Pizza Tower

[thorn relic]

so doubt that

[acoustic crater]

Hmm

[thorn relic]

i mean its no big deal

just a bit curious

[acoustic crater]

Yeah it definitely has rumble on my end so maybe it's a sdl2 quirk or something

[solemn steppe]

eh, keep pissino >.>

unless you want to push a script to fix it - but I have no plans to do so any time soon

[acoustic crater]

Nah

Think I’ll submit the pull request today then

[fervent mural]

Dumb question but thought I'd ask

Can we use mods in this port?

Wanted to see if maybe this could work for better fullscreen support on 640x480 devices https://gamebanana.com/mods/508514

[acoustic crater]

Idk maybe?

I didn’t try using mods.

[solemn steppe]

the patcher I provided should allow you to port mods - but this is a kind of "have fun attempting it" scenario

[fervent mural]

👍

It did take an hour to patch, though

And performance seems to be a bit worse in some levels

Still playable

[grand mason]

is this finished plus can this game be able to be played with 1gb of ram?

[lone drum]

Current test build is running on some devices with 1gb yes

[cerulean vortex]

Runs good on rg35xxH and trimui smart pro. There's a bit of slowdown at times. I think turning off texture filtering helps a little for performance. I cleared 4 or 5 stages

[slow sorrel]

9 hours for the steam sale!

[static swift]

r36s - Does it work on devices with 1GB RAM?

[verbal surge]

yes. They compressed the textures so it works now on 1gb devices

[marsh veldt]

Runs great on cubexx muos pixie

[static swift]

I bought it for $14.79 and hope it runs well.

I bought it because it said the game runs, but it doesn't work. It's r36s - AmberELEC and I also installed the runtime today.

[acoustic crater]

Hotfix is in

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/pull/1643

[static swift]

Where can I download the files?

[acoustic crater]

Replace this one

Start fresh

[static swift]

Do I need to reinstall?

[acoustic crater]

You need to replace the patchscript and pizzatower.port file and then add your game assets again.

[static swift]

Is it normal for no text to appear when patching?

[acoustic crater]

...no?

[static swift]

I deleted the existing installed files, replaced them with the uploaded patchscript, and reinstalled them, but where do I set the language settings?

[acoustic crater]

Language? For ingame?

[static swift]

I want to change it to Korean, but it's not in the settings.\

[acoustic crater]

Game doesn't support Korean then

[static swift]

The game supports Korean, but there is no language setting.

[slow sorrel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PizzaTower/comments/1f3hi5o/how_do_i_change_the_language_in_the_new_update/
looks like its only in the main-menu

[static swift]

The game is extremely unstable. It slows down and even shuts down.

[acoustic crater]

It's stable for the dozens of others who tested the game when we called for testers the past few months.

[static swift]

It's too slow to play on a 1GB gaming console and freezes frequently.

[static swift]

Did you test it on r36s? It's too slow and freezes often. This is a state in which the game cannot be played.

[acoustic crater]

We don't support the r36s.

[static swift]

What are the minimum supported devices?

[latent river]

Is it easy to apply the 4:3 mod on this port?

[verbal surge]

I think turning off texture filtering helped performance

[lone drum]

This happened to me, too, I got the prompt to start the patching, then nothing until it actually finished, so it did run, it just didn't show any progress for some reason (is there a --verbose option that wasn't on? I don't know, I just know that exists for a lot of Linux command line stuff)

[unkempt trellis]

Did you install it properly? Is your CFW configured/installed properly? Is your device an actual r36s running a supported CFW?
When there’s extensive effort by a porter to port a game, and extensive amounts of testing by multiple people on a variety of devices, you being the only one with the issue you’re describing points to a “you” issue - not an issue with a port.
My suggestion is to confirm that there’s not an issue on your end before coming in hot and being rude to those who have put in the effort to make a game available on a wide range of devices.

[static swift]

I have two r36s devices, one with AmberELEC installed and the other with ArkOS installed. AmberELEC will run the game to some extent, but on ArkOS it will crash and freeze frequently.

ArkOS was downloaded and installed from the site below: https://github.com/AeolusUX/ArkOS-R3XS
AmberELEC was downloaded and installed from the site below: https://github.com/AmberELEC/AmberELEC-prerelease/releases

And for port games, we installed and tested about 200 games.

I don't know who you are, but I have never acted rudely. Rather than registering the game on the port, shouldn't you explain in detail how to use it and the precautions? I know that registering on the port is a lot of work. However, if you purchase a game and it doesn't run, who will you blame?

