Super Hexagon

[zealous trellis]

First Westonpack X11 port 🎉

Super Hexagon is a fast-paced action game developed by Terry Cavanagh. You control a triangle, dodging walls closing in on you. With increasing difficulty and a catchy electronic soundtrack, it's a test of reflexes and precision. My high score on Hexagonest is 165 seconds, good luck 😛

Port Download link: Link removed, testing is done, PR is merged, just get it on the Portmaster App :)

Installation:

Itch (https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/super-hexagon)

Place the Linux installer (uperhexagon-05282015-bin) in superhexagon/gamefiles/itch/

GOG (https://www.gog.com/game/super_hexagon)

Place the Linux installer (gog_super_hexagon_2.1.0.4.sh) in superhexagon/gamefiles/gog/

Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/221640/Super_Hexagon/)

Download this depot download_depot 221640 221643 7186315654381968499
Place the gamefiles (without any surrounding folders) into superhexagon/gamefiles/steam/

The necessary runtime to run this should be automatically downloaded, but if it isn't, download this file, remove the .aarch64 from the filename, and place in the autoinstall folder, or $controlfolder/libs

Tests

[X] ArkOS
[X] AmberELEC
[X] muOS
[X] Knulli
[ ] Rocknix (Mali)
[X] Rocknix (Panfrost)

[X] 640x480
[X] 480x320
[X] 720x720
[] Higher

(Rocknix mali is not supported at this time because of runtime restrictions, but will probably be in the future.)

Controls

dpad, analog sticks, l1,r1 - left right
a, start - confirm (space)
b, select - back, exit (esc)
x - tab (online leaderboard)

[crystal charm]

This goes on sale for a buck at GOG like once every couple weeks. I'll pick it up next time my tracker tells me it's on sale. Congrats on the first Westonpack port!

[zealous trellis]

Thank you! I hope this works out, it's a pretty weird set up. Basically... There's 2 different copies of SDL2 used here. Hexagon is loading SDL2 with X11 support, which then uses GLEW to set up GLX. My compatibility layer then converts the GLX calls into the native SDL2 that it loads as the backend. Oh also it's running on GL4ES and Box64 😅

I was gonna ask around if anyone has the game on GOG. I thought i had it on there, but apparently i have it everywhere but GOG. ❤️

[zealous trellis]

Testing this on muOS right now, and it seems like

1. I've made some mistakes in the script, will update this port in a bit
2. muOS reports the wrong screen resolution in DISPLAY_WIDTH and DISPLAY_HEIGHT, that really messes up Westonpack...
3. The runtime hasn't made its way onto the Portmaster App yet, so has to be downloaded manually https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/raw/refs/heads/main/runtimes/weston_pkg_0.2.aarch64.squashfs
   and then renamed (remove the .aarch64)

Hmm

[latent jasper]

I noticed the muos resolution thing the other day. It reports screen size as 800x600 on a 640x480 display. But only when run through PM? So perhaps easily fixed in a PM script somewhere?

[zealous trellis]

Also the control scheme is messed up for me. It really seems like PM is setting up the wrong device

[zealous trellis]

I updated the port to fix some issues, but the muOS resolution and control issues remain, they're outside of my control.

[tame escarp]

Bummer rocknix is s no go

[zealous trellis]

Right now, but that will change as soon as i figure out that one annoying bug that messes up my crustyGLX library on Rocknix

[tame escarp]

Hahaha. You on latest version?

[zealous trellis]

Of my library? I'm sitting at the source code 😛

The rocknix thing isn't just my device, we've actually done quite a lot of testing internally of this runtime. Rocknix is very hard to integrate with all of this, since this basically replaces a lot of the graphics stack on your device temporarily.

[tame escarp]

I meant latest rocknix version

I'm sure it wouldn't change anything

But it's 1-18

[zealous trellis]

It really doesn't.

[zealous trellis]

Fixed the resolution bug on muOS. I was being dumb. Controls are still being weird. Investigating

[coarse rapids]

<@&1216123318122577972> ping should probably go up
✅ RGB10X Amberelec, 35xxSP muOS

[molten jolt]

<_<

CMON

Give me a chance to fix the gui

https://tenor.com/view/panicking-gif-22262539

[tame escarp]

Haha

Klops I'm sad

[molten jolt]

Cool story

im not a therapist

Wassup?

[coarse rapids]

suicide is always an option

[tame escarp]

Um... nevermind

It wasn't supposed to get that kind of reaction..

[tame escarp]

That's straight Crazy, man...

[coarse rapids]

YOu would be free of sadness and pain! 😛

[tame escarp]

Whoa

Thats enough

[molten jolt]

Yeah... don't do that. 😅

[coarse rapids]

I guess that solution would be.. how germans used to say... too final? 😛

[tame escarp]

Right...

[pearl tundra]

@zealous trellis I have the GOG version

[zealous trellis]

Why the hell are y'all talking about suicide

[digital acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-biden-presidential-debate-huh-confused-gif-9508832355999336631

[coarse rapids]

bad taste joke 🙂

my apologies

[digital acorn]

He has been a savage in kcd2 the last week so can't blame him

[coarse rapids]

no I have been soft, I left this roma camp and everyone is alive.

unlike the cuman nearby

but I still plan on trying to kill everyone in Kuttenberg

[digital acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/get-to-work-work-simpsons-smithers-trendizisst-gif-15496843

[coarse rapids]

just for fun

[zealous trellis]

Awesome! Could you please grab the installer, put it on any Linux device in a new folder and then do the following:

unzip gog_superhexagon_versionnumber.sh
ls -R . > file_structure.txt

And then send over file_structure.txt?
I'll have the gog version supported asap. 🙏

[pearl tundra]

Will do this when I get back from work!

[zealous trellis]

Thank you!

[zealous trellis]

Thanks for testing. Did the controls work okay for you on muOS? They are still being a bit wonky on my 40xxh, start is mapped to one of the shoulder buttons for example.

[coarse rapids]

yeah, its doing that as well, but do I need to use them? It seems just using dpad is fine

[zealous trellis]

No it shouldn't prevent you from playing the game, but it's weird because the gptk file is definitely setup correctly. I'll look into why it's doing that today. Probably another quirk of my double SDL Setup.

[coarse rapids]

maybe it could use the kdog's hacksdl to disable sdl controls

https://github.com/cdeletre/hacksdl

[zealous trellis]

Definitely, but haven't had too much luck getting it loaded to be honest. Not having any luck with LD_PRELOAD. I'm already preloading the custom SDL2 and crusty (which links to SDL2 at runtime). Apparently I can't squeeze hacksdl in-between that. Will have to investigate.

[coarse rapids]

😦

[digital acorn]

This happens if a game uses sdl_joystick vs sdl_gamecontroller

and the reason why we disable sdl_joystick completly and map keyboard controls via gptokeyb

sdl_gamecontroller it correctly gets the correct map via gamecontrollerdb.txt

sdl_joystick it grabs the raw joystick from the device

and then it's all over the place

start mapped to l1, analogue stick reversed and such

[zealous trellis]

So what's the usual fix? Disable via hacksdl?

[digital acorn]

i remove joysticks comepltly in the sdl_init 😄

the hacksdl is rather new from kdog

[zealous trellis]

I can't exactly edit the source code of super hexagon. I'll see if I can either get hacksdl working, or I'll just straight up hack apart the SDL source and make a new build.

[digital acorn]

Oh i thought that was an open source game ^^

[zealous trellis]

That's "Open Hexagon" which is like an open source spiritual successor to this game. It's getting a port too. 😛

[digital acorn]

ahh

nvm then continue 😛

[zealous trellis]

(would be neat if it was open source though, this is from the same guy that made VVVVVV, which he released the source of)

[pearl tundra]

@zealous trellis Here it is

[zealous trellis]

Thank you! ♥️ Looks straight forward enough. Next version will work with GOG

[pearl tundra]

Awesome, will test when it is ready 🙂

[zealous trellis]

Awesome! Working on the SDL controller issues right now. Tough nut.

Also regarding Steam, shipping an emulator library is okay if the API isn't used for DRM, right?
Is there an easy way y'all check if the steam API is used for DRM, or do I have to do the manual way of going through it with gdb and checking if any of the license check functions are called?

[ebon sonnet]

We almost never ship a game with a steam emulator. At most Johnny did some "steam isnt activated" functions on Mono and Gmloader

Just to return something to the game

[ebon sonnet]

https://github.com/JohnnyonFlame/FNAPatches/tree/0c998adb4ce3f0dd5a0407a85a236a27450a4bee/libs

[zealous trellis]

Yeah, the game loads the x86_64 steam API and that also just returns that steam isn't running, because well it isn't.
That errors out the game, but I wonder if it's erroring out because it needs those for achievements, or if it's an actual license check.

[ebon sonnet]

Errors out the game? Like crashes or just logs it?

[zealous trellis]

Both, logs it and then exits.

[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.so.

[ebon sonnet]

ehh😅

Might be on the drm-free list

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

Its not on here

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221640/discussions/0/828923944451210748/?l=turkish

terry says he needs it for leaderboards and friends

[digital acorn]

Can always just exclude steam version

[ebon sonnet]

Nothing wrong with just exlcluding steam version

A lot of ports require itch or gog versions

https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/super-hexagon
I mean its 3 bucks on itch, screw steam😄

[zealous trellis]

Yup. That's probably what I'm gonna do. The game is dirt cheap, if you want to play it on PM, just get it again somewhere else I guess... Would've been cool to get all versions of the game working though 🙂

[ebon sonnet]

Yeah it get it, you could ask terry for permission. Thats a reach though :p

[zealous trellis]

When bogodroid is stable I'm also gonna add the android version, which has some advantages over the Linux version, like being able to work with other aspect ratio screens and supporting refresh rates over 60hz.

[ebon sonnet]

Thats nice, are you also gonna do OpenHexagon? ^^

[zealous trellis]

I'm technically already in Terry's DMs. Because I asked him about permission to port VVVVVV to the SNES years ago

[zealous trellis]

Yessss

[ebon sonnet]

Hey its worth a try haha

[zealous trellis]

I have now confirmed that the game does not perform license checks.

How did i do that? By writing my own steam "emulator" that does not even include the functions for license checks so that the app would immediately crash if it tried to check the license.

This implements juuuuuust enough for the game to think steam is running (not that the user owns and has installed the game, those are different checks) and then for the game to ask for its leaderboard and never get an answer. And the game works perfectly fine.

[ebon sonnet]

Sounds pretty safe to me, nice work

@digital acorn @cunning tusk What do you guys think😄

[zealous trellis]

And i did it clean room without looking at the Steamworks API docs. Just gdb. Thank you Terry for leaving debug symbols in your game.

And to clarify even more: This game would boot up fine if you ran it on a computer that had steam installed but the user didn't own the game.

[digital acorn]

Agree

Good job

https://tenor.com/view/steve-carrell-magic-tada-magician-trick-gif-15099383

[zealous trellis]

I got the controller stuff working using hacksdl. Pretty awesome tool, thanks for making it @solar cairn!

I With SDL2 Box64, you actually cannot just LD_PRELOAD the aarch64 version, since Box is allocating the symbol table differently when passing libraries through from x64 to arm64 land. So i had to build a x64 version of hacksdl and load it with BOX64_LD_PRELOAD.
To get that to work i actually had to rebuild libconfig too, because the version that's on apt isn't built with -fPIC for some reason.

If it's of use for anyone else trying to disable controllers on Box64 SDL2 games, here you go 🙂

[solar cairn]

nice I have to add the amd64 build procedure 🙂

I just need to setup the github workflow

[zealous trellis]

New version!

This'll probably be the last version before i PR. The finished version will be functionally identical, only adding port metadata and license files.

• Fixed: Resolution issues on muOS
• Fixed: Controller issues (thank you @solar cairn )
• Added: support for GOG version (thank you @pearl tundra)
• Added: support for Steam version
• Added settings save file that starts the game in fullscreen mode by default

Installation:

Itch (https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/super-hexagon)

Place the Linux installer (uperhexagon-05282015-bin) in superhexagon/gamefiles/itch/

GOG (https://www.gog.com/game/super_hexagon)

Place the Linux installer (gog_super_hexagon_2.1.0.4.sh) in superhexagon/gamefiles/gog/

Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/221640/Super_Hexagon/)

Download this depot download_depot 221640 221643 7186315654381968499
Place the gamefiles (without any surrounding folders) into superhexagon/gamefiles/steam/

The neccessary runtime to run this should be automatically downloaded, but if it isn't, download this file, remove the .aarch64 from the filename, and place in the autoinstall folder, or $controlfolder/libs

Port Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ejcnj_iLmiVkx8dQwpqRYwDzEU6hEDsv/view?usp=sharing

Oh also @crystal charm thank you for offering your help, we figured GOG support out. If you already have the game on itch or steam, there's no need for you to pick up the GOG version.

[digital acorn]

@zealous trellis can you tell me why sdl2 is needed and why it doesn't break all other devices?

[zealous trellis]

What is needed?

[crystal charm]

I've been following along, but thanks for letting me know. 🙂

[sinful fjord]

Does it work fine for 480x320 devices?

[digital acorn]

sdl2 library

[zealous trellis]

This is a version of SDL2 that only supports X11 as its graphics backend. Super Hexagon needs this to be able to load GL function pointers through GLX and GLEW.

Instead of interacting with the native graphics driver, it then interacts with crustyGLX, which loads the SDL2 library supplied by the system to render the actual graphics. This is all set up by westonwrap.sh. the additional SDL2 is LD_PRELOADED into the final Box64 binary.

[zealous trellis]

It should, right @coarse rapids ?

[digital acorn]

ah that's why i asked

[coarse rapids]

unfortunately I am not home and I forgot to test it on OGA before, so tomorrow unless someone steps up

[zealous trellis]

Ah sorry, I thought the RGB10x was 320p

[sinful fjord]

Ok. I'll try it later for curiosity. Hope I'm not going to be trolled by ArkOS not having enough glibc for weston lol

[zealous trellis]

I tested ArkOS quite heavily, it'll most definitely work

[sinful fjord]

Good to know, thanks.

Very glad with the possibilities with westonpack now.

[coarse rapids]

on unrelated note, I totally suck at this game

[sinful fjord]

I got pissed off wanting to hear the entire songs that are awesome, but game overs prevents me from doing so

[digital acorn]

So what's missing in testing?

[zealous trellis]

A Knulli device (not TrimUI), and any resolution other than 640x480 (though I don't see that being a problem, I forced the resolution to all the other common ones with CRUSTY_RESOLUTION and it worked as expected.

[coarse rapids]

Implement a message on Rocknix that will tell you "TOUGH LUCK, NO HEXAGON FOR YOU"

[digital acorn]

oh nice

[zealous trellis]

And it plays the game over sound effect on loop until you quit

[coarse rapids]

btw what opengl version this needs? I havnt checked if it runs on panfrost

[zealous trellis]

GL 2.1 I believe

[zealous trellis]

It will not unless I add some stuff to the script to bypass it. The mode of Westonpack that I'm using is completely incompatible with rocknix right now, both Mali and panfrost.

But when I figure out that bug in Westonpack, all ports that use this mode will magically start working on Rocknix so I'm hesitant to add anything to the script.

[digital acorn]

@zealous trellis

• works 720x720, arkos
• works, 720x720 knulli (altough a/b swapped)

rocknix, x55 1280x720, panfrost

mali it starts with black screen and sound

nvm

😄

btw, did you try bypassing the runtime for rocknix?

[zealous trellis]

Awesome, thank you!

[zealous trellis]

That will probably work on Panfrost if I also bypass the second SDL2, but on Mali it will not, since if crusty is gone there's nothing to take GLX calls.

[digital acorn]

that would be enough 🙂

remember 😛

if [ "$CFW_NAME" = "ROCKNIX" ] && ! glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version string"; then
 pm_message "Sorry this port is not compatible with Mali switch to Panfrost"
 exit 1
fi```

[zealous trellis]

Awesome, and I'll make a note somewhere to remove this exception when crusty works on Rocknix.

[zealous trellis]

Awesome! Thank youu

[digital acorn]

not tested though 😛

but somehting liket that

i'm, trying to make it run via panfrost but only get a black screen so far

[zealous trellis]

Try removing the SDL2 from LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and removing everything before and including crusty_glx_gl4es.

I'll test this in a bit

[digital acorn]

yeah

i did

😛

I removed almost everything

“ERROR: No supported FNA3D driver found!”
“ERROR: Call FNA3D_PrepareWindowAttributes first!”

also complains about trying to load vulkan lol

[ebon sonnet]

fna?

What, thats awesome. Custom engine but he used FNA's renderer

Trimui Smart Pro/Knulli

Doesnt run on the a133p yet it seems

Sorry if that was already known😄

[digital acorn]

the runtime is not compatibvle with tsp 🙂

[ebon sonnet]

Not at all? I thought some thing worked on Knulli

[digital acorn]

Yes

tsp is tsp

[ebon sonnet]

I know, knulli on the brick..

[ebon sonnet]

https://discordapp.com/channels/1122861252088172575/1321519037292744725/1325658359684399157

here

[digital acorn]

yeah but thats for the basic x11 stuff

he went to level 5 already with the first port 😛

[magic mesa]

This will be true for the tsp/brick with muOS?

[digital acorn]

all tsp

as always with the cursed device

[ebon sonnet]

Its the gpu driver thats way different on the a133p, so no matter the os

[magic mesa]

It is cursed. Nice screen and form but no decent drivers.

[ebon sonnet]

Hm it was actually knulli with permission issues. New log:

[zealous trellis]

Hmm, I'm gonna try this and see what's wrong.

[zealous trellis]

Yup, Terry actually wrote on his website about this:

The renderer has been replaced with FNA3D, which while not intended for use outside of its parent framework was useful for Hexagon since the game really only needs to render textureless polygons and text. Previously the game used fixed-function immediate-mode OpenGL, it now uses more GPU-friendly data that can be rendered by OpenGL, Direct3D 11, and even Vulkan! And we're able to provide all of this in a single binary - there are no special versions needed, the engine will pick whichever works best for your PC. By default D3D11 is used on Windows while OpenGL is used on Linux and macOS; you can try Vulkan by passing "-renderer Vulkan" as a launch option but it shouldn't make a big difference. In addition to being more energy-efficient in general these performance improvements allow us to support features like high-DPI by default; on macOS and Wayland you should see proper scaling for your display, particularly in fullscreen mode. Despite not being a super graphically-intensive game it looks really good in 4K!

[digital acorn]

still with tsp?

[ebon sonnet]

Yup

On knulli

[digital acorn]

I told you its excluded

😄

only the x11 basic stuff without any opengl stuff whatsoever

[zealous trellis]

Yes, all a133p devices are unsupported by crusty right now. I am currently unable to debug this because i don't have access to a device, and the logs are pretty much meaningless. I suspect its a similar issue to the one on rocknix though.

Wait, did we ever test a133p on muOS?

[ebon sonnet]

The offer for my second tsp still stands😄

[ebon sonnet]

Nah its not out yet

[zealous trellis]

/tmp/weston/lib_aarch64/graphics/crusty_glx//libcrusty.so: undefined symbol: eglGetProcAddress
Bro what do you mean undefined symbol eglGetProcAddress, it's right here:

[ebon sonnet]

Lol

Anyway, good news, it works great on the rg35xx Plus with muos

[zealous trellis]

symbol errors are the worst because linux can never tell you which library is actually missing the symbol, it just prints the last one it checked

[digital acorn]

tried 🙂

[zealous trellis]

fuck it I'm looking at ghidra to see if you can force opengl

[ebon sonnet]

performance seems decent. Think around 45-55 fps with some minor stutters. Playable for sure

[ebon sonnet]

FNA3d can be set to use all their renderers at runtime

Gl, gles, vulkan

Its great

[zealous trellis]

I've noticed that the itch version performs slightly better than the steam version, no idea why

[ebon sonnet]

Oh yeah, i have the itch version. Should mention that

[zealous trellis]

maybe itch was built in release mode. The steam version definitely wasn't. i can read it like an open book in ghidra

like literally. I think if i wanted i could get a fully functional source code out with a few hours of work. Not gonna do that though

[digital acorn]

it starts already its just a black screen ^^

We'Re trying rocknix without runtime

you have to scroll up and not assume things

[zealous trellis]

So the way FNA3D is embedded is it doesn't read the env var, instead it reads the value from a commandline paramenter and then puts it into a SDLHint.

The way i read it, all you have to do is add -renderer OpenGL

not sure how to set the rest of this though

if we can set ES3 though, i could probably ditch gl4es and have this run at 60fps locked.

If this is set to 1, SDL initializes GLES, through the normal path.

bruh, this might not be a westonpack port after all.

[digital acorn]

<< breaks everything

[zealous trellis]

I really tried, but despite everything, it has hardcoded dependencies on desktop GL. FNA3D could do it, but Super Hexagon will refuse to load GL function pointers from an ES3 context. I also tried the new crusty x11egl mode, with SDL_VIDEO_X11_FORCE_EGL, but while it initializes the window and everything, it errors out with "missing GL version", probably still trying to init desktop GL.

So it stays as a westonpack port. But i will definitely try to make Panfrost work.

[digital acorn]

tyvm

[zealous trellis]

also i might have found why a133p devices don't work with crusty 😅

[digital acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/rihanna-lol-laughing-lmao-i-cant-with-you-gif-17690170565846808786

"I accidently found the cure for cancer" that's you working on a problem

whoops i found out you can do xy

😄

[zealous trellis]

no no it's really dumb

[ebon sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/the-scope-creep-scope-scope-creep-yoda-the-scope-creep-is-strong-with-this-one-gif-13872058905618770919

[zealous trellis]

I'll move this to the westonpack thread

[tame escarp]

Bummmmmmer. MuOS it is I guess.

[tame escarp]

Rocknix DOES work?

[digital acorn]

Not for me 🙂

[zealous trellis]

Rocknix Panfrost will work in the next version. Got it working just now

[mellow adder]

I have nothing to add, but this thread is super interesting

I'ma go back to my open-source-so-you-can-just-change it land cause you all are freaking scary wizards

[zealous trellis]

@digital acorn trick is to remove the x64 SDL2 lib from game files, or set BOX64_PREFER_WRAPPED. When you remove the X11 one from libs.aarch64, for some reason Box64 prefers the x64 lib over the system lib because the x64 lib is included in BOX64_LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[zealous trellis]

You should try Ghidra some time, it's really fun (if you hate yourself :D)

[mellow adder]

That looks heinous, but I bet using it for a win would make you feel like a god

"Everything is mutable with enough patience!"

[zealous trellis]

Everything is open source if you're stubborn enough 😛

[zealous trellis]

New version

• Added Rocknix Panfrost compatibility (mali still unsupported)
• Fixed an oversight in my steam stub library. The game no longer crashes when you get an achievement
• Added various open source licenses
• Added a disclaimer readme about the steam stub not being able to break DRM

Installation is as before.

Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ejcnj_iLmiVkx8dQwpqRYwDzEU6hEDsv/view?usp=sharing

@tame escarp Rocknix works now.

[tame escarp]

Awesome! Going to buy it!

[frosty pelican]

I tried running it on EmuElec 4.8-test (s905x2 amlogic) with the itchio bin, but get the following error:

unzip: can't open /roms/ports/superhexagon/gamefiles/itch/superhexagon--bin[.zip]
mv: can't rename '/roms/ports/superhexagon/gamefiles/data/': No such file or directory
mv: can't rename '/roms/ports/superhexagon/gamefiles/data1/': No such file or directory

Okay. solved the problem by unzipping the bin on the pc and then manually copying the data folders over.... now it's working! Very cool!

[coarse rapids]

✅ X55 on panfrost and also on RP5

uuuuh actually... it works on libmali as well O.o?

[digital acorn]

lol

[coarse rapids]

im gonna do a quick restart just in case driver didnt reloaded correctly or something, but thats hillarious 😄

[digital acorn]

Did you need a new runtime?

[coarse rapids]

yep, the driver totally didnt reset correctly

so false alarm

[coarse rapids]

btw, should that "This Port does not support the libMali graphics driver. Switch to Panfrost to continue." message show on screen? Because if so, that is not working

[digital acorn]

It should yeah

[coarse rapids]

I see I am one rocknix version behind, so Im gonna update and see if that changes anything

[digital acorn]

never tested it though 😛

[coarse rapids]

but I dont think I ever saw pm messages on rocknix

[digital acorn]

also possible

So the clause works

/roms/ports/PortMaster/funcs.txt: line 143: $CUR_TTY: ambiguous redirect
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@molten jolt /roms/ports/PortMaster/funcs.txt: line 143: $CUR_TTY: ambiguous redirect

rocknix lol

[molten jolt]

[digital acorn]

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-GUI/pull/219

Why nobody reported this

ever

lol

[molten jolt]

You never asked

[pearl tundra]

✅ RGB30/arkos

had to manually install the runtime

but works well otherwise with the gog version 🙂

[digital acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[pearl tundra]

User error

[zealous trellis]

Could you tell me the exact filename of that bin file please? It should definitely work when downloaded directly from the itch page.

[frosty pelican]

It's superhexagon-05282015-bin, which I directly downloaded from the itchio page.

[zealous trellis]

Hmm yeah that should've worked. What OS are you on.

[frosty pelican]

Emuelec 4.8 test

I know that it's a different beast

But it has portmaster and a lot of the games are working

https://github.com/EmuELEC/EmuELEC/wiki/List-of-Ports-running-on-EmuElec-(work-in-progress)

[zealous trellis]

EmuElec hasn't been tested at all for the runtime and the port, so I'm really pleased to see that this is mostly working. (I don't own any devices that support it, and it hasn't been tested internally).

I'm going to see why that unzip command failed. I'm guessing EmuElec ships with a really old version of that tool?

[ebon sonnet]

Emuelec is pretty similar in age to arkos, and support has been dropped a while back. Pretty cool it works actually

[ebon sonnet]

You could include a 7z binary if you want to

[digital acorn]

no one does 😄

[ebon sonnet]

Some here have oga/ogs

[frosty pelican]

EMUELEC:~ # 7z -h

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs LE)

[ebon sonnet]

I think binary needs unzip version, not 7z 🙂

[frosty pelican]

EMUELEC:~ # unzip
BusyBox v1.32.1 (2025-01-09 15:57:35 CET) multi-call binary.

[ebon sonnet]

Thats a very new busybox version

Nice

[coarse rapids]

4.8, thats some pre-release version, right?

[frosty pelican]

Yes, EmuElec is up and running again with a lot of updates... this is why it's great to see x11 being worked on... as EmuElec is not able (yet) to run x11

[frosty pelican]

Yes, an internal version..

