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atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 12:28 PM

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What a mess this pygame is but let's see if we can package it up nicely.

This is very WIP and a lot of the script may be thrown into the trash right away.
The venv squashfs needs to be updated regulalry depending what requirements are needed but can be installed with a simple pip install and then repackaged.
Also if you move the venv folder into another folder the venv-pygame/bin/activate and pip files need to be adjusted for the new path.

Alpha Testing title to see if it works at all on other devices.

Extract venv-pygame.zip to /roms/ports/Portmaster/libs/
Extract metal_arbiter.zip to /roms/ports

Best to launch it via ssh else we have no idea what's going on.

Pygame probably need to be adjusted per game basis like resolutions, sdl2 controls (joystick) seem to work.

How is the performance?
Does sound work?
Anything else 😄

📎 metal_arbiter.zip 📎 venv-pygame.zip

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Please read the instructions carefully where to place the files.

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<@&1123159718874058882> for the daring who want to tip their toes into the world of Pygame

vast maple Oct 17, 2023, 1:29 PM

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Tested on the x55. Worked fine without starting via ssh.

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 1:32 PM

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vast maple Tested on the x55. Worked fine without starting via ssh.

How is performance? Does sound work? Any other things you noticed?

vast maple Oct 17, 2023, 1:33 PM

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performance was good, sound worked fine, buttons we're responsive.

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 2:59 PM

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on RG351MP everything worked, but the game was running in slow motion

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I guess it is important to compare how it runs on a PC

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because I was not sure, whether the speed was intentionally slow (kind of space vacuum effect?) or just played slow

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here is a video for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RBVvdcQXwI

YouTube

Christopher Eldridge

Metal Arbiter

magaman clone written in pygame

▶ Play video

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 3:01 PM

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😄

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Had the same issue

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like boost was fast af

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but the rest was like in space

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 3:01 PM

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on the positive side - it started directly from ports menu, no need to debug anything 😉

vast maple Oct 17, 2023, 3:18 PM

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Yeah, I tested on the first lvl and worked fine, bute on the second was super slow.

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 3:36 PM

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Might be badly programmed

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Who knows

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 4:09 PM

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yup, but I think the test goes well so far

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it is like with any other game, some of them require more computing power than others

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 4:33 PM

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azure silo it is like with any other game, some of them require more computing power than o...

Now updating the environment going to be interesting, tried add new modules via pip and immediately complained that my python3 on my dev machine is too old

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And that the one in the venv is much newer

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:22 PM

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I guess we can run pip directly on the devices 😉

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I have tried but it complained about SSL certificates

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the right way to fix this is to add the certificates, the quick workaround is python3 -m pip install --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org --trusted-host pypi.org PACKAGE

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:24 PM

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azure silo I guess we can run pip directly on the devices 😉

yes but then amber for example is read only os and if you have to compile and install packages no git clone is available or anything 😄

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I think just need a stable environment and from time to time update the env

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:25 PM

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atomic flame yes but then amber for example is read only os and if you have to compile and in...

then how portmaster works there? and if it does not, then we do not have to worry 😎

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:26 PM

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azure silo then how portmaster works there? and if it does not, then we do not have to worr...

😄

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example error I encountered ``````

📎 message.txt

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just exploded 😄

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:27 PM

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whoah.. I have no idea where to start debugging this

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:28 PM

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Yeah that's where i wanted to compile it from source and add it

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failed on device

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copied the env to my dev machine

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and then it complained about lower libc, lower python3

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lower everything

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😄

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and chatgpt suggested i recreate it within my env

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😄

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:28 PM

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the dev machine, is it a virtual machine, chroot or sth else?

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:29 PM

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chroot ubuntu 20.04

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and yours probably was 22.04 or something fancy

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😄

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:29 PM

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debian, but I do not remember whether stable or old-stable (I have both)

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:29 PM

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😛

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:29 PM

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but debian is not famous for bleeding edge software 😉

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM

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Agree

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM

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anyway, I would agree to standardize it and settle for ubuntu 20.04 based venv

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM

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I will try now and try also with pygame-ce

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM

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to spare us incredible headache

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM

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😄

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yeah

warped tusk Oct 17, 2023, 6:34 PM

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so you are building the venv on your device?

azure silo Oct 17, 2023, 6:35 PM

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the one that I have posted before was built on a PC, with debian 11 or 12 arm64 chroot

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 6:35 PM

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warped tusk so you are building the venv on your device?

you activate it on device

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 7:55 PM

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I think I broke it

(venv-pygame) /roms/ports/2pack # pip3 list
Python path configuration:
  PYTHONHOME = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame'
  PYTHONPATH = (not set)
  program name = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame/bin/python3'
  isolated = 0
  environment = 1
  user site = 1
  import site = 1
  sys._base_executable = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame/bin/python3'
  sys.base_prefix = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame'
  sys.base_exec_prefix = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame'
  sys.executable = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame/bin/python3'
  sys.prefix = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame'
  sys.exec_prefix = '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame'
  sys.path = [
    '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame/lib/python38.zip',
    '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame/lib/python3.8',
    '/roms/ports/PortMaster/libs/venv-pygame/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload',
  ]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x0000007f7c0ea020 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>

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😄

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 9:52 PM

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Well i failed to package up pygame-ce but i tried another 10 games or so and 5 run pretty good

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some need packages that threw me tons of errors while trying to install some pip packages

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proud violet Oct 17, 2023, 9:56 PM

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atomic flame Well i failed to package up pygame-ce but i tried another 10 games or so and 5 r...

Missing a system level module called encodings. Which is kinda important.

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 9:57 PM

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proud violet Missing a system level module called encodings. Which is kinda important.

Yeah i tried to add it

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this gets ugly so fast 😄

proud violet Oct 17, 2023, 9:57 PM

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Do you see why I went with pysdl2 for the gui? 😄

atomic flame Oct 17, 2023, 9:57 PM

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yep

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fucking mess

proud violet Oct 17, 2023, 9:58 PM

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No binary modules required. It uses the system python. 👌

brittle siren Oct 17, 2023, 11:28 PM

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atomic flame Well i failed to package up pygame-ce but i tried another 10 games or so and 5 r...

i have a good amount of title to tests btw

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did you want a excel sheet eventually?

proud violet Oct 18, 2023, 3:40 AM

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Ms excel on PortMaster when? 😄

atomic flame Oct 18, 2023, 4:48 AM

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brittle siren did you want a excel sheet eventually?

Nah not for now unless you want a specific game tested

azure silo Oct 18, 2023, 6:10 AM

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atomic flame I think I broke it ``` (venv-pygame) /roms/ports/2pack # pip3 list Python path...

try $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/pip3 or $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/python3 -m pip

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