OpenXCom no longer working after installing from Experimental menu

sonicsheppard

Tried this again from an older .img backup I had. Looks like a recent sudo apt-get upgrade or sudo apt-get dist-upgrade has made changes to the xorg-server which has broken OpenXCom.

sonicsheppard

Issue still occurring after doing a fresh install of the 4.1 image and updating to RetroPie-Script 4.1.8, then installing openxcom from Experimental Menu (including it's dependencies).

sonicsheppard

Note to people already running and installed OpenXCom emulator, do not update xorg or xorg-server using sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. sudo apt-get upgrade currently does not update those packages. Maybe one day this will get fixed.

In the meantime I've used a backed up .img to fix this issue and I'll be avoiding using sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and keeping an eye out if apt-get upgrade starts to include those updates.

PokeEngineer

@sonicsheppard

Should be fixed now.

sonicsheppard

Great stuff, thanks @PokeEngineer ! I'll give this a try as soon as possible.

sonicsheppard

Very sorry for the late reply on this, but wanted to say this is now working fine!

I did have one other question regarding save files if anyone is able to help?

I used to get the save files from here:

 \home\pi\.local\share\openxcom

But somewhere along the line that looks to have changed. Can someone please direct me to where save files are now kept? I can make saves fine, but I have some existing save files I'd like to import back over so I can finish a TFTD game I'd started a while back :)

Thanks!!

sonicsheppard

Found where I can grab saves from on the Pi. If using something like WinSCP you might need to enable the option to view hidden files.

/root/.openxcom/

zerojay

It shouldn't be in /root like that as that would only happen if you are running the game as root and you shouldn't be. The expected place to find the files are:

/opt/retropie/configs/openxcom/ which is linked to /home/pi/.config/openxcom.

Let me know if this doesn't appear to be the case for you.

MarionCobretti

Same here - it's in root. I have to login as root to access the saves. Never ran the game as root.

By the way, reinstalling openxcom from the source in the "Experimental packages" menu deletes all UFO (and TFTD) files that are present on the card (i.e. the entire game structure).

zerojay

@marioncobretti File an issue on the github, please: https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra