Setting up Half-Life through RetroPie (A Guide)

KiloMane

@quicksilver i’m stuck on step three- If you wish to use a controller to play this game edit the file /opt/retropie/ports/xash3d/Xash3D.sh and add -sdl_joy_old_api to the end of the line. You can also remove -console from that line if you don't want the constant console messages on screen- I don’t know where to put the line of code or how it should look, but I can’t get it to work please help :/ -Pi4 retropie xash3d (not fwgs), controller sn30pro or Xbox one also hoping to setup controls for Piboy DMG

quicksilver

@kilomane said in Setting up Half-Life through RetroPie (A Guide):

@quicksilver i’m stuck on step three- If you wish to use a controller to play this game edit the file /opt/retropie/ports/xash3d/Xash3D.sh and add -sdl_joy_old_api to the end of the line. You can also remove -console from that line if you don't want the constant console messages on screen- I don’t know where to put the line of code or how it should look, but I can’t get it to work please help :/ -Pi4 retropie xash3d (not fwgs), controller sn30pro or Xbox one also hoping to setup controls for Piboy DMG

You need to edit the file located at /opt/retropie/ports/xash3d/Xash3D.shand remove -console from the line of text in that file and add -sdl_joy_old_apiat the end of the line of text to enable joystick control.

Johan_Liebert511

@quicksilver I'm here again. I finally learned some Linux and managed to set half life up. I wanted to play on Gamepad but as soon as I try to bind a button, for example jump, it crashes. I played a bit and it looks like I can only move the joysticks. I did step 3 but am using the old xash3d version since the mega file doesnt show up and I dont know how to compile. Can you upload the mega file again or help me in other ways?

Thanks for your Work

quicksilver

@johan_liebert511 I'll see if I can reupload it for you

Rubicai

It works great thank you! But I can't download the newer version of xash3d, it seems the folder is empty. Could it be reuploaded?

amp12f

@quicksilver Awesome tutorial. Looking forward to playing. I seem to be having the same issue that @Johan_Liebert511 mentioned. I’ve already got the libraries compiled, joypad flag added to the script, and the game starts up just fine. It’s just when I try and do any sort of key mapping of either the keyboard or the gamepad from the menu that the game crashes back to the RetroPie homescreen. Here’s a dump of runcommand.log. Seems to complain at the very end about a segmentation fault once I try changing any sort of control mapping

