JSFW, source port for Shadow Warrior now available

mitu

That looks really nice. I always thought that would run using eduke32, since it uses the same engine as Duke Nukem, but it seems it's a modified engine. I'll be looking over the forum post on the RPI site to see the progress, would be really cool to have it running using the legacy VC4 driver using GLES and not depend on X.org and the new OpenGL driver.

Now I only have to get on the Steam/Gog winter sales page and buy Shadow Warrior :).
EDIT: Wait a minute, it's actually free on both GOG and Steam (GOG has the 'complete' version).

EctoOne

@mitu said in JSFW, source port for Shadow Warrior now available:

EDIT: Wait a minute, it's actually free on both GOG and Steam (GOG has the 'complete' version).

Thanks for the info.

tpo1990

Wonderful work you have done. Since i first started with Raspberry Pi and RetroPie, i always wanted to get Shadow Warrior to play on it. Now this has come true. Thank you

I might be able to help with creating a scriptmodule for making it easier to install JFSW and i will be testing this very soon. Let me know if you need some help with this.

Also feel free to check out my project for RetroPie: The Hexen 2 Hammer of Thyrion port Install script for Raspberry Pi in my signature.

tpo1990

@mitu I know that there is someone on the internet who tried to get eduke32 to work with Shadow warrior but could not get it to work completely bug free. It has to do something with being that Shadow warrior uses a modified Duke Nukem 3d engine. This is also true for Quake 1 and Hexen 2, since Hexen 2 uses a modified Quake engine and that makes Hexen 2 its own game.

As long as the original games source files has been released it will be possible for a developer to create a source port and then build it to support ARM architecture. Of course it will need some library files that the building will be depending on for Raspberry Pi to be able to run the source port.

Efriim

This isn't working.

Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Edit: I'll figure it out, its probably the sw.cfg

EditEdit: I couldn't figure it out.

I mistook this game for something else anyway.

Superman550

hey i keep getting a permission denied error do you have a list of the files i need to include other than the three you mention

terrorpup

@Efriim I am having the same issue, there no sw.cfg in /home/pi/jfsw/, so who writes it. I try to start it under X, and I can hear the game but the screen is going crazy.

RetroPie 4.4

Can give more info upon request.

ecto

Hi,
I managed to compile jfsw with the instructions of the first post. I have managed to start the game, but I have the following issues:
My display is a tv with 1920x1080 and the game window is displayed in its native resolution in the top left corner of the screen. If I change the game's resolution to 1080 I have a full screen display, but it is very sluggish.
Also, when I access the advanced mouse configuration, the game crashes with a segmentation fault.
I know this is all wip, but I just wanted to let you know.
Cheers!

Edit
The segmentation fault is gone... idk, but maybe it had someting to do with mc being loaded in the background. That has also caused leakage of the keyboard input into the Shell, so maybe that's related.

I managed to get a full screen with a lower resolution set in the game by launching jfsw through runcommand.sh with a matched resolution.
All is well! :D

Yarmongrel

I'm not sure if this is useful for Retropie, but Jonof's JSFW was updated by ProASM into SWP. This, in turn, was mantained by Hendricks266 (one of the leads behind eDuke32) into SWP v4.3.3b3:

https://github.com/Hendricks266/SWP

Hendrick266's release is supposed to be a bit more stable, with several bugfixes. It also supports the current HRP and Voxel packs.

Firebird_WS6

@dudleydes I know this post is quite old, but I just installed jfsw on my PiBoy DMG with pi4 installed, running Retropie 4.7 and it works great! However I can't get the music tracks to play.

I copied track02.ogg through track14.ogg (renaming because the originals were TrackXX.ogg using a capital T instead of t) to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/jfsw/MUSIC. I changed the music location in /home/pi/.jfsw/sw.cfg to OggTrackName = "MUSIC/track??.ogg". However I don't get any music.

I also tried the default location /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/jfsw/ and reverted the .cfg file back, but that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Proletariate1984

@firebird_ws6 Sup dude, I think we're talking on FB. I cannot get this running. I'm getting the permission denied error that someone mention above. I copied everything into the jfsw folder. Do know which specific files you included in the /ports/jfsw folder?

Firebird_WS6

@proletariate1984 Copy the following files from your GOG Shadow Warrior folders into /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/jfsw all files must be in the same folder as the sw binary:
from the GOG Shadow Warrior folder top level: sw.grp and sw.rts
from the MUSIC folder, Track02.ogg though Track14.ogg

Change file permissions to 755 for /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Shadow Warrior.sh and /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/jfsw/sw

FYI, I solved the music problem. SW needs sudo apt install libvorbis-dev libfluidsynth-dev in order to compile the music dependencies.

boolean

@dudleydes said in JSFW, source port for Shadow Warrior now available:

Building JFSW

To build the JFSW binary, run the following commands on your Pi:
git clone https://github.com/jonof/jfsw.git
cd jfsw
git submodule init
git submodule update
make USE_POLYMOST=0 USE_OPENGL=0

Why not build using OpenGL ES 2.0 acceleration?

make USE_OPENGL=USE_GLES2 USE_POLYMOST=1 CFLAGS="-march=native -DSDLAYER_USE_RENDERER"

I've done this myself and Shadow Warrior plays at 1920x1080 (32bpp) at a blazing speed without any glitches/hiccups or slowdowns.