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

Darksavior

@dirtbagxon Got a bit further but now it's looking for the fonts and audio stuff . This is the last line: SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/teedo.wav: Couldn't open singe/timegal/teedo.wav
I don't have those folders but I have the files in my timegal folder. I'll move them but where would I make those folders?

DirtBagXon

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon Got a bit further but now it's looking for the fonts and audio stuff . This is the last line: SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/teedo.wav: Couldn't open singe/timegal/teedo.wav
I don't have those folders but I have the files in my timegal folder. I'll move them but where would I make those folders?

Mmmm, this is following the path in the .singe file, which is looking for:

/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/singe/timegal

i.e. the -homedir + singe + gamename

All the singe game files will have the same path, as this is where it has traditional been and coded. Let me think about clean way to do that.....

Messy way:

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/
mkdir singe
cd singe
ln -s ../timegal.daphne timegal

I think.... ^ more correct ?

Does that work firstly ?

roslof

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon Got a bit further but now it's looking for the fonts and audio stuff . This is the last line: SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/teedo.wav: Couldn't open singe/timegal/teedo.wav
I don't have those folders but I have the files in my timegal folder. I'll move them but where would I make those folders?

Hey @Darksavior. FWIW, I had the same issues and had to jump through a couple of mini-hoops. As it stands, I believe the ../roms/daphne folder is always "root" for any of the <game>.singe scripts regardless of its location.

If helpful, for Singe games only, this is what I'm currently doing to solve:

Create a simlink within roms/daphne:
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne singe
RESULT SHOULD BE: singe -> /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne
For each Singe game, create simlinks that are the name of the rom that map to each .daphne game within roms/daphne:
Examples:
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/hayate.daphne hayate
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/maddog.daphne maddog
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/maddog2.daphne maddog2
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne timegal
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timetraveler.daphne timetraveler
SAMPLE RESULTS:
hayate -> hayate.daphne/
maddog -> maddog.daphne/
maddog2 -> maddog2.daphne/
timegal -> timegal.daphne/
timetraveler -> timetraveler.daphne/

So it's not pretty, and I fought with -homedir and -datadir settings to no avail. -- but this is best solution I could find based on the way code currently works that allows the standard naming convention and a clean launch from EmulationStation without extra files/folders visible.

IDEALLY, the -script command-line directory would be the root directory for any game instead of -homedir or -datadir.

roslof

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DirtBagXon

@roslof said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon Got a bit further but now it's looking for the fonts and audio stuff . This is the last line: SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/teedo.wav: Couldn't open singe/timegal/teedo.wav
I don't have those folders but I have the files in my timegal folder. I'll move them but where would I make those folders?

Hey @Darksavior. FWIW, I had the same issues and had to jump through a couple of mini-hoops. As it stands, I believe the ../roms/daphne folder is always "root" for any of the <game>.singe scripts regardless of its location.

If helpful, for Singe games only, this is what I'm currently doing to solve:

Create a simlink within roms/daphne:
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne singe
RESULT SHOULD BE: singe -> /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne

For each Singe game, create simlinks that are the name of the rom that map to each .daphne game within roms/daphne:
Examples:
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/hayate.daphne hayate
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/maddog.daphne maddog
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/maddog2.daphne maddog2
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne timegal
ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timetraveler.daphne timetraveler
SAMPLE RESULTS:
hayate -> hayate.daphne/
maddog -> maddog.daphne/
maddog2 -> maddog2.daphne/
timegal -> timegal.daphne/
timetraveler -> timetraveler.daphne/

So it's not pretty, and I fought with -homedir and -datadir settings to no avail. -- but this is best solution I could find based on the way code currently works that allows the standard naming convention and a clean launch from EmulationStation without extra files/folders visible

Same thing, but putting them in a subdir, as I did, might be a little neater.

This is due to paths hardcoded into the .singe files themselves, which we really don't want to be editing.

In my suggestion it would be:

roms
|-- daphne
|    |   
|    |
|    |-- timegal.daphne     
|    |    |-- timegal.commands  (Optional)
|    |    |      
|    |    |-- timegal.txt 
|    |    |-- timegal.m2v
|    |    |-- timegal.ogg
|    |    |-- timegal.singe
|    |
|    | 
|    +-- singe
|         +-- timegal  <<- link to ../timegal.daphne (ln -s ../timegal.daphne timegal)
|    |               
|    | 
|    +-- roms        
|         +-- lair.zip

With the new daphne.sh as above of course.

Darksavior

@dirtbagxon No change. Same error messages.
@roslof Got further with your simlink which gets different errors now:

2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/ring01.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/credit.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/select.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/ring02.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/right.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/wrong.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/blip.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/teedo.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)

DirtBagXon

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon No change. Same error messages.

Ok, maybe it needs --datadir argument, I have edited the daphne.sh above with that argument for the singe games - replace it with the new content - does that work ?

