Starbound | PortMaster | Page 2

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:12 PM

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when i run the game without it, i will, especially on the outpost, run into yet to be loaded chunks

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not so much with that on top

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so it would appear its doing osmething

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:14 PM

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I'll look at it. It might just be something simple like changing fidelity config setting.

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:15 PM

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steam description just says

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so i assume thats all it comes down to

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:15 PM

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I really appreciate the testing. I was assuming its borderline usable for 1gig but getting to other worlds is encouraging.

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:16 PM

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well it hasnt been the smoothest experience, but ive had the willpower to play through hl1 on an snes controller on the snesmini, so im somewhat used to ports that can be a bit "difficult"

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although

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i must say, the controls are suprisingly a non issue, even with a single stick

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:16 PM

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Sure

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Is it ready for testers?👀

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:17 PM

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orchid fiber Is it ready for testers?👀

Masochistic ones like @clever fable although it plays beautifully on 2 gig ram systems

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My rg353v just sings

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:18 PM

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yeah 1 gig dont quite cut it, only does with swap on top

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:18 PM

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Awesome, you can put a 2gb requirement on the port if you want. You've been hacking away at this for a while haha

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:19 PM

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orchid fiber Awesome, you can put a 2gb requirement on the port if you want. You've been hack...

Yeah I probably will. Its getting a bit silly at this point how much of the game ive modified.

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:20 PM

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Sounds fair, want me to call the testers?

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If you could set up a test req list

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:21 PM

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orchid fiber If you could set up a test req list

Not yet. But Thanks

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:24 PM

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orchid fiber If you could set up a test req list

What 2gig systems do we support that aren't rk3566?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:25 PM

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Stuff like oga, rg552, odin, rp5/mini

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Mostly higher end stuff, and then x55/rg353x for rk3566 on the lower end

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And e1000's modified handhelds with 4gb ram chips soldered on :p

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:28 PM

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orchid fiber And e1000's modified handhelds with 4gb ram chips soldered on :p

Haha he sent me some vids to learn how to solder but I'm too scared

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:28 PM

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I did the picofly and that went suprisingly smooth. But ram chips is another level and you need more tools

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:29 PM

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orchid fiber Stuff like oga, rg552, odin, rp5/mini

I actually would appreciate a call to test those. I can spring for a 5 pack of the game on steam of somebody doesn't have it

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:29 PM

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Ill get the game, its like 3 euros for a key

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I can do x55/rp5/odin for you

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:30 PM

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i can test x55 too

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will do it later in like 2hours but it should work fine

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:31 PM

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You can set the resolution to 854x640 now on x55 etc which should help performance

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:32 PM

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hanging on for dear life

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:32 PM

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i think we want atleast 64mb of swap just so it doesnt crash when something like librespot is running in the background?

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:35 PM

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so turns out

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when opening an inventory menu

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ram usage shoots up by about 300mb

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:35 PM

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oh thats bad

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:35 PM

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might even come close to being too much on 2 gig devices?

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my swap got almost enitrely filled, like 60 mb spare

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and i got 1gig+1gig swap on top

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:36 PM

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endme holy shit 1gb swap

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:36 PM

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living life on the edge

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:37 PM

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i would just make 2gb only now lol. But what the hell it took less than a gb for me

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:37 PM

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were you running a new character?

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because i think it was about the same for me, just starts to add up

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:38 PM

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clever fable ram usage shoots up by about 300mb

I'll look into this

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:40 PM

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clever fable because i think it was about the same for me, just starts to add up

I think you've just tested much larger play sessions than I have profiled and I realky appreciate it

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:40 PM

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clever fable were you running a new character?

nope

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:50 PM

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Tbh I'm kinda happy @clever fable is uncovering some issues because I'm realky enjoying hacking on this.

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 2:51 PM

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would be too easy if it just worked flawlessly doggokek

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 2:53 PM

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kein fleiß kein preis

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 2:53 PM

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I'd have to return to my normal routine... Guiding alpine mountain climbs.

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orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:58 PM

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Eh i got it fully compressed and working with adaptive astc now, still no dice on world building with 2gb. I will have to look into more options but kinda running out

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It mostly runs fine

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 2:59 PM

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sterile crater

🤩

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Is that you on the mountain wall?

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 3:01 PM

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orchid fiber Is that you on the mountain wall?

Yeah. After 30 years of being a developer ive retired and now spend most my time guiding and developing new climbs.

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 3:01 PM

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Awesome haha

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Quite the contrast 🙂

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Are you from germany, austria, italy?

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 3:02 PM

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I'm in USA on the west coast a few miles south of Canada

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 3:02 PM

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Oh lol

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 3:02 PM

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orchid fiber Eh i got it fully compressed and working with adaptive astc now, still no dice o...

i wonder if we can get the TerrariaServer running somehow so we can kinda let that make the world gen and then boot into Terraria as that will use probably less ram

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 3:02 PM

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"alpine" made me think you were in the alps doggokek

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thats just a general term

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 3:04 PM

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cinder ginkgo i wonder if we can get the TerrariaServer running somehow so we can kinda let th...

Maybe, or you just copy over a built world. It does work, just uses some swap

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Or i just do 4gb port i guess

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Anyway, back to Starbound. Just copying over the files now

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Did i just see patchelf? doggokek

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@sterile crater
Retroid Pocket 5/Rocknix/sd8250/(1.25/7.38GB)✅
AYN Odin 2/Rocknix/uhd/sd8550/(1.3/11.24GB)✅

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I know nothing about this game but they it seems to run good

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Audio, touchscreen, controls, seems fine to me 🙂

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 3:34 PM

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seems to work on my x55. Not perfectly smooth but yeah it works

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 3:58 PM

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orchid fiber <@407012063890636802> Retroid Pocket 5/Rocknix/sd8250/(1.25/7.38GB)✅ AYN Odin 2...

You can go into the settings and change to a resolution that works better for your display

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I need to stop fucking with discount devices, that rp5 looks awesome

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:01 PM

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orchid fiber Did i just see patchelf?<:doggokek:1123303718079701042>

Nope we have the full source code as nature intended.

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:02 PM

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Oh youre not using it?/storage/roms/ports/OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/scripts/ci/linux/patchelf

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:03 PM

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Oh I should trim that out, thats just github ci silliness

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For testing builds

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:06 PM

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orchid fiber Eh i got it fully compressed and working with adaptive astc now, still no dice o...

What's adaptive astc?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:06 PM

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Convert adaptively based on resolution of the texture

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:07 PM

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but you're still batching the conversion at first-run time right?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:07 PM

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Yeah

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:07 PM

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it doesn't use dynamic texture atlases like starbound?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:07 PM

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Luckily not ^^

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Just static sprites

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:08 PM

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yeah, it's a major headache in starbound. The total set of assets is so large it does a TTL based texture atlas process where it culls unused textures and reloads new ones into dynamically maintained atlases

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complete with frame-boundary repacking of the atlas image

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Meanwhile I'm here picking strategic points in the game to ASTC compress whole atlases that I know don't change much

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but many of the atlases (for stuff like enemies and items, and materials) change constantly adding in and removing tiny sprites into huuuge atlases

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:09 PM

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sounds like a huge pain in the ass lol

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:09 PM

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It took me like two weeks to get it to work and It only saves like 150mb of ram

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I have an idea of doing palette compressed atlases where I can rework them on every frame boundary

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which might get us under the 1gig mark, but it might be a bit CPU heavy to re-quantize the whole atlas image in a single frame boundary

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what do you think?

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Here's an example atlas that's been dynamically generated. The planet colors are all procedurally calculated.

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:29 PM

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orchid fiber Just static sprites

Wait, but does it do atlasing at all, or are the atlases pre-generated? Can you take ASTC compressed individual sprites and tile them into an ASTC atlas if they're aligned on block boundaries?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:30 PM

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i have no idea, i havent looked into the code much. Its a pain, C#.. 😄

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Pretty sure this game doesnt use any atlasing at all

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Pure individual sprites

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:31 PM

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orchid fiber Pure individual sprites

are there performance issues with binding so many tiny textures on our low end hardware?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:31 PM

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I mean it doesnt run amazing, 25 fps on rk3566

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Not the worst ive seen

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Huh... that's similar to starbound though where we're only binding like 10 textures that are all at least 2048x2048px resolution.