But the official 4.8-test version is from April 2024 and the official 4.8 version should soon be released.

[zealous trellis]

I'll download a recent BusyBox binary and play around with it.

Had some trouble in the past with BusyBox built-ins having slightly different command line syntax compared to their standalone counterparts.

tar and pkill for example

[frosty pelican]

Sorry for my noob knowledge, but am I right to assume that with your work, it might also be possible to run other games/apps /emus that require x11?

[coarse rapids]

short answer: yes

[zealous trellis]

Long answer:
I've yet to write up a lot of documentation about it, but there are several different approaches this runtime provides.

For xlib apps that actually need an X11 Session to be on screen there's the DRM/GL mode. That will run stuff like Webbrowsers, little 2d games, allegro 4 etc. If your app also requires OpenGL, there's the optional mesapack runtime that can provide software rendered GL4.5 or emulated GL2.1. (It's a bit slow though because it still composites the final image on the CPU).

If your app just needs an xserver to be available in the background, there's the headless/noop mode, which runs X11, captures input but leaves the framebuffer open. If your app additionally needs GL, there's crusty (my own library) which can map X11 OpenGL into a SDL2 window, either native GLES3, or GL2.1 through GL4ES.

This port is using headless/noop and crusty_glx_gl4es to map GLX GL2.1 to SDL2 GLES2.

[frosty pelican]

Thank you for answering, even if I just understand half of it, but I will take this message into the emuelec discord to shantigilbert and the other guys that are the programmers!

[coarse rapids]

you could as well tag him here, hes on the server

but maybe its better discussed there, what do I know

[frosty pelican]

Yeah, I'll take it to the emuelec discord, shanti has been a long time not active, so I will just get that info into the internal tester channel...

[zealous trellis]

Feel free to ask me stuff anytime. I'd love to help out with any issues. I want more ports and more devices for this runtime 😛

[frosty pelican]

That's very kind of you, I will tell that the other guys! But the port runs great on my device, thank you again for your work, it's quite the door opener!

[digital acorn]

With Rocknix

[zealous trellis]

But yeah, can confirm that this is a busybox syntax issue

binary@BINARYLAPTOP:~/ziptest$ ls
busybox_UNZIP  superhexagon-05282015-bin
binary@BINARYLAPTOP:~/ziptest$ ./busybox_UNZIP "superhexagon-*-bin" "data/*" -d "."
unzip: can't open superhexagon-*-bin[.zip]
binary@BINARYLAPTOP:~/ziptest$ unzip "superhexagon-*-bin" "data/*" -d "."
Archive:  superhexagon-05282015-bin
warning [superhexagon-05282015-bin]:  235420 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
   creating: ./data/
  inflating: ./data/Linux.README
  inflating: ./data/SuperHexagon
   creating: ./data/x86_64/
  inflating: ./data/x86_64/libogg.so.0
  inflating: ./data/x86_64/libopenal.so.1
  inflating: ./data/x86_64/libSDL2-2.0.so.0
  inflating: ./data/x86_64/libvorbisfile.so.3
.....

[coarse rapids]

Maybe you could use standalone 7zip that is commonly used around?

[frosty pelican]

Okay, if Super Hexagon is an official port, I will add that info to the portlist that another syntax is needed for Emuelec..

[zealous trellis]

Nah, I'll just fix it. I think i can make it work.

seems like busybox is unable to extract the data even when given a full filename. i guess unzip can read past the installer junk, busybox can't.
I'll try the 7zip binary

[zealous trellis]

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/pull/1294

❤️ Thank you everyone for testing and helping with debugging!

[livid oak]

@zealous trellis im having the WIERDEST log out of this one, TSP on Crossmix 1.3

no idea what happend there

[digital acorn]

The runtime is not supported on TSP 🙂

no matter the os I'm afraid

[livid oak]

yea that is a shame, but look at what it says in the log, it just grabbed the skull princess description for some reason

[digital acorn]

That's just harbourmaster checking the local files

[coarse rapids]

maybe it grabbed a porn game because you are fucked on tsp 😛

[digital acorn]

it does that always when its called

[livid oak]

or maybe because its the closest to it in the structure? SK and SU and all that

[molten jolt]

its complaining about the malformed json file. <_<

line 18, column 20 is a syntax error.

"genres": [https://nanaeljustice.itch.io/skull-princess-before-the-red-moon

[coarse rapids]

tbf that game never left testing

[molten jolt]

tbf that json file is borked

[coarse rapids]

so nobody bothered to correct these files

[molten jolt]

😄

[livid oak]

interesting, wierd tho that it does that in the log for a completely different game :P

[molten jolt]

Because the port asked harbourmaster to download the runtime.

and harbourmaster, the package manager for portmaster, checks everything when it is loaded. 😄

[digital acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/katt-williams-mmm-told-you-so-i-told-you-so-told-you-gif-4311431732584579317

[molten jolt]

i'm fighting with it right now, because the latest alpha has a bug... <_<

[tame escarp]

Skull princess. Dunno why it never got ported

[livid oak]

well its basically done, when i tested it it had no issues, wierd that it never got PR'd

[zealous trellis]

The runtime is untested on CrossMix. But from the logs it seems like you didn't download the runtime, or at least it didn't mount correctly.

