Alien Blaster | PortMaster | Page 1

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 1:43 PM

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Game Information
Title: Alien Blaster
URL: http://www.schwardtnet.de/alienblaster/

Controls

Button	Action
A	Special Weapon
B	Main Weapon
X	Swap Weapon
Y	Spwap Special Weapon
R1	Key "1"

CFW Tests
[X] AmberELEC
[] ArkOS
[X] JELOS

Resolution Tests
Test all major resolutions:
[] 480x320
[X] 640x480
[] 720x720 (RGB30)
[X] Higher resolutions (e.g., 1280x720)

Ready to play!

📎 alienblaster.zip

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https://tenor.com/view/anchorman-team-assemble-team-assemble-gif-20674250

Tenor

wheat hornet Mar 23, 2024, 1:50 PM

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doesn't seem to boot on RGB30

livid token Mar 23, 2024, 1:52 PM

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✅ X55, JELOS, 1280x720

silk coyote Mar 23, 2024, 1:52 PM

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livid token ✅ X55, JELOS, 1280x720

F"ck, you were Faster

livid token Mar 23, 2024, 1:53 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/sad-sorry-im-sorry-stitch-apologetic-gif-17669790902581588779

Tenor

wheat hornet Mar 23, 2024, 1:57 PM

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📎 log.txt

livid token Mar 23, 2024, 1:57 PM

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Are you on arkos?

wheat hornet Mar 23, 2024, 1:58 PM

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oh my bad, JelOS

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last release as far as i'm aware

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and reinstalled PortMaster an hour ago because i was having sound issues with Annalynn

livid token Mar 23, 2024, 1:59 PM

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Huh weird, seems fine for me.

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can you add this to lib folder and try again?

📎 libFLAC.so.8

wheat hornet Mar 23, 2024, 2:01 PM

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nevermind, false alarm, i just booted up portmaster and it downloaded a few things, now it boots up

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probably should've done that first after reinstalling it

sterile umbra Mar 23, 2024, 2:02 PM

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The game works well, exiting out of it via shortcut keys does not

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 2:03 PM

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sterile umbra The game works well, exiting out of it via shortcut keys does not

What os? Device?

sterile umbra Mar 23, 2024, 2:03 PM

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353m/ark

livid token Mar 23, 2024, 2:03 PM

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Works for me @sterile umbra

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 2:03 PM

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Good old ark

livid token Mar 23, 2024, 2:03 PM

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lol

sterile umbra Mar 23, 2024, 2:03 PM

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For me it just shut down input without closing the game

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yea lol

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 2:04 PM

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I'll rename the binary

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I wonder if gptokeyb2 fixes it @olive flax

olive flax Mar 23, 2024, 2:04 PM

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i wonder that too

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gonna work on gptokeyb2 tomorrow

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 2:05 PM

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linkhype2

sonic violet Mar 23, 2024, 2:11 PM

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funny thing is the shutdown combo works fine on OGA/ARK, but not on 353/VS Ark 😄

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 2:11 PM

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Wtf

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 2:12 PM

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sonic violet funny thing is the shutdown combo works fine on OGA/ARK, but not on 353/VS Ark �...

Does it scale well to 3:2?

sonic violet Mar 23, 2024, 2:13 PM

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ah nvm tried again and now it just shut the gptokeyb 😄

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yeah it scales fine, a little black borders on side, but quite small

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actually black bars are bigger on Ace

sterile umbra Mar 23, 2024, 2:15 PM

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The one thing even better than a feature not working; when it works sometimes lol

regal jolt Mar 23, 2024, 6:19 PM

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Runs ok RG503/ArkOS but doesn't exit as was identified.

That ./issue again!!

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I believe this is the fix:
$GPTOKEYB "$GAMEDIR/alienblaster.${DEVICE_ARCH}" -c "./alienblaster.gptk" &

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 6:31 PM

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regal jolt I believe this is the fix: $GPTOKEYB "$GAMEDIR/alienblaster.${DEVICE_ARCH}" -c "...

We don't want to implement fixes for specific cfws 😛

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You can try it with gptokeyb2

regal jolt Mar 23, 2024, 6:35 PM

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Do I have to compile it myself for ArkOS?