[cerulean slate]

ArkOS uses more RAM than AmberELEC iirc, so there is even less left for running a game which leads to freeze and crashes. Also, R36s is a low end device, which is cool but you get what you pay for. Maybe, if you haven't already, try what is suggested here #1330639291122061405 message

[cerulean slate]

Just as a reminder, all the ports are made available for free by our passionated contributors, so that would be a shame to blame them especially when no porter said here it will run perfectly on r36s.

[thorn relic]

h700 already struggles quite a bit, i would imagine rk3326 is hardly playable

[blissful bronze]

ifts not playable on rk3326 we can exclude it 🙂

[acoustic crater]

The game you purchased on steam will run perfectly fine on steam.

[acoustic crater]

How's that done in the port.json? I don't remember seeing a !rk3326 before

[blissful bronze]

lowpower is rk3326 I think

[acoustic crater]

Could also be ingame settings

[unkempt trellis]

I happen to be the moderator that took notice of your behavior in this thread because you are actively choosing to be rude to those who have put in effort to port this game.

The reality is that you’re using essentially the lowest end devices that are readily available, and you chose to not read through this testing and dev thread where it’s mentioned several times that the chips used in the r36s struggle with this port. Despite this, and by your own admission, the porters still made it successfully run on the potato chip and shoestrings that make up the internals of the r36s. They should be congratulated for that - not knocked because you’re unhappy with the performance of your device.

[sick leaf]

so, as jeod said i downloaded the pizzatower.port and patchscript and replaced them, but the error of the teacup with "first boot failed" appeared again, did i miss something? also when patching, the only thing that does is making the text box bigger, then making it smaller, and then "patch complete"

-# last time i tried this port (like a week ago) it didnt work bc r36s performance, so just in case, im trying to run it in a r36s, if that helps

[acoustic crater]

I pushed a few hotfixes that are currently live on my mirror repo but are not live on the PM app yet.

That said you can provide your patchlog.txt file and I can try to see what it hung up on.

[sick leaf]

alright, give me a moment and I'll be on it

i just installed dotnet, adding it it to portmaster/libs

[acoustic crater]

What’s it named?

[sick leaf]

dotnet-8.0.12.aarch64.squashfs

[acoustic crater]

Take out the aarch64 part.

[sick leaf]

on my way

[acoustic crater]

Did you install it manually?

[sick leaf]

wait

i accidentally added the dotnet-8.0.12.aarch64 (1).squashfs

my bad

[sick leaf]

yes, i did

[acoustic crater]

Ok if it's installed through PM App it gets renamed correctly.

Manual installs don't get that.

[sick leaf]

it was manual install

[acoustic crater]

File needs to be named dotnet-8.0.12.squashfs

[sick leaf]

thank you

[sick leaf]

patch running well now, thank you :3

[sick leaf]

btw the port works nice in r36s at least for me

so great job

[acoustic crater]

Heh, maybe our Korean friend has a dud

[solemn steppe]

rk3326 cfws usually come with some pretty bad issues with dram frequency tables and with the ondemand governor being terrible

[sick leaf]

i think they just have a standard thats too high, it doesn't runs perfectly, but i think its still good

[solemn steppe]

I tested on rk3326 and performance was okay, but my device is using the correct dram freq and is set to the performance governor on dram, cpu and gpu

and I dont have an r36s - they havent sent me one nor do I plan on using my own budget to adquire one

[acoustic crater]

Who’s “they” in this case?

[solemn steppe]

whoever makes the r36s

[acoustic crater]

R36s has no central company like anbernic

That’s why they’re so sketchy

[sleek wren]

"game console"

Thats the "brand" on my box

[acoustic crater]

*Game Consoie” or “Data Frog” I guess

[sleek wren]

Data frog too? I thought that was sf2000

[full drift]

Even with the same H700 chip, would having more RAM help with running PortMaster better? I heard the RG34XXSP will come with 2GB of RAM.

[solemn steppe]

there are some titles that use mmaped assets where having more mem ensures you page in and out less often

so you get a bit less stuttering

but in practice it really only matters for games that need 2gb

[full drift]

Thanks for the answer.

[sick leaf]

is it normal that pizza tower has no sound in the port?

[acoustic crater]

No

Where is your sound folder?

In assets or in saves?

I'm sure I fixed that

[ocean obsidian]

Where exactly do I find the dotnetfile?

I’m just unsure about that part.

[acoustic crater]

You install it when you install the port, but you got the port manually.

You can get the runtime from the PM app.

[ocean obsidian]

How should I do that?

