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

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    • anasazi29A
      anasazi29
      last edited by

      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.

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @anasazi29
        last edited by

        @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

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • anasazi29A
          anasazi29 @herb_fargus
          last edited by 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

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            backstander @anasazi29
            last edited by

            @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?

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              rael_gc
              last edited by rael_gc

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

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