Mr. Rescue

[loud pecan]

Game Information
Title: Mr. Rescue
Url : https://github.com/SimonLarsen/mrrescue/releases/tag/1.02e (version 1.02e)

Controls

Button	Action
DPAD	Move
B	Jump
A	Shoot
X	Grab/Throw
R2	Pause

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

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

Extract mrrescue1.02e.love to game directory

Thank you @solid sky for the documentation to build Love2D 0.10.2

[solid sky]

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I think i tried this game in the past but something was wrong with it

[loud pecan]

With liblove-11.4 i have just black screen not possible to go in game
With liblove.so.0 from hawkthrone I can see the menu but black screen when entering the game
So i build a chroot arm64 (Ubuntu Focal 20.4) and compile love2d 0.10.2 and copy lib missing from my chroot on libs directory of this port

[crude geyser]

i recall the game would crash randomly after about 30-60 seconds of gameplay
were you able to play longer than that?

[loud pecan]

yes

[crude geyser]

nice. will give it a test

[solid sky]

something like that yeah

[solid sky]

yeah you always have to match the version ideally

[loud pecan]

Now I have also a chroot correctly configured so I could try more things 🙂

[solid sky]

Are you tech savvy?

[loud pecan]

I'm a SAAS integrator engineer

[solid sky]

Thought so much 😛

[solid sky]

Enjoy your Able Seaman role 😛

[loud pecan]

thank you !

[deep bay]

The game assets and code we can redistribute under CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED and zlib license
and the modules used under similar open licenses

except for Tserial module, which is unclear but I expect it to be (intended) under zlib too
https://github.com/zhsso/Tserial.lua/issues/1
as all other similar contributions of modules for love2d of the user https://love2d.org/wiki/User:Taehl are under zlib

[crude geyser]

played a little while, and it didn't seem to crash
however, the game isn't scaled down to my 640x480 screen, so the image is cropped
rg351v amberelec

but this is fixable in the options menu

[loud pecan]

On the option you can change

🙂

[crude geyser]

(scale: 2, fullscreen: fill)

[loud pecan]

Do I need to change the current zip ? or it is on the case to add the assets and set it ready to run for the PR ?

[deep bay]

it was meant for the release, that it can be ready to run. If you/we want to be absolutely sure, maybe email Thaehl to confirm the license for Tserial,

it also means that we can easily modify the code to fix the scaling issue out of the box that tabreturn mentioned

[loud pecan]

Ok I will send a mail.
I didn't check also where the config file or highscore file are stored. Maybe we can used it on the final package to scale and fill the screen.

[deep bay]

if you change config.lua to fullscreen = 2, that should be keeping aspect ratio, and fill the screen it seems (only just checked on my pc for now)

default_config = {
...
    fullscreen = 2,
...

speaking of config files, for love2d games you should set
XDG_DATA_HOME to something inside the port directory

see https://portmaster.games/packaging.html

then you will also know where the config will be

https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem

[loud pecan]

RK3566:~/.local/share/love/mrrescue # ls
highscores settings stats

maybe i could put on ports/mrrescue/savedatas directory but I checked other Love2d games also stored settings in .local/share/love/name_port

[south marsh]

Not sure if I'm missing something or if I just have the worst possible combination to run this (RG351P/ArkOS)

[loud pecan]

where did you put the files ?

after extracting mrrescue1.02e.love, you need to copy all files on game directory

[south marsh]

Aaahhh, okay. I placed mrrescue1.02e.love directly in the game folder. BRB with results.

[loud pecan]

If we can't make it ready to run I think i will adapt the sh file to unpack the love file automatically

[autumn shale]

You can also run .exe or .love files directly

[south marsh]

I was thinking that, too. It's easy enough to extract it, but having the script check the existence of one of the files and then doing an automated extraction wouldn't be a bad plan.

