Grand Theft Auto 3

[random spoke]

make a screen of the file sizes in the portmaster folder before

then reproduce and then again

so we can see if a file gets too big

[daring gust]

I have to try it tomorrow.
Basically the megaman port broken the GTA ports is what I can guess.

[random spoke]

Not really the ports

it broke portmaster

[trail smelt]

seems like im gonna have to skip the new portmaster now 😢

im scared that it will break my ports games too

[oak field]

It shouldnt

[trail smelt]

ah nvm. im gonna try it anyway

[oak field]

Well if you use the Install.PortMaster.sh, on JELOS is creates a Restore JELOS PortMaster.sh in the Tools section

so if it does break it, just run that and it will return it back to the JELOS portmaster.

[random spoke]

this happens on old pm too

this bug is there for some years now 🙂

[oak field]

What bug is it?

[random spoke]

argu

I tried to track it down once

[oak field]

ah

that one 😄

[random spoke]

sdl_gamecontrollerdb fails to find his match

and then looks for control.txt

and spams

and then jelos not sure why fails to start .sh and tells "argument list too long"

so fills up the env

only jelos

[daring gust]

I don't want my GTA ports to break again. So how do I avoid this bug in the future

[random spoke]

What bug?

[random spoke]

you mean the no sound?

Well it's a jelos x55 specific bug

so just run this from time to time
https://jelos.org/faqs/#sound-suddenly-stopped-working-on-my-device

[daring gust]

Not the sound bug. The jelos bug that spams the folder

Argument list

[random spoke]

oh that

That was caused through mega man we think

we fixed it

[daring gust]

Oh cool. I hope it's fixed.
I've never gotten megaman to load up on my x55

[random spoke]

well one run was enough 😛

[daring gust]

When I get off work I'm gonna try megaman again and if it breaks my ports again I will ssh and show you why it's broke
Ok?

[random spoke]

No, you have to redownload when the PR gets approved

NVM has been merged

So yeah uninstall mega man and reinstall

[oak field]

Btw

No promise I fixed mega man. I just changed it so it won’t break everything else.

[daring gust]

Ok so it was the megaman that was casing all the problems? Well I guess I'm glad I could be there to help yall guys find that bug.

[humble smelt]

Megaman uses a troubleshoot that has been fixed like last week or similar

so it create a conflict

at the times without this little tweak on jelos it crashes , but now crearly copied an old file lol

[daring gust]

I'm conflicted on weather or not I should go near the megaman port. I want to play it but I don't want broken ports again. Ughhh

[humble smelt]

The problems exists due to a file that copied where shouldn't be

if the update has been merged should be all ok

[delicate sphinx]

Hey, I just tried GTA3 in my RG351P with ArkOS' from wummle's fork. Game boots the menu, but fails when I start the game. Here's my logs:

Is it something related with ArkOS, considering I'm getting some errors at the beginning tha mentions a "storage" folder that only exist in AmberElec/JelOS?

[trail smelt]

there should be another thread for gta sa in testing n dev 😛

[daring gust]

Megaman is not fixed. I should give up on that port now.
Here is my report if it helps:
1-Both GTA ports work fine.
2- Opened the new portmaster front-end to download megaman (I really want to play this)
3-megaman port doesn't boot for me
4-i go check if GTA ports are good to go- they are not. It broken again sigh.
5- i try going back into the new portsmaster front-end and any button I push once loaded up crashes portmaster too.
I gotta quit with this megaman because it's causing me so many problems

6- deleted portmaster folder and megaman. Then reinstall the new portmaster and load it up once. Poof GTA fixed again. Sigh

[oak field]

I’ll have a look at mega man this arvo if I get a chance.

[trail smelt]

im still curious on why ur gta ports always broken. i played a bit of gta 3 last night and it still worked fine on mine

maybe its worth it to reflash jelos and try again from scratch. should take u only 20 mins max

including transferring your gta games files

[daring gust]

I have done reinstall. I thought it would help too. But it didn't. The gta ports brake because of the megaman port. I guess.
I got gta up again by resetting portsmaster.
It's all good. I just will stay far far away from megaman.

[random spoke]

Sounds to me like you just booted the old MegaMan without deleting pm and MegaMan first 😛

[trail smelt]

but i still dont get how other game ports would break gta 3. other ports shouldnt be interfering with other games in the portmaster

[random spoke]

It did not break gta3

It broke Portmasters config files

Which gta3 relies on

And other games

[trail smelt]

ahh i see

[daring gust]

I feel like GTA is more important than megaman. I wanted to be greedy and have both. But I'm giving up on that dream. GTA is more awesomeer

[random spoke]

We removed the problem from MegaMan yesterday

You probably still has told version and started the old version again

Or did not wipe the portmaster folder or something

[daring gust]

Megaman never booted on my x55 anyways. Ever.

[swift pawn]

someone has mentioned that removing re3.ini helped (still not fully understood), in other cases it was a problem with the game assetss - either wrong, missing or corrupted

let me know if any of the above works

also, do you know what it is the difference between regular and wummle's ArkOS?

[gritty snow]

Maybe it's a little outdated. On my stock version from 2021, half of the games from portmaster did not run. GTA3, Turtles, HL2, Doom3

[oak field]

Stock or arkos?

[gritty snow]

ArkOS 1.8 is stock for PowKiddy RGB20s

At least that's how it was when I bought it.

