MadMax4Q2

We sooooo need a Singe He-Man game on here ...

I didn't have much luck getting ffmpeg to crop for me so I used handbrake to crop the video using these settings...

Open your source video, then select

Dimensions Tab:

preset: Fast 1080p30

Not: I've found a good file size vs quality compromise by cropping with Fast 1080p30

Fire & Ice original size was 3.88GB & converted mp4 size is 1.35GB.

Then use ffmpeg commands as advised by xxOToTOxx to convert to m2v.

Been testing out Fire & Ice now I've converted the Kangaroo Punch videos to 4:3 plus a smaller size and happy to say all issues seem to have gone and I'm sure that will be the case for all the others I will be moving over to my pi 😄👍

Thanks again xxOToTOxx

Are you familiar with cropping 16:9 with ffmpg? I've been using a guide here

ffmpeg -i FaI.mp4 -filter:v 'crop=ih/3*4:ih' \
-c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset veryfast -c:a copy fireandice.mp4

But when I run the command I get error:

[NULL @ 0000023b5bff0040] Unable to find a suitable output format for '\'
\: Invalid argument

1 minute ago, xxOToTOxx said:

 

Thanks to info from Karis, we can easily convert the Kangaroo Punch video to Singe 1 status.

 

The titanae on the repo, cuts out level 5, a short (demo) level that was added in the conversion to Singe 2. So use the directory in the repo and trim the video:

ffmpeg -i Titan_AE.mp4 -t 00:45:29 -an -qscale:v 4 -b:v 6000k -codec:v mpeg2video titanae.m2v
ffmpeg -i Titan_AE.mp4 -t 00:45:30 -vn -c:a libvorbis -ar 44100 -map a -b:a 160k titanae.ogg

 

Again I put this in the README.md of the directory on the repo.

Yep I did notice that, I've only looked at a few of the games repos as I'm focusing just a few games at the mo but will be reading any README.md first as I go through the list 👍

13 minutes ago, xxOToTOxx said:

The last one I am now after in Puss in Boots for Singe 1, I would appreciate if anyone has it they can let me know

 

 

I will keep an eye out for it, are you still looking for TitanAE Sing 1 version as well?

8 hours ago, xxOToTOxx said:

Not my links, but:

 

Samurai Jack (Singe 1):

https://mega.nz/file/sYJVWIrQ#gcVO-ekM7pyilp6ZPmxZeHea7ZbHinqCfja6f2oA2lQ

 

Dragon Trainer (Singe 1):

https://mega.nz/file/RdcxiI5L#Q-jQr-mkkgfgrraTLoTrwMdoUVYZm6vIuVFqoQqjo_g

 

Adapted .singe files are in the repo - above only required for video.

I'm still in the process of shrinking down the large movie files and coverting the 16:9 to 5:4 using handbrake with the Kangaroo Punch videos to get something similar to Karis vids as need to conserve space on my Pis SD card before moving then over hoping it all goes well.

1 hour ago, 312BhP said:

 

Where on the repo please?

samuraijack

dragontrainer

Thanks xxOToTOxx will tinker with it tonight and post back 😁👍

This might be the Fire & Ice video issue I'm having as I've been using Karis 4x3 mp3 files here then converting to m2v using ffmpeg:

Recode Singe 2 video files for Hypseus Singe

ffmpeg -i <original>.mp4 -an -codec:v mpeg2video -b 4182k <game>.m2v
ffmpeg -i <original>.mp4 -vn -c:a libvorbis -ar 44100 -map a -b:a 160k <game>.ogg

Using command within fireandice folder:

pi@playbox4:~/RetroPie/roms/daphne/fireandice.daphne$ mediainfo --Inform='Video;%FrameCount%' fireandice.m2v
 

comes back with:

-bash: mediainfo: command not found (I don't think I'm ever gonna get used to linux systems anytime soon 🥴)

So heres media info from MPC:

General
Format                         : MPEG Video
Format version                 : Version 2
File size                      : 1.33 GiB
Duration                       : 45 min 42 s
Overall bit rate mode          : Variable
Overall bit rate               : 4 181 kb/s
FileExtension_Invalid          : mpgv mpv mp1v m1v mp2v m2v

