Crop and Claw

[graceful reef]

🌸 Crop and Claw 🐉

Description:

Crop and Claw is a classic-style JRPG all about dragons. Delve into swamps, temples, and ruins and fend off flora, fauna, and unsavory dragonfolk.

If you'd like to buy the game and support Dinoleaf, you can purchase it on both Steam and itch.io. The full game is provided by Dinoleaf for Portmaster's distribution free of charge.

Details:
Ready to Run - Nay. Fetch from the link below.
Engine/Framework - Godot 4.2.2
Architectures - aarch64
Aspect ratio - 4:3
Rumble support - No
Tested versions - RTR
Controls - GPTK
Joysticks required - None

Instructions:

• Fetch crop_and_claw.zip from the following URL: https://dinoleaf.com/pro_file_hosting/crop_and_claw.zip.
• Extract crop_and_claw.zip. The zip password is ||hack.exe.gov||.
• Dump all that stuff in the ports directory.
• Run: "Crop and Claw"

Controls:
D-Pad - Move character/cursor
A = Open menu/select menu option
B = Revert menu decision
Start = Status menu (shortcut)

Requirements:

More to come based on whoever tests. I'm unable to test every device since I'm also making other games.

Custom Firmwares:

• [] AmberELEC
• [] ArkOS
• [] ROCKNIX
• [] MuOS
• [🐉] Knulli
• [] Crossmix**

Drivers:
I have no idea what these refer to yet.

• [] Mali
• [] Panfrost
• [] Adreno

Resolutions:

• [] 480x320 **
• [🐉] 640x480
• [] 720x720**
• [] Higher resolutions

Testing Status:

• [] Basic Testing (Game starts and is playable)
• [] Extensive Testing (Mid-game Content)
• [] Complete Testing (Finished Game)

I mostly wanted to get this up ahead of time. It probably won't run right away (see TODO 1) but the crux is ready to go. Lemme know what I screwed up.

TODO

• Await Godot runtime execute permissions on Portmaster to be fixed.
• Set up license folder properly.
• Figure out why Knulli Portmaster preview simply refuses to show assets like normal ports have. Are images and metadata wrong somehow?
• Properly test Classic mode for speed/fade override.
• Append Godot4.2.2 to the ports.json file (I goofed when setting it up woops)
• Confirm if game looks fine on a 480x360 display. (Game viewport is designed for 256x240)
• Confirm if x86_64 Godot runtimes are available for those devices.
• Remove this FOREWARD/TODO section before formal release.
• Find other things I screwed up with the Portmaster standards.
• Low priority: Does the game actually work for other people?

[dense estuary]

does this need a runtime?

[graceful reef]

It's using Westonpack + Godot 4.2.2 and the base script Binary supplies autodownloads them, from what I've seen.

[grim ruin]

Ready to run means you don't have to move fikes over or download anything from external sites @graceful reef

[graceful reef]

Cool I'll mark that false then. I couldn't see much common terminology

[dense estuary]

wait are gamefiles included?

[grim ruin]

Did he give you permission?

[graceful reef]

The catch right now is that there was a mistake with how the SquashFS Godot runtimes on PM were set up.

[frozen plank]

Ooh nice

[graceful reef]

Yeah. It's a paid game, but I'm supplying it free for Portmaster as a "I like this project, have a donation game"

The sheer niche of it is hardly going to make a difference in sales.

We're the copyright holders, so I don't think I'm going to sue myself.

[grim ruin]

Well then just place the game files where they need to be and upload a zip with them already there

[dense estuary]

it is?

[grim ruin]

That's awesome@

[grim ruin]

I'll donate to you

[graceful reef]

I'll keep an eye on when the SquashFS runtimes are updated. Then this should actually be possible to run. As it is, you'll just get a permissions error.

[grim ruin]

Oh, I got confused

[graceful reef]

So there's no need to rush this now.

[grim ruin]

Apologies

The "dump everything in there" confused me

[graceful reef]

I mostly wanted to just cross setting this topic up off my todo list.

[dense estuary]

@graceful reef just because allot of people are stupid and install these games without autoinstall etc, Make a link to the runtime and tell the user to place it into PortMaster/libs as it isnt in the PortMaster app currently

[graceful reef]

I think the base script automatically installs both Godot and Weston even if you just run it straight. I don't know of an autoinstall.

This was just ripping off Binary's Godot 4 example script.

Rather, I assume that is baked into the script itself, so it might be idiot-proof? I'm kind of just expecting anyone who does testing to know how to deal with jank right this moment.

[dense estuary]

yeah i never seen that work, but i never needed it to work, it could probably work, i will try that later when im testing

[graceful reef]

I could probably jam in the 4.2.2 build that is properly chmodded, but I want to mostly ensure that this is working out of the box when someone runs it, rather than with a sideloaded runtime.

[grim ruin]

I thought this was implemented? #💡｜porting-talk message

[graceful reef]

But again, that just is on a slight hold until basically this happens: #💡｜porting-talk message

[grim ruin]

Ahm not on stable yet

But merged

[graceful reef]

The runtimes are on stable, there was just a mistake where Binary forgot to flag runtimes executable.

So that just has to be pushed up and then in theory, this will run.

[grim ruin]

I'm gonna wait til it's on the PM app before I add a godot4 to here

[grim ruin]

Oh, so you can or can't download them on PM runtime part?

[graceful reef]

Runtime Manager has Godot 4.x, they just don't do anything without having a script copy it out and chmod +x it. Functionally not useful.

[dense estuary]

what no, they dont have it

i just checked

[graceful reef]

I built this with preparation for before the fix is pushed through. If I apply the workaround in this, then people are testing the workaround, whereas what I also want to test is that Godot 4.x games are actually working as an average user would interact with it (a la running the game and autodownloading)

[grim ruin]

I see. Well I think I'll wait until thats cleared up

[graceful reef]

That's weird. It shows on my end.

[dense estuary]

ill look again, i think im on stable

[grim ruin]

......

Lol

[dense estuary]

okay they arent on stable time to check beta

okay they arent on beta too

[graceful reef]

Maybe it's different in my universe? I'm in the Bearenstein Bears universe.

[grim ruin]

Wwweeeeeiiird

[dense estuary]

oh that could be because you have those installed manually?

okay nope they are on alpha

[graceful reef]

I'd deliberately uninstalled them and reinstalled. I'm on stable. Bizarre.

[dense estuary]

just not yet on stable or beta

[graceful reef]

Unless something changed since this went on.

[grim ruin]

So it needs to be fixed still

[graceful reef]

Yeah. I stressed that I'm awaiting until the fix goes through. This whole topic here is just prep.

It seems there's still some ironing out (you can see us going back and forth a lot to get the game running on Knulli + Weston at all) so I want to await until you can just run the script and it just werks before I really start monitoring tests.

