Suggestions for ports

quicksilver

@VictimRLSH oh I'm sure it will run on a raspberry pi. I just don't think it can be run through retropie.

Darksavior

Can this be ported to retropie? This guy only deals with ports for the raspbian desktop, so not sure what work needs to be done.

quicksilver

@Darksavior in the video he stated a desktop environment is needed. However, if hes running it natively then maybe it's possible to just run the game in an x session without launching a full desktop. I'll have to watch the rest of the video when I'm not on mobile, too hard to see what he's doing :)

VictimRLSH

@quicksilver I actually got it to run using the procedure in the video. NOTE: You do NOT need both discs, you can play "vanilla" StarCraft without the BroodWar disc.

I will have to back up my SD card and update everything though, I have that stupid sound bug everyone who installed a Desktop has and most of my Pi sound is like it is being played through a fan that is about to break down, StarCraft included.

Next I will have to figure out if I can run it from Ports with a script, which will be another educational experience if I can pull it off.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver YESSSSS!!!!!.

ok now i really want a PI4. Keep up the great work.

Renard

UltrastarDX (a karaoke game) is still under active development. A recent bit of code now allows for smooth 1080p video playback on a Pi4 - until now, due to the way the legacy code worked, only SD content was playing smoothly.
https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/USDX/pull/530

I'd love the game to be included in Retropie!

quicksilver

So I have been playing around with compiling open source ports of quite a few games. So far I have successfully built on my Pi 4: OpenRCT2 (roller coaster tycoon 2), OpenRA (red alert, C&C, Dune 2k), Dhewm3 (Doom 3), OpenJK (SW Jedi Knight:Jedi Academy), Xash3d (Half-Life), Serious-Engine (Serious Sam first and second encounter), VCMI (Heroes of Might and Magic 3). I can now successfully launch all these games through retropie/runcommand. Most of them I have played quite a bit without any real issues and I feel like some of them are ready for prime time on the pi. I would just need a little help putting together a script module to automate the build process. If anyone has the skills and time to help me with that please let me know and I would be glad to walk anyone through how to build these game engines on the pi.

Jste84

@Renard said in Suggestions for ports:

UltrastarDX (a karaoke game) is still under active development. A recent bit of code now allows for smooth 1080p video playback on a Pi4 - until now, due to the way the legacy code worked, only SD content was playing smoothly.
https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/USDX/pull/530

I'd love the game to be included in Retropie!

Edit: tested this and it works

There is a guide in the link for installation

https://www.sebastian-segerer.de/post/ultrastar-deluxe-raspberry-pi/

Not sure if it's as simple as running this...

sudo apt-get install git automake make gcc fpc \
 libsdl2-image-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
 libsqlite3-dev libfreetype6-dev portaudio19-dev \
 libportmidi-dev liblua5.3-dev libopencv-highgui-dev
git clone https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/USDX
cd USDX
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

A Former User

@quicksilver I'm working on my own scripts for openjk and RBDOOM3 (Working, script plan on posting it as soon as I get accurate information for the Help variable and a couple other things. Dhewm should be similar. Have you looked at the libretro version of dhewm?

I will need some help testing. I am running on a x86_64 system and I plan on reading the docs for RPi installs and add the appropriate code to the script.

For OpenJK I am at the point where it builds, I need to identify all the files that need to be installed (binaries, libraries, etc) in the /opt folder. Also still trying to get the cmake switches right for the romdir in home with the binaries in /opt.

quicksilver

@gderber said in Suggestions for ports:

Have you looked at the libretro version of dhewm?

Unfortunately I found out it's for 64 bit systems only so it wouldn't compile on my pi 4. Dhewm3 pushes my pi 4 to the max (and I'm overclocked), only way to make it playable is at 640x480 and almost all of the quality settings set to lowest. So I'd imagine that dhewm3+retroarch might be a tall order even if it were possible.

A Former User

@quicksilver Okay. Dhewm is more useful then.

For OpenJK what cmake args did you use? Besides the files listed in the build documentation did you need to install anything else into the /opt folder?

Did you do install Jedi Outcast too or only Jedi Academy?

quicksilver

@gderber I only installed jedi academy so far. Jedi outcast is considered WIP and doesnt look like its been touched in a while. I wasnt sure what state it was in, and I am mainly interested in ports that will allow playing all the way through the single player campaign with minimal issues. Ill probably try it out eventually though.

To make JK:Jedi Academy I first installed dependencies.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev libpng12-dev zlib1g-dev freeglut3-dev cmake git libsdl2-dev

Cloned the repository

git clone https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK.git jka

and compiled

cd jka 
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/jka/ 
make -j4
make install

Then I copied the game files from my windows installation to ~/jka/JediAcademy/

Then I run the game with

/home/pi/jka/JediAcademy/openjk_sp.arm

mitu

@quicksilver said in Suggestions for ports:

If anyone has the skills and time to help me with that please let me know and I would be glad to walk anyone through how to build these game engines on the pi.

Fork the RetroPie-Setup on Github and add your ports there, I could review your additions and provide suggestions.

A Former User

@mitu Do you mind looking at some of mine?
Doom3 BFG:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/feature/doom3_bfg/scriptmodules/ports/rbdoom3_bfg.sh

Patch for wolf4sdl:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3163

The following are partially tested. Haven't tried running it yet (I'm on a ssh connection to my retropie system):
Gzdoom:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/feature/gzdoom/scriptmodules/ports/gzdoom.sh

OpenJK (JediAcademy); build / install tested.:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/feature/openjk_ja/scriptmodules/ports/openjk_ja.sh

ROTT: Updates and bugfixes to ZeroJay's ROTT install script
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/feature/rott/scriptmodules/ports/rott.sh

Decaf-Emu
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/feature/decaf/scriptmodules/emulators/decaf.sh

Dhewm3
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gderber/RetroPie-Setup/feature/dhewm3/scriptmodules/ports/dhewm3.sh

quicksilver

@mitu I appreciate the offer, as always you are a big help! Now to learn the ins and outs of GitHub. :)

And also a little preview of what I have working
Doom 3 with classic Doom mod:

Jedi knight -jedi academy running in 1600x1200 resolution:

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver dam those look nice.

how well does doom3 play?

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv it's playable at 640x480 on lowest graphical settings and with my pi 4 overclocked (I'll try without overclock soon just for a comparative baseline). Game runs pretty much fullspeed this way except when there are a lot of lighting effects happening at once, in which case there are noticable frame-rate dips. So far I haven't encountered any game breaking bugs and I feel like the game can be completed. I also have classic doom mod and resurrection of evil expansion running. Only real issue I have encountered is that when launching the game through runcommand and an x session (x is required, otherwise there are game breaking graphical issues), quitting the game closes the game but not the x session so you are left at a black screen. Cntrl-alt-backspace closes the x session so I'm using that as a work around for right now.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver very cool

i saw your post about the x session issue. its cool that we can get these working and in the future it will exit smoothly. from my take on what buzz said.

im more the happy to wait as long as there is a work around. which there is.

great work on all of this. im still on the Pi3 so anything i do it dated and most likely not working on my rig.
but hey it all about learning right :)

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv openjk is running really well on my pi 4 I suspect you could follow my above directions to get it running on your pi 3. I bet it would be playable.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver might give that a try