#Monolith / Star of Providence

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narrow matrix
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INSTRUCTIONS
FOR ITCH
Purchase the game from itch.io, grab the Windows version (Monolith.exe), and and copy it into ports/monolith/monolith_itch folder.

FOR STEAM
Purchase the game from Steam, download using download_depot 603960 603962 8714862893871944277, and copy all the game files from /assets into ports/monolith/monolith_steam

NOTES

  • I'm very open to controller scheme suggestions

CONTROLS

L-STICK | Move
L3      | Fire
R-STICK | Mouse / aim
R1      | Dash
R2      | Bomb
START   | Pause
A       | Confirm

CHANGELOG

  • Add Steam support (and update metadata accordingly)
  • Upload initial port for testing
  • Fix audio using -0 zip switch (thanks, Fraxinus)
  • Add config to default to 640 x 480
  • Switch apk wrapper to fix ROCKNIX graphics support (on some devices)
  • Include single-stick controls for wierdos

TESTING

[x] AmberELEC (AUDIO BROKEN)
[x] ArkOS
[ ] ROCKNIX -- works and doesn't work, varies between devices/versions?
[x] muOS

[ ] 480x320 (optional)
[x] 640x480 (AUDIO BROKEN)
[x] 720x720 (RGB30)
[ ] Higher resolutions (e.g., 1280x720)
itch.io
Monolith by Team D-13

Fight your way through the ruins of an ancient facility.

Steam
Star of Providence

Descending in the darkness of a long-abandoned facility, a lone ship searches for wealth, power and the scattered pieces of the past.______________________________________________________________________________Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a progression of floors as you make your w...

Price

$7.49

Recommendations

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marble sky
tranquil crown
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Woohoo did you use the RIsk of Rain package?

shadow jasper
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isnt risk of rain in loader next? this looks like the old gmloader

shadow jasper
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I noticed sound stops working soon after loading into the first stage

narrow matrix
shadow jasper
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demo

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narrow matrix
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okay -- sound issue effects demo and full game
I have no idea what the issue is or how to fix it ... so i'm abandoning this one 🪦

marsh oxide
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Damn, was looking forward to this one. Good try though 👍

narrow matrix
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@tranquil crown ever had an issue where audio plays fine, then just ceases to? any pointers?

narrow matrix
marsh oxide
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Just between you and me, I don’t play most Portmaster games with the sound on 🤫

tranquil crown
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tranquil crown
marble sky
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Is this with old gmloader?

narrow matrix
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yup

marble sky
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We can just try it with next

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Might as well

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But this issue is new too me😄

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Its not just that sfx are working? Thats usually the case then the ogg's are not zipped into the apk

narrow matrix
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it works fine until you change a setting, or when you progress a little way into the first level, then never plays again. weird. oggs are zipped into apk (i'm pretty sure)

tranquil crown
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and you zipped with -0?

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oh i found the boo boo

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    zip -r -0 ./game.apk ./game.apk ./assets/
    echo "Zipped contents to ./game.apk"
fi```
tranquil crown
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sturdy yoke
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Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repo

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Sounds useful

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Especially for those that don’t use separate repos for each port during dev

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In tab’s case he forked the whole portmaster repo and did his port dev there.

narrow matrix
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... and also very handy for when your port exceeds the standard discord file-size limit 🙂

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haha. actually. there's another advantage --
testers always get the latest version of the port every time (i.e. i don't have to manually upload a new file to discord each time)

shadow jasper
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hmm loaded it on rocknix (havnt done that before) and it has broken graphics there

narrow matrix
shadow jasper
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on both panfrost and libmali

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I can hear the sound and controls etc

narrow matrix
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hmm. anybody else familiar with this rocknix-specific issue? like, it's working on the rest, right?

shadow jasper
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have tried only arkos so far other than that, gonna check muos quick

narrow matrix
shadow jasper
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y, its fine there

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shadow jasper
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I think they will be doing something with sway cursor problem in the next update, so mabye its going to be resolved

shadow jasper
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I think it might be rather something about the screen resolution, because it works on 480p, but not on 320p (OGA) and 1080p on Ace

narrow matrix
shadow jasper
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while I can do that on rocknix, the ingame reticle gets stuck on the edges or the screen and gets misaligned again

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I hope the next rocknix release does something with that

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shadow jasper
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just ran on the edge of the screen and there it stuck. Note that was on the device where rest of the game renders improperly, but the cursor works :D. But I had this problem on Ace with multiple gms games with glitchy cursors, often behaves like that.

