OpenBOR finally working fine on RETROPIE with ES

maxwell

@darknior I want to thank you for your post on OpenBor. I was able to get everything loaded on my RetroPie system. While testing I was only able to get a couple of the old games to load withing any issues. I was wondering if you tried any of the new games to see if they would launch at at all? I was pretty shocked to see that OpenBor worked on my raspberry pi. I was also wondering if you could share the links where you found some of the OpenBor games you listed in your post. It seems like they are all scattered all over the place. Thank you again for creating your post. It came in handy for me.

darknior

@maxwell said in OpenBOR finally working fine on RETROPIE with ES:

While testing I was only able to get a couple of the old games to load withing any issues.

Yes they works fine ...

I was wondering if you tried any of the new games to see if they would launch at at all? I was pretty shocked to see that OpenBor worked on my raspberry pi.

It is an old OpenBOR because nobody port the new one on PI, you can only use old games made 2 3 years ago. the new games will use new scripts this old OpenBOR not understand :(

I was also wondering if you could share the links where you found some of the OpenBor games you listed in your post. It seems like they are all scattered all over the place.

No file share here sorry, you must search around the web ...

I stand a friend take time to work on PI, maybe next year he or an other dev, will port the last OpenBOR to PI.
It's possible because OB works fine on Linux.

maxwell

@darknior Hi darknior, I have managed to stumble across all the old OpenBOR mods. I have been testing as much as I possibly can. I was also curious to know how you were able to compile the OpenBOR code. I have been trying all night with my Raspberry Pi 3. Are you able to compile using your Raspberry Pi or are you using another version of Linux? I am hoping to at least have one successful execution of the OpenBOR source code. Thank you again.

xMarcello

I can not replace the files.
How do I do?

ozanozgul96

@darknior Thank you for the tutorial. Thanks to you I can enjoy the Openbor goodness on my retropie. :D I'm just wondering if you guys were able to fix the save game issue, I tried different methods but I just can't get it to work.

BiZzAr721

Thank you for your post and work on openBOR! Am I installing from the experimental section, and still replacing openBOR with your file?

darknior

@bizzar721 Yes it is.

@ozanozgul96 said in OpenBOR finally working fine on RETROPIE with ES:

@darknior Thank you for the tutorial. Thanks to you I can enjoy the Openbor goodness on my retropie. :D I'm just wondering if you guys were able to fix the save game issue, I tried different methods but I just can't get it to work.

Yes i have the same problem :(
I think we must found some one that want to help us with C code.
To fix this old OpenBOR or port the last version.
I think it is not so complicate to fix, but i'm not a real C coder :(

BiZzAr721

After replacing OpenBOR file with darknior's, I receive this error:

[[Ash: 1: ./OpenBOR: Permission denied

kactius

@bizzar721 give permission "sudo chmod +x /opt/retropie/ports/openbor/OpenBOR" or "sudo chmod 755 /opt/retropie/ports/openbor/OpenBOR"

BiZzAr721

Thank you. After changing permissions, I know it works. I got splatterhouse to work, but everything else:
Simpson's Tree House of Horror
He-Man
Rocko's Modern Life
TMNT Rescue Palooza
TMNT Shell Shocked
all do not work. I can see it start toload, but cannot see the command line error because it spits me back out to ES too quick. How can I launch from command line to be able to review the error? Also, maybe all the games I want to play are too new for this version. Is there a way to check that?

EDIT: I managed to take a video on my phone and replayed the message:
/home/pi/retropie/roms/ports/openbor/he-man.bor//data/videopc.txt:no such file or directory
reading video settings from 'data/video.txt'.
Warning: couldn't load OpenGL library (no dynamic GL support in video diver)sucDone!e or directoryy
OpenBoR v3.0 Build 3016, Compile Date: Oct 31 2017

darknior

@bizzar721 It's normal, you only try games from 2017 / 2018 !!!
I've write it's an old OpenBOR engine. You only can play old games.

BiZzAr721

Sorry, I misunderstood and got my hopes up when I saw this:

We are compatible with v3.0 Build 3400 Mods !
And newer mods should work as well as now unknowncommands will just be ignored.

If I had the technical know how, I'd be all over this.

Thanks, @darknior for your work!

darknior

@bizzar721 No problem ;)
Me too ... i dream to update it myself if i can :p

Retro Nation

If someone can please make some contact with a person that has the know how to update Openbor to a newer version that would support the newer games that would be so greatly appreciated. I am a big fan of openbor and would love to play games like He-Man, Bad Ass Babes, and Justice League United on my Retropie. Please someone.

darknior

@retro-nation I'm like you and it's why i work on it last year. But i found no one to port the new version :(

CapNinja

Searching the net about this, I've found a forum. Here is some quotes on the topic. By the way, the topic is very old, from 2016.

"They couldn't even find a current source when they made this, they never found chronocrash or anyone from the scene. They used a very outdated source because that's what's on the repository. If this was kept up to date then we'd probably have a functional pi build already..." - BeasTie

Then, in 2017...
"That's the roflor port, known as "annalyst" here. Not only is it unofficial - it was was created by a disgruntled former community member who decided to compete rather than cooperate and gained zero traction. You'd be well advised to stay far away from it." - Damon Caskey

"The problem is: if that fork was done using Roflor, I doubt it will find any support here, by reasons DC explained above. I even saw the guy himself attacking one of the devs at Github. So, as you may think, it not welcome here.
...
About the possibility to run the modern games, I think every Raspeberry Pi should run most of the games, since the lowest version has 512mb of ram (Pi Zero). But some more robust mods could have some issues." - O Ilusionista

The forum where I get all this info was Chrono Crash. I can't post the link here, but google can solve this.

Damn, I just don't even know how to type a command line... Maybe reading this, in some years someone can be motivated to unite the people and make something beautiful happen.

darknior

@capninja I know this and these people.
OpenBOR can perfectly work on PI, i'm sure with 1Go of RAM !
And they already made a linux version, we mus only found some one that can adapt it to ARM proc like this version.

DarishZone

Please, i'm interested but can't figure it out. I've downloaded OpenBOR from ES experimental section, this made an .sh file on ports folder and "openbor" folder, but it's empty... Faq say to copy pak games on openbor folder, then run extract.sh, which is not present on folder. The gui starts if i select Openbor on ES Ports, but if i put some pak files on "openbor" folder, then the program crash and send me back to ES.

BiZzAr721

So I have been going through a ton of older openBOR games I pulled from my Hyperspin arcade HDD. I have them all extracted and am manually loading each game to see what will work. I will compile a list of what is working and post here when I am done.

Also, I would like to load these games from the ports menu, not a seperate menu. I edited es_system to include .bor .BOR

Is it possible to edit the openBOR emulator.cfg located in config/ports/openbor to run the mods?

I tried to use the system menu command but no good.

openbor = "cd /opt/retropie/ports/openbor/ && ./OpenBOR %ROM% < /dev/null 2<&1"
default = "openbor"

mitu

@bizzar721 Try to create a script (.sh) that runs the command with only 1 parameter - the %ROM% - and configure it as the emulator to run .bor files.