[oak field]

I see. 🤔

[delicate sphinx]

basically, christian haitian stopped providing support for RG351P devices on his ArkOS firmware, where the latest ArkOS version for devices such as mine are from last year. only newer devices have newer ArkOW versions, with updates in their internal libraries and emulator versions.

to provide additional updates, @coarse gyro forked the original ArkOS and provided updates specifically for RG351P devices. thanks to that, we now have newer libraries and emulators.

in theory, it should be almost up-to-date with AmberElec. and honestly, I find it hard for my issue to be caused because of me using his ArkOS fork.

[random spoke]

Only a few libs have been updated

The rest of the os is still rather old I think

[delicate sphinx]

Do you know which ones are old? And would it possibly cause issues in some ports, in your opinion?

[random spoke]

idk check sdl2 mixer for example =), not really but we've seen some ports that require higher sdl2 versions

[coarse gyro]

the sdl2 libraries are on version v2.0.26.2 on my fork atm if that helps

[random spoke]

Yep that makes some games run vs the old ark

So much better than the discontinued stable 🙂

I mean at some point some devices will fall out

and at that point we need to introduce some new requirments but with the new gui we have the ability to do that

[delicate sphinx]

cool

[delicate sphinx]

Just removed re3.ini and tested again. Still crashing. But I think it might be something with my game assets that somehow got corrupted, possibly during copy process through SSH.

Another curiosity, is that I also got re3 for windows and tested my assets and they worked.

But anyway, I'll copy them over again and test afterward.

[delicate sphinx]

@swift pawn just copied again through a SD adapter. still crashing. I'll try downloading the files again.

[delicate sphinx]

@swift pawn Hey, a strange behavior I'm getting: My GTA3 files are working fine with RE3 in Windows, but not in my portable device. If the files worked in Windows, then maybe it isn't an issue with game assets. Is there a chance the issue might reside in the re3 binary by itself, or maybe its configs?

[random spoke]

What device again?

And what log?

[delicate sphinx]

RG351P, ArkOS's wummle.

I haven't an updated log from today yet, but I think this one from yesterday is still the same: #1161025273177833472 message

[random spoke]

Yeah this might be an issue, like fallout 2 wasn't working either on ark 351p right?

And we had to downgrade to a lower sdl version

you can check either fallout 1 or fallout 2 for that

[delicate sphinx]

ok, basically grab a bunch of .so files, put in gta3 folder, and refactor the .sh file to load them instead, right?

also, someone reported that GTA3 worked in a RG351MP with ArkOS. assuming it's a very similar device as mine, I wonder if he used ArkOS from wummle, or the "stock" one from christian haitian.

I thought that, since it worked for RG351MP with ArkOS, it should also work fine for my device.

[random spoke]

well 351mp is supported no? so newer arkos

[delicate sphinx]

good question. I'm not sure

anyway, I'll try the sdl downgrade approach

[swift pawn]

I reported it 😉 and it was ArkOS from christian

[swift pawn]

you really mean re3 (not gta3)?

in any case, if you manage to run the game on PC then the assets seem fine

given you have tried multiple times to copy them, I think data corruption is unlikely

[delicate sphinx]

ArkOS from christian... maybe your sdl libraries are corrected, but mine aren't.

"corrected" is a strong word. it's just a matter of possibly different sdl versions

[swift pawn]

look at fallout1/fallout2 ports, in the launcher script there is an "if" statement which loads different SDL libraries when the game is launched on ArkOS

in my first GTA3 version I had these lines too, but actually they crashed the game in the newest ArkOS on RG351MP, so I removed them

[delicate sphinx]

got it. I'll check it asap

@swift pawn something like this, right?

if [[ $whichos == *"ArkOS"* ]]; then
  LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.10.0 ./fallout2-ce 2>&1 | tee -a ./log.txt
else
  ./fallout2-ce 2>&1 | tee -a ./log.txt
fi

anyway, just changing the preloaded libsdl2 file:

$GPTOKEYB "re3" &
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.14.1 ./re3 2>&1 | tee log.txt

the 0.10.0 file doesn't exist in my device. there's 0.14.1 and 0.18.2 instead:

ark@rg351p:/roms/ports$ ls -la /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Sep 20  2019 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so -> libSDL2-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      37 Jul  7 21:13 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ark  ark  8829696 Jan 17  2021 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.14.1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 2375496 Mar  8  2022 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.18.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 2275208 Feb  5  2023 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.2600.2

Anyway, I tried each of them. All are giving me an error during the loading screen, after trying to start a game, with the following error in the logs:

[DBG]: Initialising CParticleMgr...[DBG]: Initialising CParticle...[DBG]: CParticle ready
RE3 ASSERT FAILED
File: /home/orson/re3/src/core/CdStreamPosix.cpp
Line: 555
Function: CdStreamAddImage
Expression: false

[swift pawn]

let me check when this assert fails

if I read it right, it cannot open one of the data files

likely candidates are models/txd.img and models/gta3.img

@delicate sphinx is it the last message in the log?

[delicate sphinx]

@swift pawn Here's my full log from today:

also, in my RG351P I have gta3.img file, but not txd.img

strangely enough, I have this file in my Windows PC, and it has about 300mb for me. maybe this file was deleted somehow?

the "Installing re3 files..." step seems to move a few files from "re3-data" folder to the game dir. maybe the file was deleted during this process?

[swift pawn]

re3-data does not have gta3.img or txd.img

also, I think we would notice the problem on many devices

[delicate sphinx]

makes sense

anyway, I'll simply copy it from windows to my device, and see what happens

[swift pawn]

my RG351MP has txd.img, but it has a different creation date than many other files, so maybe it is created when GTA runs

btw, how much space do you have on the SD card?

