Dead Cells

[mellow path]

Which os?

[polar needle]

Darkos.

[mellow path]

Unfortunately I only have smaller fonts in Latin.

[mellow path]

I'm unable to reproduce this. Is it only the castlevania content or everywhere?

[polar needle]

I’ve seen this happen in other places as well (twice), not just in Castlevania. I’m currently doing a fresh install (about 55 minutes in) to see if it makes any difference. Previously, I just copied and overwrote the files with the updated port.

I’ll report back in about 2 hours once the patching is finished to see if anything has changed. I’ll also check more locations to be sure.

[mellow path]

Really appreciate such thorough testing!

[simple brook]

Im gonna run some dlc areas in a bit

[magic canyon]

What format of Korean font do you need?

[simple brook]

Oh only now I have noticed you have restored the minimap, nice

[mellow path]

only on rk3566 and 2gig systems, but I'm gonna disable it again on all h700 because it slows things down.

[mellow path]

Dead Cells atlas format. The other problem here is that the korean fonts are huge, so they'll kinda increase memory usage a lot. something to consider if you're running korean on a 1gig system and it runs out of ram.

[simple brook]

Tbf if necessary you could disable it on 3566 as well, its not a critical feature and at 480p its usefulness is probably debatable

Probably handy on higher res screens

[mellow path]

I think we have some headroom on 3566 with lighting disabled. My CPU-rendered map code is a bit janky, but I've hacked on it so much though I'm kind of tired of trying to make it look nice. Honestly I'm pretty close to shipping a PR just because I'm tired.

I think I found a fix for the 16x9 background layer that shows up when rendering at 720x720 or other resolutions.

Also regarding brick rendering... I have had the darndest time reproducing it, but if somebody savvy enough to install and run Renderdoc on their handheld can capture a frame, I could fix it pretty quick if you sent me the .rdc file.

[simple brook]

Map looks great now

Second castlevania area and I cant replicate the menu bug

[mellow path]

the CPU map?

[mellow path]

yeah me neither. If it's infrequent enough maybe we just declare victory.

[polar needle]

Just finished the patching, after fresh install now all looks good.

[simple brook]

Well, whatever is in the latest package 😄

[mellow path]

Depends on hardware you run it on.

Slow/1GB runs my CPU drawn map which is a bit clumsy

[polar needle]

Castlevania also looks good. So, looks like it had broken before during updating. Now with fresh install everything good.

[mellow path]

Fixed the 16x9 banding on the parallax layers when running different aspect ratios

[simple brook]

3566 (353V)

[mellow path]

yeah, that'll do the expensive (pretty) version

[polar needle]

Here on top of screen some graphical artifacts.

[simple brook]

Im pretty sure thats the paralax effect bmdhacks just mentioned to be fixed in next release

[mellow path]

what level is that?

Pretty sure I fixed it, but I'm doing a playthrough to double check I'll go there

[polar needle]

It's at top of Dracula Castle level.

[alpine scaffold]

Yessssssss

[simple brook]

its happening!

[mellow path]

PR'd this version

(deleted old version)

Changes

• universal font reduction (fonts like Korean and Simplified Chinese now get scaled down a bit)
• paralax layers now scale to display aspect ratio (prevents weird background bands on 720x720)

[forest estuary]

Puts a smile on the face of a cube xx owner 😂

[mellow path]

there may be some miracle reason why this fixes the brick layout too...

[simple brook]

now this reminds me I have to try it on 480x320 device for shit and giggles

[mellow path]

I'm pretty sure it'll render still in a render buffer at 640x480 and just downscale from there....

[simple brook]

even if it doesnt, its very much rare these days and optional

[sly vector]

Just as a little check, You've built the Binaries as Release right? Just asking for best performance because the Binaries aren't stripped

[mellow path]

good reminder lemme check

I know the compiler compiles deadcells as very optimized, but not sure if I built the compiler as a release version

[limpid nimbus]

Congrats BMD! You put a HELLUVA Lotta work into this!

[mellow path]

@alpine scaffold I may have a fix for your trimui brick...

[alpine scaffold]

<_<

I have it at work with me

I wonder if I could fuck about even more find a way to transfer it easily.

[mellow path]

no rush.. I'm going to bed soon

[alpine scaffold]

No no

You don’t get it

I don’t want to work.

[mellow path]

what're they gonna do, fire you?

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-lotr-theoden-rohan-two-towers-gif-13863406401517703527

[alpine scaffold]

I mean

They can dismiss me if I’m that blatant.

“Cunts, I gotta beat this area to test ram usage.”