Running on a Raspberry Pi 4


pi@retropie:~ $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
Parameters: 
Executing: SDL_VIDEO_KMSDRM_CRTCID=87 SDL_VIDEO_KMSDRM_MODEID=29 /opt/retropie/ports/xash3d/Xash3D.sh
[14:24:55] /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Half-Life is working directory now
================================================================================
        Xash3D FWGS (build 2316, Linux-arm) started at Aug03 2021 [14:24.55]
================================================================================
[14:24:55] Joystick: SDL
[14:24:55] 1 joysticks found:
[14:24:55] 0    : Pro Controller
[14:24:55] Pass +set joy_index N to command line, where N is number, to select active joystick
[14:24:55] Selected joystick: Pro Controller
        Axes: 4
        Hats: 1
        Buttons: 16
        Balls: 0
[14:24:55] Cannot load xashcomm.lst
[14:24:56] bpp 32
[14:24:56] R_ChangeDisplaySettings: Setting video mode to 1280x720 windowed
[14:24:56] Video: V3D 4.2
[14:24:56] AVI: Not supported
[14:24:56] vgui_support: not found
[14:24:56] Loading new-style background from game succeded
[14:24:56] fontconfig: Trebuchet MS -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
[14:24:56] Uploaded Trebuchet MS_24_500_font.bmp to 149
[14:24:56] Rendering Trebuchet MS(24, 500) took 0.034199 seconds
[14:24:56] fontconfig: Trebuchet MS -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
[14:24:56] Uploaded Trebuchet MS_18_500_font.bmp to 150
[14:24:56] Rendering Trebuchet MS(18, 500) took 0.015570 seconds
[14:24:56] fontconfig: Trebuchet MS -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
[14:24:56] Uploaded Trebuchet MS_37_500_font.bmp to 151
[14:24:56] Rendering Trebuchet MS(37, 500) took 0.036755 seconds
[14:24:56] fontconfig: Trebuchet MS -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
[14:24:56] Uploaded Trebuchet MS_24_1000_font.bmp to 152
[14:24:56] Rendering Trebuchet MS(24, 1000) took 0.022665 seconds
[14:24:56] fontconfig: Tahoma -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
[14:24:56] Uploaded Tahoma_16_500_o1_font.bmp to 153
[14:24:56] Rendering Tahoma(16, 500) took 0.035306 seconds
[14:24:56] Using SDL audio driver: alsa @ 44100 Hz
[14:24:56] Reading config script file settings.scr
[14:24:56] Reading config script file user.scr
[14:24:56] execing config.cfg
[14:24:56] execing valve.rc
[14:24:56] execing language.cfg
[14:24:56] execing autoexec.cfg
[14:24:56] execing violence.cfg
[14:24:56] execing config.cfg
[14:24:56] Couldn't open file resource/mainui_english.txt. Some strings will not be localized!.
[14:24:56] Localize_AddToDict: loaded 241 words from resource/gameui_english.txt
[14:24:56] Localize_AddToDict: loaded 190 words from resource/valve_english.txt
[14:24:56] Reading config script file settings.scr
[14:24:56] Reading config script file user.scr
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[14:25:08] opt/retropie/ports/xash3d/Xash3D.sh: line 1:  2695 Segmentation fault      LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Half-Life /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Half-Life/xash3d -console -clientlib cl_dlls/client.so -dll dlls/hl.so -sdl_joy_old_api

quicksilver

@amp12f @Rubicai @Johan_Liebert511 I have reuploaded (I think) the updated binary. Please let me know if it works.

Rubicai

@quicksilver I've just installed it and it's working fine, I still can't get to map the controls from the game since it crashes and for some reason the triggers (I'm using a DualShock 4 to play) seem to do the same, but it's no issue for me and it happened before, but thanks so much, this is a great guide!

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver is your binary any different then what zerojay already has in his collection for RetroPie-Extra. since in see in his script that it is installing from github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

just wondering

quicksilver

@exarkuniv they're coming from the same source then. In fact zerojays is going to be more up to date than mine. At the time I created this post I don't believe zerojay had a script for half-life. His is probably the better way to go at this point though I haven't looked at it closely.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver cool, just trying to help so not to make for work for people where its not needed

luckyluca

@quicksilver
Thanks for this guide.
I got it working, except it crashes to desktop everytime I try to assign a button in-game.
Has this been resolved?

I tried both compile from source in Retropie-Source, run from Binary, and your own Binary.

Also, would you kindly share your config.txt, I'm especially after mapping a menu button, as currently it is not possible to open the menu button with the 8bitdo joypad alone.

Many thanks!

EDIT:
I switched to xash3d-fwgs and everything works now

richradd

Are you the same QuickSilver from 15+ years ago
QuickSilver extreme?
http://qsextreme.com/

quicksilver

@richradd no that's not me

eputley

@quicksilver Does this still work? Im not seeing xash3d come up in my packages after i put "wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/sergiopoverony/xash3d/raw/master/xash3d.sh
" into my terminal.

mitu

@eputley The downloaded file needs to be placed in a certain folder, it won't work if you just download it somewhere. Run:

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports
wget https://github.com/sergiopoverony/xash3d/raw/master/xash3d.sh

then run again RetroPie-Setup.

ExarKunIv

@eputley there is a updated script in the main repo for Retropie-Extra

https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra

eputley

@ExarKunIv Which folder is the code in? Im really not familar with these things.

eputley

@ExarKunIv Okay I downloaded it from the retropie experimental section, can I follow the instructions of this original post now? Or has anything else changed? Thanks for the help btw

ExarKunIv

@eputley the script is in the experimental section

And you just need to add your game files.
But this post will help with that