Rollercoaster tycoon

Jste84

Is it possible to play this on retropie?

I've seen some talk of it working on a raspberry pi and read the below

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=219430

Does this mean it's possible?

mitu

Does this mean it's possible?

Could be, if a Port is made for it. Looking at the forum post, the performance seems acceptable, though it doesn't say if it needs OpenGL to work. There's an OpenTTD port already present in RetroPie.

tpo1990

There are 2 source ports according to the Open Source Game Clones database.

FreeRCT: This one seems to only play Rollercoaster Tycoon 1.
OpenRCT2 : This one seems to play both Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2.

I think OpenRCT2 seems to be our best bet at getting it to run on a Raspberry Pi. If someone can think out how to compile and build into a working binary, then a scriptmodule for RetroPie can be built and merged together with the RetroPie project.

Jste84

@mitu I wish I knew how to do this or where to even start! RCT is a game I'd love to see in ports!

Jste84

@tpo1990 said in Rollercoaster tycoon:

There are 2 source ports according to the Open Source Game Clones database.

FreeRCT: This one seems to only play Rollercoaster Tycoon 1.
OpenRCT2 : This one seems to play both Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2.

I think OpenRCT2 seems to be our best bet at getting it to run on a Raspberry Pi. If someone can think out how to compile and build into a working binary, then a scriptmodule for RetroPie can be built and merged together with the RetroPie project.

I wish I knew how! I don't even understand the difference between the link I posted and a working binary! 😣

tpo1990

@Jste84 No problem, let me see if i can get it working on my test RPI sd card.

If i can get it working, i can probably create a scriptmodule for RetroPie. :-)

Edit: The compiling of the source port failed. It appears to be an older OpenRCT2 release that your link points to. If i download/clone the latest release and try to compile it, it also fails, since it requires a newer version of cmake that is not found on our RPI.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver tried this a bit ago, but had no luck from that the post says,

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22352/need-help-installing-openrct2

is everything that he was trying. hope this will help get things going a bit faster :)

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv Yes I was not able to get the latest version of OpenRCT2 working at all on my 3b+. I was able to get an older version running but it had a glitch with the mouse cursor that I couldnt figure out.

quicksilver

Just wanted to report that I got the latest version of openrct2 built on my rpi 4. Looks like we finally have a more recent version of cmake to work with. Performance using the software renderer with hardware display gets me about 40fps which is great! However I'm still getting the strange mouse/pointer issue. I reported it on GitHub, if that gets fixed I think this would be a great addition to RetroPie ports.

quicksilver

If anyone else who knows a bit more about compiling is able to test out openrct2 I would be interested to hear if they encounter the same issue with the mouse pointer. I watched a couple YouTube videos of people running openrct2 on their raspberry Pi's through a desktop environment and they didn't seem to have issues with the mouse pointer. I have tried running openrct2 through matchbox window manager but I don't know enough to figure out quite how to get it to work. It always tells me it cannot open the display.

quicksilver

So I got a little further with matchbox, I'm having issues though getting it to display the correct resolution and the screen sometimes flickers but the mouse cursor issue is resolved!

quicksilver

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Had some issues where matchbox wanted to change res to 4k mode (this is why the game was just a small window). Even though I had my config.txt set to 1080p mode I had to block all 4k modes to get to display correctly. But game is running great now and I just finished my first park!

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver that is sweet, now i want to get my Pi4. lol

nice park btw

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv if the version of cmake has been updated in raspbian stretch I would think you could get this up and running on a pi 3 too.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver well that would be cool. not that i would have a clue on how to find out what version of cmake is on the pi3 right now,

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv I'll give it a shot on my pi 3b+ and report back

mitu

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tpo1990

Awesome that you finally got it working. It must be because of the higher cmake version that the port requires. I can see this potentially becoming one of RetroPie's official source ports in future versions.

I wonder if it there are more tycoon games out there that has been ported. I just received Zoo Tycoon Complete Edition for free in my local neighborhood and that game works on Windows 10.

quicksilver

@tpo1990 said in Rollercoaster tycoon:

Awesome that you finally got it working. It must be because of the higher cmake version that the port requires. I can see this potentially becoming one of RetroPie's official source ports in future versions.

That would be really neat. Im new to all of this stuff and still learning so I'm not sure how to get it to run through runcommand or create a build script. Do you have any resources that you used to learn how to do that? You are kinda like the king of source ports around here. :) Also if at some point you decide to try to add openrct2 to RetroPie I would be glad to assist in anyway I can.

quicksilver

@ExarKunIv cmake in raspbian stretch repository is still stuck on version 3.7. I'm sure there is a way to build cmake from source but I don't think I'm going to mess with that right now. I would just get a pi 4 if I were you ;)