Can we expect an lr-package for dosbox some day?

EctoOne

@dudleydes does the mapper file even work? last thing i've seen was that they are bugged. If they do now that would be great, because it would allow differebt mappings for each game plus having mouse support on the stick.
SInce i messed up my latest installation anyways, it's time to figure out if i could put two versions of RetroPie on one card, one just for testing.

psyke83

Update: -userconfsolves the problem. You were seeing a segmentation fault and broken mapper due to the default behaviour of -confcausing dosbox to ignore the default user configuration.

When invoked with -userconf, it appends/overrides the user configuration correctly:

CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/pi/.dosbox/dosbox-SVN.conf
CONFIG:Loading additional settings from config file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/DOOM.conf

I've confirmed that launching via .conf files now work correctly both on dosbox and lr-dosbox, so I've gone ahead and merged the necessary change. You should be able to override any other necessary setting changes in this file (such as custom mappers) too. Thanks.

edmaul69

Thank goodness for bulk rename and notepad++. Saved me a lot of time changing 195 .sh files to working .conf files.

edmaul69

@dudleydes any chance you could post your dosbox-SVN.conf and your mapper-SVN.map? I cant figure out why it doesnt recognize me having any controllers in lr-dosbox. Did you setup dosbox or lr-dosbox first? Thank you for your help.

edmaul69

@dudleydes so i got the controls figured out. i could not get the checkerboard retroarch gui to save settings for controls. i accidently deleted the retroarch.cfg for dosbox and it created a new one with a whole mess of stuff. this also gave me an entirely new retroarch gui that works awesome. how can i make all my systems use this gui?

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edmaul69

i can get it working by manually deleting all the retroarch.cfg files i guess

psyke83

Doing that will mess up a lot of important configuration beyond the menu appearance - really not recommended. Remove the retroarch.cfg, reinstall retroarch and then manually set the menu driver to xmb if you want the above menu style.

edmaul69

Nm i figured it out. Deleted

EctoOne

Um, so i just installed lr-dosbox but i can't select it from the runcommand screen. So if i start a game it won't go further than the runcommand screen until i also install dosbox itself.
How do i switch to lr-dosbox?

hooperre

@dudleydes Does that mean you have duplicate entries for each game in ES? I guess with the new hidden feature I can just hide the .sh files or change the es_systems.cfg if I want to switch over fully.

dudleydes

@hooperre I just have a .conf file for games in lr-dosbox, no .sh files. With the recent changes to the +Start DOSBox.sh script, it is now possible to use these .conf files to launch games in the standalone version of DOSBox.

hooperre

@dudleydes Oh okay. Do the .conf files need to be empty outside of [autoexec]?

psyke83

@hooperre said in Can we expect an lr-package for dosbox some day?:

@dudleydes Oh okay. Do the .conf files need to be empty outside of [autoexec]?

You can override any default dosbox options in the .conf file. So, for example, here's a way to set up a custom scaler just for Quake, in Quake.conf:

[render]
scaler=tv2x

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

MOUNT c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc
C:
CD GAMES/QUAKE_SW/
QUAKE.EXE
EXIT

Just don't forget specify the correct config section in brackets (like [autoexec] or [render]) that the options belong to.

hooperre

@psyke83 Okay. I have a bunch of working .conf files that are opened with my .sh files currently. I assume if I launch those from lr-dosbox that they should work.

edmaul69

lines. You put them before all the mount stuff. I have have several games i change their speed with cycles= and stuff like that this way.

edmaul69

@psyke83 an example of how i have my individual game conf files

[autoexec]
cycles=150
mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc
c:
cd/cstlewlf
CE.EXE
exit

psyke83

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