Repo used for Wolf4SDL out of date?

MoleMan

I wasn't sure if this, or "Ideas and Development" the right place for this observation/suggestion.

I noticed that the Github repo for Wolf4SDL is out of date in two ways. First, the Dev changed names from "Aryanwolf" to "KS-Presto" and their Github repo was renamed accordingly. Functionally, this doesn't seem to matter. More importantly, the Github repo was archived on May 19, 2024. Development continues on Bitbucket:

Wolf4SDL on Bitbucket

Replacing the repository in the Wolf4SDL.sh setup script with "https://bitbucket.org/ks-presto/wolf4sdl.git" pulls the latest source code. Having said that, I believe there is an upstream issue that appears to only effect builds on Linux. This includes an installation of the Port using the unmodified RetroPie Setup script for Wolf4SDL.

I've tested on a Pi 4 running the official RetroPie image, Pi 5 manual installation, and my two LMDE 6 mini PCs (one of which relies on AMD's integrated graphics, the other on Intel's).

The issue is a minor graphical/display bug. Starting a new game (regardless of original game or expansions, first chapter or later) the numbers in the status bar at the bottom of the screen are missing/misplaced. The score box is blank, "Health" says "1%," etc. As the values are updated during gameplay, numbers will appear and disappear. Side note: the image is also stretched to fit the full width of a 16:9 monitor by default on the builds that experience this issue. For both reasons, I've been building from an old commit.

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this.

I've tested a pre-compiled binary of Wolf4SDL on a Windows 11 mini PC, and followed a step-by-step guide to compile it from the latest source code on Windows. In both cases, the status bar issue was NOT present on Windows (although the stretched image was, maybe that's intentional?). Probably something upstream that the Wolf4SDL team isn't aware of.

mitu

I guess we can change the script to point to the (new upstream) repository, though for some reason it's not loading up for me right now to check (Bibucket connection/issues ?).

Though I'd rather wait for the issue you mentioned to be fixed first instead of replacing a working version with a faulty one.

MoleMan

The status bar bug even occurs with the version installed by the stock wolf4sdl.sh script. For now I'll just stick with using the alternate script I created, which pulls from an older commit.

In a few days, when I have the time, I'll try to determine the exact commit where the bug begins. There also seem to be a couple other oddities with this port that I want to investigate at that time:

Redundant files with specific file names becoming necessary for the three expansion episodes to run. For example, three identical copies of AUDIOT.SOD --> AUDIOT.SD1, AUDIOT.SD2, AUDIOT.SD3. At least, if I remember the required file names correctly. There are multiple other files that require the same treatment.

And from a later commit (not effecting installs from the wolf4sdl.sh script up to this point in time)...

The game image being stretched to the full width of a 16:9 monitor, rather than preserving the original aspect ratio.