Stratagus Tutorial needed

sonicsheppard

Hi all,

Has anyone managed to get StarCraft up and running with Stratagus? I've managed to get Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 working great, however I'm hitting the same issue that @crowi was seeing on 09/08/16 in regards to StarCraft after following the same steps for Warcraft (using Stargus instead of Wargus for data extraction).

Setup info:

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3
Power Supply used: 5V/3A power adaptor.
RetroPie Version Used: 4.1 image, updated to 4.1.11 retropie_script
Built From: 4.1 image from RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: Rapoo T-Series keyboard and wireless mouse with dongle.
Controller used: Bluetooth WiiU Pro controller
Emulator: Stratagus (updated through binary)
Guide used: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Stratagus

Runcommand.log:

--- start of joystick-selection log
joystick selection by name is ON!
joystick indexes for "all" was configured
--- end of joystick-selection log
Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/stratagus/stratagus -F -d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/starcraft.data"
[string "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/starcraft...."]:86: attempt to call global 'SetMetaServer' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[string "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/stratagus/starcraft...."]:86: in main chunk

Thanks very much!

polygaryd

I was having the same issue with starcraft as most people on this forum. I have checked the sizes of the folders, Warcraft 1 is 15.6mb, Warcraft 2 is 40Mb and Starcraft (which works via Stargus on windows 7 x64) is 1.86mb. Now the install file alone to make Starcraft work on the pc is 587mb so Stargus has to be keeping the files it need to run Starcraft elsewhere which is why Starcraft isn't working but Warcraft 1 and 2 are.

So I did some more digging and if you are in windows if you go to %users/profile name/appdata/roaming/stratagus/ you will see a data.stargus folder as well as sc, wc1,wc2. The folder size of the data.stargus folder is 520mb and there isn't a data folder for Warcraft or Warcraft 2. The data we need to run starcraft on the pi is in that data.stargus folder. Take the folders in the data.stargus folder and place them in the roms\stratagus\starcraft.data folder on the pi. I also had already copied the folders that are in C:\program files (x86)\stargus (assuming your using windows) to the starcraft.data folder to the pi so I'm not sure if you really need those or not.

I have confirmed this to work on my retropi

Whats weird is I cant do a campaign game, only these preset maps. Campaign is greyed out even though I own the registered version of this game and it works fine on my pc

Setup info:

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 model b
Power Supply used: 5V/3A power adaptor.
RetroPie Version Used: 4.1 image
Built From: 4.1 image from RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: lenovo usb keyboard and dell usb mouse
Controller used: snes knock off controller for snes console with usb adapter and/or 8bitdo bluetooth snes
Emulator: Stratagus (updated through binary)
Guide used: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Stratagus

sonicsheppard

Confirmed working on my Pi as well following the same steps. Copied over all the data from C:\Program Files\stargus into roms\stratagus\starcraft.data and then copied the remaining data from %users/profile name/appdata/roaming/stratagus/ into roms\stratagus\starcraft.data as well.

That's now working great, so thanks so much @polygaryd hugely appreciated!

herb_fargus

@polygaryd From this page:

http://stargus.stratagus.com/features/index.html

Says campaigns don't work (yet) I've updated the wiki page with more details on installing starcraft:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Stratagus#installing-starcraft-using-stargus-for-stratagus

Dochartaigh

@herb_fargus said in Stratagus Tutorial needed:

@polygaryd From this page:

http://stargus.stratagus.com/features/index.html

Says campaigns don't work (yet) I've updated the wiki page with more details on installing starcraft:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Stratagus#installing-starcraft-using-stargus-for-stratagus

So I guess if the campaign for Starcraft doesn't work people are playing online multiplayer or something like that?

I gave up on Stratagus for Warcraft II (I run that through DOSBox now), but would like to get Starcraft (which is Windows 95? only, right?) running at some point in time as it's a good game (and I even still have my old CD for it!).

Nickelino

Maybe somebody build a Win95 or a Win98 Emulator with 3d-acceleration support?
Starcraft would run smoothly on something like that.

An emulator or a virtual machine would give us the chance to run all the nice games of that century, but it would be only an option for Retropie-x86 users.

Is anybody here with experiences?

Greetings

Nicke

backstander

@Nickelino
Here on this thread there is discussion about installing Windows 95 in Dosbox:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/67700

There wouldn't be any OpenGL or DirectX support.

Or you can pay $25 for ExaGear:
https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/
I've never used it so I don't know how well it works.

herb_fargus

@backstander I am personally against people capitalising on projects meant for learning. I wrote up the guide on getting stargus running in direct response to self promoting hoo hahs going "lookie here everybody! Play your old games! just pay us this bucket of money to do so!"

Im also not sure how much compliance they are in with licences of what they use. Hard to know being closed source...

backstander

@herb_fargus
I've always been curious about that project but I have stayed away from it because it is closed source but I've never thought about the license compliance. I believe it uses Wine to help accomplish what it does. It really bothered me back when TransGaming made the closed source WineX/Cedega/whateveritwascalled from the Wine source code! I loved the idea of playing video games in Linux but what they did was wrong!

You are right! The Raspberry Pi is all about learning how to do things! I probably shouldn't be promoting something like that!

On the other hand, I'm excited about that thread trying to get Windows 95 working in Dosbox on a RPi! I think tyreal90 got it working but others haven't been as lucky.

herman

@CptKlink same issue here :/ any ideas? RPi3 + RetroPie 4.2.3

agoldcheidt

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share a quick guide to play StarCraft under RetroPie easily:

http://berryboot.alexgoldcheidt.com/starcraft-on-retropie/

If you found any issue on any step from this guide, just let me know.

polygaryd

I was able to get warcraft 2 working via wargus no problem, but when i upgraded to beyond the dark portal expansion pack on my pc (which runs fine btw) and then recopied the files the same way as i had before for warcraft 2 it no longer works on my retropie.

In the log it says "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/stratagus/src/unit/script_unittype.cpp:1107: CclDefineUnitType: Unsupported tag: CanGroundAttack

. Does anyone have warcraft 2 with beyond the dark portal working on raspberry-pi running retropie.

Setup info:

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 model b
Power Supply used: 5V/3A power adapter.
RetroPie Version Used: 4.3 image
Built From: 4.3 image from RetroPie website
Emulation Station version 2.6.5rp
USB Devices connected: lenovo usb keyboard and dell usb mouse
Controller used: snes knock off controller for snes console with usb adapter and/or 8bitdo bluetooth snes
Emulator: Stratagus (updated through binary)
Retropie setup script updated to newest version also
Guide used: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Stratagus

polygaryd

ok what i did to get warcraft 2 tides of darkness to open was to uninstall stratagus, removed the warcraft2.data subfolders, reinstall wargus on my windows computer, and copy the required folders back to the pi. thanx to everyone that chimed in to help... hopefully someone will help me out with this new issue.

New issue since upgrading to a pi 3b+ and stretch kernel by editing some setup script files from my pi 3brunnin retropie 4.4.1 on jessie kernel, i had to run apt fix to fix some broken dependencies, everything works as it did EXCEPT all stratagus games. warcraft 1, 2, and starcraft all start and get to the map, all videos, sounds, and graphics are fine. i can select characters, but I cannot have them harvest, attack, build etc. i also cannot use the menu in warcraft 1. is this an incompatibility issue with stratagus and stretch kernel, is it my wireless mouse (I dont have another one to try atm and the mouse works so it seems very unlikely)? if this isnt the section for this question please guide me as to where to post this because i have searched all over and cannot find any forum for where to ask for help about stratagus.