

@johnodon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

@DirtBagXon I'm seeing this error in the log file when Hypesus is updated (2nd code box below)...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Checking for updates for hypseus
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Update is available - updating ...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Installing dependencies for 'hypseus' : Hypseus Singe - Laserdisc Emulator
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus /home/pi

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Getting sources for 'hypseus' : Hypseus Singe - Laserdisc Emulator
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch RetroPie "https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe.git" "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus"
Cloning into '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus'...
HEAD is now in branch 'RetroPie' at commit '7c8c27556814d1abcc2f4c882dee55c704b0cac4'
/home/pi
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/hypseus /home/pi

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Configuring 'hypseus' : Hypseus Singe - Laserdisc Emulator
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Copying default configuration to /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/hypinput.ini
cp: cannot stat '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus/hypinput.ini': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access '/opt/retropie/configs/daphne/hypinput.ini': No such file or directory
/home/pi

It has not been accepted into official master branch yet, so depending on how you updated RetroPie-Setup it possibly got cleaned out by the git pull.

The file is certainly there in the branch of the pull request:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/RetroPie-Setup/tree/hypseus/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus

I think you may have to manually add hypseus.sh and hypinput.ini back into RetroPie-Setup for testing.

johnodon

@dirtbagxon OK...no worries. Ijust wanted to make sure it wasn't a code issue on the repo side.

John

DirtBagXon

@johnodon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

@dirtbagxon OK...no worries. Ijust wanted to make sure it wasn't a code issue on the repo side.

John

Thanks for the testing :)

Adding this for anyone else who may want to test the current pull request:

Download the Scriptmodule:

mkdir -p /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DirtBagXon/RetroPie-Setup/hypseus/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus/hypinput.ini -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus/hypinput.ini

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DirtBagXon/RetroPie-Setup/hypseus/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus.sh -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/hypseus.sh

Go to ES and select Configuration, select RetroPie Setup, or just type sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
Navigate to Manage packages
Select exp experimental packages
Run down the list, there select 'hypseus'
Select Install from source

johnodon

@dirtbagxon Not sure if this will pose any issues, but the ~/.hypseus folder is owned by root however the contents within are owned by pi.

drwxr-x--- 11 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 21:53 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Sep  8 22:27 ..
-rw-------  1 pi   pi   4684 Sep 12 11:54 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    220 Mar 19 16:02 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     72 Sep  8 22:50 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   3771 Mar 19 16:02 .bashrc
drwx------  5 pi   pi   4096 Sep 12 11:53 .cache
drwxr-xr-x  7 pi   pi   4096 Sep 12 11:53 .config
lrwxrwxrwx  1 pi   pi     42 Sep  8 22:36 .emulationstation -> /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      0 Sep  8 22:50 .hushlogin
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Sep  9 16:07 .hypseus
drwxr-xr-x  3 pi   pi   4096 Sep  8 22:33 .local
lrwxrwxrwx  1 pi   pi     26 Sep  9 19:16 .mame -> /opt/retropie/configs/mame
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    807 Mar 19 16:02 .profile
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      0 Sep  8 22:30 .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi   pi    180 Sep  9 14:59 .wget-hsts
drwxrwxr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 18:01 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  6 pi   pi   4096 Sep  8 23:01 RetroPie
drwxr-xr-x  8 pi   pi   4096 Sep  8 22:54 RetroPie-Setup
drwxrwxr-x  4 pi   pi   4096 Sep  8 22:31 RetroPie-Setup-Ubuntu
drwxrwxr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 20:22 history
-rw-rw-r--  1 pi   pi   8811 Sep  9 21:53 outputs.txt

drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Sep  9 16:07 .
drwxr-x--- 11 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 21:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep 10 15:32 logs
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 16:07 ram
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 16:07 screenshots

DirtBagXon

@johnodon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

@dirtbagxon Not sure if this will pose any issues, but the ~/.hypseus folder is owned by root however the contents within are owned by pi.

drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Sep  9 16:07 .
drwxr-x--- 11 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 21:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep 10 15:32 logs
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 16:07 ram
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4096 Sep  9 16:07 screenshots

These directories are actually created by the RetroPie helper function mkUserDir()

mkUserDir "$home/.$md_id/ram"
mkUserDir "$home/.$md_id/logs"
mkUserDir "$home/.$md_id/screenshots"

So it appears this function doesn't set ownership on the parent directories correctly within $home: "Creates a directory owned by the current user."

It shouldn't affect the the installation as data will only be written to the correctly owned child directories. However, it is not as it should be, so I will add a chown -R to the end of the install script to ensure it's all owned by pi.

You can either grab the latest scripts from the repo (as above) or fix with :

sudo chown -R pi:pi ~pi/.hypseus

Many thanks for the great feedback.

DirtBagXon

@mitu

Is anyone familiar with the reason that the package, even when up-to-date, still show this in RetroPie-Setup :

'Update is available'

The installed package version has the correct git tag.

Is this something I have control over?

mitu

@dirtbagxon said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

Is this something I have control over?

Not really, since the setup script automatically determines if there's an update based on the source location and the locally stored package info (retropie.pkg in the install folder). I can't seem to reproduce the situation though, if I install from source then it shows correctly as up-to-date

dankcushions

@dirtbagxon is your retropie-setup script up to date? you may want to rebase it to master - quite a few changes have been made to the surrounding functionality that may affect things.

DirtBagXon

@dankcushions said in Integrate Daphne Emulator back into the Retropie Script for Ubuntu:

@dirtbagxon is your retropie-setup script up to date? you may want to rebase it to master - quite a few changes have been made to the surrounding functionality that may affect things.

Thanks for the quick reply guys. I am on the following merge of RetroPie-Setup now:

commit 202fabd1bf0e0638ca71d09cc6af7e233dc0e059 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Jools Wills <buzz@exotica.org.uk>
Date:   Tue Sep 14 06:38:12 2021 +0100

    dolphin - license.txt was renamed to COPYING

I was one commit behind, but testing now still shows as out of date...
I have had this reported from a couple of other users testing the scripts in the field, so not just me seeing it.

retropie.pkg shows:

pkg_origin="source"
pkg_date="2021-09-14T17:58:55+01:00"
pkg_repo_type="git"
pkg_repo_url="https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe.git"
pkg_repo_branch="RetroPie"
pkg_repo_commit="327cbd674986b3c93d87beec3da9cec63c05ec57"
pkg_repo_date="2021-09-11T16:01:00+01:00"
pkg_repo_extra=""

Which all looks correct.... Hmmm...

I'll try another reinstall on the new commit.