[delicate sphinx]

a couple of gigabytes

[swift pawn]

ok, not the problem then

[delicate sphinx]

so this file should be built by re3 on runtime? so the one I have in my pc might not be suited by my device, dunno

[swift pawn]

that's my guess

[delicate sphinx]

I mean, is this file contents generated per device, in a sense it might vary depending on the GPU the user has?

[swift pawn]

it might be a result of running re3 on your PC

because you were really running re3 and not the original GTA3, right?

[swift pawn]

very likely, I recall that there is "converting textures to your video card format" message on the first start

[delicate sphinx]

yea, re3 on windows. not the original one

anyway, just copied txt.img and opened again. same error

[swift pawn]

I am really running out of ideas.. do you have a way to run a different OS on the device (without too much hassle)?

because if it runs with another firmware, then we could eliminate a lot of problems related to the installation

and then focus on what is different between the two firmwares

[delicate sphinx]

I have JelOS in another SD card, that I installed a few months ago

[random spoke]

try that

if it doesn't run there broken game files 😛

[delicate sphinx]

but JelOS has issues with GTA3, so maybe AmberElec might be a better option, I guess

[swift pawn]

audio issues mainly

I think otherwise it runs fine

but amberelec is also a good choice if you have it ready

[uneven lantern]

I thought that was just x55 😮 what other device does it happen on?

[delicate sphinx]

I'll download AmberElec, put it in the spare sdcard, and test it afterward.

[swift pawn]

I have lost track of it, but I had an impression that (almost) all devices?

[delicate sphinx]

@swift pawn anyway, here's where I downloaded re3 for windows: https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=77273

[uneven lantern]

That's possible 😄 doesn't happen on my rk2023. Except once when my device went crazy but everything was broken at that point 😅

Edit: funny enough I tested undertale after saying this and it's broken 😄 I think it's because I updated. seems like I just need to edit the .sh file to make it work.

[exotic pike]

is that to fix audio issues or is it a mod like the old days and we can change our vehicles etc

[swift pawn]

it is just a windows binary, build from the same source as the port

[delicate sphinx]

I wonder about the re3 binary version, though. What if the re3 windows binary is different than the re3 Linux aarch64 one we have?

[swift pawn]

it surely is, I had to modify the source code to make it playable on handhelds

but this was mostly related to controls and opengl es support

but I have also build vanilla version and my modification on a linux PC, both worked fine

[split apex]

Hi @orson, here I am again. This time I found a bug, the sniper rifle does not work, it only registers the first shot, the following shots never hit the enemies. In the mission "Bomb da base act II" you must shoot dozens of cartel enemies on their ship. And it is impossible, I tried many times without success. In the end I realized that if I fired a couple of shots with the sniper at pedestrians on the street it started to work often, I was able to finish the mission and move on to the second island. But in the first mission that the yakuza gives you, you have to eliminate some cops on some balconies near the casino and it is impossible, even having shot a couple of pedestrians on the street before. I have the latest version of GTA3 available on Steam.

[random spoke]

Have you tried the lock target under classic controls?

[split apex]

how can I do this?

[random spoke]

Control settings

[split apex]

R1 to activate scope? it's that correct?

[random spoke]

No idea sorry I only saw "target" mapping

[split apex]

Next target or previous target its imposible to remap ingme

[random spoke]

Did you press restore controls?

[split apex]

yes

[split apex]

well I do the mision, with the same trick of the Bomb da base Act 2, shot a couple of randoms before start the mision, and then do it with sniper function normally

[random spoke]

it breaks the config file i think

[delicate sphinx]

@swift pawn Just tried GTA3 on AmberElec in my RG351P. Guess what: It worked lol

It's definitely something with ArkOS, because although most ports work fine, a few of them behaves differently when compared to AmberElec.

Not only GTA3, but also ports such as Blake Stone, Openjazz and raze.

[random spoke]

yeah old libs

[delicate sphinx]

That said, I wonder: which libraries does re3 use? SDL2? OpenAL? FMod?

Just to know which ones should I update.

[random spoke]

ldd ./re3

[swift pawn]

sdl2 for sure, openal IIRC

fmod - do not know

[swift pawn]

can you send me your saves? they are stored in gta3/userfiles

might be a direct message if you prefer

I hope you have one with the mission available 😉

[wooden dome]

353PS /ArkOS working

[swift pawn]

but I can already say that fixing bugs will be super hard - it is a huge code base which I know only superficially

[split apex]

here it is, ||SAYONARA SALVATORE||

Could you do something with the RG552 resolution selector?

[delicate sphinx]

What if you get re3 for windows, plug a xbox360 controller onto it, and check if you can pass this mission that way?

If the issue happens in windows, then it might be a issue in re3. Otherwise, it might be something in the re3 code that Orson used to compile it to aarch64.

[delicate sphinx]

Just ran this command in both firmwares:

One thing I forgot mentioning: I'm using ArkOS wummle from 30/03/2023, which uses SDL 2.0.26.2. The latest ArkOS wummle version is from 26/08/2023, where the SDL2 version was updated to 2.0.28.2. Although I'm not sure what is the exact SDL2 version that AmberElec is currently using, but would these version differences matter for GTA3 port in ArkOS?