--homedir and --datadir I have always specified previously, so let's stick with that....

roslof

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon No change. Same error messages.
@roslof Got further with your simlink which gets different errors now:

2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/ring01.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/credit.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/select.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/ring02.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/right.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/wrong.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/blip.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)
2021-03-28 00:19:01.945 INFO  [21016] [printline@95] SINGE: Could not open singe/timegal/teedo.wav: Could not find RIFF or WAVE identifiers (not a Waveform file)

Be sure ALL game-related files are pulled out of subfolders and placed into the main <gamename>.daphne folder. The subfolders should be empty and discarded. Feel free to backup first, just in case.

EDIT see note below from @DirtBagXon that this will be case-by-case, depending on the game.

roslof

@dirtbagxon said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon No change. Same error messages.

Ok, maybe it needs --datadir argument, I have edited the daphne.sh above with that argument for the singe games - replace it with the new content - does that work ?

--homedir and --datadir I have always specified previously, so let's stick with that....

I thought I tried that and appended the $dir or something, but I recall it didn't work correctly. Will play around with this in a bit.

DirtBagXon

@roslof said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

Be sure ALL game-related files are pulled out of subfolders and placed into the main <gamename>.daphne folder. The subfolders should be empty and discarded. Feel free to backup first, just in case.

Agreed, in this case of timegal but subdirectories can be there in other games, again dictated by the .singe file.

DirtBagXon

@roslof said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon No change. Same error messages.

Ok, maybe it needs --datadir argument, I have edited the daphne.sh above with that argument for the singe games - replace it with the new content - does that work ?

--homedir and --datadir I have always specified previously, so let's stick with that....

I thought I tried that and appended the $dir or something, but I recall it didn't work correctly. Will play around with this in a bit.

No --homedir and --datadir are the root of daphne, so roms, singe etc are subdirs from there.

You shouldn't append game names to those arguments.

roslof

@dirtbagxon said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

No --homedir and --datadir are the root of daphne, so roms, singe etc are subdirs from there.
You shouldn't append game names to those arguments.

Right with you. This is my current setting, but still need to use the symlinks.

I believe in order for this to work, there needs to be a dynamic argument that moves with the folder name you select from EmulationStation. So using Time Gal as an example:

timegal.daphne is the folder
The script parses this into $name as timegal and $dir as timegal.daphne (I believe).
The script resides in timegal.daphne -- but -homedir and -datadir are a level higher.
So everything in timegal.daphne is ignored by the script, as it's using the directory one level higher.

If $dir can be used to dynamically move with your selection, I think this will work without symlinks. But I'm still pretty junior here, so might be missing something.

DirtBagXon

Also guys, might be useful to see the full output of the commands:

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log

after any failures.

DirtBagXon

@roslof said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

No --homedir and --datadir are the root of daphne, so roms, singe etc are subdirs from there.
You shouldn't append game names to those arguments.

Right with you. This is my current setting, but still need to use the simlinks.

I believe in order for this to work, there needs to be a dynamic argument that moves with the folder name you select from EmulationStation. So using Time Gal as an example:

timegal.daphne is the folder
The script parses this into $name as timegal and $dir as timegal.daphne (I believe).
The script resides in timegal.daphne -- but the --homedir and --datadir are a level higher.
So everything in timegal.daphne is ignored by the script, as it's using the directory one level higher.

If $dir can be used to dynamically move with your selection, I think this will work without symlinks. But I'm still pretty junior here, so might be missing something.

Let me try and replicate this, and see what is happening.....

DirtBagXon

OK, I think we have been overcomplicating

This works for me on the command line:

hypseus.bin singe vldp -script ~/.daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.singe  -framefile ~/.daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.txt -homedir ~/.daphne/ -datadir ~/.daphne/

This doesn't

hypseus.bin singe vldp -script ~/.daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.singe  -framefile ~/.daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.txt -homedir ~/.daphne/

So, it's the -datadir that is needed.

My fault I should have put -datadir in the first version of the new daphne.sh script.

No need for symlinks, or singe subdir, just this:

roms
|-- daphne
|    |   
|    |
|    |-- timegal.daphne     
|    |    |-- timegal.commands  (Optional)
|    |    |      
|    |    |-- timegal.txt 
|    |    |-- timegal.m2v
|    |    |-- timegal.ogg
|    |    |-- timegal.singe

DirtBagXon

So take the daphne.sh that is there now above, move all the symlinks and subdir out of the way and try that.

Give:

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log

For anything.

I need to see the full output to see what emustation, or whatever, is actually doing...

Darksavior

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DirtBagXon

Can you also give the output of your timegal directory:

ls -al /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne

Would be useful to see the structure is the same as mine.

Darksavior

@dirtbagxon Not getting anywhere. I'll delete the symlink and stand by..

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DirtBagXon

@darksavior said in New Hypseus and lr-Daphne to add on Retropie-Setup:

@dirtbagxon Not getting anywhere. I'll delete the symlink and stand by..

Ok, that looks good, I am just setting up a clean RetroPie here.... to test.