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

roslof

@DirtBagXon good news, for what it's worth, everything is still running well for me post change.

@Darksavior once you're back up, the timing of Singe games are well improved with the latest commit. Time Gal boot + new life is zippy. Mad Dog "shooting gallery" scenes are as fast as the original arcade version.

DirtBagXon

@Darksavior @roslof

I have added another option to disable the lair2 overlays in case it's that that is causing the stuttering issue on the PI.

In RetroPie docs at: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Daphne/

You have the ability to issue game specific config via <gamename>.commands

So in this case, in thelair2.daphne directory create a file: lair2.commands and add -nolair2_overlay to it.

cat /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/lair2.daphne/lair2.commands
-nolair2_overlay

It's in the latest repo merge.

Let me know results.

roslof

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

Let me know results.

For what it's worth, I have never had issues with Lair2, either with KMS or FKMS. Using 720p videos derived from the Digital Leisure product. Thanks again @DirtBagXon. Still, loving all of these new improvements. Daphne has been dead for far too long.

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:

Let me know results.

For what it's worth, I have never had issues with Lair2, either with KMS or FKMS. Using 720p videos derived from the Digital Leisure product. Thanks again @DirtBagXon. Still, loving all of these new improvements. Daphne has been dead for far too long.

Well, it's an option, not enabled by default - but if issues arise it's there....

If 720p videos work it does imply an encoding issue.....

Edit: I have had lair2 attract mode running on a Pi4 for last few hours, I occasionally see some stuttering, but bearable to me.

It is probably the Pi drivers, if (moving forward) you have the KMS options this may improve. In the meantime if it bugs you, turn the overlay off as above.

Darksavior

@dirtbagxon Alright, I found out I wasn't creating the symlink for singe. Huge improvements when i tested time gal. ~30sec for the first load. ~10 when I die.

With lair2, I previously tested with the kms and fkms driver and got the same jittery results. I can verify that -nolair2_overlay fixes the problem.

DirtBagXon

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

With lair2, I previously tested with the kms and fkms driver and got the same jittery results. I can verify that -nolair2_overlay fixes the problem.

So the only different between you and @roslof is the video files....

Think that may point a finger.

Also I note that lair2 is listed with issues on the compatibility list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hy2VpPXgs4a9imeu0_w3SpehKEkhUNOLzD1jhcgwS3o/edit#gid=0

Glad you are all sorted :)

DirtBagXon

@Darksavior @roslof

Deleted the origin request, as I have now managed to replicate the stuttering, which is in fact due to the video file encoding on this version:

 67838539 Nov 28  2019 dl211.vob.m2v

Video
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings                          : CustomMatrix / BVOP
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : Variable
Format settings, picture structure       : Frame
Duration                                 : 1 min 30 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 6 000 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 7 200 kb/s
Width                                    : 640 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.652
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00:00
Stream size                              : 64.7 MiB (100%)
Writing library                          : TMPGEnc 2.525.64.184
Color primaries                          : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.601
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601

sha1sum dl211.vob.m2v
580c1beb00788e96386015b879ccaaffe32a7f7d  dl211.vob.m2v

I grabbed the 1080p HD lair2 files and it was no longer evident even at higher resolution. This ties up with what @roslof stated.

I did also take the opportunity to heavily optimise the lair2 overlay code and ensure that alignment is correct on HD (4:3) videos.

I know the Pi won't support these HD videos smoothly, I didn't actually bother with HD previously, but having now seen them, I would be looking to encode these myself to a size that will run on the Pi.

Darksavior

@dirtbagxon I tried this 1080p 4:3 version of lair2 and I saw the jitter as well. Using -nolair2_overlayalso fixes it. I'm still using the build from my last post. I did not know someone went ahead and did a somewhat proper 1080p release and they look nice so I'll replace mine with those. I was deeply discouraged by some 16:9 singe v2 timegal release.

DirtBagXon

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

@dirtbagxon I was deeply discouraged by some 16:9 singe v2 timegal release.

I hear you there....

There are some new lair2 overlay improvements in the repo, if you feel inclined, but I'm not sure what is going on with your jittering now to be honest.

Maybe my eyes are just too old now 8)

Darksavior

@dirtbagxon New problem with these 1080p versions. Both lair1 and ace get a black screen eventually but I can hear the audio. I haven't finished the first level in lair2 but I didn't get it with that one. I can see some text for a brief second..something about video parsing. Is there a way to force hypseus to parse everything again? I can only find info about deleting some dat file which I'm not sure what it's called or where it's located.

DirtBagXon

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

@dirtbagxon New problem with these 1080p versions. Both lair1 and ace get a black screen eventually but I can hear the audio. I haven't finished the first level in lair2 but I didn't get it with that one. I can see some text for a brief second..something about video parsing. Is there a way to force hypseus to parse everything again? I can only find info about deleting some dat file which I'm not sure what it's called or where it's located.

Delete the .dat files in each on their directories.

cd lair.daphne
rm *.dat           <- Check that command carefully

cd ../ace.daphne
rm *.dat

cd ../lair2.daphne
rm *.dat

You should see the regeneration of the .dat files next time you start each game.

Trying to run these 1080p videos on a RPi will be problematic, you may want to re-encode the resolution down a little.

I believe you are a Mac user, so ffmpeg maybe your route here:

ffmpeg -i dl-slates-orig.m2v -vf scale=800:600 -codec:v mpeg2video -b 4182k dl-slates.m2v

But we are getting into a whole different arena here, maybe do some reading up on this.

Darksavior

Ah, I needed to get rid of all of the dat files, thanks.

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

Trying to run these 1080p videos on a RPi will be problematic, you may want to re-encode the resolution down a little.

