Suggestions for ports #2

ExarKunIv

Ladys and Gentment I have another update you for all.

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lr-applewin - Apple2e emulator - AppleWin (current) port for libretro - Installs, Plays, Runs well
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0ad.sh - Battle of Survival - is a futuristic real-time strategy game - Installs Plays fine
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avp.sh - AVP - Aliens versus Predator port - Installs plays fine, needs mouse
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captains.sh- Captain 'S' The Remake - Installs, plays great
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diablo2.sh - Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction port - Installs, Plays great
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dosbox-x.sh - DOSbox-X - Testing of a new DOSbox system - Installs, Plays great
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fallout2.sh - Fallout2-ce - Fallout 2 Community Edition - Installs, Plays great
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hero2.sh - FHeroes2 - Heroes of Might and Magic II port - Installs, Plays great
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ja2.sh - Stracciatella - Jagged Alliance 2 engine - Installs, Plays great
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revolt.sh - REvolt - a radio control car racing themed video game - Installs, Plays fine
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starcraft.sh - Starcraft - Installs, Plays great
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sorrv2.sh - Streets of Rage Remake port with latest engine- Installs, Plays great

For DOSbox-X I didnt know how to get it to install and run as a system, which is why its in ports. If someone wants to give it a shot. I will gladly update the repo with the improved script.

I hope you all can enjoy these, I'm happy that i was able to get these working,

A note for diablo2 and starcraft they use a arm version of wine and it does not play well with the x86 version. so if you have box86 and wine86 installed you might have issues, just a warning

With that being said.

It seems the the enthusiasm as waned for new ports, but any new ones I have made or found have be greatly appreciated which is why I have pushed myself to get these done

I'm taking a step back on focusing on making new scripts for RetroPie-Extras.
I'm NOT STOPPING from maintaining the repo. I'm just taking a break from only doing scripts.
I'm be making them, but its going to be few and far between.
I still have a list of games i want to bring to ports. so there will be more
Just so people dont think I'm not maintaining anything since I'm not going to be dropping big updates like i have in the past

Im always willing and looking for new scripts to add to the collection, so please let me know what you make or find.

Retro Arcade Fan

@ExarKunIv THANK YOU for all of your hard work and dedication. I know I'm not the only one who appreciates all that you do.

NIGHTKILLER05

GREAT UPDATE !!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

ecto

@ExarKunIv Hi, sorry to bother you! I updated lr-swanststion yesterday. When I started the emulator I got a message, that GL is not supported, and I should fallback to software renderer.

I'm using a RPi4 with KMS and generally had no problems with GL rendering, as far as I tested. I'd like to use the geometry correction of duck-/swanstation, so I always have it enabled. According to this issue GL falls back to GLES, so it should work.

I can upload the verbose log tonight, but it had something to do with some shader parsing, iirc. Do you see a similar behavior?

ExarKunIv

@ecto i dont know. i belive i did test it at some point

i have it installed in my current setup, so i can take a look at it.

windg

@ecto
I tried it and I don't have this message. But, I don't use KMS.

retropieuser555

Managed to get the zelda3 source port working. Takes a bit of work installing python3 Pillow, pip, pyyaml etc. Also haven't got my controller working yet or an exit key.

But tbf it does give you wide-screen LTTP so there's that

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555 looks nice, keep up the good work.

once you get everything working. you can post a how to here, or on my github so i can get a script working for it

once im back to making scripts

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv So I got the controls working, found that the High res version of the map screen causes slowdown so left the config on low res Mode7 map and it runs fine.

But I still can't quit out of the game unless I run killall from ssh. Weirdly if I run the game in Pixel Desktop environment I can exit using ALT+F4. But this doesn't work on retropie, at least not for me. I'm launching the game with just this:-

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/zelda3
/home/pi/zelda3/zelda3

I tried matchbox window but that didn't allow to use alt+f4 either. To me two options exist:-

Ask the dev to add a dedicated quit application/program function to a SDL event in the code. Or add one ourselves.

