Puppy Arcade 8

[sullysat]

If there's enough interest, I'll mirror this one on my Puppy page.

Just let me know scott

Sully

[sc0ttman]

If there's enough interest, I'll mirror this one on my Puppy page.

Just let me know scott

Sully

That would be very kind... Yes please.. I got filesize and bandwidth limits..
Although I reckon most of the poeple who want Puppy Arcade, already have it...

[nancy reagan]

Though its not entirely the right place posting my question I'll give it a try.

Because of the heat (Netherlands) running turbopup. However, when in abiword or seamonky, gimp keeps popping up 30 times an hour. Wonder if I keep hitting the wbar for that reason.

Could anyone tell me how to disable the wbar ? Thanks in advance.

Meanwhile after a so maniest search on google found this :


http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51812

Now in Wary not yet overheaterd give it a try later.

[sc0ttman]

Though its not entirely the right place posting my question I'll give it a try.

Because of the heat (Netherlands) running turbopup. However, when in abiword or seamonky, gimp keeps popping up 30 times an hour. Wonder if I keep hitting the wbar for that reason.

Could anyone tell me how to disable the wbar ? Thanks in advance.

Meanwhile after a so maniest search on google found this :


http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51812

Now in Wary not yet overheaterd give it a try later.

In puppy arcade, wbar is started in /root/Startup.. Try looking there..

[mattdowner]

I'm looking for a solution to how I can auto start up a loader and rom so that the machine will turn on and boot right up into the game I choose. Has anyone done this yet? This is to make it more of an arcade machine, really.

[sc0ttman]

I'm looking for a solution to how I can auto start up a loader and rom so that the machine will turn on and boot right up into the game I choose. Has anyone done this yet? This is to make it more of an arcade machine, really.

Add a script in the '/root/Startup' folder which contains the following:

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#!/bin/sh
exec [emulator] [rom]

where [emulator] is the emulator you want to load... and [rom] is the rom file you want to load...

example:

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#!/bin/sh
exec defaultsnes /path/to/mario.smc

If your rom is on a mounted drive you will need be running a savefile and use Startmount to automount the partition at bootup..

If you are running a frugal install (using a save file), you could just put the roms in '/mnt/home', then you don't need to use Startmount..

[mattdowner]

I've done up a script by simpley right clicking and selecting new > script. I opened it up and edited it to contain the following:

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#!/bin/sh 
exec defaultnes /root/NES_ROMs/supermario.nes

Seems to fit the template you suggested. When I reboot, it will start up the ROM Loader and point to the directory of /root/NES_ROMs/ but will not actually open the ROM.
I tried the command from a terminal session and found that it complained about a joystick config and didn't open up the ROM either - would just open the loader as well. I wonder if it is getting stuck on something and not opening?
UPDATE: Just had a go at work using VirtualBox but still get the same thing.
Example of what shows when it has fully booted up:

[sc0ttman]

OK.. try..

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fceu /path/to/rom

or

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nestopia /path/to/rom

These should work - I'm not on PA8 at the moment though, so you may need to double check..

[mattdowner]

Thanks! Yes, I can confirm that works:

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fceu /path/to/rom

So now I have the emulator and ROM running on startup pretty smoothly.
What I now need is to define the controls for the emulator at the same time. Does anyone have experience with this emulator's command line? It doesn't seem obvious to me how to configure it. You get stuck with default controls (god knows what they actually are) which need to be a bit easier. Using a keyboard to play by the way.

UPDATE:
I found /root/.fceultra/fceu98.cfg
Apparently this file holds the controls configuration for fceu. The down side is that apparently we need to use a hex editor to alter the file. Hex editor in this distro?

UPDATE:
I've found out the command for editing the controls config from terminal:

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fceu -inputcfg gamepad1 /path/to/rom

Example of going through the key remap in the terminal:

Apparently these settings stick too.

[sc0ttman]

sweet.. thanks for the info.. I'm sure many will find it useful..

By the way, all emulator help and controls and can be found in the Puppy Arcade help file, which can be found in the /root folder...

Using RejoystickCC is a nice way to enable/change controls, if you have a joypad - it will tell you the FCEU controls when you edit the FCEU profile... (by the way...)