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Again i havent looked at the code much, neither do i want to haha

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:33 PM

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orchid fiber Again i havent looked at the code much, neither do i want to haha

I mean, the fact that you can just convert the assets to astc and it works out of the box means something though

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:33 PM

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Oh it doesnt work out of the box

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:33 PM

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are you modifying libpng or something?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:33 PM

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JohnnyOnFlame created a custom build of FNA to accept astc

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:34 PM

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ah... got it

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so FNA knows how to load astc assets and hand them to the GPU as if they were regular png images

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:34 PM

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Well now it does yeah

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They didnt want to upstream it

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:34 PM

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I wonder why

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:34 PM

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Eh i dont remember

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But fna is very focused on replacing XNA not superseding it like Monogame is

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:35 PM

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ah so new features are probably not aligned with their goals

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:35 PM

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And anything that doesnt work on every supported platform is not good in their eyes, something like that

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FNA is sick though, they have everything done on runtime. Like multiple renderers, gles, gl, now vulkan

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So one build works on everything

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:36 PM

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that's pretty cool

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I'm too oldschool for that stuff though... gimme a big wall of C code and a home-rolled engine and I'm at home

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:37 PM

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I mean its not a full engine, still a framework to build in

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Perfect balance imo

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:37 PM

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yeah that's fair

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:37 PM

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I respect people who can create a game in pure c and sdl though

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crazy work ^^

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:38 PM

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This starbound codebase is absolutely insane. Dude re-implemented half of STL when stl was available. I have no idea why.

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It's simultaneously a total disaster and also a piece of art. It's like looking at some old cathedral where you're like stunned by it's magesty but also how is this thing still standing?

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:39 PM

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doggokek

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I love janky stuff that works

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:40 PM

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It's 150,000 lines of code, so it's not that janky but something that big has to have warts.

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Well, I think I'm going to abandon 1 gig and just polish it to a 2 gig target with good launch scripts and cfw support

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:41 PM

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I do still find it fascinating when devs decide not to use a framework or engine at all, i get having access to everything. But imagine the time saved😅

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:42 PM

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orchid fiber I do still find it fascinating when devs decide not to use a framework or engine...

Yeah, that's the funny thing is that Terraria and Starbound in actual game play seem almost the same. But Starbound is entirely custom written for very little perceptible gain.

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 4:42 PM

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Exactly, especially once you go down from a framework, the chances of creating systems better than fna, love2d etc gets slimmer

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Not choosing Unity for a 2d game is a very understandable choice though :p

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 4:45 PM

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I'm watching gameplay of Terraria and I can spot things that Starbound does that are way more computationally heavy but give very little improvement to gameplay experience

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 5:07 PM

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@clever fable I'm looking at dragon engine. It's just a json file changing a few default config variables. Some of these I've removed in my new engine rewrite but some might be useful. I can tweak them to be more appropriate for our hardware and just include them in the default config file. Thanks for the tip though.

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oh actually there's more than that... still... damn... tweaking this all in lua seems crazy to me.

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It's like trying to run a marathon in high heel shoes

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Oh no all the lua is mostly just feature additions not optimization... that's a very confusing mod it does so much. The important parts are just a few config entry tweaks.

pearl kayak Mar 16, 2025, 5:30 PM

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sterile crater Oh no all the lua is mostly just feature additions not optimization... that's a ...

Btw, what lua engine does Starbound use? I'm trying to hack luajit into Don't Starve right now, because it's heavily CPU bound and the entire game is written in Lua.

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 5:38 PM

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pearl kayak Btw, what lua engine does Starbound use? I'm trying to hack luajit into Don't St...

Not sure. Some guy is working on making it use Pluto but I'm not sure why

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The people who layer 200 mods really want a faster lua engine but vanilla doesn't do a ton of lua work so I haven't looked at optimizing it

ancient arch Mar 16, 2025, 6:52 PM

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woo, it's a torrent of chitchat here 😄 is still an RP5 test needed ?

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I don't want to scroll back 👀

orchid fiber Mar 16, 2025, 6:53 PM

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No i did odin and rp5, more tests doesnt hurt though because i dont know the game 🙂

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Btw i continued with hacksdl on Burning Knight but no dice, cant get it to hook unfortunately

thorn horizon Mar 16, 2025, 8:02 PM

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This is great

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I'll test it on my r36s again

thorn horizon Mar 16, 2025, 8:46 PM

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Getting a portmaster pm platform helper error in the log

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No clue what's causing it

pseudo python Mar 16, 2025, 8:47 PM

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thorn horizon Getting a portmaster pm platform helper error in the log

Don't worry about it not all cfw have it 🙂

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Only those who need jt

thorn horizon Mar 16, 2025, 8:48 PM

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Also a glibc error

thorn horizon Mar 16, 2025, 8:48 PM

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thorn horizon Also a glibc error

Happened with something else I was testing, (sunvox tracker)

ancient arch Mar 16, 2025, 9:09 PM

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orchid fiber Btw i continued with hacksdl on Burning Knight but no dice, cant get it to hook ...

I’ll have a look

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 10:05 PM

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thorn horizon I'll test it on my r36s again

It's not worth running on 1gig systems. I played a bit farther in the game and Rehex is right, it uses more memory up when you get further access. I did a profile of the heap in this state and I cannot reduce it any more.

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I'm gonna modify the launch script to fail on 1 gig and just pop up a warning

thorn horizon Mar 16, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Ok

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 10:47 PM

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thorn horizon Ok

Sorry. I really appreciate your enthusiasm.

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 11:00 PM

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oof, thats rather harsh, though i guess forcing a silly amount of swap isnt on the table either?

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 11:02 PM

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clever fable oof, thats rather harsh, though i guess forcing a silly amount of swap isnt on t...

i think everything upto 256 should be fine but not a gb

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 11:02 PM

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i dont see a universe where 256 would cut it for this specific port lol

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but yeah fair

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dont wanna chew peoples sd cards into a fine dust

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yknow now that i think of it

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if the menus struggle so much on 1 gig of ram

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maybe i should try 2 gigs of swap :3

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the nuclear option

cinder ginkgo Mar 16, 2025, 11:04 PM

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clever fable maybe i should try 2 gigs of swap :3

little tip, grab a otg adapter and a spare usb stick and use that. I mean sdcards are more robust but i dont want you to kill your sd

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 11:05 PM

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i do have a spare, i might just make a copy

sterile crater Mar 16, 2025, 11:12 PM

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clever fable if the menus struggle so much on 1 gig of ram

It's not only ram. The a133/h700/rk3326 just don't have enough speed to play the game

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rk3566 on my 353v runs fine. Menus in the outpost... no problem.

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I mean... it's maxxed for sure, but it's working

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BTW, @clever fable I made it to the outpost finally.
188 files changed, 6206 insertions(+), 1256 deletions(-)
all that work and I never even played the game

clever fable Mar 16, 2025, 11:30 PM

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bout time, eh

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i mean the starting planet is basically the tutorial anyways

slim nexus Mar 17, 2025, 6:01 AM

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Hi @sterile crater , any updates on right stick axis swap ?

sterile crater Mar 17, 2025, 7:37 AM

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slim nexus Hi <@407012063890636802> , any updates on right stick axis swap ?

No, did we ask @zinc abyss if he's seen anything regarding the stick axes being off for OGU in gptokeyb?

slim nexus Mar 17, 2025, 7:40 AM

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not yet 😄

sterile crater Mar 17, 2025, 2:41 PM

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slim nexus not yet 😄

I can take a look at having gptokeyb2 allow all manners of inversion this week. Then we can just have a device specific config.

sterile crater Mar 17, 2025, 5:28 PM

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slim nexus Hi <@407012063890636802> , any updates on right stick axis swap ?

Is it fully mirrored or just vertical swapped or just horizontal swapped?

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I scrolled back and read our previous discussion... did you ever swap the config to see if Left stick was inverted?

slim nexus Mar 17, 2025, 5:34 PM

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sterile crater I scrolled back and read our previous discussion... did you ever swap the config...

I forgot to try it, let's do it first, then look for any fixes

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i think it was swapped as up moves cursor left

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down moves cursor right

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if I remember right

sterile crater Mar 17, 2025, 5:34 PM

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good lord

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I'm very curious if you swap the configs if the right stick is also 90 degrees rotated for relative mouse, or if it follows absolute mouse

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 12:09 AM

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I'ma go play this now.

distant eagle Mar 18, 2025, 12:33 AM

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sterile crater It's not worth running on 1gig systems. I played a bit farther in the game and ...

I am sad to hear, but I understand.

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 12:48 AM

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distant eagle I am sad to hear, but I understand.

Yeah I'm bummed too but ive been doing software long enough to know how to ship and its time to ship.

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 1:03 AM

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❯ git diff fd5f27f974715cf6d84b6cc4063a962c59fc385f | wc -l
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10k lines of code

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 3:05 AM

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This game is really fun!