[delicate sphinx]

Anyway, just updated ArkOS wummle latest version from 26/08/2023, which gave me the new SDL version. After that, now GTA3 is working on ArkOS just like it was on AmberElec. Think this solves the issue.

[swift pawn]

that's what I am going to do first, but on linux 😉 it will be much easier to debug

[swift pawn]

I have briefly looked at it, but the code to change resolution is already there (basically it uses settings you put in the .ini file)

so if it does not work, then it is either not possible or requires a smarter approach, but I did not have much time to pursue it

[split apex]

It's ok, thank you for your work!

[delicate sphinx]

what about other fellows using re3 to play GTA3 in their smartphones? maybe those guys figured out a way to pass this mission.

I mean, if this problem happened to lots of different people, they'd report it. And it might make things easier to try fixing it.

But also, re3 in android might possibly emulate mouse+keyboard gameplay, instead of controller gameplay. They might not even be getting this specific bug.

@swift pawn quick question about adjusting stick sensitivity:

If needed, readjust analog sticks sensitivity/deadzone by changing [Left,Right]StickSens[X,Y] or [Left,Right]StickDeadzone values in re3.ini
I couldn't find any settings like these in my re3.ini. Should I adjust sensitivity first in re3 menus, and only then in the ini file?

[swift pawn]

I believe they are playing a different version

[swift pawn]

remind me, did you have delete your re3.ini in order to run the game? or in troubleshooting process?

I have discovered that these sensitivity settings are respected if they are in the .ini file, but they are not created if .ini file is missing and the game creates one with default values

I have patched it, but not released it yet

anyway - you can either check how it is done in the .zip file (gta3/re3.ini) or add to gta3/re3.ini in Controller section:

LeftStickSensX=1.0
LeftStickSensY=1.0
LeftStickDeadzone=0.2
RightStickSensX=0.4
RightStickSensY=0.8
RightStickDeadzone=0.2

[delicate sphinx]

I haven't deleted. I'll try either deleting it, or adding those lines manually

[swift pawn]

do not delete re3.ini, the regenerated one will not have these lines

add by hand or use re3.ini from the port .zip file

[potent kestrel]

gta3 doesn't work on my OGS with RetroOZ, same problem as Solid One had on non updated ArkOS

[random spoke]

I think we need a requirement old ass libs 😛

[delicate sphinx]

Try updating your ArkOS version and seeing what happens. Maybe your device is still "officially" supported by christian haitian

[potent kestrel]

nope, no updates anymore, nodoby cares about odroid go super (except Cebion, he bought one)

[exotic pike]

what setups are we using for our handhelds for this, i started messing around with the densities and not sure if i should turn v sync etc on

[random spoke]

Should not make a difference

Wdym by setup?

Depends on your device?

[exotic pike]

mainly around the display and graphic settings for the game, i was tweaking the game setups and trying to see if it actually made a difference

[coarse gyro]

i did offer to do updates for it a while back but was asked not to because southoz was coming back to it but never did ah well

[potent kestrel]

oh well, now at least I have beam of hope

what if he will really return, retrooz is solid piece of software

[coarse gyro]

yep its really just a port of arkos customised for the OGS etc but it ran well

[delicate sphinx]

What if you guys from odroid go super simply try adding the new libraries solely for the gta3 port, and editing the .sh file to load them from a local "lib" folder instead of loading them globally?

Some ports have something like that implemented, such as Hocoslamfy

Maybe this way you could at least make gta3 work, without having to update all libs globally.

[random spoke]

Where does it end? At one point it's naturally that some devices will just fall out of support

That was one of the things we wanted to aim at with the new portmaster

Requirements manageable via a json file

If it's something that's easy sure you can add in the .sh

And Jelos works on super yes? So there is even a working cfw for it

Some libs are very unproblematic in preloading

But stuff like sdl2 can get very ugly fast

They often are built by the cfw and have patches in them to rotate the screen etc.

[feral aurora]

Yes, JELOS works just fine on the GO Super. With panfrost and wayland / weston as well. No nasty patched SDL2, rotated via weston.

[random spoke]

Even better

[feral aurora]

Im not sure if ArkOS works on the Super and if not JELOS is probably your best bet for future support on this device 🙂

[coarse gyro]

retrooz was the arkos port for the super but not been supported for quite a while so no official arkos for the super as far as i know

[devout wadi]

it works very well in rgb20s thanks porter

[gritty snow]

Yep, runs perfect even with maximum rendering distance on RGB20s. True magic here, Harry Porter)))

[swift pawn]

I am not entirely sure if rendering distance actually changes anything 😅 I need to check again, but at one moment I had such impression when playing GTA VC

[gritty snow]

It definitely does.

[swift pawn]

nice! thanks for checking

[obtuse torrent]

Orson whats correct link for latest installer ? This thread is very long and hard to navigate lol , then I'm guessing it's just copy files from pc over to ports folder , if so I will happily test both tomorrow

On my rg351p

Oh think I found it

Will grab in am and test

[swift pawn]

yup, that's the right one, I simply replaced the zip file with newer version, without changing the address

[obtuse torrent]

yep all installed and working perfect on my 351p wow thats a easy setup and witch craft how the beep does it run that well

discord really needs a back to top button lol or maybe a mod/admin could pin them cough

[swift pawn]

hi @split apex, finally I had some time to look at it and I think I see the problem too

[oak field]

Its a ghost, right?