I can say that I have completed a full run of the game on the SP + Knulli with the SDL build. So I think this will theoretically go smooth on anything that boots. But I don't trust "it should work in theory". Hence awaiting closer to production settings.

[dense estuary]

/tmp/weston/westonwrap.sh: line 435: /tmp/godot/godot422.aarch64: Permission denied

[graceful reef]

Yes. That's the squashfs being set wrong and is what the incoming fix will do.

It's just not in my power to fix.

[dense estuary]

i will do it manually right now and see if the game boots

[graceful reef]

There were a few line switches. Mostly just copying the executable into the gamedir, chmodding it, and using that instead of the tmp one.

[dense estuary]

ill just make a new runtime

[graceful reef]

I did append an extra command to the commandline for the game itself, but haven't tested it to ensure it works. Just something that kills a shader for Classic mode because the shader's so horrendously unoptimized, GLES and ARM devices crawl.

Ironic how the mode that looks more like an NES game runs worse.

[dense estuary]

uhm controls are a bit funky

[graceful reef]

What device? I did flick A and B

[dense estuary]

rg35xxsp muOS

yeah but pressing B in the menu opens the thing for like a milisecond and closes it again

[graceful reef]

Maybe it's doing the thing like Rocknix does. Knulli and Rocknix seemed to have two different opinions on how to run it.

[dense estuary]

? what do you mean by that

[fervent cosmos]

wait, who owns this game?

[graceful reef]

Some devices seem to pass gamepad info (maybe?) and some don't.

Dinoleaf is the company I run. So me.

[fervent cosmos]

oh good shit then xd

[dense estuary]

i think its more that godot doesnt like the controller

[graceful reef]

For setups that seemed to do this weird joysticking inconsistency, I had to throw a dummy gptk which just tells it not to use anything. Maybe that works for that? I don't know of any way to configure these per unit.

[fervent cosmos]

will try on my end in a bit

[graceful reef]

I probably should print out what different buttons are mapping to on different OSes and configs, because the only consistency I tend to see is inconsistency.

[dense estuary]

yeah that fixes it, dont use both gptk and native controls

Knulli has A/B/X/Y swapped

[graceful reef]

I think it becomes unplayable on Knulli but can't remember. And yeah. Thanks Nintendo.

[dense estuary]

WHY TF DOES IT GRAB VOLUME BUTTONS AS REAL BUTTONS

holy shit is that funky

[graceful reef]

lmao what the hell

[shell crater]

lol

[dense estuary]

Pressing volume up and down is like A and X

and guide is moving forward

wtfh

[shell crater]

so godots controller is as terrible and janky on 4.x as was on frt 3

[dense estuary]

apperantly yeah it is

[graceful reef]

I'm not too sure how it works or what maps where. I'd figure the devices and OSes just send different values to Godot's input reader.

[fervent cosmos]

alright class let's play using the volume buttons

[dense estuary]

its actually kinda funny and nice lol, i can now play single hand ( which i could do before too)

[fervent cosmos]

Just how god intended..

[shell crater]

reminds me of using phone volume buttons in emulators as L / R. I ended up having broken volume buttons

[graceful reef]

DO A BARREL ROLL

[dense estuary]

so i think we maybe want to use Hacksdl if its possible, it wasnt right?

[graceful reef]

I don't know how many Godot 4.2+ games have been tested, so if nothing else, this is probably a fair sample game for trying to find kinks in the current pipeline.

[shell crater]

will it do even if you remove all the controller buttons from the input map?

[young cedar]

Really appreciate all the guinea pigs testing out westonpack haha

Yeah i need to find a low level solution to block controller input on westonpack entirely... :/

[fervent cosmos]

you could ask it nicely to stop

[graceful reef]

I supplied #1348023197450108969 message which as far as I know is empty, but maybe there's explicit need to specify \" for some like volume.

[shell crater]

I mean in the godot editor, removing all controller binds

[graceful reef]

Oh. Maybe. Though that would be a bit jank to set up for building.

[fervent cosmos]

should I wait to download this then in that case

[graceful reef]

It probably depends on the OS.

It sounds like it mostly works, just has weird inputs. This is a game that requires a DPad and two inputs. Not too difficult to get functioning.

[dense estuary]

why dont we just compile godot without controller support?

[graceful reef]

As long as some OS or device maps DPad up to the battery removal button.

[dense estuary]

i mean game works 100% fine but its just weird

[shell crater]

sometimes it might be useful and working. I was playing Fountains on RP5 with 3.6 runner because it has working controller support and that game is terrible to map with gptk

[graceful reef]

I could see things getting messy the moment PM supplies custom builds.

[dense estuary]

didnt 3.6 still used godots funky api, thats why i used hacksdl on brotato?

[graceful reef]

I'd need to find a waterfall to meditate under and remember if there's ways to kill Godot's gamepad listening.

[shell crater]

probably, but this doesnt sound being any better 😄

[dense estuary]

currently you could just stop using controller and use gptk?

[graceful reef]

Godot's input system doesn't quite work that way.

[dense estuary]

oh right it used that table where you set that

just click on delete lol

[graceful reef]

You basically bind interned strings that map to different input types.

The issue with that is now your game doesn't work with gamepads on other devices, or maybe something like Rocknix where I had things mapping differently.

There is another possibility, maybe. Still a bit tedious, buuuut

I think Godot does let you specify project settings override, of which input is part of it.

Still a bit of a hack and not ideal, though

Also, All Devices maybe I'll try at some point making a specific device number instead. Though that makes PC games less easy to work with due to unpredictable device ids from my own history.

[shell crater]

when you remove all the joypad binds, will it still cause weird things when pressing random buttons ?

[dense estuary]

btw just if someone wants to try it out right now, here is a new runtime with it chmod +x

[fervent cosmos]

which one am I installing here

[graceful reef]

Removing joypad binds, I'd assume then you've just got the mapper and maybe it's just treating like a keyboard, so maybe.

[shell crater]

then its the same as we had with frt

[young cedar]

I thought the new runtimes would've been on PM by now

[shell crater]

which would be perfectly fine with game like this

[graceful reef]

I'm just not familiar enough with the hardware/OS stuff to make any meaningful judgements.

[dense estuary]

ive downloaded the game and it was not exectuable

[graceful reef]

Yeah I don't know who handles pushing stuff to stable. Not exactly gonna go pinging and rushing random people.

[shell crater]

I think its usually klops

but hes busy chasing apples and pears

[graceful reef]

I can't imagine someone being skilled enough to manage and work with Linux ports and unironically use an Apple device.