[acoustic crater]

Open the app, go to options, pick runtimes, find dotnet from there.

[ocean obsidian]

Okay, thank you

Is it normal for the patching text box to be blank?

It’s not frozen.

[acoustic crater]

In a hotfix.

Actually that should be live by now.

[ocean obsidian]

Mama Mia, I’m in

[acoustic crater]

Just did a fresh install from the PM app and I see text in the patcher gui.

Patching completes and game boots with audio.

So any who have further issues would either have manually installed or done something wrong, most likely.

[sick leaf]

\ports\pizzatower\assets\sound\Desktop

[acoustic crater]

Ok that's where it should be.

[sick leaf]

so, no guesses of why it doesnt works?

[acoustic crater]

Any hints in your log?

[sick leaf]

i forgot abt sending the log, sorry I'll try to send it today

also p rank in r36s

[acoustic crater]

Patchlog

[acoustic crater]

Do you magically get sound if you put the sounds folder in saves?

[sick leaf]

for me its calledsound , is it okay?

[acoustic crater]

Yeah

[sick leaf]

do i put it in H:\ports\pizzatower\saves\saves or H:\ports\pizzatower\saves

[acoustic crater]

Just the first saves

[sick leaf]

theres still no sound

[acoustic crater]

You're using arkos on an r36s?

[sick leaf]

mhm! the aeux version

[somber mango]

Hello there i have the same problem with the sound and im using arkos on an r36s

[acoustic crater]

I wonder if the libfmod libraries aren’t loading…

[cerulean slate]

It’s possible that they are built for an incompatible glibc

Is it working on ArkOS on other devices?

[acoustic crater]

That's what I was thinking but unless we glossed over it, the port shouldn't have passed testing in that case.

My guess is whoever reported on arkos has sound working.

[steady bloom]

having a weird issue on patchlog, idk if its me or this. RG35xx with muos attached log with error

[tacit mantle]

does this for trimui smart pro?

[hollow sky]

Yeah, it did for me, but i had to set a faster cpu speed to make it run better, still playable

[cedar night]

Great to see it works on your RG35XX-H. Could you send me a link for the pizzatower.zip you used? I used the one on portmaster.games/games, and replaced the patchscript etc. - but I'm still stuck at the loading screen around two-thirds after a suspiciously fast patching. Then the game just shuts down.

[fervent mural]

Oof, I don't remember the specifi zip I used

I think I grabbed it from https://github.com/JeodC/PortMaster-PizzaTower

Ah nvm it seems like he took it down

I didn't use anything out of the ordinary though, just my patched data.win for the 4:3 resolution

Whatever you're using should work

[cedar night]

Ah yeah, I also got a 404 for that link - but thanks for the reply anyway. Might be the patched data.win then which keeps it from loading - haven't added it yet. Where did you find that one?

[fervent mural]

That one you need to provide yourself 😅

That's the game!

[cedar night]

Well, I'll just stop trying then - also started over again with the files straight from the Portmaster app on the 35XX-H, with no luck. I've wasted too many hours on this by now. Thanks anyway.

[acoustic crater]

I moved all that.

https://github.com/JeodC/PortMaster-Games/tree/main/ports/released/gamemakerengine/pizzatower

[slow sorrel]

there is a texture in pizza tower called spr_peppalette, my theory is that if you will exclude it from compression the game will be able to color Pissino properly

[verbal surge]

Pissino must remain yellow. At all costs.

[vale heart]

a quick question, is the vsyn option better to leave off or on?

[dry delta]

Does the device need to be connected to internet to do the initial patch?

Nvm, for some reason whenever I try patching it says that dotnet runtime isn’t installed, but to my knowledge I can’t install it on muOS.

Anyone know what’s goin on here?

[viscid portal]

You should have it in your downloads, just post it

[viscid portal]

You need to open the PortMaster app on your device, then go to options, then install runtimes, then install dotnet

[dry delta]

Ah ok

[viscid portal]

Yes you need to be connected to the internet. If you can't with your device, doenload it on pc, then insert the SD that has your ports on it, open PortMaster in the ports folder, and copy yhe dot net runtime into the libs folder

Amd remove the .aarch64 from it if it's oresent

[dry delta]

Where would the pc download be?

[viscid portal]

So it's just dotnet.squashfs

The Portmaster-New github

Here

[dry delta]

K

[viscid portal]

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/tree/main/runtimes

[dry delta]

Thx

[viscid portal]

Very top one

Remove .aarch64

[dry delta]

Alrighty

It’s patching now, thx for the help