[swift pawn]

more like a troll or a gnome

the good things is that I am able to recreate the problem on PC, so it bumps chances for a fix by 5% 😄

..and it turns out that if I remove my changes/optimizations, everything works as expected, chances are now 60%

[oak field]

Definiately sounds like a troll 👍

[swift pawn]

@carlospixel with the fixed version, I have just managed to take down all the guys on the balcony

many thanks for the report and the save, it was a great help!

I have uploaded the fixed version to the usual location

FWIW, this bug should not occur in GTA VC, I could not find a corresponding optimization option there

[split apex]

Thank you very much for reviewing the problem, I just arrived at the 3rd island and so far I have not found any problems other than the sniper bug

[split apex]

I'm happy to hear that!

[split apex]

@swift pawn Hi again, I have tested the new files and it is still the same as before, do I have to "mount" the port again? with steam files before using it? Is the fix subject to any language? (I play it in Spanish, my native language)

[swift pawn]

language should not matter, in theory it should be enough just to replace gta3/re3

I will try to reinstall it in a moment to double check

[split apex]

to try it I do de Asuka Mission letter "A" on map, I start with the bad guys in the casino, there are a lot of them on balconies, I kill the first one and the rest don't die, I've used up the entire charger and nothing.

[swift pawn]

I have first shot guys in the park, but I reckon it should not matter

let me retest

[obtuse torrent]

They had same bug with vita port too maybe patch notes will give you a clue

Or during under the surveillance mission change controls to free aim and standard and kill them with a assault rifle

[swift pawn]

omg, the killing order DOES matter

what a nasty little bug

[split apex]

The only way to “repair” the sniper is that way. Shot to random people on streets until the second one goes down, then the sniper rifle works while play

[swift pawn]

that will speed up preliminary tests, thanks

also, killing the park guys first seems to work too

but it is not the fix I wanted 😉

[swift pawn]

so they have managed to fix it? do you have a link to the source code?

[obtuse torrent]

Yeah it's a old bug , like I say vita port team fixed it from version 1.3 or .4 I believe

https://wololo.net/2021/07/12/release-re-3-vita-1-4-gta-iii-port-gamebreaking-bugs-free/?utm_content=cmp-true

Mentions the sniper bug there too

[split apex]

I have read this, but Steam does not install this version even by forcing the update, a shame.

[obtuse torrent]

It won't it's a vita port ? They fixed it pc version at the time if I remember had a hacky fix something to do with bad controller drivers baked into game that was patched out

Sadly GitHub for the port was removed by DMCA but I'm sure the flow would be happy to share the fix if you DM him

[swift pawn]

yup, I am trying to find it, but in the end I guess I will try to contact him

I appreciate the hint

[obtuse torrent]

No worries annoyingly he has other GTA vita ports and bully and all sorts on GitHub still just not GTA 3 port still

Maybe the sources to GTA SA and bully will help with them ports , I believe you working on them too wasn't you

[swift pawn]

no, I have not tried GTA SA, I have seen the repository, but I think it is too early to even try to port it

[swift pawn]

I guess 1.3/1.4 refer to the port versions, it is as if I bumped the version number each time I fix a problem

[obtuse torrent]

No 1.3 or 1.4 refers to the vitaport version it was 1.4 that had the sniper fix

[split apex]

Ahh, ok probably refers to port version, I hope 👉🏽👈🏽

[obtuse torrent]

As in link on wolo site I posted

[swift pawn]

agreed, that's what I wanted to say 😉

[stone dagger]

You can download the source from the vita version from 10/07/21, not 100% sure of the bug was fixed then but that was the last snapshot I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20210824054619/https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/re3

[obtuse torrent]

Nice find and yeah should be 1.4 came out in July that year

[swift pawn]

great stuff, many thanks!

[swift pawn]

another update (note different link!) https://github.com/PortsMaster-MV/PortMaster-Multiverse/raw/main/GTA3.zip

I have found some other repositories with the PS Vita port source code, it is a real treasure!

now I have completed the mission 4 times using different routes, it must work now 😉

[autumn grove]

WAsn't the vita version full of bugs that crash the game?

[obtuse torrent]

First version were buggy but not in the end it was running really well

[swift pawn]

that's what I read too

these guys have spent a lot of time hunting bugs and optimizing the code

[obtuse torrent]

Yup and flow knows what he's doing lol

[potent kestrel]

I think many thanks to the guy from re3 team who helped them. but I believe you will not get any help from them as they hate t2 and everything involved after court case

[swift pawn]

I have written to flow, no response yet

but having access to the port source code was already a great help

[autumn grove]

Cool, thanks for implementing it here

[split apex]

INCERIBLE! thank you so much! now is completely functional!

[swift pawn]

let me know when you finish the game 🙂

[split apex]

Hahahaha

[swift pawn]

woah! amazing 😄

really made my day!

[split apex]

I only found de sniper bug, all works flawless

[swift pawn]

the new fix could be also applied to GTA VC, so I have done it already, before someone reports it

[split apex]

I'll start VC soon, problably next week

[swift pawn]

cool, then I am waiting for the game credits screen 😉

[pliant thorn]

curiosity, what was the issue with the previous version?

[swift pawn]

this: #1161025273177833472 message

[open steppe]

I'm almost at the half of VC, not sure if there is a mission that force you to use the sniper aim, I'll check it soon.

[autumn grove]

How can I do it?