[mellow path]

so a quick test shows it not exploding in my face...

but I'm purely speculating if this fixes brick

[mellow path]

I'm gonna sprinkle in some logging to debug this better

[terse obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/salt-bae-salt-bae-zavorky-gnzavorky-gif-24562702

[alpine scaffold]

Yeah a machine broke so I am busy now. Lol

[mellow path]

If you get a chance to run it, send me your log

[alpine scaffold]

Will do. 🙂

[sly vector]

And sent me some apples

[alpine scaffold]

Here you go: 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍏🍏🍏

[sly vector]

Yippie

[alpine scaffold]

ugh

Mega is the worst. >_>

[magic canyon]

If I buy RG34XXSP, do I not have to worry about memory?

[mellow path]

2GB RAM was the only reason I bought an rg34xx-sp

[simple brook]

but these days those are 1GB as well, you would have to get lucky and get some old stock

installing the latest package on 353v / darkos for sanity check

[mellow path]

I played a fair amount last night and it seems fine. I disabled part of the window resizing logic since windows dont resize.

[alpine scaffold]

@mellow path its worse, lmao

Holy fuck this thing is hot too

70c!

On the backside of it

[viscid flare]

Thats not too bad

[alpine scaffold]

That's 70c on my hands

[viscid flare]

Kinda the max recommended temp, tjmax is 110C lmao

[viscid flare]

The back is as hot as the cpu?

[alpine scaffold]

Almost!

[viscid flare]

okay haha

[alpine scaffold]

I dont have my IR temp gun here, but the meat probe said 66c

[viscid flare]

Damn

[alpine scaffold]

I normally sit it on an ice brick when its doing its thing, tonight i cbf getting one. 😂

[alpine scaffold]

@mellow path So the top is still offset, the bottom of the screen seems right, but the right is now offscreen. 😅

[limpid nimbus]

I'd try aliexpress/eBay. Not the official anbernic store

[viscid flare]

Theres no way to know which version you get though

Most likely at this point its 1gb

[alpine scaffold]

A local reseller will probably still have 2gb now.

[simple brook]

compared towhat I had on 353V before, this latest one has nicer font scaling

Looks darn good now

[mellow path]

Except on brick ugh!

[simple brook]

let them lay bricks and fuck em 😛

[mellow path]

Something to do with SDL misreporting the screen params

[magic canyon]

I ordered from Ali today because other people said they got 2GB, but I'm worried I'll get 1GB.

I waited because I thought the price would drop, but instead the price went up.

[mellow path]

This version ignores what SDL says about screen resolution and just uses DISPLAY_WIDTH and DISPLAY_HEIGHT env vars for all graphics setup.

Also with extra extra logging.

[mellow path]

If I had to bet money I'd say you get 1gb... aliexpress moves too much product to have old versions sitting around

[delicate basin]

any hope the compilation time will take less in the future? or be removed entirely ?

[rigid fjord]

it's a necessary evil, it lowers the resource requirements to allow it to be played on these lower spec devices, even if it was legal to distribute the post-compiled files they aren't small either

[frozen grail]

Is it possible to compile it on pc first?

Then throw to handheld?

[sly vector]

Nope, not really firstly people would just click on things like 2gb instead of 1gb when they only got one...

Secondly you are now compiling a arm64 binary on x86, setting this up will take a long time if you want actually good speed... I would just not suggest. Also bmdhacks already said multiple things about this

[delicate basin]

how much space do i need all and all to attempt this? i dont got a lot of space left

[mellow path]

No

I specifically bought an m2 mac that I picked to run arm linux in order to develop this port.

[sly vector]

I would say 7-10gb?

[mellow path]

DM me your address and I'll mail you an sdcard.

[sly vector]

Will you send one thats like this?

[delicate basin]

Cross planet delivery?

[mellow path]

Heh never sent a letter to Tunisia before.

[delicate basin]

I have 4 gigs. Some games will have to get the axe.... Bloody roar on the psx prob. And some other games I finished

[delicate basin]

If you do send me an SD card. You'd probably get me in a lot of trouble. I'd have to be questioned on why someone is sending me this. What my relationship is to you. What on it. They'll have to scan it. And it won't go well if I say "some random on the internet".

I'd probably see the inside of a holding cell for a week

[mellow path]

Oof I'm sorry.

[terse obsidian]

gotta put a rick roll video on that sd card before you send it out

[delicate basin]

Don't be. It's just how it goes. Hell. My country's very under developed. Especially mentally. Government workers don't know what a PC is. Even tho they're using it for day to day tasks. Some still run windows XP. With cli software for their work

One time I got taxed 90% of a unit's price. I asked why in the import office. He said "appears to have advanced wifi and Bluetooth technology". I was flabbergasted

[jaunty gyro]

I mean... i got that 64 on me

[sly vector]

same

[alpine scaffold]

The thing is we get the variables for those from sdl2. 😅

[mellow path]

you showed me the variables and they were correct though. It may be something about them not passing through perfectly when in-game.

