OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase

[oilusionista]

Great work, guys!
Question: how hard it would be to port this to be run in Recalbox? A fan gave me a Raspberry Pi with Recallbox and I would like to test my game on it :)

[cyperghost]

@oilusionista said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

A fan gave me a Raspberry Pi ...

... a good fan ;)

how hard it would be to port this to be run in Recalbox?

There is nothing we can do. We can't install compilers and dependencies so easy by paketmanagers for example. So it's up to the developers to build the package. From the hardware side it would be possible.

But I would install RetroPie ... it is (said to be) more complex but on the other hand it offers you A LOT of more possibilites. If you count on Recalbox you can also take a look to Batocera - this is a 100% fork of RB but with a bit more activity in development.

Give RetroPie a try and the people here can help you - this is the big plus here. A great community with lot of advanced coders.

[darknior]

@oilusionista WOAW excellent to know you have an PI now :D
Maybe OpenBOR will one day be officially supported on PI :p
Really, almost the games are working on PI, 95%, it is excellent :)
I only have two games with some slow down, i must work on them to understand why and found if i can modify the games to remove what slowdown them. AOF 2 in second level, and TMNT Shell Shock every where lol.

[cyperghost]

@darknior @BiZzAr721 @oilusionista
I made binary out of OpenBOR 6510 dev branch. Worked like a charm!

You can download from here the GLlib has to be placed to into directory lib next to OpenBOR binary like all beta versions!

Галка заплатки

[BiZzAr721]

Thanks @cyperghost I really need to make some time to give it a test drive! Since I'm using it on stretch, what's the proper way to compile it? (sorry, I know you've answered this before - still unsure of what commands to use)

[darknior]

I'm interested too for compilation tuto, i will try too ;)

I have try your last binary and it works fine :D
Now we can play for exemple Fighter's History Revenge [Light v2][v3.0 build 6412] that use the new unload command for sprites.

[cyperghost]

@darknior @BiZzAr721

How to compile

1. Download OpenBOR from here https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor
   1.1 you can download with browser and you'll get a openbor-master
   1.2 get it with wget https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor/archive/master.zip
2. unzip the files with unzip master.zip
3. Go to folder "engine" with cd openbor-master/engine
4. Now get patch by using wget -q --show-progress "http://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-Raspberry/master/patch/latest_build.diff"
5. Apply patch with patch -p0 -i latest_build.diff
6. Compile with make BUILD_PANDORA=1
7. Place your GLlib next to OpenBOR binary!

Now you've your OpenBOR binary build like the scriptmodule.

@BiZzAr721
It's very likely that the compiled binaries I made for RetroPie 4.3 (jessie) will also work in RetroPie 4.4 (stretch)

[BiZzAr721]

Thank you @cyperghost

[maxwell]

@cyperghost Hello. I was successful in instslling the latest version of Openbor on my Raspberry Pi. I only have one issue after my install. On the game selection screen when I try to scroll down past what is in the screen I ger kicked out of Openbor. Is there a fix to this issue? Thank you again fir all your help.

[cyperghost]

@maxwell This seems not to be an issue, it seems a to be a big failure. Can you tell me how you installed OpenBOR?

Can you please provide more infos about your installation according to:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

[maxwell]

@cyperghost Thank you for replying to my post. I created a fresh install using retropie 4.4. I followed the instructions at the beginning of this thread. I am not sure what went wrong. I can play every gmae that is visible. When I try to scroll down the application just closes. Not sure how to fix this.

[cyperghost]

@maxwell Okay... this sounds familiar in some kinds. But it has nothing to do with OpenBOR itsef. I think @BiZzAr721 faced the same issue. There is something wrong with the joy2key script in addition with some ports like DOOM and QUAKE.

So to make it clear. You start OpenBOR with a module loaded, it starts properly and you press start but if you press down OpenBOR closes?

Please login with SSH and write
ps -a
if you see a process like joy2key then write
pkill -f joy2key

If so then a small an dirty fix for this is to edit runcomannd-onstart with
nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh
and add line
(sleep 5 && pkill -f joy2key) &

[maxwell]

@cyperghost Thank you for the suggestion. I tried the work around you outline but it did not provide a solution. I am missing the runcommand file you provided.

[cyperghost]

@maxwell said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

@cyperghost Thank you for the suggestion. I tried the work around you outline but it did not provide a solution. I am missing the runcommand file you provided.

The file is not installed by default but with the edit and saving it is created. But do you see a joy2key instance running by using ps -a?
And does OpenBOR proper run if you terminate this process with pkill -f joy2key?

Or did you fail to start OpenBOR completly? Please provide more information around your build according to... https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

[maxwell]

@cyperghost When I ran the ps -a code I did not see joy2key listed. I ran the pkill -f joy2key code and did not see anything. OpenBOR starts up without any issues. My only issue is if I try to scroll beyond what is displayed on my screen the OpenBOR menu just closes. Is there anything else I can provide you with for information to help understand how to solve my issue?

[cyperghost]

@maxwell said in OpenBOR 6xxx OpenBeta Testphase:

OpenBOR menu

You mean the blue dialog?

[maxwell]

@cyperghost I mean the OpenBOR_beta selection on ports.

[BiZzAr721]

@maxwell be glad you don't have the Joy2key curse! Check your game names and make sure the aren't any incompatable characters in the file name (&, and certain ʼ'' for example) I know that was the cause of some gamelists crashing

@cyperghost I still don't know how but I think it may have been somehow this one specific PNY microSD card?!?
(restoring the same backup to two different SD cards, only that one PNY brand SD card showed the error)

[maxwell]

@BiZzAr721 Thank you for the advice. I will check the game naming conventions. I will let you know if I have any success.

[shavecat]

OpenBeta , does anyone knows where the photos saving going to ? or the high score ? or the cfg after i load the game ? :
looked in the folder of the opbenbor_openbeta or the old one (also in the config) nothing there....

Found it -
Home/Pi/Saves or / ScreenShots