[swift pawn]

redownload GTAVC.zip file and at least replace gtavc/reVC file

note that we are moving to a different repository: https://github.com/PortsMaster-MV/PortMaster-Multiverse/raw/main/GTAVC.zip

but for the moment both the old and the new link contain the same file

I want to see what else has been introduced in the PS Vita port and check if it would be beneficial to our case

if so, I will be publishing test versions in the old repository (nosro1) and once validated - they will be moved to PortMaster-Multiverse repo

[autumn grove]

ok thanks

[obtuse torrent]

So when you adding bully and red dead lol ......I kid I kid

[pliant thorn]

lol, I can wait for a RG499M that plays RDR2

[split apex]

@swift pawn hi again I’m playing VC right now and I see this screen every intro to action transitions there’s any way to convert it to black?

It’s a minor issue

[random spoke]

Ripped version?

[split apex]

Steam version

[swift pawn]

does it appear every time there is an intro playing? does it stay while the intro plays? any other distortions in the intros?

actually, let's move to https://discord.com/channels/1122861252088172575/1162076087883411557

[fierce light]

'ello. What platform's cheats do I use if I want to goof off 😉

[swift pawn]

in theory it is a PC port, so I guess PC codes

but they require keyboard if I am not mistaken

[sharp stratus]

if there is a entry screen for the cheats, you can use the textinput feature of gptokeyb

[fierce light]

Unless there's a button combo that brings up a keyboard, it seems that i'm outta luck. Oh well...

[uneven lantern]

I wonder if it would work if you connected an actual keyboard to your device.

[fierce light]

Not a bad idea, but I don't have a spare wired keyboard at the moment LOL. Thanks anyway.

[humble smelt]

Probably

[open steppe]

Hmm I played with keyboard at the first version (when the handheld controls don't work) but I dont remember If I tried to do some cheatcodes.

But probably works.

[random spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/will-ferrell-the-house-hes-cheating-cheater-gif-8225031

[humble smelt]

First time most of the players play GTA fairly ahaha

[fierce light]

True, LOL. As an alternative, there's a site called GTASNP (aka GTA Spray n Pay) that hosts game saves for the various releases of the series' entries.

[small herald]

can i switch to performance for ports somewhere?

[primal zephyr]

Advanced game settings. Press the “favorite” button while you have the game selected and then pick Advanced Settings in the menu

[small herald]

great, will try again now @primal zephyr

and another thing , i copied the AUDIO data from the audio cd (game cd) to the audio folder in the ports gta3 audio. .. does that add all the radio? Because i can hear radio etc.

or does that not matter.. about 500mb of audio and radio files i copied

@primal zephyr works like a charm, thanksss

[swift pawn]

you mean you can not hear radio, right?

I am not sure if copying directly from the game CD works, I think it is necessary to install the game and copy files from the installation directory

[small herald]

Yes, i hear the radio. i copied the AUDIO from the gamedisc into the audio folder. i read on another forum... and now i can listen to it @swift pawn

[silk knot]

What version do you need to test this?

[random spoke]

Not the remastered one

[swift pawn]

we have tested it with steam version, rockstar shop version and the classic CD

[silk knot]

Wow, you can only get the Rockstar shop version through the webpage, not through their app store. And can only get the steam version through an online code shop.. Thanks I will update if I decide to buy while it is still in testing

Thanks as always for the info

[clever heart]

So it's OK to leave that AM2R fix in for an RGB30 running JELOS? ...or take it out and wait for an updated release on PortMaster that fixes it "the right way"? My volume buttons are still working on my RGB30 running JELOS after running it. Did I mess something up is my files by running it?

[humble smelt]

It's okay, the fix is for Jelos, so you are fine.
That said, more than adding a thing that says to check for Jelos before using the fix we can't do much, the problem is on Jelos due to their things, so if they wanna fix or something is not up to us directly.

[clever heart]

Thank you for clarifying. Just wanted to make sure I didn't mess up something with my file system by running it. Take away is?: If it stops working in the future, grab the latest PortMaster release at the time and hope for the best that any change JELOS made alights with the latest AM2R PortMaster release?

[humble smelt]

Nope.
The fix is due to a disabled thing outside emulation and some things.
It's not something that suddenly stops working.

That said, if Jelos wants to change/revert the thing well.
If not probably with gmloader-next that is 64 bit we will have less "collateral effect" on arkos without checking the os.

[delicate sphinx]

Managed to beat GTA3 in my RG351P a couple of days ago. Awesome game and port, thanks everyone! Now gotta try Vice City the first time, can't wait for it.

[delicate sphinx]

Or at least kind of beat GTA3. Some missions are pretty hard because aiming with the analog stick is pretty terrible and I had a bad time in missions such as the sniper ones and the last Dam mission. The Dam mission was so hard that I just watched the game ending through some youtube videos.

[delicate sphinx]

@split apex question for ya: how did you manage to aim properly in your device? did you enable some kind of auto-aim functionality, or manage to reduce analog sensitivity considerably in order to aim sights fast enough for some timed missions? or did you use any cheats or similar?

in some missions, aiming sights with rifles were too hard for me that I simply used rocket launchers at thugs because otherwise they'd kill me first, before I managed to aim and shoot them.

[split apex]

Sometimes I have used a mouse with a usb c adapter 👉🏽👈🏽

[delicate sphinx]

lol

I also did the same, but instead of plugging a mouse in my RG351P, I got re3 windows version, alongside my game assets, and played the missions in my PC with keyboard and mouse. Then I aimed sights with sniper rifles with my mouse, and pressed the "Insert" key to shoot. That worked in the last portland mission, where we need to shot sights in a big boat with a sniper rifle.

