DSDA-doom help

[Dabenport]

Hi. I'm currently setting up a pi3 with retropie. I have doom working in lrprboom. I would prefer to use dsda-doom. It looks & runs better. Also I can't seem to adjust anything in lrprboom. dsda-doom works with doom1/2/tnt/plutonia/chex3v but I can't get sigil1&2, master levels, or no rest for the living to work. Everything boot fine in lrprboom.

Pi Model or other hardware: pi3b

Power Supply used: canakit 2.5amp

RetroPie Version Used 4.8.9

Built From: raspberry pi imager retropie

USB Devices connected: 2.4ghz keyboard.

Controller used: bluetooth xbox one

Error messages received: none emulator crashes on boot & goes back to ES "ports"

Verbose log (if relevant): none?

Guide used: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Doom

Files:
\retropie\roms\ports\doom\sigil\sigil1.wad
\retropie\roms\ports\doom\sigil2\sigil2.wad
\retropie\roms\ports\doom\master\master.wad
\retropie\roms\ports\doom\nerve\nerve.wad

Emulator: DSDA-DOOM installed from source (latest source) v0.28.2

Attachment of config files: https://pastebin.com/yLJj5XF1 & https://pastebin.com/YM25Q9fJ located in \retropie\configs\ports\doom

I believe the problem is in the emulators.cfg file. It only loads -iwad %ROM%. I think it needs -file .wad. But I don't know how to get this working(https://dsdarchive.com/guides/dsda_doom)
"-file x.wad - uses x.wad as a pwad (custom maps that will use the resources of the iwad)."

How to replicate the problem: Installed doom wads via "https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Doom/" instructions. Install dsda-doom & attempt to boot. Some wads work some don't.

I tried changing the .sh file that launches each wad. To boot sigil this works in lrprboom & no boot in dsda.

"#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 PORT "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/sigil/sigil.wad"

I changed to this which matches the instructions(which dont work lol) and only doom boots not sigil in dsda & lrprboom.

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 PORT "doom" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/sigil/doom.wad"

I know I'm doing something wrong here. these wads should work right? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

[mitu]

@Dabenport said in DSDA-doom help:

I know I'm doing something wrong here. these wads should work right? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Not really, you're not doing something wrong. I think we only support iwads as direct entries and pwads should be loaded through the dsda-doom-addon launcher after copying it in the ports/doom/addon subfolder. Of course, this is not practical if you have a lot of WADs you'd like to play at once.

Here's what I do - I created launchers in the ports folder without runcommand by calling dsda-doom directly and putting all the pwad files in roms/ports/doom:

• Sigil.sh:

  #!/bin/bash
  pushd $HOME/roms/ports/doom;
  /opt/retropie/ports/dsda-doom/dsda-doom -iwad doom1.wad -file sigil.wad
  popd

• Legacy_of_Rust.sh:

   #!/bin/bash
   pushd $HOME/roms/ports/doom;
   /opt/retropie/ports/dsda-doom/dsda-doom -iwad doom2.wad -file id1.wad
   popd

[Dabenport]

@mitu

Ok I tried moving doom.wad & sigil.wad into the roms/ports/doom/ directory & running the sigil.sh you created and I get 4 errors.

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/SIGIL.sh: line 4: popd: directory stack empty
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/SIGIL.sh: line 2: pushd: /home/pi/roms/ports/doom: no such file or directory
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/SIGIL.sh: line 2: $'\r' : command not found.
dsda-doom v0.28.2 (https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/)
IdentifyVersion: IWAD not found

Changing the SIGIL.sh file to this.

#!/bin/bash
pushd $HOME/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom;
/opt/retropie/ports/dsda-doom/dsda-doom -iwad doom.wad -file sigil.wad
popd

Results in the following errors.

~ /RetroPie/roms/ports/doom ~
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/SIGIL.sh: line 2 $'\r' : command not found
dsda-doom v0.28.2 (https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/)
dsda-doom is released under the GNU general public license v2.0.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. See the file COPYING for details.
 
Playing: The Ultimate DOOM
" is not supported
~
 

Also I do not see dsda-doom-addon launcher. I only see lrprboom & dsda-doom. I had lzdoom & lzdoom-addon before but I removed lzdoom.

I'm super confused by this "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/SIGIL.sh: line 2 $'\r' : command not found" As that isn't even written on line 2. Or anywhere in the .sh file lol

Looks like we are on the right track though! Thanks again!

[mitu]

@Dabenport said in DSDA-doom help:

I'm super confused by this "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/SIGIL.sh: line 2 $'\r' : command not found" As that isn't even written on line 2. Or anywhere in the .sh file lol

You created the file on a Windows PC and it added an extra CR character at line-ending (\r). Make sure the file has Unix/Linux line endings (LF or \n) and you shouldn't have a problem.

[Dabenport]

@mitu

oh yea I did make the files on windows. I changed the file in notepad++ to unix and sigil booted right up!

Thank you so much I appreciate the help. Have a great day!

[Dabenport]

I ran into another issue now. Is it possible to have dsda-doom use external mp3s? I have all the music named properly/working in lrprboom. The midi "fluidsynth" on the pi3 sounds bad lol

Edit: Figured it out. Used slade to made a file doommu.wad(name doesnt matter) with all doom music with original filenames.

#!/bin/bash
pushd $HOME/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom;
/opt/retropie/ports/dsda-doom/dsda-doom -iwad doom.wad -file doommu.wad
popd

Above is the file I used to launch with mp3s working.

#!/bin/bash
pushd $HOME/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom;
/opt/retropie/ports/dsda-doom/dsda-doom -iwad /doom/doom.wad -file /doom/doommu.wad
popd

This also works. I have all my wads in separate folders with their mp3s. Looks like I can put them all in 1 folder now, ditch the mp3s & use this to boot them.

#!/bin/bash
pushd $HOME/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom;
/opt/retropie/ports/dsda-doom/dsda-doom -iwad doom.wad -file doommu.wad
popd

Time to get the rest of the wads finished. Hope this helps if anyone runs into same/similar problem.

[mitu]

Glad you got it working.
For Sigil2, make sure you're using the SIGIL_COMPAT_v1_21.wad file, due to a bug in the wad's embedded UMAPINFO lump.