How so? I tested all 3 games for almost an hour and they don't seem to have any problems? My pi4 is overclocked. 2Ghz for cpu, and 750Mhz for gpu.

DirtBagXon

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

Ah, I needed to get rid of all of the dat files, thanks.

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

Trying to run these 1080p videos on a RPi will be problematic, you may want to re-encode the resolution down a little.

How so? I tested all 3 games for almost an hour and they don't seem to have any problems? My pi4 is overclocked. 2Ghz for cpu, and 750Mhz for gpu.

Oh OK, perfect - happy days!!

DirtBagXon

@roslof

The Timetraveler font misalignment issue:

Copy the ds-digib.ttf as a backup from Timetraveler folder, then load it in:

http://www.glyphrstudio.com/online/

Then immediately save it as an OTF font, it will be named MyFont-Bold.otf.

Rename this .otf file to overwrite ds-digib.ttf.

Thank me later.......

Darksavior

If anyone was wondering about the cpu usage when using 1080p 4:3 rips:

pi4 2Ghz/750Mhz = ~87% max
pi4 2Ghz/stock gpu = no change
pi4 stock = 90% most of the time. 100% max :(

New problems? Compiled the newest release. Only other difference is that I'm now using a pad if it matters:

space ace: Eh..nevermind. Few more tests and no more desyncs in level 3.

lair1: Now had a crash with pad (played a good bit of it with previous release with no crashes with kb). Took a while so not sure if I can reproduce it. The error messages pops up in ace too but that doesn't crash:

Parameters: 
Executing: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1920 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=1080 /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne"
[console] Setting alternate home dir:
[console] /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne
[console] NOTE : Ignoring obsolete argument
[console] Setting screen width to 1920
[console] Setting screen height to 1080
2021-03-31 01:06:37.425 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@323] Version v2.2.0-1
2021-03-31 01:06:37.426 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@327] Command line: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin dle21 vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne/dle21.txt -homedir /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne -fullscreen -bank 0 11111101 -bank 1 01110010 -blank_searches -noserversend -x 1920 -y 1080 
2021-03-31 01:06:37.426 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@328] CPU : UnknownCPU || Mem : 1856 megs
2021-03-31 01:06:37.426 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@329] OS : Linux 5.10 || Video : Unknown video
2021-03-31 01:06:37.426 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@330] RGB2YUV Function: C
2021-03-31 01:06:37.426 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@336] Line Blending Function: C
2021-03-31 01:06:37.426 INFO  [1826] [reset_logfile@343] Audio Mixing Function: C
2021-03-31 01:06:37.741 INFO  [1826] [game::load_compressed_rom@873] Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U1.bin ... 8192 bytes read.
2021-03-31 01:06:37.741 INFO  [1826] [game::load_compressed_rom@873] Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U2.bin ... 8192 bytes read.
2021-03-31 01:06:37.742 INFO  [1826] [game::load_compressed_rom@873] Loading compressed ROM image DLE21_U3.bin ... 8192 bytes read.
2021-03-31 01:06:39.376 INFO  [1826] [ldp_vldp::read_frame_conversions@1038] Framefile parse succeeded. Video/Audio directory is: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne/./
2021-03-31 01:06:40.702 WARN  [1826] [lair::input_disable@1051] Error, bug in Dragon's Lair's move disable
2021-03-31 01:07:17.595 WARN  [1826] [ldv1000::pre_display_disable@451] Display disable received (unsupported)
2021-03-31 01:07:18.528 WARN  [1826] [ldv1000::pre_display_disable@451] Display disable received (unsupported)
2021-03-31 01:08:12.650 WARN  [1826] [lair::input_disable@1051] Error, bug in Dragon's Lair's move disable
2021-03-31 01:08:13.234 WARN  [1826] [lair::input_disable@1051] Error, bug in Dragon's Lair's move disable
2021-03-31 01:08:13.300 WARN  [1826] [lair::input_enable@1003] Error, bug in Dragon's Lair's input enable
2021-03-31 01:08:13.483 WARN  [1826] [lair::input_disable@1051] Error, bug in Dragon's Lair's move disable
2021-03-31 01:08:16.136 ERROR [1828] [ldp_vldp_audio_callback@592] End of audio stream detected!

roslof

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

New problem? Compiled the newest release and tested space ace

Hey DS: Rebuilt dat fiies? I playtest Space Ace regularly with no issues on any variation, included the "Enhancement" version. But I'm using the 720P version, so not certain what might be happening if you are using the 1080p version.

roslof

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

Rename this .otf file to overwrite ds-digib.ttf.
Thank me later.......

You ain't wrong. SO MUCH BETTER! My OCD is no longer making me twitch here. :)
It's later now, so Thank You. :P

Darksavior

@roslof Yea, just rebuilt all my dat files with the 3 donbluth games.

roslof

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

@roslof Yea, just rebuilt all my dat files with the 3 donbluth games.

Gotcha. The only other thing I can imagine is an ace.txt (framefile) mismatch with the videos you have. Hope this is helpful.

roslof

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

Parameters:
Executing: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1920 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=1080 /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne"

Just noticed your edit with Dragon's Lair. Odd to see SDL1/Dispmanx there. Not certain if this is being ignored or used, since Hypseus uses SDL2 and no Dispmanx. I suspect these are in your /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/emulators.cfg file? I think you could (backup and) remove those. I didn't have those for the original Daphne emulator either.

From my runcommand.log, here is my Executing line for the dle21 enhancement version which you appear to be running:

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne"

Also here is my corresponding command-line from the same log:

Command line: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin dle21 vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/dle21.daphne/dle21.txt -homedir /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne -fullscreen

Also, I'm not seeing these errors that are in your logs:

Error, bug in Dragon's Lair's move disable

So, very different options. Again, hope this is useful information for you.