Signus - The Artefact Wars

[grizzled dagger]

Title: Signus - The Artefact Wars
URL: https://github.com/signus-game/signus

Controls

Button	Action
DPAD	Move
Analogue Stick	Move Mouse
ESC	Menu
Start	Space (Start Game)
A	Left Mouse
B	Right Mouse
X	Slowdown Mouse
Y	Space
L1	Game Menu
L2	Save Menu
R1	Load Menu

CFW Tests:
[X] AmberELEC
[] ArkOS
[X] ROCKNIX
[] MuOS
[] Knulli (Optional)
[] Crossmix (Optional)

Architectures:
[x] Aarch64
[X] Panfrost (Mainline)

Resolutions:
[] 480x320 (Optional)
[X] 640x480
[] 720x720 (RGB30) (Optional)
[X] Higher resolutions (e.g., 1280x720)

Download

Caution 700MB!

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[high drift]

uuuh, thats one for me.

[grizzled dagger]

Not sure if we can tweak the performance it#s a big laggy on my 351V

[high drift]

oh dear, github is sluggish today

[grizzled dagger]

😄

I uploaded it and my router crashed

😄

[high drift]

100kb/s, are we in 2000 again? O.o

[grizzled dagger]

Oh wait that's a czech game

I see

[high drift]

I will have to replace the bad english voiceovers later

[grizzled dagger]

ffs the mouse is invisble on muos

[high drift]

shiet

[grizzled dagger]

the weird thing is on amber the mouse is not hardware

it's a blue one

there is hope

[high drift]

same on rocknix, blue cursor. I have only ace with me, so the rest will have to wait for later, if it can be even fixed on muos

[grizzled dagger]

how's the performance?

[high drift]

well.. unsuprisingly flawless

and touch screen works, though as usual not very cooperative with the gptk mouse

[grizzled dagger]

😄

[high drift]

welp, cursor is missing on arkos as well

[high drift]

it is present on OGA, though weirdly squished.
Performance is terrible on 3326 under arkos, much worse than rocknix, where its very playable even there

[grizzled dagger]

ok I'll try to force it

[high drift]

I wonder whether we are hitting some old-lib performance problem on arkos again

its quite sluggish on 3566 as well on arkos

[grizzled dagger]

So i implemented kloptops cursor hack but the mouse is lagging behind 😦

[high drift]

It was lagging behind on other weaker platforns as well

[grizzled dagger]

no like move mouse and 2 seconds later the mouse moves

[high drift]

yeah, when I connect a physical mouse its delayed as well, its weirdly demanding

though its running faster on rocknix with 3326, so overall weird. Welp

[spare bluff]

I'm getting the following error message on an RG35XX SP running muOS:
./Signus - The Artefact Wars.sh: line 27: ////ports/signus/log.txt: No such file or directory '/root/.signus' -> '////ports/signus/conf/.signus' ./Signus - The Artefact Wars.sh: line 41: ./signus: No such file or directory ./Signus - The Artefact Wars.sh: line 46: 28706 Killed $GPTOKEYB "$BINARY" -c ./$BINARY.gptk ./Signus - The Artefact Wars.sh: line 44: systemctl: command not found

[sturdy mango]

Every port has a log.txt generated in ports/{portfolder}, please drag and drop it to discord for help.

[spare bluff]

Here's the associated log file

[grizzled dagger]

Did you run it via ssh?

[spare bluff]

Yes

[grizzled dagger]

There is a bug in muos

[grizzled dagger]

do $PWD/<scriptname>.sh

[spare bluff]

i ran pwd in script's directory and got this:
/mnt/sdcard/Ports

$PWD./Signus\ -\ The\ Artefact\ Wars.sh
run from the same directory gives:
-sh: /mnt/sdcard/Ports./Signus - The Artefact Wars.sh: not found

[grizzled dagger]

With " of course

Linux can't handle spaced

Or run it from the gui

[spare bluff]

