DICE (Discrete Integrated Circuit Emulator)

Swampy

Works with my Ubuntu 24.04. Thank you. Integration in RetroPi would of course be a dream.

DirtBagXon

@Swampy said in DICE (Discrete Integrated Circuit Emulator):

Works with my Ubuntu 24.04. Thank you. Integration in RetroPi would of course be a dream.

Well I wasn't aware at the time I was porting this, but there is a libretro core that is being worked, started in Nov 2024.
Chatting with the guy writing it, it's still a work in progress. But this would be the way to go in RetroPie.

But I wanted a Desktop standalone option, which is what my port gives, glad that's working for you :)

Apparently the old Windows .exe from the SourceForge site has issues on modern Windows OS's, but there is a Windows port of the core too.

The libretro port is here: https://github.com/mittonk/dice-libretro

The hard part of bringing this software up-to-date is the OS native OpenGL GUI frameworks.
With a libretro core, that frontend element is thrown to RetroArch so the only consideration is the engine, which is very portable.

But getting the multitude of config options in these games into RetroArch, that is the hard part there.

DirtBagXon

Libretro core dev has put in a PR for DICE:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/4048

ExarKunIv

@DirtBagXon ill be adding it to my repo shortly after i test it

and ill hold it until the main RP takes the request

mittonk

Hi, I'm the libretro core dev in question!

https://github.com/mittonk/dice-libretro/

ExarKunIv

lr-dice is now part of RetroPie-Extra until it is merged into the main RetroPie

Swampy

For me it works great in RetroPie. Thank you all of you!

duglor

@ExarKunIv What is the earliest version of Retropie that can use this emulator? example: 4.71, 4.8, etc....

ExarKunIv

@duglor i dont know. i dont try it on older versions. you will have to go and manual copy the file over if you are using anything older then 4.8.9.

i did that since im using new helper commands that PR uses that are not there in the older versions and im not making different files for older RP versions. thats too much and can make things too messy
sorry

DirtBagXon

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