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 1:10 PM

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@sterile crater if I want to test, should I buy the game on steam or anywhere else?

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 1:12 PM

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ancient arch <@407012063890636802> if I want to test, should I buy the game on steam or anywh...

Yeah steam works. Thanks!

gritty bone Mar 18, 2025, 3:14 PM

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epic warning image lol

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 3:20 PM

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gritty bone epic warning image lol

Credit @pearl kayak , I am no such gifted artiste

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Although now I'm thinking that mmapping the world tile data on worldgen would allow sub-1gig runs but it'd take like 15 minutes to warp into temporary worlds.

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Nono.. Its time to ship

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:10 PM

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Release Candidate. 2 GIGs RAM ONLY
Controls:

D-Pad    move
R-Stick  look
L-Stick  mouse
R1       left-mouse (use item)
L1       right-mouse (secondary use item)
R2       scroll through hotbar items right
L2       scroll hotbar items left
A        action
B        Matter Manipulator
X        jump
Y        leftmost hotbar item
R3       display info about nearby items
L3       shift - for grouping/splitting items and laying single blocks
select   esc - close current menu
start    i - inventory

Place your packed.pak from assets direcotry of purchased version of Starbound (Steam for example) in OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/assets/

You can try to use mods but it's very likely they will break the game. This version is a substantial deviation from all other versions of the game.

📎 Starbound.zip

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:11 PM

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will test 🙂

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on it atm 😄

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is it ok to test with 12GB RAM ? 👀

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:13 PM

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lol

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:13 PM

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I have 1GB, 6GB, 8GB, 12GB but not 2GB

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:14 PM

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It's a shame because I did so much work to fit it into 1 gig and ultimately tripped at the finish line. It plays really well on my 2gig rg353v though

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Probably does ok on a MagicX mini zero 28 or whatever it's called... that has 2 gigs.

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or is that android only

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:15 PM

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I could test with 2GB zram on 1GB but it'll die

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there is no binary in OpenStarbound

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oh it's not in root folder

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nvm

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:17 PM

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OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/dist/starbound is the binary

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:17 PM

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it's hidden 😄

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:18 PM

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Yeah, I suppose I could move it... it's just like that because that's how it is when you run it in the source tree

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:18 PM

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so it's running

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:19 PM

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ancient arch so it's running

on rp5?

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:20 PM

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odin 2 portal

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:20 PM

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niiiice

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:20 PM

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1GB+ memory in use

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:21 PM

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Did you create a new character and start in the protectorate in the graduation scene?

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:21 PM

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I've used zac

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I went straight

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should I test something ?

pearl kayak Mar 18, 2025, 4:22 PM

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sterile crater Credit <@147313153850474496> , I am no such gifted artiste

You're not actually shipping this, are you😅

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:22 PM

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yes?

pearl kayak Mar 18, 2025, 4:22 PM

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Amazing.

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:23 PM

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ancient arch should I test something ?

I'd be curious about the frame lags when warping up and down to the ship. It's the little icon with the circle and the white arrow on the lower right of the icon list to the right.

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There's a compression phase right when you materialize where it ASTC compresses all the background textures. It's about 3-6 seconds on my RK3566 and about 2 seconds on my older i7.... curious what it is on an odin

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if you look in OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/logs/starbound.log there is actually a timestamped log for it... might be interesting

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:26 PM

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sterile crater There's a compression phase right when you materialize where it ASTC compresses ...

I see no lag 👀

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instant

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lol

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:26 PM

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wow

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:26 PM

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I'll start again the game

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:26 PM

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On Trimui Smart Pro that lag was 30 seconds single core, and like 15 seconds with all 4 cores pumping

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:28 PM

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ok, maybe 100 ms lag

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:28 PM

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the astc compressor uses neon SIMD instructions. I wonder if more recent ARM cores got better at neon stuff

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:28 PM

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sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:29 PM

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wow

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:29 PM

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it's an armv9 core

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:29 PM

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yeah that slight pause while he's glowing

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That screen is beautiful too

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:29 PM

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it's really impressive the hack you've done

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:29 PM

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aw shucks thanks

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:30 PM

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I don't know how to play this game, I'll let my kids handle this lol

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:30 PM

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It's like terraria, but with mechs and multiple worlds

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Oh hey can you pin the above release?

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:31 PM

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sure

ancient arch Mar 18, 2025, 4:31 PM

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sterile crater Release Candidate. **2 GIGs RAM ONLY** Controls: ``` D-Pad move R-Stick loo...

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:37 PM

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ancient arch

I might have to get me an odin

distant eagle Mar 18, 2025, 4:44 PM

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sterile crater It's like terraria, but with mechs and multiple worlds

and I love that you have your own spaceship that is your travelling home. It feels very StarWars/Firefly in that way.

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 4:46 PM

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distant eagle and I love that you have your own spaceship that is your travelling home. It fee...

Do you build your tech tree in your ship? It seems a bit cramped.

clever fable Mar 18, 2025, 5:00 PM

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you can get upgrades to make it larger

distant eagle Mar 18, 2025, 5:36 PM

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https://www.thegamer.com/starbound-how-to-upgrade-ship/

TheGamer

Starbound: How To Upgrade Your Ship

As a space exploration game, upgrading your ship in Starbound is kind of a big deal. Here's a handy guide with everything you need to do it.

sterile crater Mar 18, 2025, 5:37 PM

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Damn this game is deep

distant eagle Mar 18, 2025, 6:17 PM

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Yup! 🙂

thorn horizon Mar 18, 2025, 9:49 PM

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I honestly miss the beta version of the game

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That was when it was peak

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After the full relase it just wasn't the same

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 7:30 PM

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@slim nexus Hey, I'm moving forward with a PR for Starbound. I think it's very likely that your OGU right stick issue is purely a gpttokeyb2 anomaly or driver issue, but there is a corner case that it's actually Starbound. Any chance you can swap the right/left in OpenStarbound/starbound.gptk (here it is changed if you wanna just paste it in):

absolute_center_x = 640
absolute_center_y = 510
absolute_step = 350
left_analog_up = mouse_absolute_up
left_analog_down = mouse_absolute_down
left_analog_left = mouse_absolute_left
left_analog_right = mouse_absolute_right

l3 = shift

right_analog_up = mouse_movement_up
right_analog_down = mouse_movement_down
right_analog_left = mouse_movement_left
right_analog_right = mouse_movement_right

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 7:44 PM

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i'll try in an hour or two

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i am curious too

pearl kayak Mar 19, 2025, 7:51 PM

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I can't believe we're getting the series finale of Starbound 🎉

barren gale Mar 19, 2025, 7:59 PM

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I still expect the cliffhanger

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 8:24 PM

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I keep fantasizing about what it would take to do 1 gig... I think worldgen in mmap and doing palette compression of all atlases in a background worker thread might get there. But maybe thats season 2 or maybe I do another game instead.

cinder ginkgo Mar 19, 2025, 8:33 PM

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sterile crater I keep fantasizing about what it would take to do 1 gig... I think worldgen in m...

we have allot of 2gb devices, i know that when you want to try to get it to run 1gb devices too. Ive tried it for like a week for #1345043098660769864 but yeah for me it was impossible and all said i should just leave it for 2gb only

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 8:53 PM

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cinder ginkgo we have allot of 2gb devices, i know that when you want to try to get it to run ...

Yeah its hard to give up. Thankfully with both low ram and slow CPU the pathways to do it are limited.

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:06 PM

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with

absolute_center_x = 640
absolute_center_y = 510
absolute_step = 350
left_analog_up = mouse_absolute_up
left_analog_down = mouse_absolute_down
left_analog_left = mouse_absolute_left
left_analog_right = mouse_absolute_right

l3 = shift

right_analog_up = mouse_movement_up
right_analog_down = mouse_movement_down
right_analog_left = mouse_movement_left
right_analog_right = mouse_movement_right

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it is super broken

cinder ginkgo Mar 19, 2025, 9:20 PM

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why tf is that happening

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oh wait you are centering it, i thought that is the problem lol

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:23 PM

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X and Y are swapped

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and lack of deadzones is killing it further

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:29 PM

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Huh thats confusing. Can you take the relative mouse "mouse_movement" code out and just keep the absolute mouse stuff in and test it?

