New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup

SuperFromND

I'll take a look at this and see if I can throw together a shell script for submission. Gotta wait until after my PR for the Sharp X1 libretro core gets merged/denied though.

SuperFromND

Okay, I just managed to boot Dragon's Lair in this core after lots of trial and error with file directories, but the video seems to be corrupted a little bit, and sometimes it just displays black. Not 100% sure if that's an issue with my specific video files or if it's the emulator. This is definetly experimental.

skj

@supercatfooz

Getting this in the experimental section is better than nothing at all, from the videos I've saw they do have games running maybe just problems with you dragons lair, check out the first few minutes of this video to see games running using this core

SuperFromND

@skj Yeah, definetly looks like problems with my specific files then. Hrm.

Edit: Turns out I just needed to move lair.dat into the framefile folder. Everything seems to be running fine now, except for some strange bug where the game will randomly freeze for no discernible reason. [It appears something in the emulator causes the framerate to be set to zero]. From what I can tell, this gets logged whenever the bug occurs:

Play
cpu_set_event() : can't find CPU, fix this!

Sound also appears to be totally absent for me.

grant2258

@SuperCatFooz are you talking about lr-daphne or Hyperseus . I know stretch for Hyperseus had a bug with the threading crashing. There was a patch for it to stop freezing but I believe in the big picture for Hyperseus the bug was in sdl I think this https://github.com/spurious/SDL-mirror/commit/03495f9a7f547cf462725bec4c6093f2b0918724#diff-fd1ad3238b63de0c2ccc5340a6becb3b should fix the hypheus locking issue but there has been many updates to sdl since then on the threading especially that where stretch and sdl have the most issues. When i get time in going to try remove there threading for lr-daphne but its no small thing to do

SuperFromND

@grant2258 I'm referring to lr-daphne. I haven't tried Hyperseus yet; I tend to avoid non-libretro emulators whenever possible.

grant2258

There is a patch to remove the cpu error but it causes other problems because of the other threading. I can see if I still have the patch if you want to try it but be aware the ra menu slows down with it

SuperFromND

I don't plan on submitting a pull request for this script myself (due to the freezing issues described above), but if anyone wants to install the emulator without much hassle (or if the freezing bug gets fixed in the future), here's the scriptmodule I wrote for lr-daphne:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This file is part of The RetroPie Project
#
# The RetroPie Project is the legal property of its developers, whose names are
# too numerous to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT.md file distributed with this source.
#
# See the LICENSE.md file at the top-level directory of this distribution and
# at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/master/LICENSE.md
#

rp_module_id="lr-daphne"
rp_module_desc="Laserdisc emu - Daphne port for libretro"
rp_module_help="ROM Extension: .daphne\n\nCopy your Daphne roms to $romdir/daphne"
rp_module_section="exp"

function sources_lr-daphne() {
    gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/libretro/daphne.git
}

function build_lr-daphne() {
    make clean
    make
    md_ret_require="$md_build/daphne_libretro.so"
}

function install_lr-daphne() {
    md_ret_files=(
        'daphne_libretro.so'
    )
}

function configure_lr-daphne() {
    mkRomDir "daphne"
    ensureSystemretroconfig "daphne"

    addEmulator 1 "$md_id" "daphne" "$md_inst/daphne_libretro.so"
    addSystem "daphne"
}

And for those who can't quite figure out what goes where, here's my file heirarchy, rendered in glorious text characters.

vikingrock

@stuart2773 Hey Stuart. Now We have a compiled code, maybe you can make a new request on GitHub.

grant2258

the code always compiled the freezing issue meeds addressed though.

If this freeze doesnt happen in jessie. I would initially suspect it is tsx (Transactional Synchronization eXtensions) related if the arm processors support this would need to look into it more though.

skj

@supercatfooz said in Hypseus new Daphne fork to try on Retropie:

I don't plan on submitting a pull request for this script myself (due to the freezing issues described above), but if anyone wants to install the emulator without much hassle (or if the freezing bug gets fixed in the future), here's the scriptmodule I wrote for lr-daphne:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This file is part of The RetroPie Project
#
# The RetroPie Project is the legal property of its developers, whose names are
# too numerous to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT.md file distributed with this source.
#
# See the LICENSE.md file at the top-level directory of this distribution and
# at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/master/LICENSE.md
#

rp_module_id="lr-daphne"
rp_module_desc="Laserdisc emu - Daphne port for libretro"
rp_module_help="ROM Extension: .daphne\n\nCopy your Daphne roms to $romdir/daphne"
rp_module_section="exp"

function sources_lr-daphne() {
    gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/libretro/daphne.git
}

function build_lr-daphne() {
    make clean
    make
    md_ret_require="$md_build/daphne_libretro.so"
}

function install_lr-daphne() {
    md_ret_files=(
        'daphne_libretro.so'
    )
}

function configure_lr-daphne() {
    mkRomDir "daphne"
    ensureSystemretroconfig "daphne"

    addEmulator 1 "$md_id" "daphne" "$md_inst/daphne_libretro.so"
    addSystem "daphne"
}

And for those who can't quite figure out what goes where, here's my file heirarchy, rendered in glorious text characters.

I how do I install this on my raspberry Pi?

SuperFromND

@skj Navigate to /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores, then create a new file named lr-daphne.sh, and paste the above shell script. Save the file, and you're pretty much done.

You'll want to install something like WinSCP before doing this; it makes the process a lot easier than trying to do it over PuTTY or on the Pi itself.

skj

@supercatfooz

Ok I did all of that but I don't see any option to run lr-daphne or select it as an emulator? Is there anything else I need to do? I'm a complete newbie with GitHub stuff and scripts any help would be much appreciated.

SuperFromND

@skj You'll need to run the script from RetroPie Setup to install the emulator. It'll be in the "experimental" section.

skj

@supercatfooz

Can you explain step by step how to do this as i dont know how to install the lr-daphne.sh from the retropie setup menu. Thanks

SuperFromND

@skj See here.

skj

@supercatfooz

The lr-daphne is not showing in the experimental section. That is where im getting confused i cant install the emulator as it does not appear in that section :s

mediamogul

@skj

Did you update your RetroPie-Setup script first from the root menu?

skj

@mediamogul

Yes, I created the above mentioned lr-daphne.sh script, placed it in the above mention folder, then updated the retropie setup script and nothing for lr-daphne appears in the manage pacakages experimental section, that where I'm up to :s

cyperghost

@mediamogul @skj
I took file to my github
Please download with

Download Scriptmodule with: wget http://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/RetroPie-Shares/master/daphne-dev.sh -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/daphne-dev.sh
Go to ES and select Configuration (the RetroJoy), select RetroPie Setup or just type sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
On blue dialog, navigate to P Manage packages
Select exp Manage experimental packages
Run down the list, there select xxx lr-daphne (Read bottom line it should say: Laserdisc emu - Daphne port for libretro)
Select S Install from source