(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?

shavecat

Anyway i can make the Daphne / American laser games
Full screen ? 16/9
and not 4:3...

DirtBagXon

@gomisensei said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

can confirm this fix makes badlands work on Raspberry Pi4.
thanks for the work.

Cool, I'll let @pjft make the pull request to the retropie repo, as he led me down the correct debug path.

pjft

@DirtBagXon Great to hear it worked and that it helped.

Please, by all means, do submit the PR over there, it's perfectly fair game. The alternative will still be for me to go and cherry-pick your commit there - it'll always be your original commit :)

DirtBagXon

@pjft said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@DirtBagXon Great to hear it worked and that it helped.

Please, by all means, do submit the PR over there, it's perfectly fair game. The alternative will still be for me to go and cherry-pick your commit there - it'll always be your original commit :)

@pjft - right you are sir.

I couldn't get Github to let me fork retropie as I had a fork from a mutual parent repo, which it kept linking me to. Github being annoyingly clever....

In the end I gave up and created a new account to fork within, but got there eventually lol. Pull request from the all new DirtBagZon...

pjft

@DirtBagXon Hah :) Yes, it's a pain.

In the past I followed this with some success - https://gist.github.com/bhumphrey/3764983 .

Thanks for looking into it, and happy singe-ing .

By the way, the original Singe developer seems to be back at it, and working on a version 2.0 of the emulator, so if that's something that interests you, it should be worth looking out for.

DirtBagXon

@pjft said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@DirtBagXon Hah :) Yes, it's a pain.

In the past I followed this with some success - https://gist.github.com/bhumphrey/3764983 .

Pah, next time....

By the way, the original Singe developer seems to be back at it, and working on a version 2.0 of the emulator, so if that's something that interests you, it should be worth looking out for.

Yep, I have been following Scott's project, he was even kind enough to star my current singe repo too :)

He seems to be getting there... I don't envy him that job....

Stuart2773

SINGE 2.0 is now available

TreasureFingers

@dirtbagxon

I saw scott had a zip file with an executable for raspberry pi. Is there anyway we can grab this https://kangaroopunch.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=singe&file=s200p32.zip in terminal and install it in retropie? (i was gonna follow your steps but then 2.0 showed up) . Thanks for all you have done so far.

DirtBagXon

@treasurefingers said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon

I saw scott had a zip file with an executable for raspberry pi. Is there anyway we can grab this https://kangaroopunch.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=singe&file=s200p32.zip in terminal and install it in retropie? (i was gonna follow your steps but then 2.0 showed up) . Thanks for all you have done so far.

Heya @TreasureFingers,

You can grab the Singe v2 file via wget in a terminal on your RetroPie.

wget "https://kangaroopunch.com/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=singe&file=s200p32.zip" -O s200p32.zip

unzip s200p32.zip

I don't think anyone has posted a procedure to set it up in RetroPie yet..

Feel free to play and post back here.

FYI: I finally figured out how to get the original Time Gal and Ninja Hayate bytecode .singe files working in version 1.18.
So there is now no need to switch timegal.singe, hayate.singe to the ones in the repo, as detailed above.

The new Singe v2 games seems to have updated overlays , which are very cool, but do move away from the original arcade game look and feel somewhat.
So I think version 1.18 might still be a route for the traditionalists at this point.

But I am sure all this will change as v2 develops.....

TreasureFingers

@dirtbagxon

i managed to run the executable and it only popped out these two items 1. Menu.sh and 2. a folder called singe and
inside the folder were these contents

controls.cfg.example
framework.singe
freesansbold.ttf
menu.signe
menuBackground.mkv

What should be my next steps?

DirtBagXon

@treasurefingers said in [(REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?]

What should be my next steps?

I just downloaded some of the v2 games from kangaroopunch and unzipped them in the same directory. Then ran ./Menu.sh

The new games are packaged and configured to run in v2.

Running v1 games involves playing with the CLI commands:

Usage:  Singe-v2.00-Pi-armv6 [OPTIONS] scriptName{.singe}

  -a, --aspect=N:D               force aspect ratio
  -c, --showcalculated           show calculated framefile values for debugging
  -d, --datadir=PATHNAME         alternate location for written files
  -e, --volume_nonvldp=PERCENT   specify sound effects volume in percent
  -f, --fullscreen               run in full screen mode
  -h, --help                     this display
  -k, --nologos                  kill the splash screens
  -l, --volume_vldp=PERCENT      specify laserdisc volume in percent
  -m, --nomouse                  disable mouse
  -n, --nocrosshair              request game not display gun crosshairs
  -s, --nosound, --mutesound     mutes all sound
  -t, --trace                    trace script execution to screen and file
  -u, --stretch                  use ugly stretched video
  -v, --framefile=FILENAME       use an alternate video file
  -w, --fullscreen_window        run in windowed full screen mode
  -x, --xresolution=VALUE        specify horizontal resolution
  -y, --yresolution=VALUE        specify vertical resolution
  -z, --noconsole                zero console output

Something like this (with appropriate paths):

./Singe-v2.00-Pi-armv6 [OPTION] -v timegal.txt timegal.singe

Although I had varying success here.

