Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?

Folly

I just got home and tried it on my rpi4.
Same result no shader.
I am now reinstalling RetroArch from source again to see what happens.

EDIT:
Too bad;-( , I really did not expect this.
The shader I have on my x86_64 debian doesn't seem to be on the rpi.
The directory structure is totally different, really not sure why.

I have found some alternatives but not that nice.
I will have a look later.

ExarKunIv

@Folly it all good, i will pull out for now, once you are happy with it, let me know.

but so for it does play well and the random shader worked to give a close look at what you showed, so once you find something you like. i think it will look great

Folly

@ExarKunIv

Ok that's ok.

Btw.
I discovered that when installing retroarch from rpi it will clone the rpi-branch of the commom-shaders not the master-branch, that's the difference, You can look here :
https://github.com/RetroPie/common-shaders

I was curious and just pasted the one I used in my shader-directory and it worked.
Can you test the shader, would like to know what you think of it when running it on the rpi.

Perhaps we can add a download function to only add this shader.

ExarKunIv

@Folly i manualy installed that shader and it fails to load, all my permissions are set to the same as all the others
i think that shader might only work on x86?

Folly

@ExarKunIv

It does work on my rpi4, but I use a desktop environment.
Perhaps it will only work if you use that.

At least it's working now the shader isn't that important.
Everyone can apply there own, if they want.

ExarKunIv

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

desktop environment
that does seems a bit odd to me, but it is what it is i guess

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

At least it's working now the shader isn't that important.
Everyone can apply there own, if they want.

i agree, let people pick what they want, i know some people like shaders and some dont.

i will add it to my Repo, again thanks for your work on this.

Folly

@ExarKunIv said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

desktop environment
that does seems a bit odd to me, but it is what it is i guess

I think it's an other problem did you copy the whole handheld directory or only gb-pocket-shader.glslp.

It needs to find gb-pass-0.glsl etc.
Can you try again ?

ExarKunIv

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

gb-pass-0.glsl etc

i didn't know that i needed to have that stuff with it,
i dont mess with shaders much, since i deal with ports, way too much. lol

i did that and it works perfectly. so we just need to download it and install it

Folly

@ExarKunIv

I was thinking maybe we can do it as a dependency ,cloning it not to the standard shader folder but into a shader-extra folder.
Then it will not harm or have conflicts.

Perhaps I will change my version to do that than we have different versions for people to choose from and we will not have duplicate errors if someone has both.

ExarKunIv

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

Perhaps I will change my version to do that than we have different versions for people to choose from and we will not have duplicate errors if someone has both.

i like that idea

Folly

@ExarKunIv

This should do the trick :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/7b64947e2f8d70f7ce29089a8366a44b47e69315

mitu

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/7b64947e2f8d70f7ce29089a8366a44b47e69315

Why don't you submit a PR to the RetroPie shaders' repo (for the right branch) to include this shader preset ? Should be simpler than adding another extra configuration step.

fryguy1

Hello. I have been following this thread with interest and testing out the new core on my RetroPie. Everything works great - except I am unable to get sound on Arduventure. (To get the *.hex file for this game, extract it from this *.arduboy file with 7Zip.)

This forum post suggests that you can resolve this issue with a Game Loader on original hardware - but that obviously doesn't apply to RetroPie.

I wondered if you might know if there's a workaround for this issue?

I've also encountered sound issues on PaqMan, FYI.

For what it's worth, I find the sameboy-lcd.glsl shader looks good with Arduboy.

Folly

@mitu said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/7b64947e2f8d70f7ce29089a8366a44b47e69315

Why don't you submit a PR to the RetroPie shaders' repo (for the right branch) to include this shader preset ? Should be simpler than adding another extra configuration step.

Yes, that is probably a better idea in the long run.
I must admit after adding it I have been thinking about what you suggest.
But first I want to do some playing, to be sure that the shader is good enough.

Folly

@fryguy1 said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

Hello. I have been following this thread with interest and testing out the new core on my RetroPie. Everything works great - except I am unable to get sound on Arduventure. (To get the *.hex file for this game, extract it from this *.arduboy file with 7Zip.)

This forum post suggests that you can resolve this issue with a Game Loader on original hardware - but that obviously doesn't apply to RetroPie.

I wondered if you might know if there's a workaround for this issue?

I've also encountered sound issues on PaqMan, FYI.

For what it's worth, I find the sameboy-lcd.glsl shader looks good with Arduboy.

I had a quick look, I don't think I can find a fix, sorry.
You should contact the developers of lr-arduous on github.

ExarKunIv

@Folly i updated the script on my end with your newest version.

fryguy1

@Folly Thanks for checking into it. I reported it to the lr-arduous devs: https://github.com/libretro/arduous/issues/8

JimmyFromTheBay

@ExarKunIv @Folly Super-excited to see this working. I have no idea what all the shaders stuff is about, except that the default one is a bit unpleasant and makes the Retroarch menus so slow they're almost unuseable.

While messing around, I found that if reduced the number of passes to 3, applied the changes (the Arduboy screen goes blank at this point), then set them back to 5 and applied the changes again without altering anything else, I got a nice clean fast black-and-white display that was much more agreeable for playing and also sorted the menus out. (It actually shows the number of passes as 0 even though I set them to 5.)

Unfortunately the emu reports an error if you try to save those shader settings in any way, and if you just disable shaders entirely you get a very fuzzy picture.

Any idea what's going on there?

Folly

@JimmyFromTheBay

On which pi are you running it ?

I think the shader looks nice, though it has some delay effects that simulates that effect of a real lcd.
The shader should be an improvement, if it's not then we have to reconsider.

Here you can remove or comment the shader for testing without it :
/opt/retropie/configs/arduboy/retroarch.cfg

Let me know what you think of it when you run it without shader.

JimmyFromTheBay

@Folly said in Is it possible to install Arduous (Arduboy emulator)?:

On which pi are you running it ?

Running it on RPi4. In my personal opinion, while the shaders are very pretty, they make playing the games quite a lot worse because the graphics are very ghosty/flickery.

Here you can remove or comment the shader for testing without it :
/opt/retropie/configs/arduboy/retroarch.cfg

As I say above, if I disable the shaders in RETROARCH.CFG I don't get the clean black-and-white display, I get an ugly fuzzy low-res one.