Vircon32 Emulator

Retrodade

@ExarKunIv ok thank you for the answer

Vircon32

Hello, sorry if I saw this a little late. I am the creator of Vircon32.

Were you able to play Vircon32 on the Pi 4? Maybe I can help you. By the way, I see you were trying to install my emulator but if you use RetroPie maybe you can use the Vircon32 core directly?

I'm not sure about that one to be honest. I know the core is integrated into RetroArch and some other front-ends (Lakka, EmuELEC...) but not sure if RetroPie can use it.

Lolonois

@Vircon32 First: Thanks for sharing vircon32 with the community.

It should not be too hard to get it compiled on a Pi4 with with RaspiOS Buster 32Bit. AFAICT the build error stems from the foreach IN ZIP_LISTS (introduced with cmake 3.17) which should be straight forward to replace with cmake pre 3.17 foreach logic in the embed-binaries.cmake thus the requirement for 3.17 cmake can be relaxed. I might find some time soon to file a PR to your repo.

Vircon32

@Lolonois Thank you for having a look at it. Is there a reason why the build can't use CMake 3.17? That version is 4 years old now.

By the way, in the latest releases of Vircon32 (both the emulator and the core) I'm already including the binaries for the Pi 4 if you'd rather not do the build.

Lolonois

@Vircon32 Debian/RaspiOS is EOL since June this year. Thus there won't be any updates to cmake or other packages.

Using a backport (if there is one) or source compile of cmake may be options, but IMHO awkward ones.

One a second thought, I guess I will provide a patch for the cmake-file in the RetroPie-Extra scriptmodule which will only be applied when RaspiOS Buster is detected. For the time being. That way your work work will not be watered down.

@Vircon32 said in Vircon32 Emulator:

I'm already including the binaries for the Pi 4 if you'd rather not do the build.

That's good news, it will allow binary installs done by the scriptmodule.

Vircon32

@Lolonois said in Vircon32 Emulator:

That's good news, it will allow binary installs done by the scriptmodule.

That is great! I was going to look into install scripts to see if I can get Vircon32 officially integrated into RetroPie. This will be a good starting point, thank you!

Lolonois

@Vircon32 Alright. Let's continue the discussion in "Ideas and Development" - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/36435/