ECWolf - Wolfenstein 3D source port for mods

cyperghost

I made some efforts with scripting. You can take a look in my GITHUB resp

You have to setup .ecwolf files maybe Wolfenstein 3D - HighRes.ecwolf
Inside this file you fill your data. So you've HD graphics for SoD, Wolf3D and nice soundtrack ;)

cd wolf3d_14
/opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf/ecwolf --data wl6 --file ../addons/ECWolf_hdpack.pk3 ../addons/ECWolf_hdmus_3DO.pk3
wait $!

The first line opens directory wolf3d_14 were the vanilla Wolfenstein 3D version 1.4 resides.
The second line is ecwolfs command line switch that, it says to go back to port/wolf3d root menu and load the Highrespak inside addon directory
- you can add as much bash commands as you like
- zip commands, xboxdrv ...
The third line is wait $!
- everything after this will be exectued after Wolf3d was closed
- usefull to repack savegames, terminate xboxdrv....

My directory tree looks like this now.

wolf3d/
├── addons
│   ├── Astro3_data.bin
│   ├── astrostein3_fix_PC.pk3
│   ├── ECWolf_hdpack.pk3
│   └── totenhaus.pk3
├── wolf3d_14
│   ├── audiohed.n3d
│   ├── audiohed.sod
│   ├── audiohed.wl6 
|      .....
│   ├── vswap.n3d
│   ├── vswap.sod
│   └── vswap.wl6
├── Wolfenstein 3D.ecwolf
├── Wolfenstein 3D - HighRes.ecwolf
└── Wolfenstein 3D - Spear of Destiny.ecwolf

1. Selection screen

2. runcommand launching screen

3. Finally a Wolf3D in highres

Finally thank you @tpo1990 for bringing this together

cyperghost

@Solid-One

I'll see how the Wolf3D SNES port (Claw of Eisenfaust) will work.

It works fantastic

ExarKunIv

Very cool.
just started messing around with it. so i have found i cant remap the controls for the joy1 in the game menu. so playing it from the start with my 8bitdo is not easy.
yes i did find the config file. i need to poke around that a bit more and get the IDs for the buttons that it reads so i can edit it.

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost

to get the selection menu that you have a pic of. do i just need to use the script that you have on your github or is there more work?

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Yes you have to edit Wolfensteins 3D emulator config file. It's located in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/wolf3d/emulators.cfg or in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/ecwolf/emulators.cfg and add a line

ecwolf = "pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d; /opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf/ecwolf %ROM%; popd"
default = "ecwolf"

~~then you copy ecwolf.sh from github to /opt/retropie/ports/ecwolf and make it executable. I assume the binary of ecwolf is in same directory as the script file. Again! Make the script executable~~

then you copy Wolfenstein 3D.sh from github to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports

That should do the trick so far....
File convention according this post

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost thank you, ill give it a go. not sure if i want a menu, or just have all the games listed in my ports.

right now im just getting my controls down good.

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Well with the .ecwolf-method you can create a own system ;)
Of course you can set all parameters manually script files instead if you don't want a menu.

Everything is possible. If you don't want a menu you have to change the call from ecwolf.sh to ecwolf of course.

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost ok i got the files in and i was looking at the other post that you linked to.
i get what you said. the only thing that im lost on is that you have to setup up description files and you give the example of
Wolfenstein 3D - HighRes.ecwolf.
is that going to be a .sh file or something else

the rest you made it nice and clear

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Well the .ecwolf format is setted up in two sections. Every thing over the wait command is considered as presetup, everything after wait is a postsetup

So Wolfenstein 3D.ecwolf with content

cd wolf3d_14
echo "Hello That Is Wolfenstein 3D`
sleep 5
ecwolf --data wl6
wait ?!
echo "This is the end"
sleep 5

Will do following

Changedir to wolf3d_14, base path is usually setted in your emulators.cfg (see pushd line)
Write Output (useless of course and just for fun)
Wait 5 Seconds (useless, too but I want to show how this works)
One command from ecwolf binary starting with double dashes, this commands just tells ecwolf to search for wl6 files to start Wolfenstein, wl1 would be the demo, sod is Spear of Destiny ...
Then the turning point ... the wait command ;)
again a message after ending the current game
a sleep command after ending the game

I hope I explained well. So all my .ecwolf files are in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d, all vanilla wolf3d files (with Noah Arcs, Spear of Destiny and Wolf 3d itself) are in wolf3d_14 directory and then I've created a directory addons

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost oh i get it now.. i hope

.ecwolf is the file format

ok i think i get it enough for me to start playing around. if i come up with anymore dumb questions i will ask ;)

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Yes .ecwolf is the file format for the graphical launcher and for the ecwolf.sh "translator" that relies next to the ecwolf binary.
You see all the commands are a bit differenct so I doubt that there will be a method to launch all pk3-modules with one file. Sometimes you load two pk3-files in one string (for music and highres graphics for example) so I think the .ecwolf-method is a nice compromise

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost works for me

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Fine!
Remember with the dashes

You can also use this one

cd wolf3d_14
--data sod
--data wl6

This will result to load Wolfenstein 3D and not Spear of Destiny because last double dash command is used as cmd-line. We can deal with this so far.