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I'll get to work on dead zones for absolute mouse but I'm confused about the rotational bit

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:31 PM

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yes sure

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now my left stick is swapped same way as it happened with right stick

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and my right stick doing nothing (I removed mouse movement from it)

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and you can see that I have no jittering as my left stick is much better than right stick

clever fable Mar 19, 2025, 9:39 PM

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i wonder if this has to do with the way the screens are orientated

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kinda like how the steam decks screen is techincally vertical

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so in your case its moving the mouse as if it was a vertical screen

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:40 PM

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rotated or mirrored screens are common for those devices, unfortunatelly I have no idea about my screen

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it seems you are right

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this is written on odroid web site

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since the display is rotated, it is seen horizontally instead of vertically.

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about some issue

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:43 PM

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Oooooh... this is helpful!

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I just so happen to be getting a U8 I picked up for $17usd that also has a rotated screen.

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so I can test

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how does the other mouse mode figure it out correctly though I wonder

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@slim nexus can you do one more test with just the regular mouse stuff in with the absolute mouse missing?

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:48 PM

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sterile crater <@545293572841275392> can you do one more test with just the regular mouse stuff...

I tried it before, regular mouse don't have problems

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i absolute is right stick and regular is left stick, so left one will be good

ancient arch Mar 19, 2025, 9:48 PM

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slim nexus and lack of deadzones is killing it further

You can add deadzone with hacksdl

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:49 PM

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wild. There's nothing in the gptokeyb2 that accounts for this afaik

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I wonder if there's some other lower level driver doing the conversion

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that just doesn't know about absolute mice

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:49 PM

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I use gptokeyb2 in 2 ports and it is fine

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I can use cursor with no problems

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:50 PM

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ancient arch You can add deadzone with hacksdl

I would like to know how to do it

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but right now I will do as porschemad911 taught me yesterday:
tell my wife about benefits of tinkering at 1AM then duck

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:51 PM

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heh, you're dismissed to go sleep, this has been super helpful. Thanks for taking the time.

ancient arch Mar 19, 2025, 9:52 PM

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slim nexus I would like to know how to do it

https://github.com/cdeletre/hacksdl

I can explain in details later

GitHub

GitHub - cdeletre/hacksdl: An SDL2 library hook hacking

An SDL2 library hook hacking. Contribute to cdeletre/hacksdl development by creating an account on GitHub.

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:52 PM

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we don't need that stuff, I can just fix gptokeyb2

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 9:52 PM

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Do they use the same method, like maybe one is sdl one evdev?

slim nexus Mar 19, 2025, 9:53 PM

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sterile crater heh, you're dismissed to go sleep, this has been super helpful. Thanks for taki...

😄 thanks for looking into the issue, I bought the game day one and now is the time to finally play it

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:53 PM

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slim nexus 😄 thanks for looking into the issue, I bought the game day one and now is the t...

we'll get you playing for sure

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:54 PM

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orchid fiber Do they use the same method, like maybe one is sdl one evdev?

I don't quite understand. If the mouse on the Odroid Go Ultra works in all situations, wouldn't it be below SDL?

ancient arch Mar 19, 2025, 9:55 PM

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sterile crater we don't need that stuff, I can just fix gptokeyb2

Oh you are using gptokey

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Indeed the deadzone is easier to set in this

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 9:56 PM

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sterile crater I don't quite understand. If the mouse on the Odroid Go Ultra works in all situ...

I thought regular mode is ok but absolute was rotated? My bad

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:57 PM

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orchid fiber I thought regular mode is ok but absolute was rotated? My bad

Yeah that's right. Any conncected mouse seems to work OK, but an absolute mouse isn't rotated.

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 9:57 PM

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Oh like actually "regular" mouse haha

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Now i get it

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So regular mouse would use evdev right? And i think gptk uses sdl?

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What if the patched sdl of rocknix hasn't implemented the rotation for controls just drawing

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:58 PM

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gptk uses udev

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 9:58 PM

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Hm

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 9:59 PM

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simulates a usb device.

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But udev has a concept of an absolute mouse, you actually emit different events

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I'm guessing that some low-level driver shim didn't realize such a thing exists

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sorry, you're right ... it's evdev

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er uinput

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 10:01 PM

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I have not looked into gptk much but is it sdl-->ev/udev (whatever)?

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 10:01 PM

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yeah, I added this absolute mouse code

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 10:01 PM

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Yeah it know, its really cool 🙂

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 10:02 PM

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    ioctl(fd, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_X);
    ioctl(fd, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_Y);

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that's the code that tells the device "hey, we're gonna do absolute mouse shit here"

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 10:03 PM

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Cant say i know enough about gptk or the patches applied for rotated screens. But theres gotta be some half implemented stuff here

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 10:03 PM

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Yeah... I"m tempted to not figure it out but just allow gptokeyb2 to implement the absolute mouse rotated 90 degress in any orientation, or inverted/flipped too

orchid fiber Mar 19, 2025, 10:04 PM

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Good enough doggokek

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 10:05 PM

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It's sorta a quirk of gptokeyb2 that this config:

right_analog_up = mouse_movement_up
right_analog_down = mouse_movement_down
right_analog_left = mouse_movement_left
right_analog_right = mouse_movement_right

only reads the first line and ignores the directionality of it and just goes, "Got it, right analog is a mouse"

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Does an odroid go ultra have a touch screen? Turns out touch screens are also absolute mouse devices

barren gale Mar 19, 2025, 10:33 PM

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Nope

sterile crater Mar 19, 2025, 10:35 PM

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ok, I see the problem. Normally when you have a rotated screen you set up a udev hwdb config that rotates the touchscreen, but odroid didn't do this because there is no touch screen. but for relative mouse it's different, and usually done via a modified SDL. So gptokeyb2 is sending rotated mouse signals both ways, but SDL knows how to rotate the relative mouse and just doesn't rotate the absolute mouse.

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I can just add this feature to gptokeyb2. It's kinda annoying because it's device specific, so like if you're running arkos on a U8 you'll need to do this too

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 2:33 AM

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@slim nexus https://github.com/PortsMaster/gptokeyb2/pull/5

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Replace the gptokeyb2 in the PortMaster folder with the above binary. Then add these two lines to OpenStarbound/starbound.gptk:

absolute_deadzone = 3
absolute_rotate = 90

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you can play with the deadzone... it's in pixels. Also I'm not sure what angle to rotate, might be 270

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 2:52 AM

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Apparently the odroid go ultra has a hacked SDL that rotates cursor moment 90 degrees.

zinc abyss Mar 20, 2025, 2:52 AM

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This is why we don’t ship our own sdl2

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 2:59 AM

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It complicates absolute mouse stuff, especially if I ever get around to binding button clicks to mouse clicks at certain cords (ie touch panel emulation) because SDL only modifies movement direction not absolute clicks.

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I'll just have to ship an OGU specific gptokeyb config

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:57 AM

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i don't think they hack SDL to rotate screen

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https://github.com/ROCKNIX/distribution/tree/main/packages/graphics/SDL2/patches

GitHub

distribution/packages/graphics/SDL2/patches at main · ROCKNIX/distr...

Contribute to ROCKNIX/distribution development by creating an account on GitHub.

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afaik they use weston/sway feature for this

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:58 AM

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sterile crater <@545293572841275392> https://github.com/PortsMaster/gptokeyb2/pull/5

you broke it again ! 😄

/roms/ports/PortMaster/gptokeyb2: error while loading shared libraries: libinterpose.so: cannot open shared object file:

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S922X:/roms/ports/OpenStarbound # LD_PRELOAD="./libinterpose.so" ./gptokeyb2
./gptokeyb2: error while loading shared libraries: libinterpose.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
S922X:/roms/ports/OpenStarbound # ls
OpenStarbound                  libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4.5.16
conf                           log.txt
gptokeyb2                      lowRam.png
libinterpose.so                starbound.gptk
S922X:/roms/ports/OpenStarbound #

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:00 PM

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slim nexus ``` S922X:/roms/ports/OpenStarbound # LD_PRELOAD="./libinterpose.so" ./gptokeyb2...

I'm awake... God morning. You put this gptokeyb2 in /roms/ports/PortMaster and ran the latest clean Starbound zip and that happened?

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That log looks like its trying to be run from the Starbound directory which I did in a very old zip

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:31 PM

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sterile crater I'm awake... God morning. You put this gptokeyb2 in /roms/ports/PortMaster and r...

good morning ! at first I put it into Portmaster but it was not launching. so I put it into Starbound folder to isolate from other ports and tried to run it from there

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libinterpose.so is libinterpose.aarch64.so but renamed

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:32 PM

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Gotcha. I might need to hassle @zinc abyss to get the process for building this correctly

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Can you run ldd gptokeyb2 just to see if its linked to anything weird?