[shell crater]

oh I mean literally apples and pears

[fervent cosmos]

Apple is the spawn of Satan

[fervent cosmos]

also which one am I installing here

[graceful reef]

I have no idea how or where to jam the squashfs files manually.

[shell crater]

yeah, some random double inputs on my ancient OGA.

[graceful reef]

I assume not using the "no input" file

[shell crater]

oh. My bad.

[fervent cosmos]

do I just do the same like I did with Renpy more or less

[young cedar]

Next version of westonpack will have the CRUSTY_NO_CONTROLLERS=1 environment variable, to stop it from reading controller input. It's going to be an LD_PRELOAD hack that just returns an invalid file descriptor when an app tries to open a joystick

[dense estuary]

like you did on renpy

[graceful reef]

Get excited for next Westonpack

[fervent cosmos]

[graceful reef]

I'll rezip with the no-input input file just to pack it in.

[fervent cosmos]

So should I just wait then

[young cedar]

Just saying this here so you can add it to your script if you want, then the problem is gonna fix itself eventually 😅

[graceful reef]

I assume it'll just do nothing if it's not available yet?

[shell crater]

I need to check on more devices, so far it behaved fine

[young cedar]

Yup!

[shell crater]

oh yeah lol, on muos it does the funny inputs on volume buttons etc

[young cedar]

Oh btw, the game runs on muOS 640x480 RG40XXH. Video looks crisp, FPS is high, Audio works.

Controls are very messed up 😅

[graceful reef]

That seems to be the consensus

[fervent cosmos]

will try on my end in a sec

still downloading

[dense estuary]

It even seems to work fine with the classic thing

[graceful reef]

Classic mode has a hack so it's not actually faithful. I needed to disable the fade. So the color fading isn't true to the NES

Tanks the framerate otherwise.

A for and if check in every pixel is rough, probably.

[fervent cosmos]

so, replace the old one with this?

[graceful reef]

Yeah

[fervent cosmos]

okie doki

[graceful reef]

I'm just about to push the zip that uses that as default. Had to write a scp to make updating this faster

And there. I'll move this setup to somewhere that isn't my RAMdisk

[fervent cosmos]

will try booting now

well that didnt work

as seems to be the usual latele

yes yes i know sending log

it would prob help if i installed westonpack first according to the error

where do i find that at

[dense estuary]

[dense estuary]

in the PortMaster app -> Setting -> Runtime Manager

[graceful reef]

It should have done that automatically from my experience, but it can be done manually in the Portmaster runtime manager, if you live in the Bearenstein universe.

Apparently the Bearenstain universe doesn't have it yet.

[fervent cosmos]

oh lovely time to wind my wifi wire again

[graceful reef]

Also, I had played on the SP with the SDL build and these screens really are not bad. I would guess they're like 70% of the unit's cost. It reminded me of playing Pokemon LeafGreen at grandma's on the real GBA SP in the mid-2000s

The game's internal resolution is 256x240 so it scales naturally 4:3.

[fervent cosmos]

downloading new portmaster updateeee

[young cedar]

The RG40XXH has a pretty nice screen too and even though it's not integer scaling, it seems to scale 256px content well. 240px too, which makes it an awesome GBA machine

[fervent cosmos]

downnloadingweston

[graceful reef]

Yeah. I have the H which I was using as my dedicated Rocknix test unit with its own dedicated card.

The Aero flight test project is pretty on it.

[frozen plank]

256x240 and scales to 4:3?

[shell crater]

eh, not as bad as what sega did with the bloody Game Gear

[fervent cosmos]

attempt 2

[graceful reef]

I was going to have Crop and Claw 2 support both 2:3 and 16:10 but the resolution is so small, I feel like I did a math wrong and both came out to the same resolution (360x200) or maybe it was 16:9 and 360x240 and I have short term memory loss

I feel like I was mathing wrong.

[fervent cosmos]

attempt 2 failed

alrighty

[graceful reef]

I can only guess related to permissions and it wasn't pulling the right squashfs or binary.

[dense estuary]

log please

https://tenor.com/view/log-ren-stimpy-gif-18050633177369619965

[fervent cosmos]

somehow this bricked my portmaster also

it says attempting to delete file then fails and closes

so thats pretty neat

[shell crater]

[fervent cosmos]

give me a second old man

[graceful reef]

That is bizarre and well out of my scope.

[fervent cosmos]

alrighty my sd card reader isnt reconizing the micro sd now

[graceful reef]

K...kioxia?

[shell crater]

oh so maybe the card crapped out

[fervent cosmos]

false alarm was reader

I don't know why my computer thinks it has the free will to tell me no

well that's helpful

[young cedar]

Spoken like a true Linux user. "Yes I will delete the bootloader, no you can't stop me."

[fervent cosmos]

exactly

[graceful reef]

Very gamer logs.

[shell crater]

the equivalent of deleting System32

just a waste of space

[graceful reef]

Yeah but that's not wrong.

[fervent cosmos]

any error I just say no you're not allowed to do that and restart my pc and it works fine

because my computer knows it's place

[young cedar]

Are you sure the SD card isn't just full?

[fervent cosmos]

it has 300 gigs

2 gigs in root and 75 mbs in boot

it's not wrong though

there's nothing in the godot folder that i can see

will try reinstalling

yeah whatever this game did

it made portmaster refuse to boot

so that's pretty cool

[graceful reef]

I can't fathom what would do that, given it seemed to not set everyone else's devices ablaze.

[fervent cosmos]

the universe consistantly does not like me

[young cedar]

I'm guessing your SD card crapped out during the Westonpack installation and PortMaster has no idea how to deal with that corrupted file.

That would be very unlucky

[fervent cosmos]

isn't there a script to restore portmaster

unless someone feels like sending the wetonpack 0.2 file here directly in the meantime

ya my portmaster install is just dead

it refuses to boot even after deleting

it gives me a error about pyton3 for a split seccond the fails to launch

I don't know what could be caused by that but I would like my shit back

alright restore portmaster didn't work

congrats pyral for being the first person to successfully nuke portmaster off someone's device

quite an achievement

[graceful reef]

My great grandfather said I'd set the world on fire. I didn't think he was literal.

[shell crater]

If that works on governments as well, I may have job for you

[young cedar]

I'm still waiting for someone to make a PortMaster ransomware. Gimme 7 vbucks or I'll nuke your ports folder

[fervent cosmos]

this is what that feels like

[shell crater]

@dense estuary Binary has some ideas for you!

[fervent cosmos]

test my game or risk your chip exploding

[young cedar]

It's really unfortunate that this happened. I really hope this is unrelated and an isolated incident. You're quite literally the first person to get their device nuked from Westonpack, after tons of testing

[fervent cosmos]

i installed both and exited portmaster i want to point out

then it stopped working when I booted up the game

[fervent cosmos]

oh im not mad at all lol

[graceful reef]

I haven't made any modifications to the shell script that would affect any files, so I can't think of any angles from there.

