Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?
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The Arduous core was released way back in March (https://www.libretro.com/index.php/libretroretroarch-new-cores/), and I've had no trouble installing and running it through Retroarch on my Ayn Odin.
On the Retropie it shows up in Retroarch on the list of non-installed cores, but when I try to download it it just says "Getting cores list" and then nothing happens. It doesn't show up in Retropie-Setup (I updated the setup script recently). Can it actually be installed?
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I think it will possible to install this with the next retroarch update soon
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I added some experimental module-scripts, including lr-arduous.
It worked for me using .hex files, zipped hex files will also work.
Let me know if it works for you.https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/61621593210933a45d6fc37c3d0b1100da7e19d1
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@Folly you beat me. That was the next one I was going to mess with.
Im give it a try and if it works can I add it to RetroPie_extras?
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We probably need to add some things to the
cmake ..line.
I tested now on raspbian with desktop.
It shows a different qui, the first run wasn't fullscreen and you have to press quit twice to exit.
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@Folly nothing off the top of my head. I'm not by my pi at the moment.
Once I'm back in front of if I will mess with it
Unless someone beats me to it. Lol
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When adding the regular flags to the
cmake ..line, which are normally in other module-scripts, then compiling fails so it seems we can't add something there.So I had to look further.
I used lr-dophin module-script as base.
That one uses the functiondefaultRAConfigwhich didn't work and thus creating no retroarch.cfg in/opt/retropie/configs/arduboy
The solution was to replaced this with the functionensureSystemretroconfig.The file has been updated on my github.
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I added this shader :
video_shader = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/shaders/handheld/gameboy/gb-pocket-shader.glslp"in :
/opt/retropie/configs/arduboy/retroarch.cfgWhen using this shader the screen looks much better.
We could try to implement installing this shader inside the module-script.
What do you both think ?
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@Folly I know this is a Arduous thread, but you mentioned work on adding Phillips CDI. Does this actually work now? That's one system I've never been able to get games to run on.
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@Folly yes if we can i agree about adding it, it looks way better
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@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:
That's one system I've never been able to get games to run on.
Just for collecting/owning them, or are your really interested in playing these games?
The CDi had awful games, an awful controller and has never been popular as a gaming console.
Even the Zelda- and Mario-Games are the worst Nintendo-licenced games of all time :D -
@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:
@Folly I know this is a Arduous thread, but you mentioned work on adding Phillips CDI. Does this actually work now? That's one system I've never been able to get games to run on.
It's actually mess source-code using only cdimono1 with some patches, which seem to have some advantages over the normal mess.
Just like with mess compiling takes a bit of time and uses much memory.
Installing worked fine in my x86_64 debian11 in vmware with 8gb of ram.
Though on my Apple m1 with debian11 in UTM with 6Gb of ram it had trouble compiling even with adding an extra swap in the module-script.
So not sure if it will compile without errors on RPI4, we will have to test and try.I tested arcade-classics and it worked ok in my vmware linux.
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@ExarKunIv said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:
@Folly yes if we can i agree about adding it, it looks way better
Ok, I agree too.
I will have a look on how we can implement that. -
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@sirhenrythe5th Both? I take a lot of pride in my collection of 86 systems on my Pi. I love showing it off and finding the absolute max that I can add to it! But yes, I do understand how much of a mess CDI was. I've spent countless hours trying to get it to work over the past few years and eventually gave up.
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@Folly very cool, i will add it to RetroPie-extras today. im going to be pushing a update later today so timing is perfect
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@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:
@sirhenrythe5th Both? I take a lot of pride in my collection of 86 systems on my Pi. I love showing it off and finding the absolute max that I can add to it! But yes, I do understand how much of a mess CDI was. I've spent countless hours trying to get it to work over the past few years and eventually gave up.
CDI was really problematic indeed.
I spend also a lot of time on it to get it working in the past.
I always was curious about the system because they were quite expensive in these days.
I must agree there is a lot of garbage created for it but there are a few nice games.
Though there are much more systems which had garbage software.
On the other hand we still want to preserve the history of these computers, the good ones and the bad ones.Earlier on I added some patches for cdimono1 in my add-systems-mamedev.sh script when installing cdimono1 these patches are automatically added to get mouse and joystick working properly so you can try that also.
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@Folly Thank you Folly. I'll check that out. Wasn't sure about reopening that old wound, but you've got me curious again!
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@Folly
I tested this, it installs and plays great
but i dont have that shader, granted i have not updated my build in a few months, would that be the problem?
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