@tpo1990 Are you still alive?

Solid One

@cyperghost I've installed just now ECWolf on my home PC. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 64-bits, plugged a Xbox360 controller through a wireless receiver, and opened ECWolf 1.3.3 (latest stable version, installed through DRDTeam's PPA).

It worked just like when I tested it on Windows a few weeks ago: I could access menus simply by pressing Start button, just like ESC key. And since RetroPie runs in Debian, which is where Ubuntu is based, then it's safe to say that it should work too.

I've done the same test in another controller too: a PS2 controller plugged through an USB adapter. However, to my surprise, Start didn't worked for accessing menus just like ESC key. In fact, neither of the buttons of my controller worked for going back to the menus.

The conclusion I could reach is: Start for accessing menus won't work for generic USB joysticks, but instead only for Xbox-like controllers. My guess is that the controller you've used is a generic one, and that's why you're having this problem.

Assuming my conclusion is right, you have three solutions for your problem:

Replace your generic USB controller for a Xbox-like one;
Use xboxdrv in order to emulate a Xbox360 controller from your generic USB joystick (you can use xboxdrv to map buttons to keys too, so you can simply map Start button to ESC key, as a workaround);
Edit ECWolf's source code manually, in order to implement a way of mapping start button to menus on your generic usb controller (some guys made it in ZDoom). Requires programming knowledge in C++.

cyperghost

@Solid-One said in ECWolf - Wolfenstein 3D source port for mods:

Assuming my conclusion is right, you have three solutions for your problem

Your conclusion is right.

I think if someone can step into the code and make some small changes to the code, that would be best.

cyperghost

@Solid-One @tpo1990
Okay done .... We can access main menu now. Assign a button key to ESCAPE GAME and you are fine

GOT TO POSTING 44

@BuZz Maybe interesting for you. ECwolf runs very good on Raspberry and outstands Wolf4SDL - I'm sure @tpo1990 can set a new PR now.

tpo1990

@cyperghost Hey sorry for not answering. I am still alive :-). I am on my on vacation and have had some house duties to complete.

That is some nice progress you have made there. I have not had the time to test it. I will test it very soon. According to your fork it looks very good. Did you send me a pull request to my github repository of ECWolf?

Still my hexen2 PR has not been merged with the RetroPie Project yet and that was months ago. I wonder if Jools Wills has his hands full with patching/updating the RetroPie Project.

cyperghost

@tpo1990 said in ECWolf - Wolfenstein 3D source port for mods:

Hey sorry for not answering. I am still alive :-).

Fine, I rather thought you gave up retrogaming.

ccording to your fork it looks very good. Did you send me a pull request to my github repository of ECWolf?

No I didn't send you a PR, I think it's better if you release the script module. Feel free to use the scripts and patchfile that I've created.

That is some nice progress you have made there. I have not had the time to test it.

I made some changes to .ecwolf interpreter.
With the ecwolf-files we are able to create a own system for ES and these give us back a kind of flexibility in usage.

PART 1 --- 1:1 interpretation of shell commands (as lines many as you like)
PART 2 --- ecwolf commands introduced by double dashes (only one line)
PART 3 --- last line as shell commands (only one line)

So for example

echo "We are starting Wolfenstein 3D without pak mods now ..."
sleep 5
cd wolf3d_14
echo "Next step is loading wolfenstein files"
--data wl6
echo "Thanks for playing...."

cyperghost

@tpo1990
I made some more tests
Even the both "Spear of Destiny" mission packs run fine
~~Just create both directories~~
~~* SOD2 for Spear of Destiny - Mission Pack 2 - Return to Danger~~
~~* SOD3 for Spear of Destiny - Mission Pack 3 - Ultimate Challenge~~

just use correct parameter set

--data sd2 for Spear of Destiny - Mission Pack 2 - Return to Danger
--data sd3 for Spear of Destiny - Mission Pack 3 - Ultimate Challenge

Works 100% with ecwolf :D

tpo1990

@cyperghost I would never give up on retrogaming, It is too big a part of my life now, just also need to take care of the vacation with my family :-)

Thanks that is very appreciated. I will take good use of it. I think once we have it all set i could create a pull request and see how it goes with the RetroPie project.