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 6:50 PM

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regal jolt Do I have to compile it myself for ArkOS?

no just activte the hidden menu and activate the cebion will break it mode

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or just point the $gptokeyb to to the gptokeyb2 binary

regal jolt Mar 23, 2024, 7:44 PM

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honest panther no just activte the hidden menu and activate the cebion will break it mode

You mean in PortMaster? Do I need the beta release?

honest panther Mar 23, 2024, 7:45 PM

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Yep

scarlet shell Mar 24, 2024, 2:38 AM

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I just enabled the CWTBE mode to default gptokeyb2 which not only still did not kill the game with start+select (gptokeyb2 only closed), but I also had drift with my thumbstick with gptokeyb2.

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Game works fine otherwise. RG351P/ArkOS

honest panther Mar 24, 2024, 7:30 AM

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scarlet shell I just enabled the CWTBE mode to default gptokeyb2 which not only still did not ...

@olive flax quick feedback

olive flax Mar 24, 2024, 7:31 AM

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nice

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share the gptk file?

honest panther Mar 24, 2024, 7:35 AM

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olive flax share the gptk file?

#1221091907774578688 message in the zip

olive flax Mar 24, 2024, 7:36 AM

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hrmmm

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its weird it has drift TurtleThink

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but then again it is an rg351p

scarlet shell Mar 24, 2024, 7:43 AM

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olive flax but then again it is an rg351p

I'm certain that's a good chunk of it. My other units don't have drift no matter if oga_controls, gptokeyb or we gets used. Using oga_controls on my RG351P when I first got it with many ports had drift issues like crazy making most games so unplayable they were broken. The original gptokeyb (not 2) seems to take a deadzone of 10 percent or something into account I'm guessing.

olive flax Mar 24, 2024, 7:46 AM

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So gptokeyb2 allows you to have an override in your home directory

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~/.config/gptokeyb2.ini:

[controls]
deadzone = 3000    # whatever is best

And it will override whatever port you're running. 😄

scarlet shell Mar 24, 2024, 7:59 AM

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Interesting... I'll have to try that in the morning. If it works I may make that file a permanent resident.

olive flax Mar 24, 2024, 7:59 AM

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it even has per port overrides 😄

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but i am changing the way that works

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so dont fuck with that yet 😛

scarlet shell Mar 24, 2024, 8:00 AM

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Alright

olive flax Mar 24, 2024, 8:00 AM

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the basic controls overrides is fine. 🙂

regal jolt Mar 24, 2024, 8:24 PM

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honest panther Yep

I tried it and it failed to exit as well. 😦

honest panther Mar 24, 2024, 8:25 PM

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yeah its the .aarch64

scarlet shell Mar 25, 2024, 12:20 AM

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I found something that just might work universally:

DEVICE_ARCH="${DEVICE_ARCH:-aarch64}"
export BINNAME="alienblaster.${DEVICE_ARCH}"
$GPTOKEYB "$BINNAME" -c "./alienblaster.gptk" &
./$BINNAME

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I tired this just now and it worked. doing export BINNAME will keep this envar in the system until the script ends (not so only the script can see the envar) and having it pass "alienblaster.${DEVICE_ARCH}" to BINNAME will carry it throughout.

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Don't know how we feel about this as a solution, but...
Imma try something else, too rq

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On a smaller scale, this worked, too:
export DEVICE_ARCH="${DEVICE_ARCH:-aarch64}"

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Exporting the envar keeps it visible to the system. It seems that the envar gets "lost" when gptokeyb is running in the system and only sees "alienblaster." since it's not getting that info fed to it from the shell script after it's been launched.

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That's my theory, anyhow.

olive flax Mar 25, 2024, 9:12 AM

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scarlet shell On a smaller scale, this worked, too: export DEVICE_ARCH="${DEVICE_ARCH:-aarch64...

export isnt systemwide

honest panther Mar 25, 2024, 9:32 AM

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scarlet shell I found something that just might work universally: ``` DEVICE_ARCH="${DEVICE_AR...

Well we know its a gptokeyb problem so I'm always against the ideas of adding even more stuff to the scripts

honest panther Mar 25, 2024, 9:34 AM

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