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Ok, I've got it sorted. Here's what you need to do:

ln -s /roms/ports/PortMaster/libinterpose.aarch64.so /roms/ports/PortMaster/libinterpose.so

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:41 PM

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i had it linked already

pseudo python Mar 20, 2025, 3:41 PM

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sterile crater Ok, I've got it sorted. Here's what you need to do: ``` ln -s /roms/ports/PortM...

Don't think you wanat to hardcode 😛

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:41 PM

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we're testing

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:41 PM

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and it is not running

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so I don't understand

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:41 PM

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then set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/roms/ports/PortMaster

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in the launch script

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:42 PM

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shouldn't it run with LD_PRELOAD ?

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as I did before ?

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:42 PM

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or just export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/roms/ports/PortMaster

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not the preload.

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preload is fine if it doesn't have symbol deps but I believe you need to set the path because the linker still looks for it even though it's loaded

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:42 PM

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ok I'll try your way !

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:43 PM

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thanks for your patience

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:44 PM

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no worries 🙂

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:45 PM

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btw, here's the patch I noticed in arkos:
https://github.com/christianhaitian/rk3326_core_builds/blob/rk3326/patches/sdl2-patch-0004-odroidgoa-kmsdrm.patch

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Rocknix surely has to have something similar somewhere

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:55 PM

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sterile crater or just `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/roms/ports/PortMaster`

it works this way!

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 3:56 PM

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how does the mouse work?

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 3:57 PM

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absolute_rotate = 270 correct value

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trying to adjust deadzones

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:00 PM

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Wow... I'm really surprised it's more than 3 pixels. Can you calibrate your sticks?

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:01 PM

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I am not sure deadzone works as I understand

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:01 PM

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3 pixels of wiggle is crazy. It's much more likely you have 1 pixel of wiggle and they're not centered by 5 pixels and so gptokeyb2 thinks the stick is deflected.

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:01 PM

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I see no difference between 3 and 100 pxs

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:02 PM

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100 would make the mouse unusable since absolute_step is 75

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:02 PM

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it means deadzone is not working at all

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:02 PM

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huh

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:02 PM

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because now it is 200

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and it is the same

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:03 PM

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did you replace the binary in /roms/ports/PortMaster/gptokeyb2?

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does rotation work though?

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can you paste in your starbound.gpk file here?

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:04 PM

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now gptokeyb2 is in Starbounf folder

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my .sh looks like this

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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/roms/ports/PortMaster
bind_directories ~/.portfolder $GAMEDIR/conf/.portfolder 

./gptokeyb2 "starbound" -c ./starbound.gptk &>/dev/null &
cd OpenStarbound/dist

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rotation works correctly

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:05 PM

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huh... deazone isn't working for me either hang on

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sorry for the hassle

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it worked on pc... lemme see

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:06 PM

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ok! big progress anyway

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:09 PM

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ah I see my bug... lemme build a new one real quick

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📎 gptokeyb2

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:17 PM

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yes now I see the difference!

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I`ll tinker with it later, thank you 🙂

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:24 PM

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@slim nexus seems to work though?

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:26 PM

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yes, it is definitely better and now playable

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still have some false stick movements but I guess it is just defective stick problem

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I would call it "good enough" 😄

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I must replace it later

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:28 PM

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You should buy some $3 hall sticks.

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:29 PM

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totally agree

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:29 PM

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https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806560371637.html

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:29 PM

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hmm, if you plan to ship it for 2gb devices, we need to figure out what's the problem with starting the game from ports folder

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now I run it from tools folder or just from my pc via ssh

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:30 PM

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What problem?

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:30 PM

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it executes some rocknix/Weston shenanigans for portmaster and not starting at all

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:31 PM

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Sure I'll work on it with you if you wanna spend time but I cannot reproduce on any other device besides OGU

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Rocknix on rg353v has no trouble. Crossmix, arkos, knulli all spawn it fine too... that's all I have here to test.

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:31 PM

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i'll consult with rocknix dev later (tomorrow)

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because I have no idea where to dig

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ogu is so special

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Yeah me neither and going back and forth would be inefficent

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It's possible we just need a 'sleep' in there somewhere

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:34 PM

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i got my ogu from the guy in Canada, hardkernel gifted him one. then he send it to my friend in Spain. and another friend took it to Belarus during vacations

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because hardkernel don't ship to Belarus

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:35 PM

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You live in Belarus?

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:36 PM

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yes, I am very belarusian guy

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😄

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 4:36 PM

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Cool!

slim nexus Mar 20, 2025, 4:37 PM

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PotatoYay

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 9:21 PM

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This is the version I'm putting in my PR... some small lighting fixes from the previous version and less logging so as to not fill up your CF with logs

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Oh, and an updated gptokeyb2 config ini that uses a hotkey to accomplish some more advanced and late-game manoevers. You can now honk the horn on your mech by hitting L3 and B

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    D-Pad    move
    R-Stick  look
    L-Stick  mouse
    R1       left-mouse (use item)
    L1       right-mouse (secondary use item)
    R2       scroll through hotbar items right
    L2       scroll hotbar items left
    A        action
    B        Matter Manipulator
    X        jump
    Y        leftmost hotbar item
    R3       display info about nearby items
    L3       HOTKEY MODIFIER
    select   esc - close current menu
    start    i - inventory

    HOTKEY buttons
    A      shift - for grouping or splitting or single block operations
    B      f - enable Distortion Sphere tech or honk the mech horn
    X      Crafting menu
    Y      Throw current item

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I might change that X to toggle alternat hotbar set since you can just click on the crafting menu

sterile crater Mar 20, 2025, 11:47 PM

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I lied. I added a mod that doubles the size of cinematic text so it's readable now.

📎 Starbound.zip

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PR submitted

crisp mortar Mar 21, 2025, 12:22 AM

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sterile crater PR submitted

Congratulations!!! 🎉 LinkYay You busted your ass to get this to where it is and I for one am envious of your knowledge. You should be proud of this one!

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 12:43 AM

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crisp mortar Congratulations!!! 🎉 <:LinkYay:1126790625082212474> You busted your ass to get...

Thanks. It was all fun! I'm really enjoying playing the game for the first time now that I've worked on it so much.

crisp mortar Mar 21, 2025, 12:49 AM

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sterile crater Thanks. It was all fun! I'm really enjoying playing the game for the first time ...

Haha at least now you're PLAYING! Come test my threads if you get a chance. They need some love...

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 1:24 AM

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crisp mortar Haha at least now you're PLAYING! Come test my threads if you get a chance. They...

Wow you have a lot of ports going!

crisp mortar Mar 21, 2025, 3:29 AM

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Just 2. The 3rd got re opened cause I got the new pck. But I'd like to get thebtestibg dine on these

slim nexus Mar 21, 2025, 5:14 AM

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I asked at ROCKNIX discord and learned that for OGU:

Hmmm shell scripts in ports folder run by eval /usr/bin/bash: https://github.com/ROCKNIX/distribution/blob/3f4d1a95c809e52ff4278ed03e93f1e8f731bf9a/packages/rocknix/sources/scripts/runemu.sh#L401

Tools launched via weston-terminal: https://github.com/ROCKNIX/distribution/blob/dev/packages/rocknix/sources/scripts/run#L17

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this tells me nothing except that we definitely have difference in two cases 😄

pseudo python Mar 21, 2025, 6:40 AM

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@sterile crater https://portmaster.games/packaging.html#new-port-structure

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this is how the structure should look like in the pr 🙂

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so you'Re missing a subfolder starbound

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foldername and zip file ned to match

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and all lowercase

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Controls do not go into port.json but the readme file

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Inst are the instructions that are shown in the device and inst_md on the website with the latter with markdown support

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so inst should be a bit shorter for the normal sized devices 🙂

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cover.png should not show just a logo but also gameplay. Ideally a logo mix like from screenscraper. we have tools to create one. Esle just use a screenshot. For many cfws this is the only media they have and if it just shows the logo it does not help ^^

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readme.md is missinng thank you notes and url to the repo

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 9:02 AM

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pseudo python readme.md is missinng thank you notes and url to the repo

Oh thats super helpful. So many thank-yous to add!

pseudo python Mar 21, 2025, 9:04 AM

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sterile crater Oh thats super helpful. So many thank-yous to add!

Before i put int 15 change requests 😛

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 9:07 AM

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slim nexus this tells me nothing except that we definitely have difference in two cases 😄

Thats helpful. Lemme investigate that.

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 9:07 AM

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pseudo python Before i put int 15 change requests 😛

Haha I really tried to get it right this time too.