[autumn shale]

Or are you patching the game, then extracting makes sense

[loud pecan]

I didn't know I saw other game extracted on portmaster so I think it is the correct way

[autumn shale]

Its easier to just run the love file if youre not modifying anythinh

./love ./gamedata/$GAMEFILE

Theres a couple ports that use it, you can do either 🙂

[south marsh]

For a quick update, after extracting the contents, the game runs on RG351/ArkOS just fine. Only problem I had was it didn't fit on my display, but the fix provided by @deep bay editing the config.lua in the game folder and setting fullscreen = 2 did the trick.

Well, I spoke too soon. Starting a game causes it to crash.

The log doesn't tell me anything useful about the crash, either.

[loud pecan]

on my side I put fullscreen=1 and scale=2

I didn't try fullscreen=2

[south marsh]

I'll try that rq and see what it does.

[loud pecan]

where did it crash ?

[south marsh]

It still gives me a perfectly acceptable display, but still crashes.

It sits at the menu for as long as it wants, but as soon as I hit "Start Game" it drops me back to ES within a few seconds.

I can start to choose the difficulty, but it'll crash while selecting a difficulty. If I just hit 'A' again real quick, the gamescreen begins to draw, but it dies before the play screen is fully drawn.

[loud pecan]

ok ...

[south marsh]

Right now the game happens to be running, but conveniently when I decided to SSH into it and run htop to watch resource usage...

[loud pecan]

on my side

Ceibon and Tabreturn saying it crashed also like you said during some tests ... so not so stable depending the love libs or the os ...

[south marsh]

So it's not just me then... phew. There may be a few methods to help stabalize it probably, but in theory...

[autumn shale]

Ill try to replicate it on my r36 tomorrow

Same chip + arkos

[loud pecan]

Maybe try to use other so files (but keep liblove.so.0)

[south marsh]

Indeed

[south marsh]

That's an idea

I would've said a swapfile, but it's not exactly RAM hungry and I already am using a swapfile from something else I was doing.

[autumn shale]

Love2d is also just very unstable for whatever reason

It loves to crash :p

[south marsh]

I see what you did there 😄

[autumn shale]

Ive dug into some love2d games and its great fun because its all open source

But man is it frustrating

[south marsh]

Yeah, sometimes it's just like that. Doesn't completely take away from the joy of attempt.

[autumn shale]

Well it was mostly annoying because i had to rewrite the shadersystems for both games and they finally booted up, just to crash after 20 seconds :p

[deep bay]

I mean, if the games weren't originally built for GLES, but plain OpenGL, that's not really a fault of love2d or the game that you want to run it on something that it wasn't meant for 🙂

[autumn shale]

True

[deep bay]

idk, for me, that's like the fun part, making it do things it wasn't meant for

[autumn shale]

Well i you like the challenge, blue revolver and gravity circuit were the games i had some succes on

And you definitely know about 10x more about programming 🙂

[autumn shale]

I agree, i love how hacky gmloader is for example

[south marsh]

lol ikr!

Speaking of gmloader, there was a game that madshmupper had me look into and I failed because even though the game launched, there was no sound and it seems the game only had touchscreen control support. Nevertheless, gmloader still had the game running.

[autumn shale]

One of the coolest things about gmloader imo is that touchscreen actually works🤣

[south marsh]

lol nice! I was about to ask if we need to create gptots lol

[loud pecan]

I'm testing now Honey Guardian. It crashes a lot 😅
https://ioribranford.itch.io/honey-guardian

around 80 to 90% cpu

[south marsh]

Well, I suppose it's consistent at least 🫤

[crude geyser]

played a bit more on my rg351v (amberelec) and it is crashing 🥲
seemed to crash more on my rgb30 (jelos) -- hard to say, though, as the crashes seem quite random (yet inevitable)

[solid sky]

Back to square one lol

[loud pecan]

I found something interresting after the last realease. There was a change on conf.lua. I wonder if it could help for the crash issue
https://github.com/SimonLarsen/mrrescue/commit/ec139833eba2781507cf32d9df30772138a76829