[delicate basin]

i got that exact one on me

[mellow path]

I'm just speculating wildly. But there is a single frame at startup that renders before we read the environment vars and only have what SDL reports. The above version on gdrive reads the vars and sets up the render without ever asking SDL.

[delicate basin]

Did the patching. But after it was done. Told me "press a to proceed to dead cells". Pressed a. Kicked me out to emulation station. Pressing a again to enter the game brings me back to the patching screen.

Refreshing game list and rebooting the console does not solve

Am I smooth brained?

[rigid fjord]

no, share the log and patchlog though

[delicate basin]

no log generated as the game never even had the option to launch and never got replaced in the emulation station menu

but i do have patchlog

as you can see i tried running it a second time and cancelled because it was a waste of time

[rigid fjord]

can you show the folder structure inside of your ..ports/deadcells/gamedata folder?
here's mine for comparison

mine is like a version-ish back now, but the structure of the contents should be largely the same

[delicate basin]

yeah missing a lot, even tho it said game compiled successfully....

[rigid fjord]

keep in mind the goggame files are the keys for the dlc, so you don't "need" them per-say

[delicate basin]

yeah i dont have the dlc

maybe ill buy it later

but for now i need the game to run in the first place

i see the .patch needs recompile

but if i just let it compile again i know it still wont run,

doing the same thing again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity

[rigid fjord]

yeah, doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of madness

are your source files steam or gog?....i doubt it has any bearing on it, also cfw & device?

[delicate basin]

gog, g350, pan4elec

i also have the game on gamepass but i dont think thats compatible

[rigid fjord]

correct, not compatible as we need the linux copy of the game, doubtful that windows would provide that via gamepass 😁

it's worth asking other people testing if they've had issues with pan4elec

[delicate basin]

its basically amberelec tho

and thats compatible

[rigid fjord]

Amberelec is marked as tested successfully...odd

i don't see anything obvious in the patchlog, i hate to say it but if the issue pops up late in the patching or after then you might need to let it run again simply so we can see what happened, restarting the game triggered patching again which refreshed the log

also of note, it does run the game right after patching, so if it does "complete" the patch then back to your cfw menu then something did indeed break, should be able to play immediately after patching

[delicate basin]

F

[rigid fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-yep-ya-gif-2495301426354871501

[terse obsidian]

is there free space on the sd card?

[rigid fjord]

free space is a valid question, the end of the installation is around 3gb, but theres likely more space used during the compile

[delicate basin]

Yes. I have about 3 gigs left

[mellow path]

Yeah you didnt get that far into patching. Didnt log a crash or anything. I'd just restart it and see.

[delicate basin]

Same thing. Patched. Then says completed. Pressed A. Got kicked to menu

Maybe my base files are wrong version

[alpine scaffold]

Make sure you get the latest steam or gog version.

[delicate basin]

Will do

[alpine scaffold]

Legitimate

[delicate basin]

My game was sitting on my PC for 2 years. Not updated

So maybe that's why

I'll update and retry

[alpine scaffold]

Kk. 🙂

[delicate basin]

Means I have to redownload gog Galaxy :(

[alpine scaffold]

Although it has found the right steam version:

[01:25:46] hlboot.dat MD5: 185147915f30d7ef9e6123bb0c69efbf
Steam version detected. OK

[alpine scaffold]

It says you have the steam version.

[delicate basin]

That's weird. I swear I have the gog version

I'm sure. Used the gog installer and everything

I could buy the game on steam and try with those files.

Oof.. if I wanna rebuy it on steam. It's gonna be 24.99. No regional pricing.

[alpine scaffold]

You can download the Linux version directly from gog and throw the sh file into the port.

[delicate basin]

What.

How. Thought you can only download the version compatible with your os.

[alpine scaffold]

Nope. Just choose your version in the dropdown box.

On the website.

[mellow path]

Thats probably the issue. I thought I checksum the binaries though.

[delicate basin]

Ah. There is no such option on the gog Galaxy launcher

It just says install. Even tho I have the game installed already.

Different disk tho so that may be it

I'll delete the game tomorrow. Reinstall latest version. Or just download the Linux one and try again. Thanks y'all

Are y'all sure the epic games version doesn't work? I got that one for free too in an offer somewhere

[mellow path]

I didnt know theres an epic games version but it might work if its the same build #

The patcher is flexible enough to work on both gog and steam games despite them having differences.

[delicate basin]

Base game on epic is like 4$

Def better than steam 24.99

[mellow path]

lemme know if you get a chance to run that (no rush) but I've got some fancy logging in there I'd like to see.

