Possible new ports on Retropie?

WillBoxGaming

Hello there!
As you may already know, you can play games like neverball, Quake 3, GLTron and so on on the Raspbian operating system using the experimental GL drivers.

On Retropie, I can play Quake 3, but I never seen anyone being able to run GLtron or Neverball on this operating system.

Do you think its possible to add such games to Retropie? I dont like playing games on Raspbian, most of the time I cant even fullscreen. But I principally want to play on Retropie because I dont need to enable GL drivers everytime I want to play. Doing this makes my BerryBoot going crazy!

Any help is appreciated. Thanks alot! :D

mediamogul

@willboxgaming

The process to add software to the Ports menu is pretty straightforward. Now that you mention it, I might add GLTron myself if possible.

mitu

@willboxgaming If the game requires OpenGL, then you'll need an OpenGL driver/extension to play it. RetroPie does not require, and even has a conflict, with the OpenGL driver, so there's might not be so straightforward to play them without X.org and the OpenGL driver.

mediamogul

Ah, I'm just now reading that the experimental OpenGL driver won't work outside of a desktop environment. That's a shame.

pjft

@mediamogul Any other arcade or console game that'd be similar to GLTron that you'd recommend?

WillBoxGaming

@mediamogul Thanks for the reply! Im a little lost with your guide... How could I install Neverball on there?

sudo apt-get install neverball
After running this from the retropie console, I typed in ./neverball , neverball, and so on. I cant get the game to launch... So knowing that it doesnt even works in the console, how could you make a working script out of it?

Clyde

@willboxgaming said in Possible new ports on Retropie?:

After running this from the retropie console, I typed in ./neverball , neverball, and so on.

Were there any error messages? Those would help to pinpoint the problem.

mediamogul

@willboxgaming said in Possible new ports on Retropie?:

Thanks for the reply! Im a little lost with your guide... How could I install Neverball on there?

Neverball needs the experimental OpenGL driver and apparently it requires a desktop environment. Unfortunately, I don't believe it can be run as a port in the way you're wanting.