[Arcade PC] Hypseus Singe: 2-Player Gun + VHS Games

[xxOToTOxx]

 

Hypseus Singe  - SDL3 Daphne and Singe LUA Laserdisc emulator

 

Discord: https://discord.hypseus.net

 

Windows downloads : https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe/releases

Windows documentation: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe/tree/master/win32

MacOSX builds also on github Site: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe/releases/latest

 

Hardware Scoreboard and Annunciator: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_scoreboard

 

Joystick API Configuration Utility: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypjsch

 

Dedicated Windows frontend (Borf Launcher): https://tinyurl.com/borflauncher

 

RetroPie: Install 'hypseus' via RetroPie-Setup in the (opt ) section.

RetroPie package information: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Daphne/

 

• 'drop-in' Daphne replacement
• Support for extended MPEG2 files
• Advanced multiple joystick support
• Multiple Game Controller (Hotplug) support
• Original Scoreboard (hardware and software) feature
• SDL3 graphic acceleration and enhancements
• Windows, MacOS X and Linux builds supported.

 

 

Setup Guide:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 09:32 PM by xxOToTOxx
Cops

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

 

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

 

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

 

 

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

 

 

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

 

 

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[mazinger4life]

Hey Man Great Job,keep it up the good work and helping  expanding  and preserving  those classic  laser games on different platform.

[xxOToTOxx]

3 hours ago, mazinger4life said:

Hey Man Great Job,keep it up the good work and helping  expanding  and preserving  those classic  laser games on different platform.

 

Thanks bud, it's also great fun diving into the old daphne/singe codebases 

[312BhP]

@xxOToTOxx loving your work, having trouble keeping up with all the releases!

 

Is there a list of known working games, would love to try them all?

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[MadMax4Q2]

 

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 ? 😵

Edited April 14, 2021 by MadMax4Q2

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

 

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

In fact I have just added timegalv2 to the repo, so just use that and ignore the latter part of the above post.

[MadMax4Q2]

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 😅

 

 

 

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[MadMax4Q2]

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.

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

@MadMax4Q2 "Liking the lightguns now work with joystick part with your newer version."

 

This is good to know, I don't have the ability to test, but basically if SDL2 UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT keys are passed through (including) keyboard they should work.

 

Technically "joystick/lightgun/trackball/keyboard" should all work.

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[MadMax4Q2]

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 😁👍

Edited April 15, 2021 by MadMax4Q2

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[MadMax4Q2]

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.

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by MadMax4Q2

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[312BhP]

On 15/04/2021 at 10:02 AM, xxOToTOxx said:

In fact I have just added timegalv2 to the repo, so just use that and ignore the latter part of the above post.

 

How do I tell if the timegal I have is v2 please (Or any Singe v2 for that matter)?

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[xxOToTOxx]

So old it don't belong here: [DELETED]

Edited March 7 by xxOToTOxx

[MadMax4Q2]

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

[xxOToTOxx]

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.

Edited April 18, 2021 by xxOToTOxx

[312BhP]

6 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.

 

Where on the repo please?

[MadMax4Q2]

1 hour ago, 312BhP said:

 

Where on the repo please?

samuraijack

 

dragontrainer

[xxOToTOxx]

On 18/04/2021 at 7:26 PM, MadMax4Q2 said:

samuraijack

 

dragontrainer

 

Singe1 will be 'jack' and 'dragon' the others are Singe 2 and have issues due to extended frames.

 

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/tree/master/00-singe1/jack

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data/tree/master/00-singe1/dragon

 

I put comments in the README.md of each directory in the repo if applicable.

Edited August 5, 2021 by xxOToTOxx

[MadMax4Q2]

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.

Edited April 18, 2021 by MadMax4Q2

[xxOToTOxx]

I did increase the encoding quality on the front page of the repo guide for ffmpeg:

-qscale:v 4 -b:v 6000k 

from

 -b:v 4182k

 

This will result in larger files, (but no larger than the original video you are encoding from), but results in much cleaner video, of course it's not essential.

 

If you are a Windows user, I should say that https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows gives good results.

 

Edited April 18, 2021 by xxOToTOxx