Launching Quake and it's extras (1 year anniversary release)

cyperghost

@edmaul69 That is a really good question.... The reasons why I made these scripts are because I wasn't able to launch the addons even if I followed the documentated advices.

I just was able to run Quake full version and Dopa (Episode 5)
Hipnotic and Rogue were failing even by using .../quake/id1/hipnotic/pak0.pakand ...quake/id/rogue/pak0.pak.

So I used the method used in Dopa (using the highest pak# in order) to load package. That worked flawless.

Solution #1 would be... copy basefile of quake (pak0.pak and pak1.pak) and pak file of hipnotic androgue to pak2.pak and took them in seperate folders --> waste of storage space but savegames will be stored in seperate location.

Solution #2 take my script it would save space but needs to compress savegames because save structure for all episodes in the series is equal s0.sav up to s11.sav and this would cause to load and even worse to override saved games created by ex. from Quake - Hipnoticin Quake - Rogue >> useless

Symlinking was not possible so this script was my last resort :)
Did you understand? In short:

It saves storage space on your SD/USB device
It makes savegames useable for the whole series because every savegame for each extra package is zipped in it's own archive and deflated before use.
Configuration is an easy setup by using variables
You can use it to run Dopa within Quake basefiles and save storage (usecase for every user)

Be happy if it works for you in seperate folders. I wasn't able to use it that way - sadly... but as I wrote in my last sentence you can save same space to run Dopa that way :)

@cyperghost its cool that you made the script.

Thank you very much .... that is already my first bash-script I ever wrote. Don't worry I'm not a rookie in coding :D

edmaul69

@cyperghost i think i might have renamed dopa and hipnotic to pak 1 or 2 and stuck a copy of quake in each folder. Im not home to verify but i think it is what i had to do to get them to work. I will let you know in a few hours.

cyperghost

@edmaul69 That would be nice if you can check :)
You might try out the scripts ... No worries they are fail safe but you need to install zip support first :)

You can try at Dopa
Rename pak2.pak to dopa.pak and install quake.shand dopa.sh from github and change pathes :)
So you can use Dopaand Quakewithin one folder :)

edmaul69

@cyperghost so here are mine in each folder. only dopa is a duplicate pak0 and pak1 here is my layout.

id folder
pak0.pak
pak1.pak
dopa folder
---pak0.pak (duplicate)
---pak1.pak (duplicate)
---pak2.pak
hipnotic folder
---pak0.pak
rogue folder
---pak0.pak
aos folder
pak0.pak (no duplicates here)
pak1.pak
pak2.pak
pak3.pak
pak4.pak

and here is what the configs look like

Quake - Episode 5 - Dimension of the Past.sh

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/id1/dopa/pak2.pak"

Quake - Mission Pack 1 - Scourge of Armagon.sh

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/id1/hipnotic/pak0.pak"

Quake - Mission Pack 2 - Dissolution of Eternity.sh

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/id1/rogue/pak0.pak"

Quake - Mission Pack 3 - Abyss of Pandemonium .sh

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/id1/aop/pak0.pak"

edmaul69

@cyperghost had to edit some stuff in last post

cyperghost

@edmaul69
Thank you! Just for rechecking I post structure of files recommended in the wiki.
The bash scripts you are using are the original ones and should work but as I said - for me it was not possible to start Hipnoticor Rogueas descriped in the wiki. You also see, that if you use own folders there is no problem with the save games.

Original State as descriped in the wiki

id1
├── pak0.pak
├── pak1.pak
├── s0.sav
├── s1.sav
│
├── hipnotic
│   ├── pak0.pak
│   ├── s0.sav
│   └── s1.sav
│
├── rogue
│   ├── pak0.pak
│   ├── s0.sav
│   └── s1.sav
│
└── dopa
    ├── pak0.pak (copy from id1)
    ├── pak1.pak (copy from id1)
    ├── pak2.pak
    ├── s0.sav
    └── s1.sav

The state if you use my scripts, without launching a `.sh` file

id1
├── pak0.pak
├── pak1.pak
├── dopa.pak
├── hipnotic.pak
├── rogue.pak
├── savegames_quake.zip
├── savegames_dopa.zip
├── savegames_rogue.zip
└── savegames_hipnotic.zip

State if you launch `Quake.sh` via my github script

id1
├── pak0.pak
├── pak1.pak
├── dopa.pak
├── hipnotic.pak
├── rogue.pak
├── savegames_quake.zip
│   ├── s0.sav
│   └── s1.sav
│
├── savegames_dopa.zip
├── savegames_rogue.zip
└── savegames_hipnotic.zip

State if you launch `Quake - MP2 - Dissolution of Eternity (rogue).sh` via my github script

id1
├── pak0.pak
├── pak1.pak
├── dopa.pak
├── hipnotic.pak
├── pak2.pak
├── savegames_quake.zip
├── savegames_dopa.zip
├── savegames_rogue.zip
│   ├── s0.sav
│   └── s1.sav
│
└── savegames_hipnotic.zip

cyperghost

I've done a small update to v1.2: Filename of zipped savegames are now generated out of pakfilename

id1.pak > savesgames_id1.zip
rogue.pak > savesgames_rogue.zip
IlikeRetroPie.pak > savesgames_IlikeRetroPie.zip

BenMcLean

X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse should work. You just put PAK0.PAK, PAK2.PAK, PAK1.PAK, PAK4.PAK, PAK3.PAK and PROGS.DAT in your \\RETROPIE\roms\ports\quake\xmen folder and make a sh for it under ports which should say:

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/xmen/pak0.pak"

cyperghost

@benmclean said in Launching Quake and it's extras (1 year anniversary release):

X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse

Which emulator do you use? lr-tyrquake? I can't get it up working with this. It would be really cool to get this running.

