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

[DirtBagXon]

So would anyone be interested in getting Singe 2 version of Timegal running in Hypseus Singe ?

:)

[roslof]

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

So would anyone be interested in getting Singe 2 version of Timegal running in Hypseus Singe ?

Of course, and Bravo.

[DirtBagXon]

New release 2.2.8 - Psuedo Singe 2 support

• Grab Singe 2 games from kangaroopunch - you will actually only need the .mp4 from this archive file.

• Then recode the .mp4 to .m2v and .ogg files needed by Hypseus - details on the repo below. You only need to do this once, but the faster the PC the better.
  https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows - this works well for Windows users, @roslof confirmed .

• Then take the peripheral data from the directories on the new repo here: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data

• Add the .m2v and .ogg file to that new directory and the rest is as per usual singe game setup.

 
These need testing, so let me know your findings, I suspect many issues....

I tested and added dl2e (Dragon's Lair 2 Enhanced), I think this has now been removed from kangaroopunch ....

 

[roslof]

@dirtbagxon FWIW, some issues with their registration currently. Says that an account is created, but it doesn't actually create an account. Separately, I'm DLing Time Gal for Singe 2 from a different source.

Seems so strange that people hand-build scripts instead of using ROMs. Not authentic (emulation) but certainly functional.

[Gamesman]

@dirtbagxon
The Time Gal I had before worked. This newer version gives me an error:
Parameters:
Executing: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1280 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=720 /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne"
[console] Setting alternate home dir:
[console] /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne
2021-04-02 21:30:44.487 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@323] Version v2.2.6-RPi
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@327] Command line: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin singe vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.txt -script /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.singe -homedir /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne -fullscreen
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@328] CPU : UnknownCPU || Mem : 3840 megs
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@329] OS : Linux 5.10 || Video : Unknown video
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@330] RGB2YUV Function: C
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@336] Line Blending Function: C
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@343] Audio Mixing Function: C
2021-04-02 21:30:44.580 INFO [1831] [SDL_input_init@298] No joysticks detected
2021-04-02 21:30:46.278 INFO [1831] [ldp_vldp::read_frame_conversions@1038] Framefile parse succeeded. Video/Audio directory is: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/./
2021-04-02 21:30:46.278 ERROR [1831] [printnotice@69] Press any key to parse your video file(s). This may take a while. Press ESC if you'd rather quit.
2021-04-02 21:30:56.046 INFO [1831] [printline@95] Starting Singe version 1.14
2021-04-02 21:30:56.242 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Entering initVLDP()
2021-04-02 21:31:00.215 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Leaving initVLDP()
2021-04-02 21:31:00.244 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Playing Singe LUA Engine v1.1
2021-04-02 21:31:00.244 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Script Error!
2021-04-02 21:31:00.245 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: error running function 'onOverlayUpdate': singe/timegal/main.singe:2218: attempt to call global 'overlaySetResolution' (a nil value)
/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh: line 14: 1831 Segmentation fault "/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin" singe vldp -framefile "$dir/$name.txt" -script "$dir/$name.singe" -homedir "/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne" -fullscreen $params

Time Traveler works though.

[DirtBagXon]

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

@dirtbagxon
The Time Gal I had before worked. This newer version gives me an error:
Parameters:
Executing: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1280 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=720 /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne"
[console] Setting alternate home dir:
[console] /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne
2021-04-02 21:30:44.487 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@323] Version v2.2.6-RPi
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@327] Command line: /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin singe vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.txt -script /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.singe -homedir /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne -fullscreen
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@328] CPU : UnknownCPU || Mem : 3840 megs
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@329] OS : Linux 5.10 || Video : Unknown video
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@330] RGB2YUV Function: C
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@336] Line Blending Function: C
2021-04-02 21:30:44.490 INFO [1831] [reset_logfile@343] Audio Mixing Function: C
2021-04-02 21:30:44.580 INFO [1831] [SDL_input_init@298] No joysticks detected
2021-04-02 21:30:46.278 INFO [1831] [ldp_vldp::read_frame_conversions@1038] Framefile parse succeeded. Video/Audio directory is: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/./
2021-04-02 21:30:46.278 ERROR [1831] [printnotice@69] Press any key to parse your video file(s). This may take a while. Press ESC if you'd rather quit.
2021-04-02 21:30:56.046 INFO [1831] [printline@95] Starting Singe version 1.14
2021-04-02 21:30:56.242 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Entering initVLDP()
2021-04-02 21:31:00.215 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Leaving initVLDP()
2021-04-02 21:31:00.244 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Playing Singe LUA Engine v1.1
2021-04-02 21:31:00.244 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: Script Error!
2021-04-02 21:31:00.245 INFO [1831] [printline@95] SINGE: error running function 'onOverlayUpdate': singe/timegal/main.singe:2218: attempt to call global 'overlaySetResolution' (a nil value)
/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh: line 14: 1831 Segmentation fault "/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin" singe vldp -framefile "$dir/$name.txt" -script "$dir/$name.singe" -homedir "/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne" -fullscreen $params

Time Traveler works though.

You need to update Hypseus Singe to version 2.2.8-RPi - That is v2.2.6-RPi

[DirtBagXon]

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

@dirtbagxon FWIW, some issues with their registration currently. Says that an account is created, but it doesn't actually create an account. Separately, I'm DLing Time Gal for Singe 2 from a different source.

Seems so strange that people hand-build scripts instead of using ROMs. Not authentic (emulation) but certainly functional.

