Stratagus Tutorial needed

herb_fargus

@CptKlink wiki can be edited by anyone. Feel free to provide a useful guide to others when you figure it out

Corvin

Hi! I'm quite new to retropie (as well as to the raspberry) and would need some help with stratagus too....I already got the emulator to show up and show the warcraft 2 folder. But it crashes as soon as is it launched...(goes black for a moment and returns to the Stratagus screen)

I've installed Wargus on Windows 10 and copied the content of the folder to my Pi 3B (running retropie/emulation station).

From the Emulation Station Log:
lvl1: Unknown platform for system "stratagus" (platform "stratagus" from list "stratagus")
lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/stratagus/gamelist.xml"...
lvl1: File ""/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/warcraft2.data"" does not exist! Ignoring.

And here is my file list and what the Pi shows me:

File List
RetroPie Screen 1
RetroPie Screen 2

backstander

@Corvin
That's odd, it says it doesn't exist but from your picture it does exist. Also it's weird that it has 2 sets of quotes around ""/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/warcraft2.data"". This seams like a red flag to me but what do i know? ;)

After you try to launch Stratagus, what is inside the Runcommand log:
/dev/shm/runcommand.log

CptKlink

@Corvin

I get the exact same problem. I still haven't been able to figure out how to get wargus properly installed so it will run.

backstander

Okay so I decided to try to install Stratagus/Wargus (a.k.a.: Warcraft II) because everyone had been talking about it and I wanted to see if I could figure it out.

Note: this will not work with the Battle.net Edition of Warcraft II

First, you don't get it to work just by copying your Warcraft 2 CD over to your Raspberry Pi. You actually run the Wargus installer from either Windows, Mac OS X or Linux (not sure if it works on an ARM Linux). I did the Windows route and this is how I did it:

Go to the official Wargus website and download the Windows version of Wargus v2.4.1 (there is also a YouTube video on that site showing you how to install this)
Now install Wargus and the installation will ask for your Warcraft II data so point it to your CD (or if you have your data copied to your hard drive then point to there)
(optional) next if you have the Expansion Pack "Beyond the Dark Portal" then point the installer to that data (I don't have this so I skipped this)
At the end of the install you can go ahead and launch Warcraft II to make sure it works and if it does then we're ready to start copying data over to your Raspberry Pi
In Windows navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wargus" or "C:\Program Files\Wargus" and only copy the sub-directories to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/warcraft2.data on your Raspberry Pi

The sub-directories that need to be copied are as followed:

campaigns
graphics
maps
music
scripts
sounds
videos

Booyah!

herb_fargus

@backstander would be a great addition on the wiki as forum posts tend to get lost

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Stratagus

backstander

@herb_fargus
Good idea, I'll wait for a little feed back to see if I need to make a correction or 2 and then I'll post it later this weekend :)

So anyone that can get this working, please let me know or if you have a questions, also let me know so I can update the post and then put it up on the official wiki.

Corvin

@backstander
Sadly, that didn't work for me, I still get a crash. But the runcommand.log seems promising. I think I am missing a file called "libmikmod.so.3":

Parameters: 0 _SYS_ stratagus /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/warcraft2.data
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/stratagus/stratagus -F -d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/warcraft2.data"
/opt/retropie/emulators/stratagus/stratagus: error while loading shared libraries: libmikmod.so.3: 
cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory

Looks like this file is somehow linked to a music player: https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libmikmod.so.3

And regarding the sub-directories in your post and the addition to the wiki: I'm working with a Windows 10 Wargus install and dont have a folder called "video". Instead, I got two folders your list is missing: "shaders" and "contrib". Maybe the folder structure slightly differs on Linux and Windows?

CptKlink

@backstander

That worked for me perfectly thxs. The creators of this engine and work do good work but are kinda disorganized. They say they have 3 or 4 different official locations to download their work but every location is hosting a different version. And from reading around I learned that out of the 4 only one of the versions will work doing this work around useing windows to get the needed files from the game. That is version 2.4.1 from the site/link backstander has posted all other versions will result in a black screen and crash back to the game selection screen.

@Corvin

That maybe your problem did you use version 2.4.1 of wargus? But thats just a wild guess. Its most likely you don't have one or more of the dependencies installed to get the game to run.

Corvin

@CptKlink
I'm using 2.4.1, downloaded it yesterday from https://wargus.github.io/

I'll download it again now and post results.

CptKlink

Now i ran in to another problem. I jad the game running and working but i desided to try and turn on some of the in game settings and now i'm getting the black screen and crash again. I tried just deleting the whole wargus folder and re-transfering the default game back over but that diden't fix it.

Anybody know where the settings file would be located?

Corvin

@CptKlink

Just reinstalled it on Windows and tested it again on the raspberry. My file structure is now looking exactly like it should (with the video folder and without the contrib and shader folders). Maybe I've used the unstable build on the first try, now I've been using 2.4.1 stable. Works like a charm under Windows.

But It wont work on the raspberry. I still get the libmikmod.so.3 error :(

CptKlink

this is the error i'm getting now.

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/stratagus/stratagus -F -d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/wargus.data"
Couldn't set 1024x768x32 video mode: OpenGL not available

CptKlink

Yep all this work trying to get it running and now its broken for me. I just tried deleting everything i can find for stratagus and wargus and reinstalling it all and still getting the same error.

backstander

@CptKlink

Anybody know where the settings file would be located?

I did some searching on my Pi and I found this file with settings in it:
/home/pi/.stratagus/wc2/preferences.lua

Maybe try editing that or deleting it and see if it will recreate it with defaults when you run Stratagus.

Update

I just move that preferences.lua file somewhere else and then ran Stratagus and it recreated it with the defaults.

CptKlink

@backstander said in Stratagus Tutorial needed:

/home/pi/.stratagus/wc2/preferences.lua

hate to ask a noob question but what does the . mean in front of stratagus in /home/pi/.stratagus/wc2/preferences.lua ?

Update

Nevermind I found it I forgot to set WinSCP to show hidden files and folders.

backstander

@CptKlink

hate to ask a noob question but what does the . mean in front of stratagus in /home/pi/.stratagus/wc2/preferences.lua ?

Unix OS's use this to indicate a "hidden directory"

CptKlink

One problem to another. Got it all working now but now i can't move my character's.

backstander

I have posted my Warcraft II directions to the Wiki:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Stratagus#how-to-install-warcraft-ii-using-wargus-for-stratagus

Corvin

A system update solved my problem, WC2 is now working :)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6059/need-help-installing-mikmod/3