Suggestions for ports #2

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@exarkuniv Thanks for updating it (and the time and effort you've put in all of this)! Have you tried it yourself after recompiling it? On my end it still doesn't play music. When set it to "all codecs" I hear a faint ticking/popping sound in the background during gameplay.

I've put the OGG files beneath in "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/hexen2/data1/music/".

casb3.ogg
casb2.ogg
casb1.ogg
roma3.ogg
roma2.ogg
roma1.ogg
meso3.ogg
meso2.ogg
meso1.ogg
egyp3.ogg
egyp2.ogg
egyp1.ogg
casa4.ogg
casa3.ogg
casa2.ogg
casa1.ogg

PS. When I write down "music casb3.ogg" in the console, it actually plays the track, but it also did that before I've recompiled it with your altered script.

ExarKunIv

@boolean odd.
yes i did try it before i responded back to you. i have a test card that i just wipe and start over when im working on things.

i have my music in
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/hexen2/data1/music

casa4.ogg
casa3.ogg
casa2.ogg
casa1.ogg
casb3.ogg
casb2.ogg
casb1.ogg
egyp3.ogg
egyp2.ogg
egyp1.ogg
meso3.ogg
meso2.ogg
meso1.ogg
roma3.ogg
roma2.ogg
roma1.ogg

mine is in a different order but that dont matter. and i just checked to make sure i was hearing the music right since i have not gone past the first level. but it is playing casa1.ogg on the first level.

i did find out that the portals/music is not playing, but the music from hexen2.

Not sure if you can do this, but if you have a spare card. do a clean load. update retropie and try hexen2 again with nothing else installed. maybe you have a conflict with something else.

ExarKunIv

@exarkuniv said in Suggestions for ports #2:

i did find out that the portals/music is not playing, but the music from hexen2.

ok looking at other post, that is normal. for the first few levels of PoP it will play music from hexen 2. so no problem there

im still looking into anything for your issue. its kinda hard since its working for mine

ExarKunIv

@boolean when you start the game. open the console and take a screenshot so i can see what yours is trying to enable.

i was playing around with the different drivers and ones that work still have the BGM. and the ones that dont have no sound at all

its just odd that its working fine on my build

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@exarkuniv The "music casa3" you see in the console is my manual input to test if the music is actually playable, so you can ignore that.

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I've tried everything, but there's no BGM unless I trigger it manually each level.

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@exarkuniv I've got a spare 128GB Samsung EVO microSD laying around somewhere on which I could try a clean install. I'll report back after I've tried it, thanks!

ExarKunIv

@boolean yeah. Your screen shot looks just like mine other then the controllers. I don't have mine set up. But everything else looks like mine.

This is now making me angry

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@exarkuniv Haha, don't be angry! I appreciate the time and effort you put into your work. The least I can do is test the provided scripts and report back my experience. Normally I would be able to come with a solution myself, but on this one I'm completely in the dark.

It would be awesome if the Retropie team added your repo to their knowledgebase/documentation. I'm sure many people would benefit from it. It's only by accident that I've stumbled upon this tread, otherwise I wouldn't have been aware of your work.

ExarKunIv

@boolean thanks. me wanting to get this out there for people to use is all i wanted.

@Philcomm and I will be working on a Guide for Retropie on github what will have all of this and more.

and thank you for all the input you are giving me. it does help to know what works and doesn't.

cyperghost

@exarkuniv I'm in if you want to have some scripts reviewed and/or updated

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost if you are willing, ill take all the help i can get.
for the most part they are work, but im sure there is better ways to get them working then the way i did.

they are more a quick and dirty way i think, but who knows maybe i did them right for the most part. lol

cyperghost

@exarkuniv Yes I can do some quick looks, you should update the fork... sadly Zerojay gave up but on a quick view most of the scripts are in good condition.

Most focus should be set on OpenBOR. My personal focus is just on the old platform (non Pi4)... the good times ;)

Hi. A combination of my poor health and the targetted harassment by a small group of RetroPie users who believe I owe them my time has made me decide that I can't do this any longer. My enthusiasm for RetroPie has dropped due to these people and I haven't touched my Pi in a year. Also, I've spent a significantly greater amount of time on tinkering and playing around with emulators and I just want to get back to actually enjoying the games themselves again.

@zerojay Take your time to use the Raspberry intended as it is. A small device for pure gaming ;) Get the best ot of it and enjoy your precious time - for you not for ungrateful ones.

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost yes my plan is to take over RetroPie-extras. I have gone through and found what installs and want doesn't. So I can update that and see then focus on what needs to be fixed if it can be fixed. And add all of mine to it also. :)

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost i have updated RetroPie-Extras so now it install into the ext folder

now i get a error about there being double scripts. one of them being openbor. i know that there is one inclued in the main setup which downloads from rofl0r and the one in RetroPie-Extras downloads from you.

is there a difference between yours and rofl0r. if there is i will name it differently so we have a choice

quicksilver

A few more games that I have gotten to run on my pi4 are Serious Sam 1 & 2 (serious-engine), Freespace 2 (Freespace open), and Heroes of MM3 (vcmi engine). I didn't see these listed in your post, so thought they may be good candidates to add. I have tested them and they all run smoothly. Its been a while since I compiled them but iirc they were pretty easy to setup.

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver i do remember freespace. i cant recall why i skipped over that one.
i did not know about Serious Sam 1 & 2

illl take a look at them

ecto

@quicksilver Ooh yeah! I have SS1 and SS2 installed, too! I forgot about them! IIrc I had some graphical glitches like blinking textures in SS2 in the first level. Have you experienced something like that, too?

quicksilver

@ecto that seems vaguely familiar but I can't remember if it was something I was able to fix

sleve_mcdichael

HCL (Hydra Castle Labyrinth) looks like a fun Metroidvania game so I took a crack at updating ZJ's script. Does SDL2 work on platforms other than Pi4?

Repo: HCL-RPi

Install:

Branch global2.0 just uses SDL2 for everything:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s1eve-mcdichae1/HCL-RPi/global2.0/hcl.sh -P $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/

If that doesn't work, the main branch should test for RPi4 and fallback to SDL1.2 otherwise, like the module used initially. This worked on my 4 (to install the SDL2 version), but I don't have anything else to test if the other side works:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s1eve-mcdichae1/HCL-RPi/main/hcl.sh -P $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/

(If this works but the other one doesn't, are there any other platforms besides RPi4 where it'll work?)

ExarKunIv

@sleve_mcdichael thanks for the update.

as for the SDL2 question. i dont know. i think SDL2 works on most arm boards.

if i have time i can take a peek at my XU4 and Nano and see if SDL2 is on them