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Lemme quickly see it on 353vs

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no, on 480p device its fine

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but this I believe you can ignore as there will be changes in the next rocknix release, so no point in stressing over that now

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shadow jasper
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oh I mean the CURSOR works., but the other graphical issues (as you can see on the photo above ) remain, so not ready for release

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shadow jasper
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I have no clue really, but it works on 640x480, maybe its broken on certain resolutions

marble sky
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Time for !rocknix :p

marsh oxide
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Rocknix isn’t getting updates anymore right?

shadow jasper
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uhm, no it does? THey just dont update every so often. But there is a plenty of stuff being done on the dev channels on their discord

marsh oxide
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Nevermind, I think I was thinking of JELOS

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hasty breach
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I can't help with development of this port but as a user I have a question: Is there an easy way I can rebind controls myself?
I would like to replace L3 to shoot with something else.

marble sky
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Maybe edit the gptk file

hasty breach
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I'm a little confused about what's going on here; that's why I asked

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But obviously it's just my silly request. If it's any trouble to guide me in the right direction then just don't bother. Don't want to cause troubles 🙂

broken wind
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Sometimes when controls aren't used by the stick, controls use default gptk inputs
Default gptk input for L3 is "mouse_right"
Can you add "mouse_right" to some button to see if it works?

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Maybe try "a = mouse_right" (or other unused face button)?

hasty breach
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I'll give it a shot. Thank you!

broken wind
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Tell us if it works

hasty breach
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I'm sorry for being stupid... I discovered that I can rebing controls in-game

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Sorry to have wasted your time

broken wind
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Not a waste of time
Not everyone will find game options
Just curious if changing inputs to "a = mouse_right" works

hasty breach
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It didn't work

broken wind
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I see, guess it wasn't the case
Thanks for testing that out, appreciate it

narrow matrix
shadow jasper
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good news, now I have image on OGA (320p), still not on Ace, but that one doesnt use sway (weston only on both drivers) , so the whatever fix they did wont apply there. You will need to wait for someone with x55 or something, mine is at least a week away in shipping.

narrow matrix
marble sky
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Is this gmloadernext? @narrow matrix

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Gmloadernext has this weird problem where it goes mostly black screen when the audio is not in the apk

narrow matrix
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it could potentially be a demo vs full version thing, though, because i recall ganimoth is testing the demo

marble sky
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Definitely worth checking out some different methods

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Maybe ganimoth can try out gmloadernext for this

tranquil crown
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Also just to confirm this is the itch.io version and not the steam version?

narrow matrix
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i'm going to see if i can pick up some used x55, no matter how beaten up it is. can't have ganimoth doing all the large screen testing 😎

quaint thorn
narrow matrix
# quaint thorn we can get you one 🙂

will look around to see what's used. honestly, if the sticks (or something) are broken, i couldn't care. i've got everything else covered -- just need to start games on rocknix and play a little

shadow jasper
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shadow jasper
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its basically just 3588 and s922x. No idea about 3399, nobody uses rg552 with rocknix anyway lol. Or actually at all these days

strong canopy
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now game calls star of providence

marble sky
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That version is YYC

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You need the old game

strong canopy
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where it to see

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linux version this?

image.png
marble sky
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Linux version is still monolith

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Was never updated

strong canopy
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oh lol really?

marble sky
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Yeah but luckily thats also the reason this works at all

strong canopy
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i thought if you on star of providence page ...

wise lion
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I've got a question, I'm using portmaster and I'm wondering if it's possible to get rid of the generic mousepointer?
Is it fairly easy, or a game-by-game issue?

narrow matrix
wise lion
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Va-11 hall-a on ArkOs.

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Powkiddy x55 if that helps.

narrow matrix
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does your arkos add a system pointer to this game?

wise lion
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Yes.

narrow matrix
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it's a per-port thing, i think

wise lion
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Damn, am I screwed?

narrow matrix
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which game are trying to do this for?

wise lion
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Va11 hallA. I saw a thread talking about maybe using the 32 bit version, but I'm having a hard time finding those.

narrow matrix
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sorry. no idea. monolith is abandoned and i didn't deal with the va11halla port

wise lion
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Ah, whoops!

shadow jasper
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x55 doesnt have arkos, are you sure youa re running that?

tranquil crown
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This works with the linux steam version

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<@&1216123318122577972> download_depot 603960 603962 8714862893871944277

tranquil crown
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and copy all the game files from /assets into ports/monolith

narrow matrix
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Monolith / Star of Providence

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... and please send updated .sh with any changes you make

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this is literally the most frankenstein thing ever! a port raised from the grave and now pieced together with different parts 😆

tranquil crown
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my windows defender is getting cranky

tranquil crown
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@narrow matrix have confirmed just drop Monolith.exe from the steam depot download and it works great with the package too. So jsut need to update the instructions.. Have PRed an update

vapid galleon
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What about the GOG version of Monolith? Will that be supported? Will I need to send the .win file to the patch maker for a patch to be created?

tranquil crown
vapid galleon
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I do have UTMT, but I'm not actually sure what parts the patch changes?

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Come to think of it, I'm not sure whether it even needs a patch. I'll try and test-run it as is.

tranquil crown
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Patch helps with the text feasibility but that’s it

vapid galleon
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As in reduces the text size?

tranquil crown
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Just readability

lapis cove
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Any chance of getting the latest content update working?

tranquil crown
meager swift
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i bought the steam version and did the depot download but all i'm left with is an assets folder and no monolith.exe

tranquil crown
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download_depot 603960 603961 7781865563262412532

tranquil crown
meager swift
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Awesome thanks