Retropie / Pixel desktop / Wine / x86 emulator / FM Towns

anasazi29

Ok guys. I have an issue that should work, but doesn't.

I installed the retropie image.
Then I installed the pixel desktop
Then I went into the pixel desktop and installed all the appropriate items to get Wine to work.
I copied over the FM Towns x86 32-bit emulator UNZ.
Wine opens and runs the UNZ emulator just fine. I can navigate all the menus and make changes, etc.
The emulator wants a mounted image.
I have an ISO game that I have copied over.
I then used the loop feature on the ISO. sudo losetup /dev/loop0 game.iso
I created a cdrom directory in the media folder. sudo mkdir cdrom
Then I mounted it. sudo mount –r –t iso9660 /dev/loop0 /media/cdrom
All of the information shows up appropriately on the mounted image, just as it does when I mount the image on my Windows machine.
I then run the winecfg and create a CD-Rom drive letter and with the mount point of /media/cdrom and it if I use the wineconsole, I can goto the D: and list the files and folders appropriately.
I then run the wine UNZ.exe and change the appropriate setting in the emulator to point to D: as the cdrom0.

On my windows machine, this exact setup loads the game that is mounted. However it doesn’t load the game on the Raspberry Pi 3.
I know it’s a complicated setup, however it should work …. In theory.
I can upload images, if necessary. I don’t get any errors using wine with the UNZ emulator.

I’m basically trying to see if I can use wine and emulator to add additional gaming to the retropie library and to the retropie menu.

herb_fargus

@anasazi29 well I would start with basic Linux seeing if it runs on wine at all. Also I don't know how well games through wine will work on the pi. I would imagine the processing would be terrible but I could be wrong

anasazi29

@herb_fargus Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure this particular program would be listed as being compatible. But here are some pics. It does run the application emulator. I'm just having issues with the app finding the mounted CD image. The emulator only runs between 33Mhz and 100Mhz, so I'm sure it wont be to strenuous on the RPi3 hardware. 0_1489363598616_RPi3_pixel_UNZ(sm).jpg
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0_1489363731691_RPi3_pixel_UNZmenu(sm).jpg

backstander

@anasazi29

I then run the wine UNZ.exe and change the appropriate setting in the emulator to point to D: as the cdrom0.

Just looking at your pictures but...what happens if you use the drive letter K: instead of D: ?
UNZ might be trying to find it on the K: drive for some reason?

rael_gc

Probably you'll have better results if you try with https://github.com/PhoenixInteractiveNL/emuDownloadCenter/wiki/Emulator-xe, which has Linux support.