#Picayune Dreams

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marsh maple
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Picayune Dreams Demo -- PortMaster

Winner of the GameMaker Awards 2024, Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay.
Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]

Installation

Purchase the game on Steam and with steamcmd do download_depot 2088840 2088841 8486760071155312825. Add game files to picayune/assets.

If you're unfamiliar with steamcmd, you can use DepotDownloaderGUI.

Default Controls

This game requires two analog sticks to play!

| Button            | Action                                |
|--                 |--                                     |
| START             | Pause                                 |
| SELECT            | Info Dock                             |
| LEFT ANALOG       | Move                                  |
| RIGHT ANALOG      | Aim                                   |
| A                 | Confirm / Interact                    |
| L1                | Sneak                                 |
| R1                | Blackhole Bomb                        |
| L3                | Fast forward                          |
| R3                | Toggle auto-aim                       |

Deadzone and cursor sensitivity can be set in Options -> Controller.

https://github.com/JeodC/PortMaster-PicayuneDreams

Tested on:
[ ] [480 x 320]
[x] [640x480]
[ ] [720x720]
[x] [Higher Res]

[] AmberELEC
[x] RockNIX
[ ] ArkOS
[x] muOS

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<@&1216123318122577972>

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This one has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and forcing it to stretch via patch wrecked the cursor, rendering the menu options unselectable.

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If someone else manages to figure it out, I'm happy to add it. Smaller text is illegible on rg40xxh.

marsh maple
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No takers?

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Eh it'll run anyway, standard gm port.

naive galleon
prime hound
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This looks great 🙂

marsh maple
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Picayune Dreams

marsh maple
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<@&1216123318122577972> Picayune Dreams has gone vm!! The full game can now be played as a port. Please see the pin for details. Since the patch is large, I can't upload an attachment for it. You will need to download the port from the repository.

Changes:

  • Swap fonts used in options menus for better scaling
  • Texture repack and audio compression
  • Texture flushing when changing rooms (some slowdown for Collections menu while textures load)

Notes:

  • Sound effects are low volume compared to music. They're there, but hard to hear unless balanced with music in audio settings

The game loads and plays on rg40xxh, but I didn't test it for long. This game can get pretty crazy as playtime goes on, so it will need some dedicated hands to verify if 1GB devices will be okay.

keen shoal
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Game is on discount on steam too 🙂

marsh maple
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$3.49 USD, an excellent steal.

keen shoal
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Indeed 🙂

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wow this data.win is huge

marsh maple
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But the soundtrack is fantastic.

keen shoal
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how long is this patch doggokek

marsh maple
keen shoal
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will report in 30 minutes/tomorrow

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oh patching didn't go right...

marsh maple
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I’m noticing some sfx don’t seem to play or play at low volume, I’ll have to see if it’s due to the compression.

marsh maple
keen shoal
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IR is set to: /mnt/mmc/ports/picayune
chmod: /mnt/mmc/ports/picayune/tools/gmKtool.py: No such file or directory
chmod: /mnt/mmc/ports/picayune/tools/oggenc: No such file or directory
Removed unnecessary files
Unzipping the patch file...

p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs LE)

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 52428800 bytes (50 MiB)

Extracting archive: ./tools/patches/picayune.zip.001
--
Path = ./tools/patches/picayune.zip.001
Type = Split
Physical Size = 52428800
Volumes = 3
Total Physical Size = 153573115
----
Path = picayune.zip
Size = 153573115
--
Path = picayune.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 153573115

Everything is Ok

Size:       160803954
Compressed: 153573115
Patch file successfully extracted.
Applying xdelta patch
Failed to apply patch
xdelta3: target window checksum mismatch: XD3_INVALID_INPUT
xdelta3: normally this indicates that the source file is incorrect
xdelta3: please verify the source file with sha1sum or equivalent```
marsh maple
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Did you download with manifest or just grab from steam?

keen shoal
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steam

marsh maple
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The vm release is in the betas tab

keen shoal
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no wonder

marsh maple
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Core is yyc

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Hence the manifest

keen shoal
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download_depot 2088840 2088841 8486760071155312825
Depot download failed : error downloading manifest 8486760071155312825 from cache5-sgp1.steamcontent.com (Access Denied)

marsh maple
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Whut

keen shoal
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weird...

marsh maple
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Just do properties - beta then

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I’ll figure out the manifest later, I don’t really want to sign up for maintaining this one every update

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713143214833431145

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Ok wrong manifest id

keen shoal
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testing if this route works

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marsh maple
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It will until there’s an update

keen shoal
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chmod: /mnt/mmc/ports/picayune/tools/gmKtool.py: No such file or directory
chmod: /mnt/mmc/ports/picayune/tools/oggenc: No such file or directory
Removed unnecessary files
Unzipping the patch file...
Patch archive not found!
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missing tools

marsh maple
keen shoal
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ah i see... just the xdelta

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patching takes <5 mins

marsh maple
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Yes I had the patch unzip bail unnecessarily at one point. I fixed it.

keen shoal
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text not readible on the 35xxH

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otherwise runs smoothly

marsh maple
past salmon
marsh maple
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I think I need to fine-tune audio compression...

marsh maple
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Ok, I think I have the fonts in a good spot.

marsh maple
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Ugh, downloading old depots is broken for Picayune and they're still pushing updates. Therefore I've lost my edits progress, and I changed a TON. I'm gonna shelve it for now and wait.

languid badger
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Damn dude. I'm really sorry. I was keeping tabs on this until you said it was ready.

marsh maple
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It's my own fault for not writing it down like I usually do. Maybe we'll have some other improvements in a month that will serve this game better anyway.

gilded schooner
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just curious since they slowed down a bit on patches (last was the start of april), do you still have plans to work on this port or do you think it'll end there?

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would be more than happy to test if you end up getting it going

marsh maple
past salmon
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Hmmmm, I need to find time try to tackle this one considering the new compression workflow, maybe the fuckton of audio could work together with texture compression on 1GB devices just fine.

keen shoal
past salmon
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oh lord, yeah I am looking at those fonts, that could not make it even smaller lol. If I find a free day I might try to replace them

languid badger
past salmon
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with this note:

Unreleased due to problem with dumping textures. UTMT-CLI gives a segfault during this step. It may be due to memory constraints or texture size.```

and no patches etc, so at that point I dont need that
past salmon
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ok, the texture externalization crashing is not because of ram usage, unfortunately.

past salmon
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IT seems to be somewhat viable with a classic texture repacking, xdelta would be a bit larger, but we have worse around here. The fonts are trully terrible though

keen shoal
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What device have you gotten it playable on?

past salmon
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I ran it for few minutes on OGA with Arkos, memory usage was around 700MB

languid badger
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So should we try testing with your ZIP now?

past salmon
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I havnt done any?

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its pointless until I (or someone else) decide to do something about the text