Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 try it and report back. Seems to run pretty good on my RPi4, but I don't have a 3 to compare with. Some screen tearing here and there, nothing extreme.

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael think I did try it and it was worse than before (ie fewer options to change video and something was missing from gameplay) but was a few weeks back now. I'll take another look and report

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 some of the options do depend on some of the others. The available "graphic mode" options are different with "widescreen mode" ON than they are with it OFF, for example.

"Display: windowed" seems to always be shifted top-left for me (except when it actually fills the whole screen), while "full screen" is always centered (though, oddly, not always actually full-screen, depending on "widescreen mode".

With "display: full screen" and "widescreen: yes", image is full-screen in all "graphic mode" settings. When I turn to "widescreen: no", then the "normal" graphic mode is shrunken (still centered), and only the "2x" modes are full-size (and 3x is no longer available.)

I haven't touched the video mode settings in ES/runcommand. My display and default framebuffer size are 1280x720.

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael appreciate this info. The version on the Pi3 is pretty much perfect except for some screen tear. You get to use the full array of video options such as scanlines and smoother graphics if you want without having to sacrifice where the picture goes (ie top left) I guess this is the standard Im looking for on the pi4 but guess it's not quite there yet. I did have it near enough perfect before except I wanted the scale to be 4:3 but no options would give me this in ES or else where. I could get it to full screen with some annoying half inch border on the right which annoyed me as you know how the human brain wants symmetry etc. Shame as it's easily the go to SOR game on the Pi

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 said in Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?:

@sleve_mcdichael appreciate this info. The version on the Pi3 is pretty much perfect except for some screen tear. You get to use the full array of video options such as scanlines and smoother graphics if you want without having to sacrifice where the picture goes (ie top left) I guess this is the standard Im looking for on the pi4 but guess it's not quite there yet.

Here's what I've got right now. I can also turn vsync on; it tears either way, to me it seems "smoother" tearing with vsync off than with it on.

(And actually I usually leave the scanlines off, this is just to show it does work. But it's awfully dark on my screen; maybe it would look better on a full 1080 where it could potentially have a higher ratio of lit pixels to the darkened scanlines, but I only have 720 and this looks like over half the image is black.)

I could get it to full screen with some annoying half inch border on the right which annoyed me as you know how the human brain wants symmetry etc.

Have you tried all the (relevant) available video modes through the runcommand menu? I haven't needed to change them, but every display is different, so it might be worth a shot.

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael thanks again. Yes I pretty much tried every aspect ratio ES had to offer with mixed results but others on this thread seemed to be getting different outcomes to me so it's either me or my pi4 (probably me) I'll give this another go and let you know

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael so tried it again and I can't seem to get it down from the top left whichever scale/sizing I choose from the Runcommand. Also "Display" and "VSync" are greyed out on my version. Does this seem right?

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 said in Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?:

Also "Display" and "VSync" are greyed out on my version. Does this seem right?

This sounds like when the SORR v5.2 system.txt hasn't been modified from the distributed version and still has // FULL SCREEN WIDE mode set to BORDERLESS_SYNC instead of AUTO.

(Mine is not shifted off-center when this happens, however, fixing it does open up more options so you may still find a magic bullet.)

Are you using the latest updates from RetroPie-Extra? Did you run the install after your SORR game files were in place? Is your system.txt still root-owned from the previous install versions from a couple months ago?

Can you show the output of:

ls -l ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr/mod/system.txt

...and

cat ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr/mod/system.txt

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael let me pick this back up with you tomorrow as late here in the UK. You were right though my system.txt was set to BORDERLESS SYNC instead of AUTO. Problem now is I changed the emulator.cfg to say XINIT:pushd as mentioned in this thread and the sorr rom won't even start up. Gives an error message about it not being able to remove something or other. Might do a fresh install tomorrow of extras.sh and the sorr package

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 said in Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?:

You were right though my system.txt was set to BORDERLESS SYNC instead of AUTO. Problem now is I changed the emulator.cfg to say XINIT:pushd as mentioned in this thread and the sorr rom won't even start up. Gives an error message about it not being able to remove something or other. Might do a fresh install tomorrow of extras.sh and the sorr package

Ah, I think we are getting somewhere. Without using XINIT:, my picture is pushed off-center.

However, you can't just patch it in the command like that, anymore. It turns out that using XINIT: and pushd together in the command, like that, didn't play nice with each other (actually, it's because of xinit and the semicolons used to put pushd; command; popd all on one line; see here for more info), so we had to break those commands out into a separate "buffer" script and call that with XINIT:.