/mnt/SDCARD/Apps/PortMaster/PortMaster/libs/weston_pkg_0.2.squashfs on /tmp/weston failed: No such file or directory

And harbourmaster fails to download it because it errors out on your broken skull princess install

Just get it on the PortMaster App

[ebon sonnet]

Yeah crossmix will definitely not work

[plain sleet]

Thank you so much for this I’ve been hoping for it for so long!! Can’t wait to test it out

[zealous trellis]

Let me know how it goes! 🙂

[plain sleet]

I'm on muOS, and I downloaded the port from your PR
I downloaded and installed the weston_pkg_0.2.squashfs file, and its currently in PortMaster/libs/
I moved the .sh script into my ROMS/Ports folder
and whenever i run it it crashes

also interestingly when i run the portmaster app, whenever i hover over superhexagon in installed ports, the portmaster app crashes,
the portmaster app also crashes whenever I try and go into the installed runtimes folder

This is on both the current muOS latest public release, as well as the latest muOS Pixie test release

[magic mesa]

PortMaster/ or PortMaster/libs?

[plain sleet]

/mnt/mmc/MUOS/PortMaster/libs/
sorry yeah typo

[zealous trellis]

This doesn't require multiple runtimes, just Westonpack

[magic mesa]

We need to rename Portmaster to Logmaster

[plain sleet]

Also there doesn't seem to be much in the log

[2025-02-13 19:08:25] [*] [(null)]    Screen Output Dimensions: 640x480
Usage: /opt/muos/extra/muxstart <progress> <message>

[zealous trellis]

That is an issue with pm_message on muOS I believe.
Are you sure you've installed the game files correctly?

[plain sleet]

What I did was use this to download the port from your PR, place the contents of that into /mnt/sdcard/ports/superhexagon/ then I moved Super Hexagon.sh to /mnt/sdcard/ROMS/Ports
and I put the renamed weston_pkg_0.2.squashfs into autoinstall and opened portmaster, which installed it.
I put superhexagon-05282015-bin into /mnt/sdcard/ports/superhexagon/superhexagon/gamefiles/itch
I then tried running the game, and it crashed,
and as i said, when i open the muOS PortMaster app, if i hover over super hexagon in installed ports, it crashes as well

Might I have missed a step or done something wrong? admittedly I don't usually try out test ports, I just wanted to try this one out as I've been wanting super hexagon for ages

thanks for the help! :)

[digital acorn]

So you have to use the autoinstall folders of pm

Else the permissions are not getting set correctly

[plain sleet]

I placed weston_pkg_0.2.squashfs into /mnt/mmc/MUOS/PortMaster/autoinstall and then ran portmaster, is that not correct?

[zealous trellis]

If you downloaded it directly from the PR you might have the directory structure wrong. Specifically you'll have two nested superhexagon folders.
It really looks like it cannot find the installer file so that's the most likely issue here

[plain sleet]

Oh I see, I do have a nested superhexagon folder, I'll try and fix that

[zealous trellis]

Put the inner superhexagon folder in /mnt/mmc/ports and the Super Hexagon.sh file in /mnt/mmc/ROMS/Ports/

[plain sleet]

Thats worked! thank you so much, sorry for all that hassle, and thank you so much for the port!

[zealous trellis]

No problem! Have fun!

Note to self: I should probably add echo error messages too until pm_message works correctly on muOS

[digital acorn]

it should work

it was fixed 2 months ago or so

[digital acorn]

rule #1 don't trust users 😄

no offense user

[ebon sonnet]

Harry's pretty smart😄

Testing can be a bit confusing at first

[digital acorn]

@zealous trellis works just fine 🙂

[zealous trellis]

Hmm, I'm on newest muOS and newest PortMaster stable....

[digital acorn]

Where did you use it?

Because the pm_message function is inside funcs.txt which is called by control.txt

[zealous trellis]

I use it several times in the install portion of the script. Maybe I'm doing it wrong let me check.

[digital acorn]

thing is

muxlaunch is a program itself

so if you do pm_message it'll only show for a blink

unless nothing happens

so if you extract something and do that the message stays

so try adding sleep

[zealous trellis]

Ahhh, I thought it functioned like echo, except it printed to the console that's on screen.

(I think it actually does on ArkOS)

[digital acorn]

also on amber

[digital acorn]

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-GUI/blob/main/PortMaster/funcs.txt

for rocknix i did

pm_message() {
    # Usage: pm_message "Some message here."
    if [[ "$CFW_NAME" == "muOS" ]]; then
        /opt/muos/extra/muxstart "$1"
    elif [[ "$CFW_NAME" == "ROCKNIX" ]]; then
        foot -F /bin/bash -c "echo \"$1\"; sleep 5" & 
    else
        echo "$1" > $CUR_TTY
    fi
}```

i added sleep of 5 for rocknix

maybe needs the same for muos

i think when i added the muos i may have tested via ssh and without anythign running

so it stayed there

[zealous trellis]

But according to the usage printout, there's a <progress> argument missing here

[2025-02-13 19:08:25] [*] [(null)]    Screen Output Dimensions: 640x480
Usage: /opt/muos/extra/muxstart <progress> <message>

The way graphics work on muOS is normally that stuff stays on screen even after the program quits, until anything else overwrites the framebuffer.

So I'd expect it to stay on screen until the game takes over on muOS even without the sleep

[digital acorn]

Good question 🙂

[livid oak]

Funny thing is, skull princess never had any issues running, also I assume you mean to get the runtime on the portmaster app right?

[zealous trellis]

Yup just get it on the app, under settings and manage runtimes.

The skull princess metadata is broken. That won't prevent it from running, but that will mess up PM.