Hopefully, with a little bit of struggle, I managed to pass the first Kenji mission in my RG351P. Got lucky enough to aim sights in the building with my sniper rifle using the analog sticks of my portable device.

But these were the only ones. In most of the other missions, I killed targets with alternate methods, such as roadkilling, exploding them with bazooka, sometimes barricading areas with big vehicles so I have more time to react and destroy stuff, etc.

@split apex another question: did you manage to make Claude run? in the PC version, pressing Shift allows for making him run faster, which is pretty useful in some missions, but in my RG351P I tried pressing all button combinations I could remember, but Claude is still not running.

[delicate sphinx]

just to add on this one: in GTAVC, I can run by holding B button while walking. but in GTA3, holding B while walking, the character only hits punches in the air. not sure if it's a controller setting issue or a bug in re3, though.

[split apex]

I didn’t remember to have issues with run button check ctroller options to check what button is assigned to run action

[delicate sphinx]

In the controller settings, I remember seeing only the "Shift" key being assigned to the run button. Couldn't find any of the Xbox controller button mappings, for example

[primal mulch]

Has anyone experienced crashes when starting a new game? The game doesn’t load, just the menu, I can change the skins and etc., but the game actually doesn’t start

I’m on the latest ArkOS ver

[delicate sphinx]

@primal mulch which device are you using, and what ArkOS version?

Mine is Anbernic RG351P, and I'm using ArkOS (not the official one by @lethal nymph because he stopped supporting this device, but instead the @coarse gyro's forks). For me, GTA3 only worked after updating ArkOS wummle to the latest version (mine is from 26/08/2023). Any other version before that won't run the game, because it requires a new SDL version that's only available from this version onward.

[random spoke]

I think I saw it with wrong game files

[random spoke]

You realize when doing @ you're actually asking people to participate by calling them to the convo right?

[delicate sphinx]

Oh yea, I think I shouldn't do that if it's not needed, right? sorry lol

[random spoke]

Hahaha

Yeah

I guess some people don't mind and want to be informed if someone is talking about them

[primal mulch]

R36S ARKOS v2.0_09292023

[delicate sphinx]

A pretty uncommon device. I'm not even sure if this GTA3 port is supported by your device/OS.

[primal mulch]

it has the same specs as RG351MP

RK 3326 + 1GB RAM

[delicate sphinx]

Specs-wise, it shouldn't be a problem. What I'm more concerned is about the OS (and maybe the processor architecture).

Do you know if your device is aarch64, or 32-bit?

[primal mulch]

aarch64

[stone dagger]

GTA3 works fine on my R35S with ArkOS

[primal mulch]

weird

[random spoke]

If you scroll up you will find some people with similar issues

[delicate sphinx]

aarch64? good. what about other OSs? maybe AmberElec would be better, for running GTA3 in your device (if it's supported)

[primal mulch]

i'll try AmberElec then

[delicate sphinx]

another possibility is updating your ArkOS version to a more recent one (if any). not sure if christian haitian supports R35S devices or not, but maybe there might exist a newer version, that might make GTA3 work in your device

[primal mulch]

I'm already on the most recent one, I had updated to see if it was incompatible, before updating it was not possible to see Claude's 3D skin in the menu, after updating I was able to see it but the game still won't starts

[delicate sphinx]

well, try AmberElec them, and see if it works. if it does, then it's an ArkOS issue. otherwise, it's an issue with your assets maybe.

I did that same test a few months ago. GTA3's menus opened fine, but game crashed in ArkOS (from march 2023) after starting a new game. Then I got a spare sd card, installed AmberElec, put GTA3 on it, and it worked fine. I concluded it was an ArkOS issue, that was quickly solved after updating it to the latest version.

[primal mulch]

amber elec worked

so the issue is with ArkOS

btw amber elec has no sound with my device 😅

[delicate sphinx]

now I'm curious about why it worked for DynaMight, but not for you

[primal mulch]

actually now that I noticed, there is sound but it's very low lol

[primal mulch]

idk too

like R35S and R36S are the same device

everything is the same for both, the only differences are the positioning of the controls and some revisions to the motherboard

[stone dagger]

Just tried a new game on mine with ArkOS and worked fine. Its never crashed to me and I've only ever used ArkOS with it

I beleive this resolves the sound issue, but needs to be ran on every boot: https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s

[primal mulch]

i'll try

[primal mulch]

I think I can put this script to run at the boot with init.d

[primal mulch]

i reflashed the same ArkOS image that i was using before and it worked now wtf

[random spoke]

lol

[cunning acorn]

Same here

[versed panther]

can someone help me with this please?

[random spoke]

A bit more info would be helpful 😛

What device?
What cfw? and what version?
Portmaster Updated to latest version?
What GTA Version did you use?

[versed panther]

Yeah, it's a R36S. With the arkOS 2.0, portmaster un it's last version

Sorry, fall asleep lastnight

[random spoke]

Can you update arkos?

[delicate sphinx]

Someone else got the same problem recently. And he resolved it by simply updating arkos

[versed panther]

Thanks, I'll update it as soon as I get free

Thanks for all your help guys

[versed panther]

Can't believe that it worked, thanks so much for your help guys

[inland portal]

Rg503 Arkos 12/22/2023

The sound is good and everything seems to be working well.

[oak field]

Looks great.

[delicate sphinx]

Still about aiming with analog sticks, one test I did a few hours ago in my RG351P was: What if I reduce left stick sensitivity to values such as 0.6 or 0.8?