TreasureFingers

@dirtbagxon
oh ok so the ./Menu.sh builds a menu in terminal and not in the emulationstation/retropie gui hmm i wonder what its gonna take to get it in emulationstation. Also Dirtbagxon you been pretty great with your help so far just wanted to mention that. is it 'its own thing now or does it still rely on daphne?

DirtBagXon

@treasurefingers said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon
Is it 'its own thing now or does it still rely on daphne?

Both v2 and my v1.18 repo are standalone Singe.

Pleasure helping out, but I'm afraid I don't know the Emulationstation interface to help there.

shift

@dirtbagxon

First install the correct tools and libraries:

sudo apt-get install git make build-essential libasound2-dev libcaca-dev libglew-dev libglib2.0-dev libogg-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpng-dev  libpng-tools libpulse-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libslang2-dev  libvorbis-dev libxi-dev pkg-config

After this point there is the result (I have translated from Italian to english error message):

To continue? [Y / n] Y
Selected package libjbig-dev: armhf not previously selected.
dpkg: fatal unrecoverable error, exit:
  the file with the file list of the "raspi-config" package is missing the final newline
E: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (2)

I continued ignoring the error

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/DirtBagXon/singe.git singe

Here everything is ok.

cd singe
cd src/vldp2
 ./configure --disable-accel-detect
 make -f Makefile.linux

Here everything is ok.

 cd ../game/singe
 make -f Makefile.linux

After this command instead the error was this:

g++  -fPIC  -c -o singeproxy.o singeproxy.cpp
In file included from singeproxy.cpp:23:
singeproxy.h:36:10: fatal error: SDL/SDL_image.h: File o directory non esistente
 #include <SDL/SDL_image.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [<incorporato>:  singeproxy.o] Error 1

I used a raspberry pi 4 with 4GB**** with Retropie 4.7.1

Can you figure out how to correct the problem?

DirtBagXon

@shift said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon

First install the correct tools and libraries:

sudo apt-get install git make build-essential libasound2-dev libcaca-dev libglew-dev libglib2.0-dev libogg-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpng-dev  libpng-tools libpulse-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libslang2-dev  libvorbis-dev libxi-dev pkg-config

After this point there is the result (I have translated from Italian to english error message):

To continue? [Y / n] Y
Selected package libjbig-dev: armhf not previously selected.
dpkg: fatal unrecoverable error, exit:
  the file with the file list of the "raspi-config" package is missing the final newline
E: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (2)

I continued ignoring the error

You need to clear this error or the dependencies will not be installed and you will see the later errors.

Looks like you packaging system is a little broken.

What happens if you run the following two commands?

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

It looks like a broken package file, so the above may work, it could also be filesystem corruption (sd card), seems to be some similar issues here:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=187936

If you can't get the development packages installed, try running the compiled binaries I put in the repository:

From the folder singe folder you cloned via git:

cd binaries/$(uname -m)

cp *.so singe.bin ../..

cd ../..

Then ./run.sh

shift

@dirtbagxon Thank you for the answer, I did the upgrades as you told me, but I got the same error as before, so now I'm testing the SD and if everything is ok I reinstall Retropie "clean" and then I immediately install your package. I keep you updated.

shift

@dirtbagxon You were right, it was just a Retropie installation error. Now everything goes. To your scripts I just had to add this line:

cp ~/singe/pics/* ~/.daphne/pics/

because the system could not find this file: ConsoleFont.bmp (and probably the same error would have given it also for the other .bmp)

I changed your script (run.sh) to have the full screen on a Full HD (1920 x 1080) TV by changing the -x and -y parameters, because I noticed that the -fullscreen command is not recognized.

For Ninjia Hayate and Timetraveler I kept your parameters -x 800 and -y 600 because unfortunately they don't accept higher resolutions.

Now I want to try ActionMax.

Thanks for everything. I keep you updated.

DirtBagXon

@shift said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon You were right, it was just a Retropie installation error. Now everything goes. To your scripts I just had to add this line:
cp ~/singe/pics/* ~/.daphne/pics/

I have altered the repo README to clarify the installation process, thank you.

I changed your script (run.sh) to have the full screen on a Full HD (1920 x 1080) TV by changing the -x and -y parameters, because I noticed that the -fullscreen command is not recognized.

The -fullscreen option should work thus:

./run.sh -fullscreen timegal

Can you supply the error if this doesn't work ?

shift

@dirtbagxon

The -fullscreen option should work thus:
./run.sh -fullscreen timegal
Can you supply the error if this doesn't work ?

No error returns but the image remains 800x600 in the upper left corner. It is as if the -fullscreen parameter is not considered at all.

DirtBagXon

@shift said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

@dirtbagxon
The -fullscreen option should work thus:
./run.sh -fullscreen timegal
Can you supply the error if this doesn't work ?
No error returns but the image remains 800x600 in the upper left corner. It is as if the -fullscreen parameter is not considered at all.

Interesting, I am unable to replicate this, effectively SDL ignoring:

sdl_flags |= SDL_FULLSCREEN;

Anyone else seen this issue?

Perhaps a Retropie frontend setting?

If you make these changes in run.sh

if [ "$1" = "-fullscreen" ]; then
-    FULLSCREEN="-fullscreen"
+    FULLSCREEN="-fullscreen_window"
    shift
fi

Then run with the -fullscreen argument again?