[fervent cosmos]

I highly doubt both of you did this intenionally so it's fine

[graceful reef]

SD cards are pretty easy to clone and back up, though PM couples saves and ROM, so the directory being damage would be sour.

[fervent cosmos]

yeah restore portmaster legit is not working

[dense estuary]

uhm wait i have one

[young cedar]

Nah if it's related, it's not your fault, it would probably be in the 500 line fever dream that is westonwrap.sh

[fervent cosmos]

let me try doing this from my pc maybe?

[dense estuary]

how about i make a port that secretly copies the ports folder to my server?

[graceful reef]

Damo playing Crop and Claw 2 early.

It's just one sandbox room.

And menus that don't even link correctly when using gamepad only

[fervent cosmos]

only thing I can think of doing is deleting the entirety of portmaster

then reinstaling

I DO have a backup from an older sd card but I'm not sure if it's a issue with the system or portmaster

[young cedar]

One thing you can try is moving all your ports to a different folder. Sometimes PM gets really cranky when there's a port with corrupted metadata

[fervent cosmos]

The ports themselves run

it's just portmaster the app doesn't

[young cedar]

The metadata doesn't affect the ports ability to run

[dense estuary]

oh right, delete the port.json from the crop_and_claw folder

[fervent cosmos]

I don't think that's the issue

the error before the app closes mentions a python3 error

then closes

[dense estuary]

PortMaster loads them on the boot, if its shit than portmaster will shit itself

[graceful reef]

I will say I probably managed to screw something up in port.json but nothing showed signs of breaking PM

[fervent cosmos]

facinating

/media/var/EASYROMS/ports$ '/media/var/EASYROMS/ports/Restore PortMaster.sh'
/media/var/EASYROMS/ports/Restore PortMaster.sh: line 15: /roms/ports/PortMaster/control.txt: No such file or directory
/media/var/EASYROMS/ports/Restore PortMaster.sh: line 16: /roms/ports/PortMaster/device_info.txt: No such file or directory
/media/var/EASYROMS/ports/Restore PortMaster.sh: line 20: cd: //ports/restore.portmaster: No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access './Install.PortMaster.txt': No such file or directory
/media/var/EASYROMS/ports/Restore PortMaster.sh: line 25: ./Install.PortMaster.txt: No such file or directory
/media/var/EASYROMS/ports/Restore PortMaster.sh: line 29: /roms/ports/PortMaster/harbourmaster: No such file or directory

option two

@graceful reef @young cedar could you send the actual file over for the weston pack thing

please

I can at least just install the files manually

game keeps failing eitherway

installed from portmaster

doesn't work

installed manually

doesn't work

try to restore portmaster

doesn't work

try to restore manually would mean I wold have to reset up my ports

thanks guys for the atom bomb game install I do appricate having to rdo my entire fucking intall

[frozen plank]

Delete the portmaster folder and use a new .sh installer

You dont seem to have pm installed at all right now anyway

[fervent cosmos]

which Portmaster folder

[frozen plank]

Tools/PortMaster on ark i think

Make a backup if you want to be sure

[fervent cosmos]

will do

[frozen plank]

Then portmaster will at least work again

Worry about the runtimes later😄

[fervent cosmos]

I have a backup so I'm reverting from that

being lazy has its benefits

[graceful reef]

I've never actually looked at an R36S. This look like one of those AI generated consoles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJc1V2tGFnw

[young cedar]

What do you mean? I'd love to have 9 dpads on my switch

[graceful reef]

The sheer visceral reaction I get from seeing these fractal-controls

It's almost trypophibic

[fervent cosmos]

both of you did a fucky wucky

because it happened again

I'm not too annoyed but I'm deleting everything related to this and not touching it with a ten foot poll lol

[graceful reef]

I'm not sure if this is a specific environment that didn't get checked during Weston's own testing. Might be out of my hands unless I managed something really dumb somehow.

It sounded that you'd updated everything in order to get things started, so I don't imagine that's necessarily related.

[young cedar]

Just to double check, what device and OS is this?

[fervent cosmos]

ARKOS r36s

[fervent cosmos]

no

i had to revert from a backup

[young cedar]

Stock ArkOS or ArkOS AeUX?

[fervent cosmos]

second

[graceful reef]

The only thing I can think of that was different was using the changed squashfs out, but Damo was able to get it working.

[fervent cosmos]

new log though

[dense estuary]

/tmp/weston/westonwrap.sh: line 41: /tmp/godot/godot422.aarch64: Permission denied

yeah use my runtime above

[fervent cosmos]

that is your runtime

it does the same for both

[graceful reef]

We'd probably just best wait for the changed ones to go live.

[dense estuary]

[young cedar]

The log looks fine except for the permission issue, and there's nothing in there that would indicate that it's nuking your PortMaster install...

[fervent cosmos]

thats what I don't get

[dense estuary]

maybe my runtime did, i wouldnt know how tf it would but im always fault

[fervent cosmos]

ya using youuuuurrrr

alright it posted

https://tenor.com/view/couragethecowardlydog-laugh-whoops-sorry-ohwell-gif-13449432

[graceful reef]

I'm really leveling up in the world. It's one thing to break my own stuff. But is anyone truly professional grade until they break other peoples' stuff.

[fervent cosmos]

the game runs fine

no double inputs or anything

I need a break

https://tenor.com/view/drunk-drinking-fall-scared-in-a-hurry-gif-12799806

[young cedar]

So far I have been lucky to not break stuff permanently, but I have accidentally pkill'd people's entire graphics stack before, forcing a hard reset.

[fervent cosmos]

Well hey at least this means I get neat indie horror games now hopefully

[graceful reef]

I feel like that must be easy to do when you're basically piling graphics and windowing layers between game and OS.

[dense estuary]

ive umount everything once that was mounted and i was wondering why port crashes everything

[fervent cosmos]

Motherfuckers creating a pipe bomb portmaster game

I'm not annoyed I just don't like redoing stuff again

[graceful reef]

If your luck is like that, maybe the first bandit you kill will drop a Big Gold Ingot. There's a 1/256 chance it will happen.

[fervent cosmos]

it was

[fervent cosmos]

@graceful reef by the way @young cedar

I redid everything again and it didn't annihilate my Portmaster this time

I have no idea why it did it twice then stopped

[graceful reef]

Two Big Gold Ingots from the first two bandits you encounter.

