Hexen II - uHexen II: Hammer of Thyrion source port on RetroPie/Raspbian (Ready for download)

[ecto]

@polygaryd Hi! I just had a go at Hexen II, too. I found that by adding the option -sndspeed 44100 the sound crackling went away. maybe you can add the option in the start script, but better would be to add it to \opt\retropie\ports\hexen2\emulators.cfg.

I don't know, if this will work though, because I'm now using a SDL2 enabled version of Hexen II.
@tpo1990 Maybe you can look into updating your script to that, because with that you don't have to rely on dispmanx for scaling

[polygaryd]

@ecto

hey thank you for the info. I will try it and let you know.

How did you upgrade to the sdl2 version of hexen 2?

[ecto]

@polygaryd I'm very sorry, but I have forgotten... I probably downloaded the source from the github page and compiled it and copied the executable over? Maybe I edited tpo1990's install script so that it points to the github page? I really can't remember and I'm away from my Rpi4.
But I can assure that it probably wasn't too hard, otherwise I probably wouldn't have pulled it off ;)

[polygaryd]

@ecto If you could follow up and let me know how you did it specifically for your setup Id appreciate it. I'm still fairly new to the linux world as well as github, and I dont want to mess anything up.

[polygaryd]

@ecto I tried your suggestion and added -sndspeed 44100 to the emulator.cfg file but it is still crackling however it did seem better.

On another note I think I figured out how to change the install script to build and install the hexen 2 sdl2 version.

download the install script using tpo1990's provided command:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tpo1990/Hexen2-RPI/master/hexen2.sh -P /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/

Go into RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports folder and the script is named hexen2.sh

Edit the script find and and change https://github.com/svn2github/uhexen2.git to https://github.com/jpernst/uhexen2-sdl2.git
save it
go into the retropie settings in emulationstation,
go to manage experimental packages
select hexen 2,
install
then reboot the system or just restart emulation station after its done, and its good to go.

Tell me if I'm wrong but it seemed to work for me.

[Wolfman]

I know this topic is old, but since Hammer of Thyrion still hasn't updated yet, I have an experiece to share that I don't see reported. I installed this port on my RetroPie a couple of months ago using the scriptmodule from Exarkuniv's pack and just finished a complete playthrough.

I'm using a Pi Zero 2W with RetroPie 4.8 and memory split at 64, running this port in software mode at 640x480 with ogg music and playing as a Paladin. Everything was working perfectly until I reached the Tibet levels of the expansion. There I discovered that anywhere the small exploding enemies appears crashes the game. I got past them by loading the save in a Windows pc running the same uhexen, clearing them out, and then copying the save back. Later, when entering the door to Temple of Bardo (map tibet6) the game crashes before loading the map. From there I continued on the windows pc and saved at the beginning of the final map, Inner Sanctum of Praevus (map tibet10). When trying to load this save on the Pi I get the same crash. To check if it's a problem with the save files I started a new game and used the console to warp to tibet10, and it still crashed. I ran the game from the linux console to look for error messages, none, then with -devlog to generate a log file, and there are no errors before it closes.

Is this a known issue, like the (disappointing) demoness crash?

[mitu]

@Wolfman Please don't necro-bump old topics.