Video
Format                         : MPEG Video
Format version                 : Version 2
Format profile                 : Main@High 1440
Format settings, BVOP          : No
Format settings, Matrix        : Default
Format settings, GOP           : Variable
Duration                       : 45 min 42 s
Bit rate mode                  : Variable
Bit rate                       : 4 181 kb/s
Width                          : 1 440 pixels
Height                         : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 4:3
Frame rate                     : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space                    : YUV
Chroma subsampling             : 4:2:0
Bit depth                      : 8 bits
Scan type                      : Progressive
Compression mode               : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 0.112
Time code of first frame       : 00:00:00:00
GOP, Open/Closed               : Open
GOP, Open/Closed of first fram : Closed
Stream size                    : 1.33 GiB (100%)

Heres screen pics of some of the issues:

Menu font unreadable

Wrong background on scoreboard

This is the only screen which shows when you die

Also after a continue ends screen quickly cycles through all death screens and game menu screens and on end of every 2nd attract cycle.

I had convert_png.sh file in original subdirectory maybe thats not the right file to run the command then I'm still new to pi, doh 😅.

Okay so tried checking the version by the cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log command using Putty to ssh while Fire & Ice was running on pi and got this:

pi@playbox4:~$ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
bash: /opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/js-onstart.sh: No such file or directory
Parameters:
Executing: SDL1_VIDEODRIVER=dispmanx SDL_DISPMANX_WIDTH=1920 SDL_DISPMANX_HEIGHT=1080 /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/fireandice.daphne"
ERROR : current mpeg has too many frames, VLDP will ignore any frames above 65535
ERROR : current mpeg has too many frames, VLDP will ignore any frames above 65535
ALSA lib pcm.c:8424:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

So went ahead with removing Hypseus Singes to get the latest version as advised by:

Revert to original Daphne plugin

 mv /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin.orig /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin
 rm /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/hypinput.ini /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/hypinput.ini
 rm -rf /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/fonts

 mv /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh.orig /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh
 rm -rf /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/singe
 rm /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/singe

But when I started the process of installing again I got error messages stating cant the create dir and files as hypseus-singe is already there so deleted /home/pi/hypseus-singe dir to be sure older version was gone and started the re-install process again and all seems to of went okay...

pi@playbox4:~$ sudo apt-get install libmpeg2-4-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libmpeg2-4-dev is already the newest version (0.5.1-8).
libsdl2-image-dev is already the newest version (2.0.4+dfsg1-1+deb10u1).
libsdl2-ttf-dev is already the newest version (2.0.15+dfsg1-1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libjpeg9
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 269 not upgraded.

pi@playbox4:~$ git clone --single-branch --branch RetroPie https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe.git
Cloning into 'hypseus-singe'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3893, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (242/242), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (92/92), done.
remote: Total 3893 (delta 160), reused 215 (delta 147), pack-reused 3651
Receiving objects: 100% (3893/3893), 8.67 MiB | 248.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2652/2652), done.

pi@playbox4:~$ cd hypseus-singe
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ mkdir build
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ cd build
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe/build$ cmake ../src
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 8.3.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 8.3.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29")
-- Checking for one of the modules 'sdl2'
-- Checking for one of the modules 'SDL2_ttf'
-- Checking for one of the modules 'SDL2_image'
-- Checking for one of the modules 'libmpeg2'
-- Target: Linux armv6
-- Version: v2.4.2-RPi
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so (found version "1.2.11")
-- Checking for one of the modules 'vorbisfile'
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/pi/hypseus-singe/build

pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe/build$ make -j 2 - (long wall of colored text so wont post here as aleady getting a bit long 😬 but all seemed to be okay)

pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe/build$ cd ..
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ mv /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin.orig
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ cp build/hypseus /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ cp -R fonts/ /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ cp doc/hypinput.ini /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/daphne/hypinput.ini /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/hypinput.ini

pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ cp /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/dap   hne.sh.orig
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ cp retropie/daphne.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ mkdir  /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/singe
pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ ln -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/singe /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/singe

Then tried to check version after reboot:

pi@playbox4:~/hypseus-singe$ /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.bin -v
[console] v2.4.2-RPi

I had to add  /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/hypinput.ini as was missing but all works fine now.

