Beta Testing Blobwars / Soulfu

[sigma.nl]

Hello,

I've been trying to port some games for the pandora, (I'm new to this stuff, but it's fun exploring this ),

I can test some ported games using a qemu armv7 image with SDL (no OpenGL), but I would like to know if they work on a
real pandora, therefore I would like to ask if someone can/will test two games for me.

I've also made a PND file for the games if you can/will test these too it will be great. It just to make sure
I'm on the right direction with the 'porting' stuff. I'm very courious if the controls (nubs) work, are the libraries ok.
The games are not ported yet by someone so it would be great if they work so I can tribute something to
the Pandora community.

to sum things up:

2 games:
Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid (shooter)
Soulfu (adventure)

both have a directory (with all the files) and á PND file in the .tar file,
if the .pnd does not work maybe you can try to start it from commandline:

blobwars: ./blobwars
soulfu: ./soulfu

download from:

Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid
http://www.mediafire.com/file/s49a5yaobf31cc2/blobwars-v2.tar

Soulfu:
http://drop.io/pandorasoulfu/asset/soulfu-tar

thanks in advance

GRTZ
Sigma.NL

EDIT: NEW version of blobwars (please test it if you can/will)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/s5eb33gdkv88d3r/blobwars-v2.tar

 

[meandu229]

Hello,

I've been trying to port some games for the pandora, (I'm new to this stuff, but it's fun exploring this ),

I can test some ported games using a qemu armv7 image with SDL (no OpenGL), but I would like to know if they work on a
real pandora, therefore I would like to ask if someone can/will test two games for me.

I've also made a PND file for the games if you can/will test these too it will be great. It just to make sure
I'm on the right direction with the 'porting' stuff. I'm very courious if the controls (nubs) work, are the libraries ok.
The games are not ported yet by someone so it would be great if they work so I can tribute something to
the Pandora community.

to sum things up:

2 games:
Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid (shooter)
Soulfu (adventure)

both have a directory (with all the files) and á PND file in the .tar file,
if the .pnd does not work maybe you can try to start it from commandline:

blobwars: ./blobwars
soulfu: ./soulfu

download from:

Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid
http://drop.io/blobwars/asset/blobwars-tar

Soulfu:
http://drop.io/pandorasoulfu/asset/soulfu-tar

thanks in advance

GRTZ
Sigma.NL

I cant get blobwars pnd to work, running from command line asks for the blobwars.pak in /usr/Share/games/blobwars
downloading soulfu now

edit:
soulfu pnd nowork either from terminal
:error while loading shared libraries :LibGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

[sigma.nl]

thnx meandu229 for the reply, I'm trying to get it fixed, soulfu use opengl and I didn't include a library (don't know how... yet)
I think you need to install the mesa library. I thought opengl was include in the pandora firmware.

got something to fix

thnx
grtz

 

[sigma.nl]

Uploaded a new version of blobwars , maybe someone is willing to to test it.

thnx

grtz

Sigma

 

[meandu229]

Your new link is bad im afraid

 

[fraseyboy]

Ah I used to play Blobwars on my PSP back when I had one. Good game that.

Nice work, although I don't have a Pandora to test it.

 

[sigma.nl]

meandu229 you were right, the link was bad, I've changed it
and is working know.

thnx

 

[meandu229]

new blobwars pnd works, have to set fullscreen in menu and change controls but works
the left most mission crashes on me but the one on the right one works

 

[sigma.nl]

that's great it's getting better :rolleyes: , pnd file works that's great so the pnd_make scripts work ok,
why the left mission in blobwars is crashing I don't know I'll try to fix it.
many thanks meandu229 for testing it.

hope I can get it online soon so I can give something to the pandora community.

grtz
Sigma

 

[Esn]

Hi. I can't test it, but I've added it to the wiki.
http://pandorawiki.org/Games
Just a question: do either of these have working multiplayer? If so, is it on a single system, with a controller, or over a network?

 

[centus]

...
I can test some ported games using a qemu armv7 image with SDL (no OpenGL), but I would like to know if they work on a
real pandora, therefore I would like to ask if someone can/will test two games for me.
...

Hello there, this part caught my attention, can you write a short description on how to get this working?

Thanks!

