Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?

Floob

Overview video up here: (on a Pi 3)

Refazeshot1

@Floob I may try this again but I got very poor performance on the Pi 4 before... I was pointed towards the KMS drivers being not greatest. The game would load up in a very small screen. There was work around installing some type of video script. While this corrected the issue you were not able to turn on Vsync and it was a screen tearing nightmare. Works great on the Pi 3 though!!
Thank you for the update video you rock!

Red_Trev

@Floob thanks very much ! I notice we must Update the Retropie system to the latest version, I have previously modified the es_systems file to add extra Emulation Station menu items for non-standard systems (see example below), will running the Update script wipe these ? I can always take a copy & re-upload if so, just want to know before hand ....

<system>
<name>naomi</name>
<fullname>Naomi</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/naomi</path>
<extension>.cdi .chd .cue .gdi .sh .zip .CDI .CHD .CUE .GDI .SH .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS naomi %ROM%</command>
<platform>dreamcast</platform>
<theme>supergrafx</theme>
</system>

Floob

@Red_Trev Yes, I'm pretty sure that file would get overwritten. See this post
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/335/question-about-upgrading-and-config-overwrites

Either way, it would always be highly recommended to take a backup if you are happy with your current image.

Red_Trev

@Floob got installed, runs well but was displayed quarter size in top left corner

To centralize & stretch to full screen I had to download, modify, then reupload the emulators.cfg file in the sorr folder

The file contents now looks like this after modification:

sorr = "XINIT:pushd /opt/retropie/ports/sorr; ./bgdi-333 ./SorR.dat; popd"
default = "sorr"

(I simply added XINIT: infront of the pushd )

File is available at the below location:

ExarKunIv

@Red_Trev you beat me. lol

i have updated my sorr script with the latest engine bgdi-354
I kinda took over RetroPie-Extras, since Zerojay has moved on for personal reasons

i also have it so the system.txt is made and the change that @Floob show in his video is done for you

and i have XINITinclued in the emulators.cfg

so all that is needed is to change the resolution through the run command menu to get the size you want

i was able to get it to full screen and it sees to run good for me.
i do have widescreen turned off

Floob

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Floob

@Red_Trev

I dont get the video in the corner.
Are you running it on a Pi4? If so, I need to hurry up and find one to buy :)

Red_Trev

@Floob sorry I should have mentioned .... yes I have a Pi 4. Thanks again for the video tutorial !

I know its off topic but do you know how to convert SORR to work on a PlayStation Portable emulator ?

I was able to download the bundle in the following video description & run with PPSSPP on retropie, but it crashed after the character select screen.

As v5.2 is more stable, is there anyway of swapping out the .DAT file & just using the .pbp file to launch it ?

Refazeshot1

@ExarKunIv How do I use your updated script?

ExarKunIv

@Refazeshot1 you will have to SSH into your pi to install the scripts

once there you will need to run

git clone https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra.git
cd RetroPie-Extra/
./install-extras.sh

once there you can find the sorr install script in the experimental packages under manage packages.
Its number 396
once installed you need to put the SORR files in roms/ports/sorr

thats it

Refazeshot1

@ExarKunIv You guys are great, thanks!!

Refazeshot1

Ok so working with this with the PI4 - it works ok I guess. I do get screen tearing and certain modes like Display and Vsync are greyed out. The picture is stretched so I have to change it to widescreen mode (still stretched but clearer) and selected a customer resolution on startup. It most certainly looks wayyyyy better on the PI3 (Tested on my PI 3 and those options are not greyed out).

ExarKunIv

@Refazeshot1 is your sorr version 5.1 or 5.2 on the pi 3

They are different if I recall. It's been a awhile since I looked at my pi3

Refazeshot1

@ExarKunIv I am running 5.2 on both my Pi 3 and Pi 4. It does look like there is a system.txt I can edit. I am going to play around with it a little I think but its not looking so great performance wise on the PI4.

Refazeshot1

Ok so I finally fixed it. Turns out it is automatically enable anyway however if you change the system.txt and label AUTO instead of BORDLESS_SYNC you get all your options back in the menu. As for the screen tearing this is cutting it down by half which is great!!

Red_Trev

@Refazeshot1 24 mins into @Floob video:

ExarKunIv

@Refazeshot1 ok it seems that when you copied the files over you over wrote the system.txt file, since i already have that included in the install script to make that file with AUTO instead of BORDLESS_SYNC

i though i had it write protected

im going to take a look again at my script

Refazeshot1

@ExarKunIv When I looked at the file at first it was not set to auto, it had the BORDERLESS_SYNC by default, I looked at my backup just to be sure. As far as the widescreen, I got it working pretty good and looks way better. All you do is run the game with 800X600. The tearing is still there though... which I strongly believe is hardware related with the pi4 itself.

@Red_Trev Sorry about that, not sure how I missed it in his video. Must of been breaking the kids up from fighting. The joys of parenthood.

ExarKunIv

@Refazeshot1 said in Streets of Rage Remake 5.2 - add to Ports ?:

The tearing is still there though... which I strongly believe is hardware related with the pi4 itself.

you are correct on that, there is a post all about that and people doing things to fix it.

OK i just installed with my script, the system.txt was not being made.

i got it fixed now, system.txt is now made with AUTO in place