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I forsee this being a thing every time

pseudo python Mar 21, 2025, 9:08 AM

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sterile crater I forsee this being a thing every time

😛

past dagger Mar 21, 2025, 9:17 AM

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easy way to make a logo mix image -- https://github.com/JeodC/EmulationStation-ImageMaker

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by the way, congratulations on getting this PRed! i have been enjoying and inspired by the odyssey

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 9:26 AM

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past dagger by the way, congratulations on getting this PRed! i have been enjoying and inspi...

Aw thanks

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 3:28 PM

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pseudo python 😛

Nono... I'll get it right now and actually read the docs and stop wasting your time. Thanks for the patience. I know putting this in MV comes with some risk and I'm deeply appreciative.

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 8:02 PM

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So it occurs to me that it may be possible to use this on a 1gig system if you connect to a remote server. Is that useful to anyone?

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You could even run it on two r36s devices. One for server and one for client.

slim nexus Mar 21, 2025, 8:11 PM

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not a bad idea, i did the same with minetest. orange pi at home was my server

clever fable Mar 21, 2025, 8:14 PM

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oh yeah, minetest totally does the same thing

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basically just crashes standalone

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yet works nicely in mp

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does this version of starbound even support mp though, since its not at all bound to steam?

clever fable Mar 21, 2025, 8:59 PM

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well i tried connecting to my own hosted server, exept i cant

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because the ui just blocks the button, you cant press it

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tried it with an external screen, vut its still scaled to the console

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oh wait

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i managed to move the window with an external mouse

clever fable Mar 21, 2025, 9:52 PM

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welp

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i set up an exernal server, had to install a patch mod that increases timeout times, because it will kick you immediately instead

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seems to be 30fps quite consistently

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(considering the server is handling the difficult part, this makes sense)

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alright, here it is, running

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beside that, ram usage is 850 mb

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which is close to 1 gig, but not terrible really

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gonna try and just play and see if it adds up

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hopefully it only does on the servers side

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ah

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opening one chest

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uses up 400 additional mb

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of ram

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thats

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...

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oh wait

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its straight up a ram leak

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just watched it slowly fill up my swap

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400mb...500mb....600mb..crash

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is this a 1 gig device thing?

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can someone just open a chest and sit there for a minute perhaps

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 11:49 PM

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I have not replicated that issue. Are you still runjing mods?

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I went through that dragon mod and it did a lot of questionable stuff. Some parts of it use more ram to make the game faster.

clever fable Mar 21, 2025, 11:51 PM

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ive only overriden, not deleted

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so probably

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i can try without

sterile crater Mar 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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clever fable ive only overriden, not deleted

Oh yeah that could be the problem. I renamed some mods with new settings so theres likely multiple copies fighting. I also took the one or two settings from dragon that were ok and incorporated them in my 'speedups' mod.

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:11 AM

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well ive removed dragon engine and it seems to have helped

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total ram is unfortunately now already exceeding 1 gig though

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:12 AM

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Damn. Thanks for trying

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:12 AM

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anyways im hosting for like 2 hours, if you wanna try joining just do ~~147.185.221.27:9100~~ (this is a play.gg server, not my ip)

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:13 AM

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Appreciate your help with this. I made a lot of improvements due to your testing.

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:13 AM

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seems the only way to do the server config is via the ports\OpenStarbound\conf\Starbound.config

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youll have to manually enter the ip and port after making an empty saved server in the game first

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:14 AM

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Oh Yeah no keyboard

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:14 AM

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yea

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:15 AM

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gptokeyb2 has a text entry mode. Maybe I'll add it to the l3 hotkeys

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L3+start will enable text entry and then the dpad scrolls through letters

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:18 AM

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getting a read on the ram

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its close, but still over the line

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like 255 mb of swap would cut it (for now at least, yet to see it stack up)

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:19 AM

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Zramswap might get you there were it supported. But go entertain your guests!

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:20 AM

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i am running it already lol

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its a service on knulli

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:21 AM

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But without the kernel module it does nothing. Run lsmod to see if its enabled.

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I know a133 does not have support. Dunno bout h700

clever fable Mar 22, 2025, 12:21 AM

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huh

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if i had to guess

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this means its not running

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oh yeah also if anyone is joining the server

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make sure to enable allowed mismatched files in the settings

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eh, having timeout issues, closing it for now

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but yeah the chest thing is a non issue

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 12:30 AM

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Oh yeah I disabled asset digests so all servers will think you have mismatches.

shut wharf Mar 22, 2025, 3:15 PM

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guys cross mix timui smart pro works?

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 3:15 PM

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Not enough ram

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 3:16 PM

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shut wharf guys cross mix timui smart pro works?

Not enough ram or GPU power or CPU power. Theyre all a bit too low

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I'm thinking I'll take out the exit after the 2gig-only warning though just so people can confirm to themselves

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 3:22 PM

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shut wharf guys cross mix timui smart pro works?

I realky tried, but couldn't do it.

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 7:48 PM

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Installation

Copy the game assets packed.pak from your normal Starbound
install to the starbound/assets directory before playing.