Or to figure out how to launch the game the same way pixel does so we can use ALT+F4 to quit

KM_64

@WhiteT982 I'm having the same exact problem. Did you ever get it working?

retropieuser555

@retropieuser555 okay so I ended up choosing to write a bit of SDL gamecontroller code to the game itself. It's this pull request here

https://github.com/snesrev/zelda3/pull/237

So now game runs, controls work and start & select quits. Hopefully they'll accept my pull request.

I found when I installed it I had to upgrade to python 3.11 to get the game files to extract, which I had to undo as it broke things like retropie_setup.sh from loading.

If I can workout a more elegant way to install it I'll write a proper script. Having to install newer python just for a basic SNES game source port is pretty overkill.

Striderx99

@ExarKunIv I know you updated this app for Rise of The Triad, but I have attempted to switch to the 800x600 resolution with no success. My Pi 4B has 4 GB of RAM. The screen still appears at the upper left hand corner. Normally, my TV is 1024x768. I added a few other first person shooters you have prepared through scripts, but I am still stuck trying to resolve this issue. I made sure to switch to the first option within the loading screen (by pressing on the "A" key on my keyboard and selecting my resolution listed on there as the first choice).

I also had problems getting sound to work on StarCraft. The app for it allows me to play the game without any other issues. Perhaps I should look at the files I uploaded from my StarCraft folder to see if any audio files went missing, but I did try to increase the volume for sounds and music without any luck.

Another issue I had was to get Streets of Rage Remake (v5.2) to work with my 8-bitdo SNES Pro Controller. I went into the system.txt file and changed the controller selection to PSP, but in the options screen I was not able to get button presses or controller movements to respond.

Otherwise, I'd have to say that once you figure out which files need to be adjusted to change the resolution configurations, you just need to remember to select the same choice in that menu that pops up before your game starts. I'd like to try Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast, and Dark Forces 1 and 2 as well. Hopefully, you can get Sin, Star Wars: Battlefront I and II, and maybe even Republic Commando to work eventually (one could hope, if it's actually possible).

Thank you for putting forth your effort in getting these to work! :-)

ExarKunIv

@Striderx99 said in Suggestions for ports #2:

but I have attempted to switch to the 800x600 resolution with no success

how are you trying this, only through the runcommand menu? thats the only place i see for my version that i can change anything, (it does nothing for me)

@Striderx99 said in Suggestions for ports #2:

getting sound to work on StarCraft

thats odd, since its working on my system. granted the intro will freeze, but i didnt make this programs
if you can post runcommand.log from /dev/shm

@Striderx99 said in Suggestions for ports #2:

Streets of Rage Remake (v5.2) to work with my 8-bitdo SNES Pro Controller.

i believe you need to use a keyboard to map the controller to the game or change it from keyboard to gamepad, im useing the built in xbox mapping for my 8bit fc30 and it worked with out anychange other then from keyboard to game pad

Striderx99

If you go to /opt/retropie/ports/rott-darkwar, there is a file called rott-darkwar inside that folder. If you change it to a text file, most of the characters appear garbled after opening it. But if you go to Edit>Find and search for resolution, there's a line that says "Fullscreen ; Screen Resolution, supported resolutions: ; 320x200, 640x480, and 800x600." If you click on Find Next, moving towards the middle of the following line it will say RESOLUTION - Specify the screen resolution to use - next param is <widthxheight>, valid resolutions are: - 320x200, 640x480, and 800x600" I haven't changed any of those values, but maybe if done correctly it might help. I just thought I'd ask how to do that (if that's a possible workaround).

I didn't find any items inside my /dev/shm folder. I think I'll recheck if I added those files from my StarCraft folder (and I might replace the ones the installed app left in the folders, if that's what should be done). I'll write to the person who prepared the script for it and ask if anything else should be done.

Thanks for the solution to getting Streets of Rage Remake (v5.2) working with the controller. I'll try that later today. One other thing I should mention is the option to run the mods on Streets of Rage Maker. A few years ago, I posted a message about how it crashes in version 5 when you load it. Does it still have the same issue? Has it been fixed? Thanks again for your input.

ExarKunIv

@Striderx99 glad the sorr controller got cleared up for you.

As for mods. It depends on what engine you are using. If you are using bdgi 333 which is installed from sorr.sh they should work. If you are using bdgi 354 which is installed sorrv2.sh then they will not.