[austere isle]

RG353v/Rocknix

games not run at all

[austere isle]

even after i've downloaded the runtime you provide that have godot 4.4

[young cedar]

you have not downloaded the godot 4.2.2 runtime, and you have not downloaded the westonpack runtime.

also you need to update your PortMaster

[austere isle]

i've already update portmaster

maybe how i updating portmaster was wrong way

[young cedar]

You've downloaded the runtimes incorrectly. Do not just take them from the github repo. Please delete them from the folder and redownload the westonpack runtime through the portmaster app (Options -> Runtime Manager) and download this runtime to that folder you showed in the screenshot
#1348023197450108969 message

[graceful reef]

Yeah this isn't a 4.4 game as well, but a 4.2.2. I've only done internal testing with 4.4 games but nothing we've made is released yet.

At some point I should make some proper 4.4 graphics demos. I have my 3D test project, but it's not much. It may be a fun little graphics demo for showing this stuff running some fancy visuals on potato hardware.

[austere isle]

if it is possible, i'd like to try to port cashcow dx and mother encore.

[austere isle]

i've updated portmaster and download the runtime just like you suggest. still not work though

RG353V/ROCKNIX

[young cedar]

@graceful reef this is actually a bug in example scripts i think, that affects some newer versions of Rocknix. I think you need to add

[ -f "${controlfolder}/mod_${CFW_NAME}.txt" ] && source "${controlfolder}/mod_${CFW_NAME}.txt"

in between the source $controlfolder/control.txt and get_controls lines.

I need to update the example scripts. Sorry for all the growing pain 😅

[graceful reef]

I'll add it in when I escape my bed. I don't consider it growing pain too much. If anything it feels like a test run for the stack.

I haven't yet checked if the proper executables have been pushed to stable yet. That one felt like a big hiccup which confuses a lot.

[graceful reef]

Pushed that line to the zip. Perhaps it would work now if Binary's fix was the culprit @austere isle

[austere isle]

still not work

here's latest my log

RG353V/Rocknix

with latest portmaster and runntime

[graceful reef]

/tmp/weston/westonwrap.sh: line 41: /tmp/godot/godot422.aarch64: Permission denied Same bit. Stable just not having that right and needing manual squashfs injection as prior mentioned.

[grim ruin]

Yeah, this doesn't launch on my rocknix X55

[young cedar]

Did you download the godot runtime I linked earlier or the one from PortMaster? The PM one currently has a permission issue, that's why I linked you that other one to manually install.

[austere isle]

i forgot about that, i've download it then and test again

[austere isle]

it's working now after replacing godot that you suggest

but there's a problem, black screen main menu, missing sprite in game play

little bit laggy

maybe due to this old device

[austere isle]

ok the menu is appear after i change mali to panfrost

[past glacier]

alright, now we've got something due to me being stupid for a change: ERROR: Pack created with a newer version of the engine: 4.3.
What's the names for these:

godot_executable="godot422.$DEVICE_ARCH"```
I'm assuming `godot_4.3` and `godot43.$DEVICE_ARCH` respectively, but might as well double-check

welp, permission denied again, so i guess that wasnt it

[young cedar]

That is actually correct. That's just the runtime issue again. Sorry, you'll need to install that manually again

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/raw/refs/heads/main/runtimes/godot_4.3.aarch64.squashfs

And you need to rename the file, remove the .aarch64

[shell crater]

pay attention to the remove part, because I fail on that as well and felt like a moron

[austere isle]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2225830/Cash_Cow_DX/

this game utilize godot 4.4, i've tried to build a script just as example with this port, but no luck

Steam

Cash Cow DX

Holy cow, it's all about the moooney!Embark on an udderly moo-velous adventure to rescue Cash Cow's riches from the grasp of those sneaky Pig Pockets and reclaim what's rightfully hers! Get ready for a blast from the past with an 80s inspired arcade experience released 40 years late...Make no mistake - this game is tough as nails!Are you up for ...

Price

$7.99

▶ Play video

[young cedar]

You'll need to change the version number to godot_4.4 and godot44 in the script, but this will not work until the runtimes are updated on PortMaster, due to the bug I mentioned earlier. Please wait a day or two

[past glacier]

oh shit it actually worked!

wow this changes everything:D

[grim ruin]

Is there a different .sh file I need to use other than the one that came in the original zip? @graceful reef

[graceful reef]

If there is, that's news to me.

[graceful reef]

That is odd because CnC1 is not built for Godot 4.3. It's definitively 4.2.2.

[young cedar]

I believe they posted this in the wrong thread. They were trying to port a godot 4.3 game themselves earlier in #🩺｜port-help

[graceful reef]

Oh yeah. If a different game's built in 4.3, then it would use 4.3 lol.

[dense estuary]

i think he used your game as a base

[grim ruin]

So @dense estuary does this original zip work o. X55? Does it need libmali?

[dense estuary]

Haven't tested it yet on Rocknix but it should work on both lol

[grim ruin]

Well it doesn't. I'll get a log

[graceful reef]

I know there was something something Mali Panfrost or so. Not familiar enough with these devices to know what those drivers are all about.

[past glacier]

is there a godot 4.4 runtime out yet? 'cause I dunno if I should upgrade my devbox

[young cedar]

Hey, this is a testing thread for Crop and Claw, not to discuss all Godot porting. Let's move this to #💡｜porting-talk please. Also yes, Godot 4.4 runtime is available.

[young cedar]

The runtime should support both libmali and panfrost if you change the port script like this:

#1348023197450108969 message

Not sure if the game supports scaling to this resolution.

[past glacier]

wait, how did i get here, wtf. I was following an @mention for me, about godot (and from what I'm seeing, a couple of em, seemingly), and I ended up here. Ugh, discord

[grim ruin]

Thank you so much Binary

[graceful reef]

The game is configured so that it uses a subviewport for the actual game which runs at a fixed size, then depending on the game's render mode config, it scales. The default config I packaged into this is sets it to RAW by default, which just spits out the game's 256x240 display and scales without care for stretching (because it assumes 4:3).

There's an option in the menus called Black bars which basically... gives it black bars for widescreen.

If no config specifies (a la freshly downloaded on PC), it opens in Framed by default which is like the Super Gameboy or Pokemon Stadium running GBC games, where they have a little decorative frame surrounding the game view.

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2470863972640881424/635E8A514DA412436E8D3D9179CD1A591A528982/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Seemed like a fun way to handle such a game while preserving the scaling and ratio on a relatively huge monitor.

[grim ruin]

My controls are all goofy on rocknix

Up and down don't work

[graceful reef]

Knowing my luck, Rocknix maps Up to Volume Down and Down to Power Button

[dense estuary]

typical rocknix

rocknix controls are sometimes really weird, they were so damn fucked on renpy

[grim ruin]

Dint think my volume was adjusting. Lemme check lol

Nope. Just up and down don't work at all

Let's try libmali instead of Panfrost

Absolutely ZERO controls using LibMali

So that's a downer

Sorry, man :/

[dense estuary]

the controls shouldnt switch?

it will still use SDL normally????