You don't need to login, they are available from the site though.

 

[DirtBagXon]

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

Time Traveler works though.

Please fully test ;) on 2.2.8....

[mitu]

@dirtbagxon Please, no links to ROMs or ROM sites - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

[DirtBagXon]

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

@dirtbagxon Please, no links to ROMs or ROM sites - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

Removed.... Apologies.

[Gamesman]

You need to update Hypseus Singe to version 2.2.8-RPi - That is v2.2.6-RPi

That worked. I will test Time Traveler more to make sure it works properly.

Thank you.

[roslof]

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

You need to update Hypseus Singe to version 2.2.8-RPi - That is v2.2.6-RPi

That worked. I will test Time Traveler more to make sure it works properly.

Thank you.

Hmmm. For me, the intro and such are working, but when you start the game, the video does not play the correct scenes. Were you able to actually play the game?

FWIW: I don't have an x86 Unix setup, so everything was handled on the Pi 4B, including m2v and ogg conversation using the command-lines listed on @DirtBagXon's updated repo.

[DirtBagXon]

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

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

You need to update Hypseus Singe to version 2.2.8-RPi - That is v2.2.6-RPi

That worked. I will test Time Traveler more to make sure it works properly.

Thank you.

Hmmm. For me, the intro and such are working, but when you start the game, the video does not play the correct scenes. Were you able to actually play the game?

FWIW: I don't have an x86 Unix setup, so everything was handled on the Pi 4B, including m2v and ogg conversation using the command-lines listed on @DirtBagXon's updated repo.

Where you recode shouldn't matter, will just take a little longer. Unless there is some endian issue.

There is always this route (untested): https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows

 

• And you are using only files from the new repo with these rips?

• Nothing from the original version of the game ?

• You saw a new .dat creation on first run ?

 

 
Sounds like frame timings in the .singe files are not corresponding with the video frames.

 

[DirtBagXon]

Another couple of Singe 2 games ported over.

I am not seeing any sound/video sync issues or wrong scenes on x86_64 except in maddog - but we have the original version working fine so not pursuing this.

 
Titan AE

 
Puss in Boots

 

Edit:
Text overlays are now working, but certain games are designed to run at a high resolution overlay in Singe 2, not supported in Singe 1.
Some tweaking therefore required in .singe and peripheral image file sizes. Elementary resizing merged into repo (see above).

If you fixup a Singe 2 game .singe/image  file, please fork the repo and push a merge request into the main repo in Github, for everyone to improve upon.

Please pull 2.2.8-RPi afresh.

Look forward to feedback from you guys.

 

[roslof]

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

Sounds like frame timings in the .singe files are not corresponding with the video frames.

Solved. The issue was with my download source. Same content, but encoded differently, so it didn't align with the existing framefile. Coincidentally, I already DL'ed Timegal 2.0 a few weeks ago when the BlueStang started playing with Hypseus, so I was ready to go.

Also, and good to know, is that the Windows version of ffmpeg worked beautifully. Took about 2 minutes to re-encode for the full video on a Dell G7.

Will start playing around now...
Cheers!

[DirtBagXon]

Repo updated on getting correct size overlay and resizing images.
Resizing down by factor of 3 seems to work best....

I am updating repo as I improve them....

Hmmm... must say I prefer original TimeGal overlay...

 

[roslof]

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

Repo updated on getting correct size overlay and resizing images.
Resizing down by factor of 3 seems to work best....

I like this scale. It's fun. Your overlay fonts and outlines around the "timegal" characters in the lower left look much better than on my Pi 4B (by a lot). Can't seem to get rid of the odd white silhouettes. Yours seem to anti-alias much better. Hard to describe.

[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:

Repo updated on getting correct size overlay and resizing images.
Resizing down by factor of 3 seems to work best....

I like this scale. It's fun. Your overlay fonts and outlines around the "timegal" characters in the lower left look much better than on my Pi 4B (by a lot). Can't seem to get rid of the odd white silhouettes. Yours seem to anti-alias much better. Hard to describe.

Try the

globals.singe:fontQuality(FONT_QUALITY_BLENDED)

to FONT_QUALITY_SOLID or FONT_QUALITY_SHADED vice versa....

 
Edit:
Being dumb, these are sprites not fonts, so doubt that will change....

 

[roslof]

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

Try the
globals.singe:fontQuality(FONT_QUALITY_BLENDED)

to FONT_QUALITY_SOLID or FONT_QUALITY_SHADED vice versa....
 
Edit:
Being dumb, these are sprites not fonts, so doubt that will change....

Heh, I tried the same thing earlier, so... we had the same silly thought.
No dice, as you expected.
I did view the converted images and they look perfectly fine. It's something about how singe is rendering sprites. Antialiasing seems busted. The white silhouette appears around fonts when using blended or shaded, too. FWIW, this is nothing new since this project started. Again, something legacy/inherited.

[DirtBagXon]

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

I like this scale. It's fun. Your overlay fonts and outlines around the "timegal" characters in the lower left look much better than on my Pi 4B (by a lot). Can't seem to get rid of the odd white silhouettes. Yours seem to anti-alias much better. Hard to describe.

Try adding -sdl_software_rendering to a timegal.commands file:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/timegal.daphne/timegal.commands

It might stop game loading completely, I haven't tried on RPi, but also may offer different rendering.....

The rendering is changed by SDL when the -fullscreen option is used. Which the RetroPie scripts use by default as I recall. That is why mine look sharper above as they were in a window not SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP.

Google for SDL2 font crappiness , it's rife.