[full gale]

my handheld always crash and shutdown itself when compiling. on anbernic rg28xx with knulli

[limpid nimbus]

Make sure its plugged in when you do it and that your device settings are off for a timer to sleep

[full gale]

ohhh

[limpid nimbus]

Yeah. You want yoir device to be able to just stay on. Not have a sleep timer set. This takes literally 4-8 hours to patch.

[mellow path]

How does sleep end up killing a process? You don't think it's an OOM? Looks like an OOM to me.

[mellow path]

Turn on zramswap. You're running out of memory because you have so many roms and so much scraped content in knulli there's no ram left for this port.

[mellow path]

Also, why wouldn't my knulli sleep prevention step in the patch script be working?

[feral storm]

Pan4elec working good

[alpine scaffold]

Aliens

[full gale]

how do i turn on zramswap? the patch is running fine this time tough

[mellow path]

Its some knulli setting. If you can't find it ask in the knulli discord. Your dead cells game will crash if you're already running out of RAM on install so make sure you turn it on

[full gale]

oh okay

thank you sm

[limpid nimbus]

I was just stating some stuff he might have not done. I wasn't saying that was the problem. I k ow that when patches are interrupted, a lot of the time they have to be started from scratch.

[limpid nimbus]

Oh wow I didn't know you could even do that. Thats some next level awesome. Was just trying to help. I obviously was mistaken.

[limpid nimbus]

It's $8.99

[delicate basin]

regional pricing

[viscid flare]

25 euros here lmao

[delicate basin]

thats the bundle

try clicking on this

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dead-cells

should say 4-5$

[analog mantle]

$24.99

[viscid flare]

Yeah 25 euros

Dutch pricing i guess

bundle is 31.50

[simple brook]

when converted its 21,45E base price here

[alpine scaffold]

What about this?

https://www.gog.com/en/game/dead_cells

[sly vector]

I don't think that version works...

[delicate basin]

F

[sly vector]

The instructions specify the Linux version and Epic games doesn't has Linux support on any game

( I mean certain engines include Linux games but that's not important for this)

[alpine scaffold]

@mellow path

It’s like a 16 pixel offset.

[limpid nimbus]

That's so weird. And the TSP doesn't do this? Just brick?

[alpine scaffold]

Yup, and the logging clearly shows a 0,0 offset at 1024x768.

[limpid nimbus]

How bizarre

[mellow path]

THERE IT IS!!! sdl=1280x720

[alpine scaffold]

Oh

Weird. lol

[mellow path]

Probably muos sharing their TSP build scripts

[alpine scaffold]

But how does sdl2resolution get the correct resolution? o_o

[viscid flare]

sdl has like 4 functions to get resolutions so they might use different ones?

[mellow path]

48 pixel offset

[alpine scaffold]

Yeah I didn’t try hard to count it

Just squinted and was like “hrmmmmmm” 16

[mellow path]

So what do we do?

Do I code up some Binarycounter-esque workaround or do we complain to muOS?

[viscid flare]

You could use hacksdl as a workaround

its not very clean though

[alpine scaffold]

@severe sand any reason why sdl2 on muOS on the TrimUI brick would report a different resolution than the device actually has? I’m using the latest Jacaranda build. ❤️

PortMaster reports the right resolution, which is even weirder.

[viscid flare]

https://github.com/MustardOS/internal/tree/0af0f54bcb9e306f42fb0a40c18c92b5874cce38/device/tui-spoon/config/screen/internal

this is not correct is it?

[alpine scaffold]

Spoon not brick

[viscid flare]

my bad

[alpine scaffold]

[mellow path]

Report isn't even the issue because I ignore it, its just when I display a 1024x768 window, because SDL thinks it has a 720 height screen, it crops it

I could do 1024x720... Might feel a hair stretched

[alpine scaffold]

Is there any way to set the resolution?

[mellow path]

I'll have to look

That would require getting out of bed

[alpine scaffold]

That’s fair

I’m in bed so I can’t fault you

I’ll install kanolli tomorrow and see if the same thing happens

[mellow path]

Eh only if you want to

[alpine scaffold]

I mean… yes?

It’s actually really fun to play it on the brick.

[ornate granite]

i have knulli I'll try installing the latest patch in 2-3 hours

[alpine scaffold]

On a TrimUI brick?

[ornate granite]

yup

[alpine scaffold]

Excellent:D

[ornate granite]

2 weeks back i tried installing the first patch that @mellow path had shared but couldn't get it working at step 4 I guess

hopefully it goes through the port & patch page

[mellow path]

Yeah its better now. We have a single writer for astc encoding to not make the userspace filesystem oom

[ornate granite]

also just a wild thought I have a dual boot laptop, would it be possible to get that compilation/encoding done on that hardware?