Wait NO

Panfrost just skips everything from Westonpack

Maybe something in there is doing some control shit

[young cedar]

Shouldn't be.

[dense estuary]

thats what i thought

[grim ruin]

They are all fucked up. Left and right is all that works

Hope this can be fixed!

Is this working for anyone using MuOS?

Controls wise

Cause I also get ZERO controls in MuOS

[graceful reef]

I confirmed the Godot runtimes work now, at least. So deleting the workaround ones and using the ones downloaded by the example script will run out of the box.

I'd have to ironically grab the controls remap file to see if that'd work on mustard. I have no idea since I don't know the mappings. My test units have just been Knulli as main and Rocknix has only become my 40-H testing OS.

[summer marlin]

the gptk is empty

you could remove all joypad calls from the project and map the controls via gptk

[graceful reef]

Yes. Because some devices actually need that to not become a mess due to inconsistent joystick handling.

That would make the build require customization specifically for these devices, and would make porting other projects pretty unreliable since now you need special project settings for it.

I don't think CnC's the only Godot game porters will have problems with over time.

[summer marlin]

otherwise we end up with vol up as spacebar

[summer marlin]

Having problems with godot controller support rn

[summer marlin]

I think its just a temp fix until binarycounter will make the controllersupportremover whadamajingo

[graceful reef]

CnC1 is sort of testing the out-of-box capabilities of Westonpack, from my approach of it. So making special overrides is basically a worst-than-last-resort.

If this replaces the gptk used, maybe it will work on MuOS, but I have no idea.

This was closer to what originally was put in. Or similar. Probably.

[summer marlin]

Xdelta patch to remove the controller support.

[summer marlin]

works great on muos with this .gptk

[grim ruin]

is this needed for muos?

also which zip did you use that worked for muos

[graceful reef]

Literally just replaced gptk with this.

[grim ruin]

ok no need for patch then

[graceful reef]

I don't know much about xdelta.

[dense estuary]

how was this xdelta made?

[grim ruin]

new gptk does NOT work for rocknix. When trying to choose an empty save slot, it's doing that thing damo explained earlier where it opens and closes the menu with "new game: in it instantly.

[grim ruin]

It's @graceful reef !!!

[graceful reef]

It wouldn't because Rocknix gets input unlike apparently MuOS. It just scrambles some DPad stuff.

The vtuber I use in dev streams is a vine viper yeah. One of their recolors appears in act 2 of the novella that just dropped

I lost so much time on gamedev that I was like, a month and a half late to release that. And now I have to probably sit down and do act 3.

[summer marlin]

Without it I had some double controls & volume was up/down.

[grim ruin]

It fixed muos for me perfect

[summer marlin]

decomp -> remove every controller input from the keymap -> recomp -> patch

[grim ruin]

And this worked to fix rocknix?

[summer marlin]

Idk, don't have RockNix

[dense nest]

That patch fixed the controls but it also broke repainted for me on muOS. Even with repainted selected it still has the art and music from classic other than the new text boxes

[graceful reef]

That's odd. Notably, that's what would happen if you were to delete pck/repainted.pck.

There are a few built-in repainted things as lazy initialization workaround stuff for the base game, but most assets related to it are in the separate pck. When the game boots, it will load that pck and the files will be overwritten.

If you did delete it though, then readding it will fix it and perhaps that's unrelated. But I have no idea how xdelta patches work or why that would've happened, especially if it's only happened on MuOS and not others.

[grim ruin]

any progress on Rocknix Controls being fixed?

[grim ruin]

Guess not...

[graceful reef]

I haven't gotten to it since I'd gotten back to CnC2 and am not as much on soft-vacation. Don't know if there've been updates to the rest of the tech stack yet.

[graceful reef]

Eventually I'll see if I can figure out something for these, but I just made an update for the base game for April Fool's, which adds a second English translation. Only this one's a multilayered Google Translated mess. Fitting, considering these devices get used for bootlegged games, I suppose.

[young cedar]

That is excellent!
I hope it has a great ending screen

[graceful reef]

The end screen itself is actually a recap of the playthrough, but before that, the credits cycles through all enemies you've defeated with a blurb. On Steam, there's an achievement to get all the entries in a single run.

Which means every enemy has unique text

I highlighted the Wasp Drake's and some folks made a few gags because of how ridiculous and out of place it sounds.

The translation went from our artist's EJL Japanese, to German, to Polish, to Finnish, then to Engrish.

[ripe canyon]

looks to be not working on my Trimui smart pro (Crossmix 1.3), log attached
i have installed the godot 4.2.2 squashfs runtime that was linked further above

[young cedar]

CrossMix is not supported by PortMaster in general. You're gonna have a much better time on Knulli

In this case, the Westonpack runtime that this depends on is not compatible with CrossMix.

You're also running a really old version of westonpack, not that this changes anything.

[ripe canyon]

well if knulli worked w/o issues id be using it, alas that isnt the case for my TSP
but if this is an issue w/ westonpack and Crossmix, i guess it cannot be helped

[graceful reef]

Manually downloading the squashfs shouldn't be required anymore too, as it's been fixed on PM's repos for a while.

[young cedar]

@graceful reef Just FYI, i just added CRUSTY_BLOCK_INPUT=1 to the arsenal of crusty tools. It blocks every input device from being used, except for the ones created by gptokeyb or gptokeyb2. I successfully tested this with your port and $GPTOKEYB2 "$godot_executable" -x &, which makes it behave like a standard xbox controller.

The next version of Westonpack, which is coming out probably Friday, will have this feature. Just a heads up if you want to PR your port at some point 🙂

[graceful reef]

I'll do an update to this testing branch just to see if it catches anything else. If enough devices and OSes seem to work well enough with it, then I'll probably PR it.

[young cedar]

I'm still working on the rendering issue on rocknix devices with libmali driver, but other than that, all devices and cfws supported by westonpack should work

[grim ruin]

Wow that's really cool!

[grim ruin]

So this, I guess, means that your weird controls will just "work" only through the gptk file. That is seriously such a cool thing.

[young cedar]

@graceful reef Westonpack 0.2.7 was just released and will fix the weird controller mapping if you add CRUSTY_BLOCK_INPUT=1 and remove the LD_PRELOAD= from your port script.

[graceful reef]

Remove LD_PRELOAD? Weird. I'll try real fast.

weston_runtime="weston_pkg_0.2" still good? I suppose I may dump this here first to have my homework doublechecked.

In a sec I can push this if it seems right, and then if it seems to work consistently enough across what I've got, I'll try setting PRs up.

Or strategically wait so it's the 1000th and I win a brand new vacation home.

