Setting up Half-Life through RetroPie (A Guide)

[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

[eputley]

@ExarKunIv So I tried add my game files but unlike others in this thread I dont have a folder for Half life in my roms/ports/

[eputley]

@eputley So im not sure where to put my valve folder I tried putting it in the ports section but it wouldnt launch the game then I tried putting it in xash3d folder that didnt work either

[ExarKunIv]

@eputley is there a valve folder within xash3d-fwgs?

If so put it in there

[eputley]

@ExarKunIv Yes there is but it dowsnt contain all the files in my valve folder from steam, so I tried replacing it with my valve folder but it still wont launch

[eputley]

@eputley

[eputley]

@ExarKunIv And I did put my valve folder into the xash3d valve folder as well, maybe i need to remove everything and try again?

[ExarKunIv]

@eputley I believe you just need to put the contents of your valve folder into the valve folder in the xashd3-fwgs folder.

Sorry I'm at close to my pi right now

I know this is in the help part of the script

rp_module_help="Please add your full version Half-Life data files (folders /valve, /bshift and /gearbox) to $romdir/ports/xash3d-fwgs/ to play."

So tell me.

Are there other folders in side of the dashed folder.
There should be a gearbox, bshift and valve folder in there