[simple brook]

Nope

[sly vector]

Technically yes, will it help. No because you would need to run in it in a qemu chroot which steals every performance

It will be faster on the device

Nvm it won't even work because of the linking

[mellow path]

You could run astc encoding native but I haven't written any of those systems so no

[mellow path]

I fixed the linker to be relocatable

[sly vector]

Ah

[mellow path]

But it doesn't matter because I'm not sure it'll even work building a cross-compiling hashlink aot compiler. Nobody has tried it and it may take some hacking.

I never needed to because I developed on aarch64

[sly vector]

I wish

[shadow karma]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fumo-fumos-nanoave-category-1-JjhBailbuwJfS8y88l

[ornate granite]

yeah figured

[mellow path]

So some research into this, the internal SDL backbuffer for rendering is sized wrong, but it hands it to the GPU with explicit instructions to scale to the screen. You're probably getting weird scaling artifacts on TrimUI brick in all the emulators.

My scaling code is based on the stageHeight/stageWidth instead of the actual screen size reported in SDL which is why it comes out wrong. I can do that weird scaling stuff too for Brick but it'll have some artifacts becasue we're already rendering in a downsampled buffer

[shadow prism]

this should write some crap to uinput every 10s or so (aarch64 bin)

[mellow path]

I already have a solution in the launch script, I was just giving NYAP grief about saying it didn't work when he hadn't checked.

[shadow prism]

I'll see myself out

[mellow path]

If anyone has a muOS brick, I'd be really curious about the output from running this program.

[analog mantle]

Oops you said muOS.

Not just Brick. Just a minute.

[mellow path]

really appreciate the comparison!

[analog mantle]

That was a Brick with a recent Knulli alpha. I am flashing muOS Jacaranda now.

[mellow path]

knulli looks as one would expect... I'm curious what muOS does

[mellow path]

huh. That's normal too.

[mellow path]

really appreciate you testing though!

Ok, I found the issue. Dead Cells is compiled with a fixed window size of 1280x720 and muOS Brick for some reason doesn't resize it. Actually this might be an issue on all Bricks which just happen to have a vertical resolution above 720 that's not rocknix (ie framebuffer).

so not an issue with muOS per se, it's a Dead Cells bug combined with all framebuffer OSes on screens taller than 720

[mellow path]

Brick Fix

[alpine scaffold]

Trialing it now.

[mellow path]

I really appreciate it.

damn that brick looks nice. I almost bought one today... amazon has them in the Seattle warehouse and they said same-day shipping but I resisted.

[alpine scaffold]

Hopefully this is the trick. 🙂

[mellow path]

🤞

[alpine scaffold]

Ugh. 🙁

Nope

My coworker had a play. 😆

[mellow path]

still offset?!!?

[alpine scaffold]

Yup. :((((

I think

[mellow path]

https://tenor.com/view/annoyed-fuck-frustrated-gif-13611303

[alpine scaffold]

Yeah it looks like I grabbed the latest version?

[mellow path]

yes, I took all the logging out and there's no logging in your post

[alpine scaffold]

Mega is a pain in the arse to download on my phone.

Then to scp across.

Then to autoinstall and patch. 😅

[alpine scaffold]

That’s a fuck up.

[mellow path]

maybe, but I don't know what else to look at and I fixed everything that the logs said before.

I've got some installs running here and I'll see if they show anything interesting.

[alpine scaffold]

Without logs we’ll never know.

[mellow path]

sure, but what do you log?

[alpine scaffold]

What size window is being created?

[mellow path]

Sure there may be some fluke where it doesn't create the window correctly, but I tested it on a few systems here to verify that it's not manually creating a 1280x720 window anymore.

the patch explicitly removes the string with those dimensions

so I think there's some other cause I'm not logging

Becuase the theory I had was kinda bullshit... SDL does window resizes and we trigger a resize frequently, so there's something else going on

[alpine scaffold]

Window resizes are ignored?

Can you debug the window creation information?

Maybe in your runtime hardcode dimensions to the devices dimensions. 😆

Otherwise I dunno.

When I get home I’ll try that other program out I guess.

[mellow path]

other program?

[alpine scaffold]

This?

Or not necessary?

[mellow path]

naw we got somebody to run that already

[alpine scaffold]

It’s weird because love2d is fine

So I suspect it’s the window creation, the window gets created at the wrong resolution then never changes.

[mellow path]

yeah, I thought it was because dead cells was hardcoding it's window size to 1280x720 but we fixed that. I verified on my end that it's fixed.

[alpine scaffold]

I know the TrimUI sdl is kinda jank.

What if I have the wrong version.

The mega one you gave me the other day.

Got an md5sum of the zip?

[mellow path]

sure lemme look

a85981b604f06eff248c782e16c2e2dc  deadcells.zip

[alpine scaffold]

Rip

Lmao

I don’t know.

[mellow path]

in other news, I just unbricked my handheld that I had disassembled with a broken bootloader... all day I tried everything. EXCEPT a different usb cable.