Maybe I need to force remove westonpack and reinstall. I see Westonwrap 0.2.6 in my logs here.

Or I did the args wrong

Oh, I'm an idiot and a half.

Er. Freshly downloaded Godot 422 squashfs is throwing a permission error

Didn't this get fixed?

[young cedar]

Yes! The LD_PRELOAD was previously needed as a workaround for a bug in the dynamic linker. I found a better workaround and it's no longer needed, and actually breaks the input blocker.

[young cedar]

It absolutely was.... Huh?

[graceful reef]

I deleted my local godot422 and booted via this script, and get the following log.

Weston is latest version that time, at least

[young cedar]

You commented out the LD_PRELOAD rather than removing it. Remember the backslashes here make it one long line

[graceful reef]

Thought that was strange. Still getting errors so let's seeee if I gutted this wrong.

cd $GAMEDIR
$GPTOKEYB "$godot_executable" -c "$GAMEDIR/$gptk_filename" &

# Start Westonpack and Godot
$ESUDO env CRUSTY_BLOCK_INPUT=1 $weston_dir/westonwrap.sh headless noop kiosk crusty_x11egl \
XDG_DATA_HOME=$CONFDIR $godot_dir/$godot_executable \
--resolution ${DISPLAY_WIDTH}x${DISPLAY_HEIGHT} -f \
--rendering-driver opengl3_es --audio-driver ALSA --main-pack $GAMEDIR/$pck_filename \
--disable-nes-colors
# GLES hates the Classic mode shader. This overrides the classic mode fade to be less color-accurate to NES palettes, but runs at a playable speed.

That should work? Last test just now, I had it throw errors suggesting it wasn't booting in the right driver. Trying again

/tmp/weston/westonwrap.sh: line 94: [: : integer expression expected

Assuming something failed prior to that line

Or if I'm dumb

[summer marlin]

I get this on working ports

[graceful reef]

Okay so that's irrelevant

Importantly this header's dumping which means something isn't loading right

Godot Engine v4.2.2.stable.official.15073afe3 - https://godotengine.org
Your video card drivers seem not to support the required OpenGL 3.3 version.

If possible, consider updating your video card drivers.

If you recently updated your video card drivers, try rebooting.

Skimming to see if I could find if I screwed up the initial summon. 100 args

And possibly something in the template script chunks prior changed?

[summer marlin]

Do you have a newline here?
$ESUDO env CRUSTY_BLOCK_INPUT=1 $weston_dir/westonwrap.sh headless

Nope just mobile ui

Sorry

[graceful reef]

Yeah that's just Discord

Maybe I'll check the template if it's changed in case something's new and mine's technically out of date

[summer marlin]

OK this is how it should be:
cd $GAMEDIR $GPTOKEYB "$godot_executable" -c "$GAMEDIR/$gptk_filename" & # Start Westonpack and Godot # Put CRUSTY_SHOW_CURSOR=1 after "env" if you need a mouse cursor # LD_PRELOAD is put here because Godot runtime links against libEGL.so, and crusty is interfering with that on some systems. $ESUDO env CRUSTY_BLOCK_INPUT=1 $weston_dir/westonwrap.sh headless noop kiosk crusty_x11egl \ XDG_DATA_HOME=$CONFDIR $godot_dir/$godot_executable \ --resolution ${DISPLAY_WIDTH}x${DISPLAY_HEIGHT} -f \ --rendering-driver opengl3_es --audio-driver ALSA --main-pack $GAMEDIR/$pck_filename #Clean up after ourselves $ESUDO $weston_dir/westonwrap.sh cleanup if [[ "$PM_CAN_MOUNT" != "N" ]]; then $ESUDO umount "${weston_dir}" $ESUDO umount "${godot_dir}" fi pm_finish

[graceful reef]

oh god Discord

[summer marlin]

Sorry about that mobile doesn't allow markdown

[graceful reef]

Seeing if I can somehow diff it with my eyeballs

[summer marlin]

#1349441922825191625 message you could just copy paste the later portion of this script

[graceful reef]

Yeah this doesn't seem any different

[young cedar]

Weird. Let me see if i can replicate this issue

Because i specifically tested this fix with your port 😅

[graceful reef]

I can push this to the zip in a sec.

Should be up on the URL now. https://dinoleaf.com/pro_file_hosting/crop_and_claw.zip

It was wise of me to just write script to do the zip and scp to the server. Don't have to remind myself how to update something specific

Knulli RG35XX-SP but doubt it's relevant. I really think I'm screwing something obvious up or something just changed that I didn't update

Tried with the latest template sans LD_PRELOAD and same result. Trying to think of what could be causing it.

Crusty loaded by /tmp/godot/godot422.aarch64
Started initializing...
Version 0.4 built on 2025-04-07 22:26:41 with options: X11EGL_FRONTEND SDL2_BACKEND CONTROLLER_HOOK CURSOR CURSOR_X EGL_LOADER SDL_LOADER 
Initializing EGL Loader
Done initializing EGL Loader. Hooked functions: 0 / Passed through: 34
Initializing SDL Loader
Done initializing SDL Loader. Hooked functions: 0 / Passed through: 18
Done initializing.
xkbcommon: ERROR: couldn't find a Compose file for locale "en_US.UTF-8" (mapped to "en_US.UTF-8")
[05:57:05.149] YO WHAT /tmp/weston/lib_aarch64/graphics/mesa_x11_stub::/tmp/weston/lib_aarch64:
[05:57:05.149] launching 'bin/Xwayland'
(WW) Option "-listen" for file descriptors is deprecated
Please use "-listenfd" instead.
(WW) Option "-listen" for file descriptors is deprecated
Please use "-listenfd" instead.
xwayland glamor: GBM backend (default) is not available
Missing Wayland requirements for glamor GBM backend
Failed to initialize glamor, falling back to sw
[05:57:05.412] xfixes version: 5.0
[05:57:05.654] created wm, root 74
ERROR: EGL platform extension "EGL_KHR_platform_x11" not found.
   at: initialize (drivers/egl/egl_manager.cpp:402)

This follows immediately after the command runs, so I assume the culprit'd be most suggested here, but no idea why it looks like it's not finding some sort of backend. Maybe I'll try restarting my system and see if it just decides to work

Seems no cosmic radiation bug, damn.

[young cedar]

I'm suspecting that this might be related to the new linker bug workaround. I wish i could test right now, but i forgot to turn off my devices yesterday and now none of them boot until i put like a bit of charge into them

[graceful reef]

Those poor collective devices just running like hamsters powering a city.

[young cedar]

Yeah so this just works on my muos system. Hmmmm

[graceful reef]

Copied over the Surge Protector and didn't yield difference, so not some obscure line or something being outdated.

I'll open Knulli on the -H out of curiousity

[young cedar]

If you restore the LD_PRELOAD= does it run with broken input atleast?