No I can't fix it since I have not figured out how they where compiled.

For rott. I will have to look at it and see what I can find out. Since I didn't know about changing the file.

For StarCraft I would say try just using what my script installs. And see if you get sound.

Also do you have box86 or a different version of wine installed

I made the script to install his files for retropie.
He might help or might not since retropie is not a system he supports

Striderx99

I'll probably use the original sorr.sh with the bdgi 333 engine. The mods were pretty interesting and if the Streets of Rage Maker function was fixed, I'd like to try it out. I'll go back to the bdgi 354 engine if it gets fixed.

I'll wait on Rise of the Triad and see what you find out. If you notice anything about the file I mentioned and make any adjustments, please let me know. I'll attempt to follow whatever changes need to be made.

I never installed box86 or any version of wine, so I'm beginning to think that maybe it has to do with the version of StarCraft I have. Maybe I can try looking for another and pull the files from it again. I'm willing to bet that the sounds add more to the game, as the campaign itself is really entertaining. It's like a better version of Sega's Herzog Zwei.

I'm attempting to get Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast working. Does anyone have a guide on what files and subfolders should be used within the jediacademy and jedioutcast folders in the ports section? Thanks for your suggestions.

sleve_mcdichael

@Striderx99 for the Jedi games you should just need to copy the assets<#>.pk3 files into the data folder:

jediacademy/:
assets0.pk3
assets1.pk3
assets2.pk3
assets3.pk3

jedioutcast/:
assets0.pk3
assets1.pk3
assets2.pk3
assets5.pk3

This information is found in the "package help" section of the module's page in the setup script:

Copy assets0.pk3 assets1.pk3 assets2.pk3 assets5.pk3 into /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/jedioutcast

(I've just noticed this actually has the wrong location; where it says roms/jedioutcast, it should say roms/ports/jedioutcast. I'll submit a correction.)

I'm attempting to get Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast working. Does anyone have a guide on what files and subfolders should be used within the jediacademy and jedioutcast folders in the ports section? Thanks for your suggestions.

Striderx99

@sleve_mcdichael Now I see where the problem lies. I'm missing assets2.pk3 and assets5.pk3 for Jedi Outcast and I have the files in capital letters. I also placed them in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/jediacademy/GAMEDATA/GAMEDATA/BASE and in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/jedioutcast/GAMEDATA/GameData/base. I tried to figure out where they should go based on where I have them on my PC. I'll grab what is necessary and try again. Thanks for reaching out. :-)

ExarKunIv

@Striderx99 I don't see the sorry engine being updated anytime soon. So if you want to play with mods then use the bdgi 333.

For StarCraft I would uninstall it and remove your version. And then reinstall it from my script. And we can got from there

I have not tried another version then what pikiss provides.

Striderx99

@ExarKunIv I attempted to remove StarCraft in RetroPie Setup>Manage Packages>Manage Experimental Packages>Ports>Starcraft. I selected the remove option. I went to the Starcraft folder in the Ports section and deleted it and the Starcraft.sh. I restarted the Pi and went back to the Experimental Packages section again to install by source. I restarted the Pi, went back to the Starcraft app in the Ports section and attempted to launch it. When I started a single player game, I did not hear any music or sounds playing. I hit F10, entered the options menu, and went to the sound option to increase the volume to max and the music to 3/4 of the full extent of the sound bar. When I didn't hear anything, I went back to the Retroarch option within the Config menu of RetroPie, selected Settings>Audio>Output>changed the Audio option from alsathread to sdl2>selected save changes upon quit>Quit Retroarch>attempted to launch Starcraft once again, and still did not hear any of the music or sounds.

I noticed that in Jedi Academy, the music that plays in the beginning is a little scratchy, but it gets better once you reach the title screen. I might go into the console command settings to make adjustments (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Wars:Jedi_Knight-_Jedi_Academy#Restore_surround_sound_and_EAX). Jedi Outcast ran smooth without any issues.

Sorry if I'm bringing up all these issues, but I'm stumped. If you or anyone has any ideas on how to fix them (or observes any mistakes I made) please let me know.