Controls

+--------+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Button | Action                     | Description                                                  |
+--------+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| A      | action                     | Open doors, open chests, harvest items                       |
| B      | equip matter manipulator   |                                                              |
| X      | jump                       |                                                              |
| Y      | equip leftmost hotbar item |                                                              |
| R1     | left-mouse                 | Use current equipped item's primary function                 |
| L1     | right-mouse                | Secondary use item, matter manipulator mine background tiles |
| R2     | hotbar scroll right        |                                                              |
| L2     | hotbar scroll left         |                                                              |
| select | esc                        | close current menu or open game options                      |
| start  | i                          | open inventory menu                                          |
| R3     | alt                        | display info about nearby items                              |
| L3     | *HOTKEY MODIFIER*          |                                                              |
+--------+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+

```

📎 starbound.zip

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+----------------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| HOTKEY BUTTONS |                         |                                                                         |
+----------------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| A              | shift                   | fast-pickup / grouping or splitting (L1) / single block operations (R1) |
| B              | f                       | enable Distortion Sphere tech or honk the mech horn                     |
| X              | open crafting menu      |                                                                         |
| Y              | throw current item      |                                                                         |
| start          | text entry mode         |                                                                         |
| select         | toggle alternate hotbar |                                                                         |
+----------------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------+-------------------------+
| Text Entry Mode |                         |
+-----------------+-------------------------+
| up              | previous letter         |
| down            | next letter             |
| left            | backspace               |
| right           | accept letter           |
| A               | accept letter           |
| B               | backspace               |
| select          | toggle upper/lower case |
| start           | exit text entry mode    |
+-----------------+-------------------------+

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I added text entry mode, toggled by L3+start

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@zinc abyss dude, gptokeyb2 is so powerful. Text entry mode is super cool.

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:44 PM

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sterile crater <@449527391157485568> dude, gptokeyb2 is so powerful. Text entry mode is super ...

Im amazed it fucking works

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😄

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 11:50 PM

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zinc abyss Im amazed it fucking works

Look at this shit... I'm totally messing with it and it works fine. Note the start=pop_state so that the <enter> isn't pressed:

l3 = hold_state hotkey

[controls:hotkey]
overlay=parent
b=f
a=shift
x=c
y=q
select = x
start = push_state text_input

[controls:text_input]
overlay = clear
charset = "extended"
up    = prev_letter
down  = next_letter
right = add_letter
left  = backspace
a     = add_letter
b     = backspace
start = pop_state
back  = toggle_case

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also I'm just hitting backspace to go back so gptokeyb2's idea of what's being typed is totally wrong but it doesn't really matter

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this way I can edit previously typed entries, and backspace past the point where I entered text_input mode

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:52 PM

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Nice 🙂

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 11:53 PM

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You don't do a ton of text entry in the game... just a few small places but this is really nice to have. Like naming your character, for example.

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:53 PM

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Yeah i am super happy it works

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Its kinda the one part that hasn't worked 😄

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 11:53 PM

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within a hotkey no less

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:53 PM

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Oh the hotkey code is solid

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 11:54 PM

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I enabled it on Battle for Wesnoth and it it worked ok. I did it using the environment variables though.

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:54 PM

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I still need to fix gptk to gptk2 text entry stuff tho

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The hotkey handling is different between them

pearl kayak Mar 22, 2025, 11:56 PM

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oh quick question about gptk2, since you're here: When you use the xbox360 mode, does it block the original controller input, or do we get two controllers?

cinder ginkgo Mar 22, 2025, 11:57 PM

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im 99% sure it still passes the sdl input, so you will get 2

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 11:58 PM

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Yeah, I don't know the answer but just from what I've seen in the code, blocking it would be tricky to do

pearl kayak Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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Yeah, I don't think there's a way without LD_PRELOAD fuckery

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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gptk2 can get exclusive control of controllers 😄

pearl kayak Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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oh?

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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Thats why it does the LD_PRELOAD fuckery

sterile crater Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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oh is that what libinterpose does?

zinc abyss Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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yes

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thats all it does, lmao

cinder ginkgo Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 PM

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oh holy shit

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:00 AM

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I was reading interpose's code and i was confused. All it seemed to do is cache the FD of the latest opened file and return it when gptokeyb2 asks for it

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:01 AM

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Yeah

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because SDL2 doesnt expose the fd of the controller

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and i need that to gain exclusive access in evdev

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sorry, ioctl

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void controllers_enable_exclusive()
{
    controller_fd *current_fd = controller_fds;

    if (exclusive_mode)
        return;

    // fprintf(stderr, "Enable exclusive mode.\n");
    while (current_fd != NULL)
    {
        if (ioctl(current_fd->fd, EVIOCGRAB, 1) == -1)
            fprintf(stderr, "unable to set exclusive on %d\n", current_fd->fd);

        current_fd = current_fd->next;
    }

    exclusive_mode = true;
}


void controllers_disable_exclusive()
{
    controller_fd *current_fd = controller_fds;

    if (!exclusive_mode)
        return;

    // fprintf(stderr, "Disable exclusive mode.\n");
    while (current_fd != NULL)
    {
        if (ioctl(current_fd->fd, EVIOCGRAB, 0) == -1)
            fprintf(stderr, "unable to clear exclusive on %d\n", current_fd->fd);

        current_fd = current_fd->next;
    }

    exclusive_mode = false;
}

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You can toggle it on and off 😄

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sdl just stops receiving events in other processes.

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:03 AM

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right, you're setting a read lock on it.... Nice! So i guess i don't need my shitty open() hack after all

cinder ginkgo Mar 23, 2025, 12:03 AM

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i should really learn how to use gptk2

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:03 AM

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[control]
exclusive = true

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🪄

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choices are false | true | parent, by default its false.

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Obviously if you set overlay = parent it will be set to parent.

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:06 AM

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and that works for keyboard mode too? That would be incredible

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:06 AM

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Tbh i am not sure it works for xbox360 mode 😛

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:07 AM

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pearl kayak and that works for keyboard mode too? That would be incredible

I will need to figure out how to use your new godot runtimes later.

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:08 AM

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zinc abyss I will need to figure out how to use your new godot runtimes later.

It's super easy, just don't test them on libmali rocknix 😛
https://github.com/binarycounter/Westonpack/wiki/Godot-4-Example

GitHub

Godot 4 Example

Contribute to binarycounter/Westonpack development by creating an account on GitHub.

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:09 AM

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❤️

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So thats where # PortMaster preamble is coming from.

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:09 AM

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i should've probably made it say # PortMaster header

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:10 AM

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pearl kayak It's super easy, just don't test them on libmali rocknix 😛 https://github.com/b...

This example is missing the source mod_ line.

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:10 AM

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zinc abyss This example is missing the `source mod_` line.

I just noticed, i thought i had fixed that already..

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:10 AM

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lol

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:11 AM

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there

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:11 AM

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❤️

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Otherwise rocknix wont work at all 😄

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:13 AM

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but only because the script uses $DEVICE_ARCH. Westonpack has it's own PortMaster header that's done properly and wrapped applications get that too.

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:14 AM

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Yeah i had to do some jiggery because rocknix ships its own control.txt

pearl kayak Mar 23, 2025, 12:14 AM

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always cfw authors doing funky stuff

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:25 AM

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No worse than someone recommending you do this:

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Why declare a variable to just return the value?

cinder ginkgo Mar 23, 2025, 12:27 AM

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zinc abyss No worse than someone recommending you do this:

zinc abyss Mar 23, 2025, 12:28 AM

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cinder ginkgo

Yes yes

crisp mortar Mar 23, 2025, 3:53 AM

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sterile crater So it occurs to me that it may be possible to use this on a 1gig system if you c...

The answer to all these problems is that people need to start all buying x55 minimum, e6 plus, Rp5/Flip2, or ayn odin2 😉

sterile crater Mar 23, 2025, 4:05 PM

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My wife says she likes these moments where I'm between hyperobsessions. She can imagine the next one might be something she'd enjoy, and for a moment I'm not exclusively talking about Starbound internals. I feel a bit rudderless though.

orchid fiber Mar 23, 2025, 10:03 PM

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No way you talk to your wife about Starbound internals, thats awesome doggokek

sterile crater Mar 23, 2025, 11:20 PM

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orchid fiber No way you talk to your wife about Starbound internals, thats awesome<:doggokek:...

I mean, we've been married for 10 years. She understands me, and because this project has captured my attention she's interested because of our relationship. So I discuss my problems sometimes. Similarly how I ask her how her day was when she gets home from work and meaningful things happened to her at work, so I am engaged and attentive because I love her. She cares about Starbound about as much as I care about the workplace dynamics of a small medical facility in town, but I care because my favorite person interacts with it.

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 12:38 AM

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i think i messed up my tsp stick calibration somehow

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 1:03 AM

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royal totem i think i messed up my tsp stick calibration somehow

Yeah with the absolute mouse it hammers uncalibrated sticks. Does it keep jumping towards center as you move it?

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 1:04 AM

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the right one does that, the left one just drifts either up or down constantly

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 1:05 AM

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royal totem the right one does that, the left one just drifts either up or down constantly

Yeah right stick is for fighting and it should snap back center. Left stick is just regular mouse, although it shouldn't drift.

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 1:06 AM