I'm gonna quit hacking for the evening. Wish me self control to make it through the night without buying a brick.

oh... I'm too old though

12 months - 5 years... I turn 49 on Sunday

[alpine scaffold]

Wow, old man!

[mellow path]

hey can you go into graphics and fiddle with fullscreen/windowed and see if it jumps into place?

[terse obsidian]

happy birthday!

[mellow path]

https://tenor.com/view/princess-bride-gif-16584083462884414143

[mellow path]

I think I just reproduced it on my desktop

[alpine scaffold]

Did nothing. Since it can’t resize the window.

[limpid nimbus]

How is this only the brick but not the TSP?

[ornate granite]

will this fix this offset? im running knulli on the brick

[ornate granite]

yupp tried this

[mellow path]

Thats good data its not the OS

[ornate granite]

oh i was just trying to copy the patched files to nextui card hehe

but now that you mention this I don't think it'd work

[alpine scaffold]

Because it has to do with the window being set to 1280x720 then it trying to be resized afterwards, which it can't do.

I'll leave it as an exercise to you why this is not a problem on the TSP.

[mellow path]

Yeah in theory its all devices that render to kms/DRM (no sway/wayland) who have a screen with one or both dimensions over 1280x720

Its just the brick is the only device like that. Speaking of bricks though, I unbricked my rg43h which also is 1024x768 so I'll try on that tomorrow after i reassemble it.

[alpine scaffold]

Tbf the 353v doesn't have a screen over 1280x720.

The TrimUI sdl2 builds have always been super janky. I know muOS had to redo their entire frontend to stop it acting like a total turd.

[limpid nimbus]

Ah ha. Because it's 1280x720! I geeeeet that!

[alpine scaffold]

https://tenor.com/view/nose-tap-taps-nose-nose-tap-taps-nose-gif-22919740

[pine ivy]

Wish the mobile version worked cuz I only have it purchased on phone

[mellow path]

Sadly the mobile version is built an entirely different way and would require restarting this port from the ground up. The mobile version does not support the speedups I've added so it would also need a whole entire rework to support anything less than 2gb ram, and reports are that it's not awesome on systems like the x55 even with 2gb ram.

[mellow path]

1024x768 dArkOS no issues

[simple brook]

offtopic, but any success with that stubborn memory?

[mellow path]

No, I suspect it's reject 1gb dimms rebranded as 768mb. I nearly bricked my bootloader trying to enable it and no matter what I tried it would not read. Even at 300mhz it doesn't produce a stable signal and the other 3/4ths of the bank is rock solid.

[mellow path]

Anyways I traced the shit out of this and there's no resizing, it creates the window perfectly the first try in the right size. I'm gonna ship the port and if somebody wants to do some deep dive on SDL on brick in the debugger that's probably what you'd need to figure this out.

[mellow path]

manufacturer says they're sending me another unit with 2gb ram

fuckit I bought a brick

[alpine scaffold]

Put the invoice into the opencollective 😄

[mellow path]

I got it overnight delivery from amazon and I can return it to the grocery store next to my house for free.

[alpine scaffold]

[mellow path]

amazon bought a chain of grocery in the USA: Whole Foods and they run them all as amazon return centers. Also I live an hour away from Amazon headquarters so they do overnight and same-day delivery and apparently ampwn's local warehouse for amazon is here.

[alpine scaffold]

Why send it back?

[mellow path]

heh, because I have too many handhelds

[alpine scaffold]

Fair. 😅

[pine ivy]

Sadness

[limpid nimbus]

I absolutely love this. Hahahaha

[limpid nimbus]

I'll buy an SD8Gen2 Device from you if you feel like lessening your load! 😉

[loud stirrup]

Wait what?

Dead cells?

On MuOS and Knulli?

What kinda black magic is this? How many sacrificial rituals were performed to achieve this 🤯

[simple brook]

We do not talk about the screams coming out of the basement

[alpine scaffold]

All of them

[loud stirrup]

I hope y'all are not connected to Epstein

\s

[simple brook]

Hey, we only sacrificed adults!

[sleek nest]

What was that
Did Slay the Spire project stuck at control scheme

[mellow path]

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[loud stirrup]

Wow man you even released the files

Hmm it says vibe voded. But if it works I ain't complaining cause this is free to use, no obligations.

[mellow path]

LLMs as a tool to launder closed source code into open source

Note I haven't released my decompilations or the source to my decompiled patches.

[alpine scaffold]

Ram usage is so much better now

[spare ferry]

Hi, is there a patch for 34xxsp, 2GB RAM, or something similar? The game is creating artifacts at the top and bottom edges of the screen, as well as in the second (and further) location, and the frame rate is becoming increasingly unstable.

[alpine scaffold]

The h700 is right at the limit of what it can handle.