[crude geyser]

i'll test this out when i can. hopefully, it works -- would be awesome if it's such an easy fix, haha

[deep bay]

I'm gonna have a look at this crashing now

[deep bay]

ok, went a bit overboard:
started from main git version
used love2d 11.5
removed extraneous libraries
implemented dpad controls
changed to fullscreen = 3 for scaled, maintaining aspect ratio
changed default controls
blanked out gptk, all native gamepad input
updated .sh a bit (XDG_DATA_HOME, DEVICE_ARCH)

changes to the game published here:
https://github.com/mhoogcarspel/mrrescue

tested on RGB30/JELOS // RG353M/ArkOS
haven't observed any crashes after playing a few levels and letting it sit until gameover a few times
did observe one crash with old gptk when there was double input with escape from gptk and also gamepad

(ready to run now)

[loud pecan]

Thank you for this great update !

[loud pecan]

@deep bay I adapted with your package fot HoneyGuardian and it seems better no crash for the moment !

[loud pecan]

Working also great for Demonizer

[deep bay]

lol, great to hear, but what about Mr. Rescue? is that working ok?
I'm mostly interested in the default controls and fullscreen behaviour on other devices (remove the saves folder to have a fresh save)

[loud pecan]

yes no crash also on my side
but before It just did crash one time on my side and the controls are better mapped also 🙂

If it is ok for you I will let you make the PR if no issue found or crash by someone else

[deep bay]

sure

[crude geyser]

amberelec needs libogg

(i used the libogg.so.0 from the original post, which works fine)

[deep bay]

TY, added that back in

[crude geyser]

also, rgb30 jelos needs libtheoradec.so.1

[deep bay]

guess that should go back too, even tho my version of JELOS does have it already

any OSes without libvorbis while we're here? 🙄

(did I mention sometimes I don't like these embedded systems, lol)

[wraith fern]

✅ RG351P (ArkOS)

[deep bay]

updated with improved default option for fullscreen with aspect ratio, ASPCT in the options menu
also added libs needed for some OSes as reported by @crude geyser

@wraith fern would you be able to test if that works ok on 320x480 please, I don't have a device to test,
change in the menu to ASPCT and/or do a fresh install and it should be the default

will need to update the .sh I see (done)

[wraith fern]

Did the fresh install. Once I switchted away from ASPCT to see the difference, the option was gone.

[deep bay]

thanks for checking, thought I fixed that, let me check again

I did fix it, but I broke it again, lol

fixed the options menu

(was editing on device because I got tired of copying files around, and then copied in an old version when I was done >_<)

[wraith fern]

Okay! Now it works and it's the same as "FILL"

[deep bay]

*almost the same :), might be only a few pixels out on your aspect ratio but on RGB30:

cover?

without the key art on the left, seems like a lot of black space

could try and get a screenshot with more fire, lol

[loud pecan]

I like this one

[mellow blade]

nice, this works and scales nicely across all resolutions I tried

[deep bay]

Thanks for testing everyone! I sent up the PR
https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/pull/250

[loud pecan]

Thank you !

[urban blaze]

I took a shot at updating this to the new love runtime which adds x86_64 support, controls took a little to get working on muos which looks like may not have been relevant when first made. I hope the gptk should work with all CFWs though

[drowsy carbon]

Must confess. I've always really liked playing this game. It's so fun 🙂

[urban blaze]

for sanity check, controls still good and working for you? and what device/firmware?

[drowsy carbon]

Have you used your new zip

But always worked on MuOS rg40xxh

[urban blaze]

yes, i can't get muos on rg35xxh working on the live version, but this zip fixed it for me with gptk

i'm not sure why i'm special, i'm not the only report of it, but seems to work for most people

[drowsy carbon]

You're saying the original poet, you can't get working on 35xxh using MuOS?

And this new zip DOES work?

Or that it does launch using original just couldn't get controls to work?