If that's the case i need to find a solution to this fast, because then my workaround actually breaks things on knulli specifically

[graceful reef]

With LD_PRELOAD added back no.

[young cedar]

wait what?

[graceful reef]

Wait hold on I might've goofed

Confusing myself now. I have two devices on

Lemme doublecheck

[young cedar]

I usually have 3 on my table. I made a script to upload and run on all 3 at the same time

[graceful reef]

Jumpscare avoided. Works on the one I readded it

[young cedar]

okay fuck. Back to the drawing board i guess with a hotfix

[graceful reef]

Input, not sure if I'd already set my things up so they just werk, or if crusty's still blocking input as intented.

Brain fuzzy. I'll put a pin and check later

Nah I'm just dumb. SP double-inputs.

Sorry for snapping away victory once again.

[young cedar]

It's not your fault that I'm doing the weirdest possible thing you can do to a linux system and some of them aren't cooperating 😄

[graceful reef]

Yeah, but when I have bugs get found, someone has to suffer.

It's still been generally a lot of measurable progress to consistently having this engine working though. It doesn't sound too much further off from being fully working on most setups I'd guess

[young cedar]

I did some more testing. It's really just knulli that doesn't like the workaround. I might need to make a "workaround workaround", or do the nuclear option of hijacking dlopen()

[young cedar]

Yup, i was able to fix this, aswell as an unrelated bug that prevented Godot 4 from working on TSP. Not sure if that bug was a regression or nobody ever tried Godot 4 on TSP, but once again the driver's EGL implementation was being weird 😅 All the other devices have no problem using eglQueryString without a valid display, PoverVR really doesn't like you doing that.

For the LD_PRELOAD thing, i went with a pretty ugly dlopen hack:

static void * (*_dlopen)(const char *name, int flag)=NULL;
extern void *dlopen(const char *name, int flag)
{
  TRACE("DLOPEN %s\n",name);
  #if defined(LOG_TRACE)
  void* calll_address= __builtin_return_address(0); 
  const char* calller=get_caller_library_name(calll_address); 
  #endif
  TRACE("Call coming from %s\n",calller);  

    if (_dlopen == NULL)
        _dlopen=dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "dlopen");
    CONSIDER_BACKEND(return _dlopen(name,flag));
    TRACE("DLOPEN Not backend %s\n",name);

    if(name!=NULL)
    {
        if(
           true &&
           #if defined(GLX_FRONTEND) 
           strstr(name,"libGLX")!=NULL ||
           #endif
           #if defined(DRMGBM_FRONTEND) || defined(X11EGL_FRONTEND)
           strstr(name,"libEGL")!=NULL ||
           #endif
           false
            )
        return _dlopen("libCRU.so",flag);
    }
    
    return _dlopen(name,flag);
}

It works though so i don't care lol.

I'm preparing a PR right now

[graceful reef]

TSP?

[young cedar]

TrimUI Smart Pro. Great hardware, borked software. Runs Knulli or CrossMix. Knulli is the better option but still not great.
My codebase contains a lot of curse words because of its graphics driver

[graceful reef]

Time to add the best drivers to Westonpack

I'm sure that wouldn't be possibly the worst thing ever

[young cedar]

Trust me, i tried. I wish i could just add a copy of Panfrost to westonpack. That would make stuff so much easier

Unless you want me to start bundling alternate linux kernels to boot into 😛

[graceful reef]

Just have Anbernic make an RG-Weston

At that point Portmaster may as well have its own distro which sounds like a nightmare to manage across devices

[young cedar]

There's an XKCD for that ™️
https://m.xkcd.com/927/

[graceful reef]

Knulli being a pain is ironic since it seemed like one of the preferred ones for running ports here.

[young cedar]

I don't know why muOS and ArkOS get so much hate. muOS has just been rock solid for me. It's the one platform that put up no fight against my shenanigans and just worked out of the box. Low resident RAM usage, good driver, snappy minimalist frontend.
And ArkOS is just Ubuntu 19. It's malleable af. You can straight up just apt install packages on there.

For debugging ArkOS is a dream because you can literally just compile your stuff directly on device. No weird ssh remote debugging setup. Nah.
make -j4 && gdb ./your_app, that's all you need.

[graceful reef]

Time to get the Godot editor running in Portmaster for it

[young cedar]

You know... the godot editor is just a godot game. You could probably run it with the existing runtimes.

[graceful reef]

For the most part yeah. To a 640x480 monitor

with a gamepad

They do have a native Android build

[young cedar]

I have seen people join game jams with nothing but an android phone running the godot editor. I'm sure someone could pull it off

[graceful reef]

I still find it ironic the Android SDK doesn't have an ARM build

Can't build APK on RPi

[young cedar]

Alright, packaging

[graceful reef]

Glad it was caught before I'd PR'd CnC. I always blame the other guy before myself before the compatibility layers, should a billion requests of help had come in after it were to go live

[young cedar]

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/pull/1498

[young cedar]

Honestly, better growing pains than never ending bug reports, right?

[graceful reef]

Yeah. If anything getting CnC and probably some of the other candidate games running has probably been battle testing

I'll keep the zip the same since the issue's not related to that itself. If I get consistent controls on my H and SP with the same control map, I'll dig into the PR system

[young cedar]

Yeah i can confirm that your latest zip works without changes on all my devices and cfws. That's R36s (ArkOS, AmberELEC, Rocknix Panfrost) RG40XXH (muOS) and TSP (Knulli).
So no need to change anything here

[graceful reef]

Making preparations for when the PR's ready to merge.

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/pull/1500 I suppose for archiveability I best dump this here too

[dense nest]

lol that's awesome

[grim ruin]

I was told that the game info had to be much shorter than what I had originally pr'd by Cebion when i had one like half as long as this for Donkey Kong Redux. I don't know how you got away with yours. Lol

[elfin knot]

There's a cut missing, I guess.

[grim ruin]

That's thee longest game info I've ever seen! Lol. It can be included, fine. But in the notes, not the .json

[graceful reef]

I didn't even want it to extend and destroy the UI. I'd only gotten told about the markdown being used on the site and the plaintext in the app. Like said prior, there's not a lot of clarity to the context of port information text usage or limits on the template builder.

I'd have assumed the site would have truncated it for the preview.

[summer marlin]

100% not anyone's fault

[graceful reef]

Nah it's just everyone else's fault than mine.

If I figure out what or how these are specifically used, I can PR a change at some point

[grim ruin]

Yeah you can just adjust your json. That'd be where that info comes from

Then just make a branch called crop&Claw json fix

Or something like that

[graceful reef]

I did that a few times during so I know that. It's the context of which to fix and how things line up that isn't very clear.