Up to now my setup can run:

Quake (registered) -- using zip packer scripts
Quake MP1 - Hipnotic -- using zip packer scripts
Quake MP2- Rogue -- using zip packer scripts
Quake EP5 - Dopa -- using zip packer scripts
Quake Abyss of Pandemonium -- running in it's own folder
Quake Rally -- running in it's own folder

Not working:

Quake - XMEN -- running it it's own folder (with pak0, pak1, pak2, pak3, pak4 and progs.dat)

BenMcLean

Oh yeah, I forgot to check. I believe it uses darkplaces quake. I can double check after work. Oh and I was using a modified version from moddb. I don't know whether the original files work or not.

BTW, it runs Quake Rally!?!? How does that work. I thought that mod required code modification?

I'd really like to see Quake Matrix and SUPERQOT as well. :)

cyperghost

@benmclean
Yes Quake Rally is smooth running.
File structure is here

RALLY
|   CONFIG.CFG
|   PAK0.PAK
|   PAK1.PAK
|   PROGS.DAT
|   QRDEM1.DEM
|   QRDEM2.DEM
|   QRDEM3.DEM
|   QRDOCS.TXT
|   RALLY.CFG
|   
\---MAPS
        CULT.BSP
        QRALLY01.BSP
        QRALLY02.BSP
        QRALLY02.TXT
        QRALLY03.BSP
        QRDM01.BSP
        QRDM02.BSP
        QRDM02.TXT
        QRDM03.BSP
        QRDM03.TXT
        QRDM04.BSP
        START.BSP

BenMcLean

X-Men: the Ravages of Apocalypse runs fine on darkplaces-quake and I used version 1.11 from moddb.

I can't seem to get Quake Rally 1.2 to work. On darkplaces-quake, it adds the custom menu graphics but doesn't launch the quake rally maps. On tyrquake, it just instantly kicks you back to EmulationStation. What did your launch script look like?

cyperghost

@benmclean
It's nothing special!

Quake - Rally.sh

#!/bin/bash
path="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake/rally"

#
# Start the dance!
#------------
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "quake" "${path}/pak0.pak"

edmaul69

@cyperghost i just realized that for the add on packs i am using tyrquake. I will try messing with setting them up in lr-tyrquake. Although i have mission pack 3 and 5th dimension running in tyrquake. Not sure if i will be able to get them running in lr-tyrquake.

cyperghost

@edmaul69 The EP5 (dopa) runs fine. But you have to copy the two original quake paks (id1/pak0.pak and id1/pak1.pak) to dopa folder and then rename the content of dopa to pak2.

Or you use my scripts! Then you need to copy pak-file from dopa to id1-folder and rename it to dopa.pak
and perform a sudo apt install zip to get zip-archive support!

cyperghost

I relate to this thread there were errors in libretro-tyrquake :)
So finally the scripts aren't needed anymore!

BenMcLean

The only problem with the X-Men game is that I couldn't figure out how to turn off anti-aliasing on the textures or how to get out of the hub level into the game proper.

Will try Quake Rally again soon

BenMcLean

I tried Quake Rally 1.2 again using your exact launch script but it didn't work. It fails to load in tyrquake and in darkplaces quake, it shows the Quake Rally themed menu but it actually loads regular Quake levels, not the Quake Rally levels. Can you link specifically where you got the Quake Rally files from which you're saying are playable?

cyperghost

@BenMcLean
I took it from here and just copied Folder RALLY to ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake

BenMcLean

@cyperghost said in Launching Quake and it's extras (1 year anniversary release):

@BenMcLean
I took it from here and just copied Folder RALLY to ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/quake

Thanks. I finally figured out the problem. I was copying the files over using Windows via Samba and the filenames are in ALLCAPS. Unlike Windows, Linux is case sensitive. Quickly shifting everything to lowercase using FileRenamer got Quake Rally to start with it's proper demo.

Unfortunately, when I start a single player game, it doesn't show me a car. I see a steering wheel sort of, and it looks like I'm partially clipped into a wall. That's on darkplaces-quake. Tyrquake immediately quits back to the RetroPie menu. :(

However, while I was looking at darkplaces-quake, I saw there was a "browse mods" feature in its menu, and that included "Matrix"!! That means Quake Matrix should work!! I loved that mod back in the day. :D I'm gonna try it

Launching Quake and it's extras (1 year anniversary release)

Original State as descriped in the wiki

The state if you use my scripts, without launching a .sh file

State if you launch Quake.sh via my github script

State if you launch Quake - MP2 - Dissolution of Eternity (rogue).sh via my github script

The state if you use my scripts, without launching a `.sh` file

State if you launch `Quake.sh` via my github script

State if you launch `Quake - MP2 - Dissolution of Eternity (rogue).sh` via my github script