[sc0ttman]

Latest Puppy Arcade review:

http://retro-replay.com/2010/07/puppy-arcade-8-review/

[mattdowner]

Thanks for that.
I'm onto my next step of the tweaking etc for my Arcade Machine... Performance!
I have found that the speed of gameplay and the music is about 50-75% slower than it should play at. Also, the controlls will intermittently not work - slowness effects controlls as well, I guess.
I would be skepticle if it were the hardware setup, especially because of the fact that all I'm emulating is a NES.
My hardware:
Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz CPU
3 x 128MB SDRAM (3 out of 3 slots)
Onboard graphics chip, no dedicated graphics (only PCI slots; no AGP)
I managed to play a 350MB XVID movie on the system with no worries which was a good benchmark.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm trauling the net for some more info on FCEU and have found an article asking about how it was compiled as there may have been a command to utilise OpenGL or similar...

[sc0ttman]

Thanks for that.
I'm onto my next step of the tweaking etc for my Arcade Machine... Performance!
I have found that the speed of gameplay and the music is about 50-75% slower than it should play at.

FCEU works much better after OpenGL is enabled..
The best way to affect the speed of the games, is to change the emulation settings.

Try disabling the sound and see how it affects performance..
If it speeds up, there's your problem. If not, it may be graphics settings..

Unfortunately, Nesoptia has no CLI, so can't auto load roms of your choice, so we're left with FCEU for your task..

[mattdowner]

I've turned off the sound and can confirm it is much better (if not fixed). Here's the command for no sound:

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fceu -sound 0 /path/to/rom

I also found a sound quality setting which doesn't seem to make a difference with performance:

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fceu -soundq 0 path/to/rom

The sound would be a good thing to keep so I would like to investigate OpenGL settings etc.
I see fceu has an OpenGL command to "Enable OpenGL support if x is 1":

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fceu -opengl 1 /path/to/rom

I have given it a go and get this:

What could be happening here?

[sc0ttman]

The sound would be a good thing to keep so I would like to investigate OpenGL settings etc...
I have given it a go and get this:

What could be happening here?

This means you don't have OpenGL enabled. You'll have to download the correct drivers for your card.

OR.. You could try changing (or updating) the audio driver.. I'm not on PA8 right now, so can't say how to changer FCEU audio drivers, but you're doing well, I'm sure you'll find it!

By the way, it's nice that you're posting such informative posts, with the screenshots, etc - makes it very easy for others to help!!

[sc0ttman]

Following mattdownsers request to auto load roms at bootup,
I was thinking it may be a good idea to include this feature in the next Rom-Loader.

Would anyone else want this? Any other features?
Just testing the waters for requests, before I add my own updates to the next version..
(Not coming anytime soon, BTW)

[sc0ttman]

Puppy Arcade is now available as an SFS.

This means it can be added to any version of Puppy (I think )

See the Puppy Arcade SFS thread

[grimoire]

look what i've found

http://www.xe-emulator.com/

[sc0ttman]

look what i've found

http://www.xe-emulator.com/

I had that complied and packaged in Puppy, but it wouldn't work very well at all... Poor performance and crashes..

But I could give it another go, I guess..

Also, on another note, the Puppy Arcade 8 SFS/PET packages are updated, so you can add/remove Puppy Arcade from any Puppy, easily..

See here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58134

[Xenphor]

Hi, I posted this in the beginner forums but was told this would be a better place to ask. I got these instructions from a link from the Puppy Arcade website.

---Can't get OpenGL to work on an intel915gm---

I followed these instructions detailed here:
For Kernel 2.6.25.16:
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1. find /lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/char/agp folder.
2. make a copy of agpgart.ko, intel-agp.ko & via-agp.ko (just rename them).

3. find /lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/char/drm folder. (note 1)
4. make a copy of drm.ko, i915.ko & via.ko (just rename them).

5. use the pet package below to install the updated modules
6. open a terminal and type 'depmod -a'

7. reboot
8. run xorgwizard

I did exactly as it said. I renamed the files agppart1.ko, intel-agp1.ko, etc and then used the following pet file: intel-via-agpdrm-upd-2.6.25.16-i486.pet. I believe that is the correct file because that is the kernal version I have. I did depmod -a in the terminal and then rebooted. Since I am running on a usb I had to make a save file before I rebooted. Upon entering the desktop again I ran the xorgwizard (it is the thing you do when you first start puppy linux correct?).

After all this, there was still an "Unknown" entry for OpenGL in the system devices description and I was still unable to play n64 games. I looked back at the files I had modified and there were new ones that had been created so I don't know what happened there.

Any help would be appreciated.