Surprisingly the R36S has better performance in the game.

[spare ferry]

I don't think the problem is with the processor, but with the screen resolution or something else. If the camera zooms out, everything outside the screen starts to leave a trail and linger.

Sometimes the character starts to shimmer with different colors; this always happens when choosing a costume. Some elements become square and start taking up more screen space than they should. I think this is a rendering issue.

[limpid nimbus]

Pics would be nice

[mellow path]

Send your patchlog this shouldn't happen.

[simple brook]

now to install the best operating system you can get, surwish os!

[spare ferry]

The third picture in the middle shows what the suit should look like.
I managed to catch the stripes from above; they only appear on the surface; they don't appear underground, and sometimes they start to shimmer.

[mellow path]

Itll flicker in the selection menu but once you select it it should be fine. Thats by design.

I don't understand the problem with the red circles though

Looks fine to me

Oh maybe you're running an older test version and you're referring to the parallax fix I did?

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[spare ferry]

The red circles start to flicker and the image in them is doubled, they are also at the bottom, sometimes they can block the interface

I took the port from my community, there is a chance that I don’t have the newest build, that’s why I came to you)

[mellow path]

Ah

I would say that I'm going to have a new release that scales the game differently in about 8 hours so I'd just wait.

Seems like youre running a really old version

Can you send me a pic of your full screen?

When playing in game?

[spare ferry]

I'll send a screenshot, but I need to find a suitable location. It'll take some time.

I'm not very good at using Discord, can you provide a link to a more up-to-date version?

[mellow path]

Just wait. I'll send you the link in a few hours.

[limpid nimbus]

Looks fine to me

[mellow path]

I think he's talking about this old issue: #1472822060966477914 message

[spare ferry]

Сравнивая скриншоты с Nintendo Switch и Ambernic, можно заметить, что на изображении присутствует фильтр и видимая полоса, создающая визуальные артефакты.

[mellow path]

english please. It's ok to use a translator, I'm the developer and I don't speak any russian apart from a very incorrectly pronounced Здравствуйте. Oh and know the first phrase of the Song of the Volga Boatman.... Aaaay uch nyum (or whatever).

[mellow path]

but that's clearly paralax bugs I fixed.

[spare ferry]

When aligning screenshots from the Nintendo Switch and Ambernic, you can see that the image has a filter and a visible stripe that creates visual objects.

[mellow path]

God I wish I had the horsepower of a Nintendo Switch... just a totally next-level class of hardware. Be prepared for a LOT of compromises to get this thing running on such slower hardware compared to switch.

[spare ferry]

It's funny, I'm from roughly the same region where this song is from)

[mellow path]

I sing it in an overly-dramatic fashion every time I do chores in my yard.
https://youtu.be/SRe1dsXs6_s?si=6ku2zXrr_URZqOUB

[spare ferry]

So my version is outdated, thanks for the information.

I think it's worth waiting for the release of a new version, rather than installing the one that exists

[simple brook]

I consider the game tested through, at least the base :p

[mellow path]

Is that really the end though??

[simple brook]

well after that you start again at the beggining with some stuff like bosh rush unlocked, so I would say yes 😄

[spare ferry]

How much fps do you feel? Does it drop to 15 in busy scenes?

[simple brook]

I would say more, but 3566 has considerably better gpu than 34xxSP

[mellow path]

depending on how old your version is, it's sped up slightly

the fact that you've got flickering costumes implies it's before we nailed the color swap textures which were suuuuper expensive

[alpine scaffold]

[mellow path]

In order to fix it I had to break binary portability but I'm working on a more elegant fix that is also portable

[alpine scaffold]

I'm curious to know the issue. 😄

[mellow path]

Final PR Version

• I mean it this time
• Until the next one

[mellow path]

The issue was the 1280x720 window size got embedded in to SDL, or actually Heaps render cache in a way that couldn't be changed. And all my attempts to resize the window, even though if you queried the variables and they printed out "nono... you totally resized it" did not actually change some internal variables that we didn't have access to in our patches.

It's tricky because it's not exactly open source. I can change any code in the game from decompile/recompile but there's always a few crashes and a few warnings when I reassemble the thing so I hadn't put prints deep into the heaps codebase because I wasn't decompiling/patching heaps in that depth becasue it's kinda complicated and the decompiler isn't exactly perfect.

[alpine scaffold]

Understandable

[mellow path]

Anyways, I just built a fresh decompile/recompile of the SDL window creation code instead of resizing it and that fixed it.

but every other device doesn't really care about being resized, it's something to do with that specific SDL

[alpine scaffold]

Not the first issues we've had with TrimUI

SDL2 on TrimUI 🙂

[mellow path]

You probably wouldn't see this problem in other codebases it's just heaps bases so much of it's setup on the SDL window size and normally when you tell SDL to build a fullscreen framebuffer window it just tells you the correct size

but we were like, "build a fullscreen framebuffer window at 1280x720" and SDL was like, "Sure I can do that! Well, I can't do the 1280, so I'll make that 1024, but I can totally do the 720"

although, I didn't plumb it totally to see that happen, it's just my assumption from changing some behavior and watching the results.