[livid oak]

i shud probably fix that skull princess json at some point, also re installed the runtime via the portmaster way and now the log is very different, it hung on the "launching super hexagon" portmaster splash screen till i start select quit it

[zealous trellis]

Thanks.

Hmmm... I'm not super familiar with the device and OS selection yet, is that the stock TrimUI OS?

There's a lot going wrong here in the runtime... 😬

[livid oak]

its crossmix wich is running ontop of the stock os afaik, unlike knulli
i have no idea what exactly what is going wrong but it seems to go fantastically wrong

ill write it down as "not working for now"

[zealous trellis]

Oh yeah absolutely. The moment I saw it start trying to load strings from libGL as files, I knew something was fundamentally broken 😅

Yup, not for now. But I'm getting a TSP in a couple of days from @ebon sonnet and I'm hoping that I can figure Knulli and CrossMix out pretty fast. TrimUI Knulli compatibility is almost there.

[digital acorn]

Crossmix you don't even bother with

https://tenor.com/view/stranger-things-fire-flame-gif-14920648

[latent jasper]

working well for me on knulli / rg40xxh

[zealous trellis]

Glad to hear that! I think Knulli uses the same graphics driver as muOS for the h700 devices.

[rancid valve]

@ebon sonnet I gotta bone to pick with you! I asked about porting this forever ago and you said it was impossible lol. Just purchased on itch and will be throwing it on some muOS devices

[cunning tusk]

It's always impossible until somebody does it :p

[rancid valve]

Hey Johnny, you wouldn't wanna make another rotated screen sdl patch for the mini zero28 would you?

[ebon sonnet]

Impossible for mortals

[cunning tusk]

magicx folks have my no., they can send me one if they want

:p

the bits are all on my github acc., shouldn't be impossible to replicate

[rancid valve]

I'm definitely that lol

[rancid valve]

Haha I gotcha. I managed to get our frontend rotated with lvgl/sdl2, but that's it so far

[cunning tusk]

on a more serious note: don't have one, and by virtue of having far less free time nowadays I won't pester the magicx contact over an unit because idk if I'll have time to do anything cool with it

[rancid valve]

I feel you. I'm working on these a133p devices and people are asking me about rk3566. Not enough time in the day

[zealous trellis]

To be fair, there's like half a linux worth of libraries sitting underneath this to make it possible 😅
It's also not running as well as i'd like it to. Some stutters here and there.

[rancid valve]

Haha well I'm pumped for it

[tame escarp]

People like MEEEEE! 😄 you're an amazing part of the handheld community Corey! If and when the X55 and Miyoo Flip can use MuOS, I'm gonna be one happy happy dude!

[rancid valve]

haha hopefully we can finish up the a133p's soon

[tame escarp]

I'm guessing if you do get muos on 3566 devices, it's probably 2 or 3 months away at the least?

[rancid valve]

at least

[tame escarp]

yikes

my miyoo flip just sits in its case

i have no interest in using the stock firmware at all

[prisma bloom]

GammaOS core is a good alternative

[tame escarp]

Yeah, but I want portmaster on the flip morenthan anything else

[prisma bloom]

I think someone managed to do so on the stock firmware
No official support tho 😛

[tame escarp]

Id love to know how

[prisma bloom]

Reddit is your best bet I guess

[sinful fjord]

Just tried running Super Hexagon in my Anbernic RG351p with ArkOS wummle. Got segfault:

Downloaded the steam version through steamdepot. Had to manually download the zip file from the port, unpack in my sdcard, and run the port through SSH, to confirm westonpack was properly downloaded in the first run (BTW, I also tried downloading the port through PortMaster app, but Super Hexagon didn't show up for me, probably due to not being compatible, dunno).

Indeed westonpack was downloaded, but it failed when trying to run the game afterward, due to the segmentation fault error. Is it something from the firmware I'm using (lower glibc of sorts)? Or maybe I might get more luck with the gog or itch.io versions?

[zealous trellis]

Ahh that is the same issue we had with the Hammerwatch port.
#1339475089221091338 message

It's a stupid issue where the version of SDL on the device prints a version number when loaded and that messes up my library finder. This will be fixed in the runtime itself shortly, but for now you can fix it for yourself by adding

CRUSTY_LIBSDL=/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libSDL2.so

Into the port script. Search for the line with "$weston_dir/westonwrap.sh" and put this text right after the "$ESUDO env", same line.

It should work on ArkOS in general, I've tested this on my r36s extensively

As for finding it in PortMaster, I believe the database has not been updated yet, even though the port is merged.

[digital acorn]

Yeah we don't run releases daily

[sinful fjord]

Got it. I'll edit it and test later today.

Also, this issue might be happening only on ArkOS, right? Maybe it shouldn't happen on AmberElec for example?

[coarse rapids]

so far only arkos and only on certain images, generally for very old devices

[blazing arch]

I'm confused does this run on muOS???

Only asking because I don't see it on PortMaster

[frosty pelican]

That's because it's still in testing mode, you must install it manually

[blazing arch]

Oh okay I understand thank you

[digital acorn]

Nah it's released aalreay 🙂

[frosty pelican]

But it's not in the portmaster news...?

And also not listed in portmastergames...

[digital acorn]

They're not published at the same time but they're alreaedy merged on github

[frosty pelican]

Ah, I see...

[sinful fjord]

It worked. Thanks a lot!

I also confirm Super Hexagon works great on 480x320 resolution, with a great image quality even on an uneven resolution like this. You can tick it in the first message.