chex quest on retropie is this possible if so how
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ok so im wondering how i go about getting chex quest to run on retropie also how do i set it up so i can run it with out a keyboard im new to all this thanks
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It looks like you asked this same question here less than a month ago. More information on running wads can be found here as well. Two issues to note are the music for 'Chex Quest 1-2' and the necessity of ZDoom for 'Chex Quest 3'. If you have music installed for 'Doom' it will most likely be played in place of the 'Chex Quest' music. If you have no music installed, you'll hear nothing. Also, based on previous experience in running 'Chex Quest' in various ports intended for 'Doom', you might hear the 'Doom' sound effects as well. Lastly, if you plan on playing 'Chex Quest 3', you'll need to install and use ZDoom.
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I've had such great luck running DOSBox on RetroPie with my RPi3 that I decided to test 'Chex Quest 1-2' there as well. To my surprise, it plays beautifully. Granted, I haven't put it through it's full paces yet, but the first level of both play extremely well. To get it running, all I did was drop the full DOS game folder into the 'PC' directory or RetroPie's roms and then launch the
.exefrom Emulation Station. I was even able to scrape artwork for it. Mapping the controller can be a bit more involved, but you can read more about that here if any of this interests you. -
DOSBox might actually be the only way capable of playing any 'Chex Quest' currently. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get libretro-prboom to load the wads for parts 1&2. Supposedly ZDoom supports all three games, but I could only get it to launch the loading screen of part 3 before it crashed. I believe the RetroPie Wiki instructions for ZDoom might be a bit outdated, so that could be the issue there. Maybe @herb_fargus can weigh in on this when he has time, as he seemed somewhat confident the games should work in your original thread.
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@mediamogul i have tried lr-prboom and zdoom and cannot get any games like hexen, heretic, strife, tnt31, master wads, etc., etc.... to work on the pi. I have several dosbox games and i cant get wolfenstein 3d to load past flickering the title screen for a quick second. I have the doom collection on disc but not sure if i need other files other than the wads to get hexen, heritic, hexendd or chex to work with dosbox.
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@edmaul69 said in chex quest on retropie is this possible if so how:
not sure if i need other files other than the wads to get... chex to work with dosbox.
You need all the DOS files and executables along with the wad files. CQ has become such a popular title over the years that the fan sites offer up everything you could want, from the original CD files found in the cereal boxes, all the way to music and fan fiction documenting the continuing adventures of the Chex Warrior and his trusty Zorcher in the never-ending battle against the slimy Flemoids.
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@mediamogul iwill definitely get the full versions to put on since the wads were a big waste of time for the 50 ish hours i spent trying to get them to work. Only the original 5 dooms worked in ports. I got a hold of a good copy of wolfenstein. Strange that the copy i had and the shareware version both kicked me out after flashing the menu screen really quick. Spent too many hours trying to figure out the problem. I am glad lr-prboom worked with the wads off my doom collection discs. I wished heritic, hexen and hexen ddc worked though. I will have to run them through dosbox. I would have liked to use prboom because of the retroarch config but dosbox is pretty easy to configure.
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@edmaul69 a real simple way to test is just to rename the wad to the same as the shareware version of doom that is included, then overwrite it so that there isn't a weird configuration issue with it when launching the game. a wad selector needs to be incorporated to simplify the process, as right now its pretty manual.
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@herb_fargus whats weird is when using say doom 2 wad and any wad that needs the doom 2 wad it would load doom 2 and in the settings it would show the other wad to load on boot up but would never load that wad. And the keyboard is only functional as a controller so i couldnt even try to edit that stuff to try to get it to load. Prboom i use a prboom.cfg and zdoom i use the .sh/ emulators.cfg method to no avail. So i am over all that. I am just going to use dos box to load my other games since i have the full versions. I might revisit it later if i get bored. I have a super sweet theme to get finished first though.
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Well, I figured out half of the mystery. For 'Chex Quest' 1-2 to run in libretro-prboom, a specially modified wad file must be used. CQ 1-3 has been made freeware by the developer, but I'm still hesitant to post it here, so instead I'll link to this post that explains the issue and further describes what @herb_fargus has already mentioned about switching the files out. It also makes mention of creating a
.shfile as an alternative method so the two games can exist together in Emulation Station. As for ZDoom and CQ3, I'll look into that some other time and post back. -
@edmaul69 The simplest way to getting Heretic, Hexen and Strife running is to install Chocolate Doom from Zerojay's repo. The script will install the Chocolate variants of the three games above and automatically create bash scripts to launch from ES.
To configure joystick, keyboard, sound etc., you can run
chocolate-heretic-setupfrom the command line.To run Wolfenstein 3D, I suggest Wolf4SDL which you can install from the RetroPie setup script.
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@dudleydes i finally got wolfenstein running with dosbox after finding a version that the retropie dosbox liked (my version and shareware version worked on pc dosbox but not pi version). Im going to try the same with the hexen series. If i have problems i will try the chocholate program.
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@edmaul69 I would recommend taking a look at Wolf4SDL. In DOSBox, I think I could get Wolfenstein 3D running at 320x240 (or 320x200). In Wolf4SDL, I can run it smoothly on the Pi at twice the resolution. This should also be the case with Chocolate Doom.
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He's right, there's no substitute for running these games as ports if possible. I only use DOSBox as a stand-in when everything else fails. Still, it's a great catchall emulator in it's own right and a very useful trick to keep up the sleeve.
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@dudleydes @mediamogul is there an sh script i need to know for the wolf4sdl?
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@mediamogul do you know how to change where wolf4sdl looks for the game? The demo version worked but for reasons unbeknownst to me i have to put roms in /root/RetroPie/roms/ The demo works bu if i dump the full version files on even overwriting the wolf3d.exe it still shows up as the demo. But if i delete all the demo files it no longer works because when i updated to 4.0 beta1?? It switched my roms folders to /root/RetroPie/roms/ and nothing that i myself put into the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ folder works.
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I wish I could help, but I haven't installed wolf4sdl yet. I wouldn't imagine that wolf3d.exe is used by the ported engine though because it's a DOS executable. It should only be utilizing the game data files that accompany it. It's also really odd that it's looking for those files at
/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/rather than~/RetroPie/roms/ports/wolf3d/. Could that possibly be a mistake on the wiki? -
@mediamogul ok so here is something maybe you could help me with. When i updated to 4.0 beta1-ish it switch from me being able to put my roms in /home/pi/Retropie/roms/ to having to put them in /root/RetroPie/roms/instead. The stuff that retropie-setup puts in /home/pi/... works but nothing i put in there works. if i remove the files from there and dump the same ones back on it still wont work. I have no clue how to fix that. I would prefer using roms in /home/ and not /root/ is there some kind of permissions issue?
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I see your problem, but unfortunately it's above my pay grade. It sounds like you have somehow been running the whole system through the root user account. The issue definitely deserves it's own thread to attract some wider attention. Most people probably left us here when we were talking about Zorchers and Flemoids.
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@mediamogul when i hit f4 it shows pi@RetroPie but yeah i will start a new thread
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