 

[sigma.nl]

Hi. I can't test it, but I've added it to the wiki.
http://pandorawiki.org/Games
Just a question: do either of these have working multiplayer? If so, is it on a single system, with a controller, or over a network?

Sorry for my late reaction but I was away a couple of days,
The soulfu game does not run so far I know so you can kip that one, but Blobwars is just a port with the default keyboard controls,
multiplayer is not working (so far I know) the game is a single player. I was my first try porting stuff for the pandora.

more to come (I hope)

 

[sigma.nl]

...
I can test some ported games using a qemu armv7 image with SDL (no OpenGL), but I would like to know if they work on a
real pandora, therefore I would like to ask if someone can/will test two games for me.
...

Hello there, this part caught my attention, can you write a short description on how to get this working?

Thanks!

Hi centus,

there are two options:

1.) go to http://openpandora.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/so-you-want-to-try-angstrom/ and download a prebuild angstrom image ( http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=openpandora.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbunnitude.com%2Fmisc%2Ffiles%2Fangstrom.qemu.exe&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fopenpandora.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F11%2Fso-you-want-to-try-angstrom%2F )
This is a prebuild angstrom arm image.
some tips:
# you can make a putty terminal session to the qemu image if you add the following to the start.bat file (its in the exe (zip) file you can download from the link above):
-redir tcp:2222::22 &
now when you start putty make a session (localhost, SSH , port 2222)
# use wget to download files from the internet
# use opkg update and opkg install to install packages

(make a qemu pandora image)
2. download the angstrom.qemu.exe from the link above extract it, now you must make a new *.img image if you do the following
make a "beagleboard" prebuild image with: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/narcissus/ (beagleboard has more packages then the pandora but uses the same hardware)

# from windows:
- browse to the location where you extracted the angstrom.qemu.exe
- run: qemu-img create rootfs.img 1024M


# then from a linux distro:

sudo mkfs.ext3 -F rootfs.img
sudo mount -o loop rootfs.img ./tmp
sudo tar xpfv prebuild-image-beagleboard.tar -C ./tmp :this it the file from: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/narcissus/)
sudo umount ./tmp

now that you have extracted the prebuild-beagleboard-image to the rootfs.img file you need to copy it to the directory where you extracted
angstrom.qemu.exe and modify the start.bat file and change the filename of the *.img file to rootfs.img

usefull url: http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=6661&hilit=pandora+os+image (It's german)

hope you get it working it's nice to try something without having a real pandora hope I get my pandora soon so I can tried the game for real.


grtz
Sigma.NL

 

[centus]

Thanks a lot dude!
Downloading now...

So this would allow me to run binaries compiled for Arm?
Is there SDL support?

 

[sigma.nl]

Thanks a lot dude!
Downloading now...

So this would allow me to run binaries compiled for Arm?
Is there SDL support?

Yes there is SDL support but you maybe need to install the SDL packages with opkg install sdl....
tip:
opkg list sdl*

will list the available sdl packages

gr.

 

[Pickle]

thnx meandu229 for the reply, I'm trying to get it fixed, soulfu use opengl and I didn't include a library (don't know how... yet)
I think you need to install the mesa library. I thought opengl was include in the pandora firmware.

got something to fix

thnx
grtz

ah, no. You would have to rewrite the opengl to opengles. (You may technically be able to use mesa, but it would be doing everything in software and be slow)

 

[sigma.nl]

thnx meandu229 for the reply, I'm trying to get it fixed, soulfu use opengl and I didn't include a library (don't know how... yet)
I think you need to install the mesa library. I thought opengl was include in the pandora firmware.

got something to fix

thnx
grtz

ah, no. You would have to rewrite the opengl to opengles. (You may technically be able to use mesa, but it would be doing everything in software and be slow)

thnx Pickle for your info,
you're right I found some other post on the forum about opengl and have to rewrite the opengl to opengles but that's the problem, sadly I'm not a programmer and so unable to do this.

maybe someone can do this, soulfu is a nice game to play on a pandora.
Hope somenone in the community will pick this up and maybe in the future it will be released.
grtz
Sigma

 

[Esn]

Soulfu:
http://drop.io/pandorasoulfu/asset/soulfu-tar

This link no longer works. Can anyone who had it upload it somewhere else?

EDIT: Oh, I see that it never worked in the first place... I guess I might as well remove it from the wiki games list then, and add it to port requests.