Will be using method you said for later versions for future updates 😁👍

Thanks for that xxOToTOxx 

I'll give it a go later once by little boys off the arcade cabnet. I plan to eventually get all compatable Daphne/Singe games working on it through Hypseus Singe. Liking the lightguns now work with joystick part with your newer version.  Hypseus Singes run mostly everthing I've thrown at it so far but did notice Fire and Ice (Singe 2) last night had a few issues like attract screen flashing through out of sequence scenes eg menu select, a "input your name" image when you lose a life (but no place to actually input name?) and overly large sprite icons. I did as a you advised here under Resize PNG's but when it came to:

Run convert_png.sh script within 'original' subdirectory.

./convert_png.sh

I got a permission denied and when putting in sudo ./convert_png.sh it does not recognise command. I used Gimp to batch resize the pngs to 50% via windows in the end which seemed to work.

Will let you know how it goes later when updated.

Thanks again your Daphne/Singe really is a game changer on my pi4 arcade1up modded cab.

45 minutes ago, xxOToTOxx said:

 

@MadMax4Q2

 

No need to reinstall, make sure you are using version 2.4.2 though for cool need Singe joystick [mouse] feature   

 

For Singe 2 games you have to do a little work, but just another folder in your ROMS directory as with all other Singe games:

 

See details here: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singetwo_data

 

If you are replacing the existing timegal, just rename the old timegal ROM folder and drop the new one in its place.

 

Multiple versions:

 

Use 'timegalv2' in hypseus_singetwo_data repo above.

 

If you want to run both, completely possible, you will need to alter the LUA singe files on new timegalv2 to reflect new directory name:

 

Search for all instances of singe/timegal in .singe files in the new v2 folder and change to reflect directory like this:

 

dofile("singe/timegalv2/framework.singe")
dofile("singe/timegalv2/globals.singe")                         
dofile("singe/timegalv2/main.singe")
dofile("singe/timegalv2/map.singe")
dofile("singe/timegalv2/hscore.singe")
dofile("singe/timegalv2/service.singe")
dofile("singe/timegalv2/toolbox.singe")

In v2 folder rename main singe/frame files to reflect game name changes:
 

mv timegal.singe timegalv2.singe
mv timegal.txt tiemgalv2.txt

 

For instance I have 'timegal.daphne' and 'timegalv2.daphne' folders, but had to alter the LUA singe files as above - works perfectly.

Thanks xxOToTOxx really enjoying Hypseus Singe at the mo. Sorry to ask a dumb question but I'm quite new to using pis & retropie setup, I'm pretty sure I'm using an older version as I did a fresh installed of Hypseus Singe a few weeks ago now so what is the best way to upgrade to version 2.4.2. Also what is the best way to check to see what version I'm currently running, again sorry for the noob questions 😅

 

 

Thanks Hypseus Singe runs timegal Singe v1 perfect for me on my pi4 using your instructions here I'm just wondering how do I update to the current latest version of Hypseus Singe.

Do I redo the complete install process again or just parts of it ? 😵

5 hours ago, Karis said:

 

Not an expert, but on the kangaroo website you'll find a Linux build of the Singe program. I don't know for which version of Linux, but it might work.

A pi is not the most powerful machine, so i suggest you go for lowest resolutions maybe (not sure at all).

Thanks Karis,

I'm new to Daphne and Singe only got into them since modding my Arcade1up with a pi4. Got the higher SD versions of Dragons Lair working and Space Ace (only after finding out all files needed to be lower case!) Just not sure if its worth playing about with the Singe emulators on a pi 🤔. It would be nice to revisit TimeGal with better video though as I have fond memories with it on the Mega-CD.

Hi guys, sorry for this question but are these singe games playable on a pi4s Emulation Station ?