LeftStickSensX=0.6
LeftStickSensY=0.6
LeftStickDeadzone=0.05
RightStickSensX=0.4
RightStickSensY=0.8
RightStickDeadzone=0.05

A few missions (the hardest ones, by coincidence) require precise aiming with Sniper Rifle, M16 and Rocket Launchers. We need to hold RB and aim with the left analog for all these weapons. In these cases, only reducing the right stick sensitivity is not enough-- the one that needs to be reduced is the left stick sensitivity. So I tried reducing these sensitivity levels and see what happens.

The result is that it became much easier to aim with these weapons since we can aim more precisely (although possibly slower). But I also got a bad side effect: Claude walks slower than usual, and if I hold the left analog fully in one direction, he'll walk instead of sprint (at least I can hold B and make him run like hell). And inside cars, handling is also slower than usual, meaning we'll have a bad time with sharp curves, or back the car up.

In the end, playing these missions with a mouse is still the best option. Unless we figure out a way to either reduce left stick sensitivity while aiming with these weapons, or allow for aiming with the right stick (that already has a reduced sensitivity in place) and shoot with RB. Those would possibly require adjustment in the re3 source code.

Anyway, hope it helps.

[lilac wave]

Hi guys, has anyone had the chance to test GTA3 for RG353V with StockOS?
Currently I've been testing it but it doesn't load and I get as error in the log.txt this
# cat gta3/log.txt ./re3: symbol lookup error: ./re3: undefined symbol: mpg123_open

[oak field]

Sorry mate, we don't support stock os.

[lilac wave]

Here I am back, I'm testing on linux of the Anbernic RG353V
# uname -a Linux Anbernic_RG353V 4.19.172 #1 SMP Sat Apr 1 04:21:15 PDT 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

[oak field]

What cfw?

[lilac wave]

I have not changed the default one, but I don't know the name. 😅

[oak field]

Then it probably won’t work. Sorry.

[vapid heron]

The default cfws on new devices are most likely outdated.

[humble smelt]

On rg353v in particular the default cfw always had problems with portmaster too lol

Indeed it was super funny that they included it, but it worked for like a week lol

[vapid heron]

Add this to the sh file for fix.

# Edit .cfg file to correct resolution
sed -i "s/^Width=[0-9]\+/ResolutionX=$DISPLAY_WIDTH/g" $GAMEDIR/re3.ini
sed -i "s/^Height=[0-9]\+/ResolutionY=$DISPLAY_HEIGHT/g" $GAMEDIR/re3.ini

gta3vc needs the same but for reVC.ini

[elfin turret]

for my copy the game slowly lag too the point where it becomes unplayable, using a rg353VS

it's much worse on VC

[undone fox]

Getting no dialogue in cutscenes and radio stations have no audio. I’m assuming I need to recopy the radio files but I’m not sure what to do about the dialogue.

[random spoke]

Sounds like incomplete game files? What version did you use?

@undone fox sorry had to remove your post

#rules

🙂

On ourwebsite you can find what versions are supported

[undone fox]

Ah my bad, sorry about that. Sounds good thanks

[undone fox]

All good now, cheers

[delicate sphinx]

Just tried GTA3 on a R36S, and just figured out I'm stupid: Regarding figuring out the best way of aiming with weapons, I discovered that if I change the controls to "Classic Controls", then go to display setup and enable free cam, the game allows moving with left analog, controlling the camera with right analog, and even allows auto aiming with R button, the gameplay might become much easier for players with controllers.

Can't believe I beat both GTA3 and GTAVC with modern controls, and struggled a lot with aiming sights with pistols and SMGs, while I could simply rely upon auto aiming with R1 button if I were using classic controls. But what drawed me away from it and made me use modern controls was because I wrongly thought it's the only way of controlling the camera with the right analog stick.

Well, guess that's live and learn lol

[undone fox]

did that but I can only look up and down, any idea what's going on?

[delicate sphinx]

Check your sensitivity settings in the config text file. They might be with small values, causing left analog aiming slower and not properly working.

[wary ether]

Works great! 🙂

[eager vigil]

One short question please. I want to add another language to the game (TEXT). How can i do that? I have the file but i don't know how to add it to the in game menu.

[wheat steppe]

I don't know if it's possible to just add another new .gxt file into the /TEXT folder to make it also appear in the game menu... Just try it out. And if that doesn't work, you can always just rename your .gxt file into a name that is already there. For example, if you have a swedish.gxt file, make a backup copy of (for example) the german.gxt file and then rename your swedish.gxt file into german.gxt
Then choose German in the game and it should display your swedish translation. It's a workaround, try it out!
My version has nine languages available, by the way. And they all can be selected in the game menu.

[delicate sphinx]

Just replace the files and it'll work fine. I managed to beat GTA3 and VC through re3 and reVC using Brazilian Portuguese translations and got no issues with it.

[eager vigil]

This solution i have tried and it worked, but i was really curios in which file is the menu (of the reVC ofc). Thank you 🙂

[light ledge]

I also want to ask how the language is actually loaded. Since I use Chinese, which is not an alphabetic language, it generally requires loading fonts to be rendered properly.

[delicate sphinx]

AFAIK, most translations simply replace existing ones, instead of adding new ones.

And for most translations, all character fonts are already there, so except for editing one character or another, the changes are minimal.

That said, there are better GTA modding channels out there you can ask for help. A pretty good place is "AML: Android Mod Loader". It's both a tool and a Discord channel with a lot of people dedicated to modding GTA games.