[/mnt/sdcard/Ports]# $PWD"./Signus\ -\ The\ Artefact\ Wars.sh"
sh: /mnt/sdcard/Ports./Signus\ -\ The\ Artefact\ Wars.sh: not found
[/mnt/sdcard/Ports]# $PWD "./Signus\ -\ The\ Artefact\ Wars.sh"
sh: /mnt/sdcard/Ports: Permission denied

[dull hound]

Chmod +x the script

[spare bluff]

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1164 Sep 13 20:43 Signus - The Artefact Wars.sh

same errors

[grizzled dagger]

this is wrong

mnt/mmc or mnt/mmc/ports only the folder goin

/mnt/mmc/ROMS/ports/ go the .sh files

if you run it with " the .sh name has to match"

use tab to autocomplete

[spare bluff]

that did it
i'm able to launch the game and begin the first mission
the dpad doesn't allow me to move anything around though
do i need to do something to configure it as an analog input or will it just not be compatible with an RG35XX SP?

[grizzled dagger]

Will not be compatible at all with anything atm I'm afraid

it needs the mosue cursor

you can switch the mouse with analogue sticks in the gptk file

[spare bluff]

will that work for this game?
it looks like the dpad is also required for inputs

[grizzled dagger]

Sure but mouse is still invsible

[spare bluff]

is that something that would be helpful to test?
i'm happy to help but i'm not familiar with how to make that tweak

[grizzled dagger]

What tweak are you talking about?

Testing was to see if the game runs on the deifferent cfws, it does but the mouse cursor is broken

So the game is not playable

at all

[spare bluff]

changing the gptk to use the dpad as a mouse

it's not currently playable for me running muOS on a RG35XX SP
I don't have another device to test on though

[grizzled dagger]

you can already do that by pressing power button once

iit switchen dpad with analogue stick

but still not playable with invisble mouse cursor

[spare bluff]

that doesn't seem to be working for me
pressing the power button once doesn't seem to alter the behavior of the dpad

[grizzled dagger]

Works sometimes for me

Nothing we have control over

[spare bluff]

i'm going to call this done on my end then
let me know if there's anything else I can try out

[grizzled dagger]

afraid this will go down into archives for now

[lofty silo]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sD6VcnOxT6w4b1fDQ50FeW8k78Z2LXYK/view?usp=sharing -- NB 688MB

[high drift]

[lofty silo]

This adds kloptops sim cursor. It was a very easy job to add it. It's not at all perfect though -- it updates cursor every time through the event loop, but sometimes that is not very often.

open to suggestions, or maybe just put it back in the archives. or maybe its 'good enough'. idk

kudos to kloptops btw

[sand solar]

😄

It’s not great, but it works.

[lofty silo]

it took literally 15 mins from first look at the code to working cursor.. just followed your instructions

[sand solar]

Yeah implementation wise it’s fine. It’s the way it relies on the drawing loop that kinda sucks.

[lofty silo]

that makes me think -- maybe i can just add in some extra renders at suitable points

[sand solar]

Could get messy.

[lofty silo]

these gptk settings make it slow but acceptable to me, on the first level at least

mouse_scale = 8192
mouse_delay = 32

[high drift]

the simulated cursor doesnt seem to correspond with the actual cursor position

[lofty silo]

on my device, if i move the mouse fast, it takes a while for the highlighted square to catch up, and during that time the mouse pointer is not updated frequently. moving the mouse slowly (using gptk settings above) means they follow each other fairly closely. and the square always catches up with the mouse, given time. is that the same problem you are seeing, or is it worse?