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i think i messed it up, will try to fix it later

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 1:06 AM

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royal totem i think i messed it up, will try to fix it later

Appreciate you running my port on your legendary device 😁

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 1:12 AM

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i also set it up on my modified RGB10 Max3 and it runs quite well

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 1:14 AM

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royal totem i also set it up on my modified RGB10 Max3 and it runs quite well

Did you solder on more ram on that one too?

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 1:14 AM

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yessir, 8GB

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 1:52 AM

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royal totem yessir, 8GB

Can you help me source the right chip to solder more ram on a r36s?

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 1:53 AM

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can you take a clear close up picture of the existing ram chip?

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 2:05 AM

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royal totem can you take a clear close up picture of the existing ram chip?

Two chips

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Or there's this pic of a U8... some guy got one for 7 euros, so it wouldn't be the worst thing to destroy trying to upgrade the ram.

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:15 AM

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sterile crater Two chips

for this one, you want Micron D9ZWL or D9ZWM to get to 2GB total

pearl kayak Mar 24, 2025, 2:18 AM

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royal totem for this one, you want Micron D9ZWL or D9ZWM to get to 2GB total

I'm guessing you need some serious heatgun skills, since it's BGA

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:19 AM

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sterile crater Or there's this pic of a U8... some guy got one for 7 euros, so it wouldn't be t...

so on this one, the samsung chip is a dual eMMC and RAM package, the pin spacing is super tight on these

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 2:21 AM

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pearl kayak I'm guessing you need some serious heatgun skills, since it's BGA

only one way to learn

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:21 AM

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pearl kayak I'm guessing you need some serious heatgun skills, since it's BGA

definitely need a temperature controlled hot air station and experience with BGA reflows, but if you are familiar these ram chips aren't so bad. one of the tricky things that people don't think about is after you get it hot, you have to pick it up straight off the board and not hit any of the other components, that can get a bit difficult sometimes

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 2:21 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/surgeon-doctor-operation-80s-retro-gif-14529336

Tenor

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:22 AM

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a good way to learn is to buy a sick of ram that you can test on a machine, then hot air the ram modules off, reball, reflow and see if it works again

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 2:22 AM

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Oh do I have old ram sticks

pearl kayak Mar 24, 2025, 2:22 AM

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I once saw a Louis Rossmann video where he messed up and had to reball a laptop CPU, and i thought: Nope, that's not for me 😄

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 2:22 AM

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Would you like some 128meg SIMM sticks for a Pentium II

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:23 AM

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if you guys are really interested, i can walk you through how to learn and how to do it and what tools you'll need

sterile crater Mar 24, 2025, 2:23 AM

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I don't know if I"m interested, I am but also I break things

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But I can practice right?

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:24 AM

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reflowing a whole CPU is yet another level of difficulty, you have to heat everything up in a controlled way or else the board or the cpu can damage itself in the process

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https://tenor.com/view/practice-wetalkingaboutpractice-alleniverson-ai-nba-gif-5110854

Tenor

we talkin bout practice

▶ Play video

pearl kayak Mar 24, 2025, 2:27 AM

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I'd be interested but i have too much on my plate at the moment, and my hyperfixation is currently not at electronics 😅
I do wanna get back into it at some point though. I have a finished PCB design for a SNES cartridge that I'm dying to get into the real world at some point. (It has a ESP32 and 16MB of PSRAM on it 👀 )

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 2:31 AM

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very cool

crisp mortar Mar 24, 2025, 5:52 AM

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royal totem yessir, 8GB

How difficult is this? I'm thinking of doing it with my x55

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I think rk3566 and 8G would make a big difference in what I could play

royal totem Mar 24, 2025, 5:59 AM

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it really all depends if you have some previous soldering experience, steady hands, etc. It's not impossible, the problem is it's definitely a skill and a bad result could be a totally ruined handheld

ancient arch Mar 24, 2025, 10:08 AM

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If you never have played with an hot air soldering station I highly suggest you train yourself on dead boards and try to unsolder and solder a similar component. You’ll need some material/tools not just the soldering station

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Look at some video on YouTube to get an idea

crisp mortar Mar 24, 2025, 10:18 AM

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royal totem it really all depends if you have some previous soldering experience, steady han...

I've soldered PLENTY. but not hot air.

ancient arch Mar 24, 2025, 12:13 PM

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crisp mortar I've soldered PLENTY. but not hot air.

Hot air is another story 👀

barren gale Mar 24, 2025, 12:40 PM

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grab some broken mac, watch Louis Rossmann and start to hate yourself

pseudo python Mar 24, 2025, 1:04 PM

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barren gale grab some broken mac, watch Louis Rossmann and start to hate yourself

love that guy

clever fable Apr 7, 2025, 7:15 PM

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Just saw that its on the portmaster page now, congrats on the port

sterile crater Apr 7, 2025, 7:41 PM

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clever fable Just saw that its on the portmaster page now, congrats on the port

Thanks. Fwiw it ooms at the hylotl mission about 10hrs into the game. You can just transfer your save in storage to a PC for that mission and the rest is fine.

dawn pecan Apr 8, 2025, 7:09 PM

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ArkOS it doesn't load, it crashes immediately 353р

📎 log.txt

sterile crater Apr 8, 2025, 7:13 PM

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dawn pecan ArkOS it doesn't load, it crashes immediately 353р

If you want to edit the Starbound.sh script and replace this line:
LD_PRELOAD=${GAMEDIR}/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4.5.16 ./starbound
with this:
./starbound

you might try again, but that's frustrating that arkos is using an older glibc

dawn pecan Apr 8, 2025, 7:16 PM

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sterile crater If you want to edit the Starbound.sh script and replace this line: ` LD_PRELOAD...

Yes, it helped, thank you.

sterile crater Apr 8, 2025, 7:17 PM

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dawn pecan Yes, it helped, thank you.

tcmalloc is going to greatly improve memory usage, so you may hit memory problems earlier like perhaps when generating the Floran battlegrounds about 6-8hrs into the game

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It also speeds up a lot of stuff in the game so you'll see bigger pauses. If you have a rocknix sd card you'll have a better time.

sterile crater Apr 8, 2025, 7:22 PM

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dawn pecan Yes, it helped, thank you.

Can you save this in your starbound directory and change that launch command to this:

  LD_PRELOAD=${GAMEDIR}/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4.5.3 ./starbound

📎 libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4.5.3

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This is an older version of tcmalloc that might work on the older libraries of arkos

dawn pecan Apr 8, 2025, 7:27 PM

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sterile crater This is an older version of tcmalloc that might work on the older libraries of a...

Yes, it increased the speed of the game.but not much.

sterile crater Apr 8, 2025, 7:28 PM

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dawn pecan Yes, it increased the speed of the game.but not much.

It's the ram reduction that will help. Some dungeons in the game for getting artifacts use up a ton of RAM

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The Hylotl quest dungeon uses 1.6gigs of ram

dawn pecan Apr 8, 2025, 7:34 PM

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sterile crater The Hylotl quest dungeon uses 1.6gigs of ram

vram 1000mb and scheduler = performance
Speeds up the game well

regal smelt Apr 9, 2025, 11:08 AM

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chucklefish just needs to add controller support and we'll be solid.

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vocal meadow Apr 9, 2025, 5:16 PM

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dawn pecan Yes, it increased the speed of the game.but not much.

this 4.5.3 works for you? 😛 i cant run it at all on 353v do i understand it correctly that i need to edit starbound.sh and then in root folder of starbound put new lib :D?

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 2:08 AM

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regal smelt chucklefish just needs to add controller support and we'll be solid.

What's wrong with my port controls?

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 2:09 AM

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vocal meadow this 4.5.3 works for you? 😛 i cant run it at all on 353v do i understand it co...

I'll do a pull request to downgrade tcmalloc so if you wanna wait you can just wait for that.

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 2:10 AM

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vocal meadow this 4.5.3 works for you? 😛 i cant run it at all on 353v do i understand it co...

Fwiw this port was developed on 353v rocknix.

vocal meadow Apr 10, 2025, 5:19 AM

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sterile crater I'll do a pull request to downgrade tcmalloc so if you wanna wait you can just w...

gues i wiait because i updated port master on ark and now nothing it's working xD

vocal meadow Apr 10, 2025, 5:23 AM

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sterile crater Fwiw this port was developed on 353v rocknix.

yea i would love to use rocknix but i like my android : x also quick mode

regal smelt Apr 10, 2025, 12:05 PM

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sterile crater What's wrong with my port controls?

it does the job, but something like what the xbox version of starbound has would be great

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 5:33 PM

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regal smelt it does the job, but something like what the **xbox** version of starbound has w...

I haven't played the xbox version because I'm too cheap to buy gamepass. Does it work similar to controller support in Stardew Valley? Is there still a software cursor or not at all?

regal smelt Apr 10, 2025, 5:38 PM

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i havent tried it myself, nor have i played stardew valley. ive seem gameplay of the xbox version.
here is a video with gameplay of it: https://www.youtube.com/live/NctKAuJaJEY?si=CoaV6v9VPrH7OZUH

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sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 5:40 PM

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https://github.com/PortsMaster-MV/PortMaster-MV-New/pull/99

For the impatient, copy the libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4.5.3 and Starbound.sh from this pr (or just from this branch:)

https://github.com/bmdhacks/PortMaster-MV-New/tree/bmd-starbound-arkos

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 5:43 PM

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regal smelt i havent tried it myself, nor have i played stardew valley. ive seem gameplay of...

My controls are really similar. LT/RT for mouse clicks, R stick to aim

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They have target lock and use a dpad selection mechanic. I dunno... their controls aren't significantly superior. Just using a mouse cursor makes it much simpler.

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They use the xbox 'a' (south) button for jump which is silly, use (north) button to jump! it's the top one. Also they use (west) button to interact, when it's a primary action, so I feel like (east) or the gamepad 'A' button is more appropriate.

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it's all very similar though

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menus are quite different with the selector mechanic, but they then switch the button context in the menu so it's all different. With the software cursor, clicks are clicks so you don't have to memorize (or constantly refer to the legend) different controls for menus

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 6:29 PM

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vocal meadow gues i wiait because i updated port master on ark and now nothing it's working x...

PR is merged. I don't quite know how long it takes to show up in the app

vocal meadow Apr 10, 2025, 6:33 PM

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sterile crater PR is merged. I don't quite know how long it takes to show up in the app

👍 i have also fixed my portmaster doggokek idk if it will work because manually changing all of this doesn't work for me but there is a chance that i mess it up : )

sterile crater Apr 10, 2025, 6:34 PM

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vocal meadow 👍 i have also fixed my portmaster <:doggokek:1123303718079701042> idk if it wi...

If you mess it up you can just delete the port and re-install it. Go here, copy Starbound.sh and replace it on your memory card:
https://github.com/bmdhacks/PortMaster-MV-New/tree/bmd-starbound-arkos/ports/starbound

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PortMaster-MV-New/ports/starbound at bmd-starbound-arkos · bmdhack...

New Alternate PortMaster repository. Contribute to bmdhacks/PortMaster-MV-New development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Then go here, and download libtcmalloc-minimal-4.5.3:
https://github.com/bmdhacks/PortMaster-MV-New/tree/bmd-starbound-arkos/ports/starbound/starbound

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put that next to the other libtcmalloc file in the ports/starbound/ directory on your memory card

vocal meadow Apr 10, 2025, 8:22 PM