The current command we are using looks like "XINIT:/opt/retropie/ports/sorr/sorr.sh %ROM%", but you'll need that sorr.sh script in place also. A reinstall with the latest scriptmodule should (hopefully) put everything where it needs to be and get you sorted. If you have any trouble with the system.txt, you can make it user-writable with:

sudo chown pi:pi ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr/mod/system.txt

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael said in Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?:

"XINIT:/opt/retropie/ports/sorr/sorr.sh %ROM%"

thanks. So is "XINIT:/opt/retropie/ports/sorr/sorr.sh %ROM%" just another line i need to add in the system.txt?
how would I know if I cant change the system.txt? will it just not let me into it as it let me into it fine before and i just saved it and came back out with no issue but then it wouldn't start up.
Will give this a try today at some point

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael so now my emulator.cfg looks like this

sorr = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/ports/sorr/sorr.sh %ROM%"
default = "sorr"

and my system.txt has been set has been set to AUTO as suggested and the ROM wont start up again. I did a fresh install of the extras script and also a started with freshly downloading/installing the sorr from experimental packages

Any clue where I'm going wrong?

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 if it let you edit & save changes to the file without giving any sort of "permission denied" errors then you're probably okay in that regard.

Can I see your runcommand.log after you (attempt to) launch SORR? You can just copy/paste from your SSH client the output of:

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log

(Shouldn't be too long, only about a page on my screen.)

sorr = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/ports/sorr/sorr.sh %ROM%"

You're sure this says sorr = ... and not bgdi-333 = ...? Can I also see the output of:

cd ~/RetroPie-Extra && git log | head -n 5

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael thanks. I'm fairly competent with most aspects of ROM management and RetroPie stuff in general but I've never actually connected my PC with it so I can control the command log from my PC if you get my meaning (so I can type in and copy and paste outputs) How do I go about doing this ?

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 if you're on Win10 and your PC and Pi are on the same network, just run ssh pi@retropie.local from a command prompt on your PC, or enter it in the search bar. (Password is raspberry if you haven't changed it previously. You'll need to enable SSH first through the RetroPie menu, if you haven't already.)

If that isn't working for you there are some other SSH clients listed at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/SSH/

Alternatively, you can copy the log into the roms folder where it's accessible across the network share:

cp /dev/shm/runcommand.log ~/RetroPie/roms/

...then you can view the file over Samba-shares just like how you (probably) add the roms.

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael sorry about the delay. Been busy
anyway here are the outputs
cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log (was i supposed to put nano in front of this as it didn't work with anything else?)
anyway that gave me an empty page

for the cd~

commit b4337b7bd16b6a75b0602e122ff8fc028fa0d2cc
Author: Exarkuniv 48326368+Exarkuniv@users.noreply.github.com
Date: Tue May 10 22:45:32 2022 -0500

Cheers!

sleve_mcdichael

@hawkes_84 said in Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?:

commit b4337b7bd16b6a75b0602e122ff8fc028fa0d2cc

This looks okay. b4337b7 is a recent commit and includes the most recent SORR module version.

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log (was i supposed to put nano in front of this as it didn't work with anything else?)
anyway that gave me an empty page

Did you reboot or turn off the device after launching the game? /dev/shm is a temp location that only exists in memory, and as such it won't persist across boot sessions; you need to view the log (or copy it to a more permanent location) before shutting down or rebooting.

If I wanted to completely wipe my system clean of SORR and start fresh I would:

Uninstall the existing SORR package through RetroPie-Setup:

GUI with retropie_setup.sh:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

...OR...

CLI with retropie_packages.sh [module] [action]:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sorr remove

...THEN:

Delete the SORR rom folder and all of its contents:

rm -rf ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr

Delete the SORR configs folder and all of its contents:

rm -rf /opt/retropie/configs/ports/sorr

Remove and reinstall the latest RetroPie-Extra (just in case):

cd ~/RetroPie-Extra

./remove-extras.sh
# [enter "y" or "yes" to confirm.]

./update-extras.sh

Create a new, empty roms folder for SORR:

mkdir -p ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr

Copy SORR v5.1 or SORR v5.2 game files into this roms folder using whatever method of choice (Samba, etc.). Requires folders mod/ and palettes/ and the file SorR.dat and, optionally, SorMaker.dat.

After game files are in place (so the installer can fix the mod/system.txt file), re-install SORR through RetroPie-Setup:

GUI with retropie_setup.sh:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

...OR...

CLI with retropie_packages.sh [module] (if [action] is omitted after [module] it will perform the actions depends, sources, build, install, configure, clean in order, or depends, install_bin, configure if no source build is available):

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sorr

(Alternatively):

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sorr depends

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sorr install_bin

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sorr configure

hawkes_84

@sleve_mcdichael ah I'm an idiot. I forgot to run the game before running the cat command. Will be back!