[high drift]

im going to test that gptk setting real quick

[high drift]

yeah, gptk settings doesnt help, for me the problem is that the mouse cursor is not even able to go to the other side of the screen. 35xxSP with muOS AW Banana

[lofty silo]

got it

[grizzled dagger]

i totally forgot about this game 😄

[lofty silo]

src/explode.cpp: if (b->mega && (troska = cratCrater)) MegaDestruction = TRUE;

unforgettable

[high drift]

this game was apparently so broken it had a watchdog that restarted it upon crash

[lofty silo]

ouch, that sounds bad. maybe we should put this one back on the shelf

[high drift]

well the opensource version should not be as bad, nextghost put some effort into it

[lofty silo]

the code looks like a hobby project tbh

[high drift]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/signus/ you can gaze on the original code here

[lofty silo]

that's what this is built from

[high drift]

yep, not sure how much it differed from the 1998 commercial release

[lofty silo]

scaling fixed

[high drift]

yep, working quite nicely. One has to deliberately move mouse only bit by bit otherwise it moves choppily, but for turnbased strategy thats fine

oh but still one thing, select + start combo kills gptk, but not the game 🙂

[lofty silo]

yes -- I think this something to do with threads not getting closed. I noticed that kill -9 works from the terminal, and kill doesn't. Is there any way to make gptk do a kill -9?

[high drift]

thats probably more question for klops 😄

[lofty silo]

gptokey2 is able to kill it, but the mouse moves in big jumps, so it's not playable

[lofty silo]

should work now

[high drift]

that seems to work all fine now. Mouse movement is a bit extra choppy on 3326, but it is a turn based strategy, so its passable. It will probably need a separate rocknix build without the cursor as it has double there and they are offset on each other, maybe because its a wide screen (720p) ? Not sure.

[lofty silo]

I'm guessing the display is stretched on widescreen? I only applied a single scale factor to the mouse position, but I can fix that easily. And yes I'll do a separate no-cursor build for rocknix

[high drift]

the image is correctly 4:3, but the native cursor can go beyond that, so that probably causes the wrong scaling on non-4:3 screens

[lofty silo]

hopefully fixed on wide and narrow displays -- obviously not an issue for rocknix but it needs to work on other CFWs

(I'm checking the scale factor (physical size / logical size) for width and height and using whichever is larger. If my logic is right, that should work in both cases. Otherwise it will always be wrong 😵‍💫 )

[high drift]

unfortunately it is still the same, I can also to lesser degree see it on 3:2 screen on my oga (which has somewhat visible native cursor unlike most Arkos devices)

[lofty silo]

fixed on ubuntu now for sure. hopefully also elsewhere

[high drift]

yep, thats it. You dont even have to make a separate build binary for rocknix, the simulated one follows now closely. Only thing I wonder if this should have 3326 excluded or not, mouse is quite sluggish (both yours and old builds, worse on Arkos for some reason), but its a free game and turn based, so I guess it can pass as is

good job 🙂

[lofty silo]

Ok, so this raises the question of whether PM actually wants this 700MB game with a slightly janky mouse cursor in the repo...

[grizzled dagger]

Absolutely

[lofty silo]

CFW Tests:
[X] AmberELEC
[X] ArkOS
[X] ROCKNIX
[X] MuOS
[X] Knulli (Optional)
[] Crossmix (Optional)

Architectures: 
[X] Mali
[X] Panfrost

Resolutions: 
[] 480x320 (Optional)
[X] 640x480
[] 720x720 (RGB30) (Optional)
[X] Higher resolutions (e.g., 1280x720) 

Looks like we just need AmberELEC? And to decide whether to exclude 3326 -- I don't have a strong opinion about this

[grizzled dagger]

works perfetctly fine rg351v,rk3326 640x480 amberelec

Better a choppy mouse than no mouse at all

Do you know whats weird on my 351v amberelec i have always a mouse while others don't and i have no clue why 😄

but only on that device

[lofty silo]

weird indeed. maybe you copied across some libs that make it work

[grizzled dagger]

nope

that'S on all ports

thats why I always come in this situtation

i mainly dev and test on 351v

then i test on another devie anda see that there is no cursor

If we find out why that is maybe we can fix the cursor for all devices 😄

[lofty silo]

i haven't thought at all about why the cursor doesn't work... it's worth looking into a bit

[high drift]

I have it running on rgb10x / amberelec, it runs better than arkos on the OGA

[grizzled dagger]

@lofty silo fyi 😄
If a game does not kill via gptokeyb just use gptokeyb2 that has different way to kill app

works 100%

[lofty silo]

OK, next time

i'm learning 😆