Setting up Half-Life through RetroPie (A Guide)

ExarKunIv

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Setting up Half-Life through RetroPie (A Guide):

clean source folder

cleans the folder the install script uses to build the files that are needed for the port to work. cleaning it just deletes that folder.

ExarKunIv

@Retro-Arcade-Fan after you updated it did you run

cd RetroPie-Extra/
./install-extras.sh

you updating the script does not install or update any of the ones that are already installed to where the RetroPie menu sees them. you need to reinstall them.

i think that will overwrite them. not too sure @sleve_mcdichael would know better on what the install-extras does

Retro Arcade Fan

@ExarKunIv Yes I did. It said it was up to date.

What about removing extras entirely and reinstalling it? Or too painstaking?

ExarKunIv

@Retro-Arcade-Fan it will say updated when it updated the main script.

That doesn't install any of the new scripts.to where RetroPie sees them
You have to do that with install-extras. This will open a GUI where you can remove and or install the new ones

Personally I would wipe out retropie extras completely and redownload because the fact is that I have gone through an updated and tested every single script and if yours is from that long past it's going to have script that don't work or don't work properly

If you use the GUI The remove function I think would wipe out even the old scripts also that you currently have

Retro Arcade Fan

@ExarKunIv That seemed to work, thank you. I removed it all and reinstalled. Thought it would take longer, but was quick. Then installed xash3d-fwgs.

ExarKunIv

@Retro-Arcade-Fan I'm glad that worked out.

Yeah it is a bit confusing from going from a old repo to a new version when we changed quite a bit on how things get installed.

Retro Arcade Fan

@ExarKunIv Thanks. The take-away seems to be it's best to remove and install from scratch! So excited to play Half Life again on my arcade cabinet. Thanks again for all of your help!! I appreciate all of your previous and future work on these ports.

plimbs

I'm seeing this thread now. I am not 100% sure this is your issue @Retro-Arcade-Fan, but it is what happened to me. I had the old/original version of the Extras scripts installed. They are mixed in with all the other normal Retropie setup scripts. The new install places the scripts in a better location, making them more manageable, but if you already had the prior version they will still be there and Retropie won't recognize the new ones.

My simple fix to this was to compare the cloned folder from git with the existing Retropie setup folders and remove any matching files. Then, you can "clean install" from install-extras.sh.

Here is a simple command for you:

diff -qrs RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ RetroPie-Extra/scriptmodules/ | grep -v "Only" | cut -d " " -f2 | xargs rm

Retro Arcade Fan

@plimbs Thanks for chiming in here. Fortunately once I removed the old install and did the new install, it fixed the problem. It's playing perfectly now.

plimbs

@ExarKunIv failing to build Half-Life again. Git location "DEPRECATED in favor of https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs."

ExarKunIv

@plimbs cant confirm.
i just pulled my script from my github and built it just fine,

give it a try again and if it is still not working, i would recommend removing that script and redownloading it from the github

plimbs

@ExarKunIv I apologize. I'm stupid. I didn't hunt down every last trace of the original scripts, and there was still a piece out there running instead of yours.

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LowpolyBros.

Game crashes when i try to change bindings, any fixes? I have the newer version of xash3d installed

Nash

@LowpolyBros Still crashing in 2025. You can edit keyboard.cfg in valve folder to bind keys.

If you want to bind gamepad, you must find two files "gamepad.cfg" and "userconfig.cfg" to put in valve folder, and edit gamepad.cfg.

Nash

Opposing Force start but I'am alone in the training boot camp. Seems like some scripts are broken, the ship that should crash during intro doesn't crash and fly to infinty and beyond.

Is this a new bug, or is it a known issue that has existed since the beginning ? Can it be fixed ?

It was a pain to start Blue Shift with unlocked maps. The linked patch doesn't exist anymore, and others doesn't work. The only solution is to find pre-patched maps pack.

With this Blue Shift can start :
https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-blue-shift/downloads/blue-shift-unlocked-game-dlls-and-patched-maps