[mellow path]

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[alpine scaffold]

@mellow path o_o

Maybe its just the title screen?

It has this random colour stripe across the top.

[mellow path]

What why!!!!

How'd you get it so fast though... it takes hours to recompile no??

[alpine scaffold]

About 40 minutes?

It didnt redo the textures though?

[mellow path]

naw

oook lemme get back to see why it failed... must be misapplying the fix or something

can you send me an md5sum of everything in your port folder?

(not the astc dir)

[alpine scaffold]

Loading screens are kinda jank

[mellow path]

but all the *.hl *.so and everything in patch/ and tools/

[mellow path]

yeah that's clearly wrong. but it's not the code I tested on my device.

[alpine scaffold]

This is everything except astc files.

[alpine scaffold]

I'd really rather not redo all my textures though. 😄

[mellow path]

I figured out the issue 🙁

I left my fix out of the patching script oops

[alpine scaffold]

lol

[mellow path]

also it looks like I excluded a huge memory saver for level generation too although we've had fewer OOM's lately

[alpine scaffold]

memory has been good

Up to ramparts and at 414 mb

[mellow path]

Yeah, it peaks a bit right at level transition so I force a texture flush before

[alpine scaffold]

dead. 😐

[mellow path]

a133p I/O lock?

[alpine scaffold]

No skill issue

😄

I died in game, lmao

it skipped over patching o_o

[mellow path]

sorry

Fuck I'm sorry... one more round

[alpine scaffold]

Why? 🙂

No need to be sorry. 😄

[mellow path]

wasting your time by being careless... I appreciate it

[alpine scaffold]

Shit happens, doesn't phase me in the least. 😄

[mellow path]

https://mega.nz/file/8uJxGJSb#TSI8dhcYzACu-efQcssn5TS2paC170ksiJFKQlP7X4I

[alpine scaffold]

Copying across now

[mellow path]

ok I fixed my build to not make that mistake again

[alpine scaffold]

Its at 40% 🙂

I'm printing a grip for my brick. 😄

[mellow path]

neat!

[limpid nimbus]

So Jealous...

[mellow path]

god this feels like such a hack

[root@KNULLI /userdata/system]# swapon /dev/zram0
[root@KNULLI /userdata/system]# free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          997816      521180       57784       12908      447272      476636
Swap:         262140           0      262140

[alpine scaffold]

Works perfectly!!! 🙂

[mellow path]

FINALLY

ship it

[alpine scaffold]

do it!

[mellow path]

I'm not a maintainer on github

[alpine scaffold]

I need to have an updated PR to approve it

Looks so good on this screen and it plays so well

[mellow path]

https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/pull/2310 this should be current

[alpine scaffold]

Is the one last brick fix include this fix?

[mellow path]

yep

[alpine scaffold]

Approved!

[mellow path]

What a great project. Really appreciate your support on it.

[mellow path]

oh, the commit is held op on @sly vector

[alpine scaffold]

Well it needs two people anyway.

[sly vector]

Sorry

[simple brook]

Now open the floodgates! 😛

[alpine scaffold]

I can lock releases 😄

So no one can make a release.

[olive sparrow]

I'm not a native speaker; is that vernacular workplace parlance for:
"my priorities have shifted and I shall henceforth devote my time to loftier goals"
-# "you slags"

[also works OK on rg40xxV muOS… mostly playable (if not very enjoyable) on 0-1 BC but gets trickier with many enemies onscreen on higher difficulties]

[alpine scaffold]

https://tenor.com/view/definitely-maybe-romance-comedy-ryan-reynolds-yep-gif-5008341450946414225

[mellow path]

Nono... I'm just excited

[alpine scaffold]

Because it’s your birthday? 🎉

[mellow path]

Dead Cells shipped. And first contributions to muOS and Knulli... Its a good bday

Also sunny so I'm gonna go rock climbing with a bunch of people.

[simple brook]

It might be a good idea to add a warning that steam dlcs are not supported

[mellow path]

I added a disk space warning too

It refuses to run if you don't have enough.

[alpine scaffold]

Sounds too sensible.

[olive sparrow]

Oh this is fun. Just installed muOS Jacaranda on a new SD and started patching Dead Cells…

[alpine scaffold]

[olive sparrow]

We are made to suffer.

(sorry, that gif was kind of a spoiler 😬 )

[mellow path]

Fuck!

How?

I swear I checked!

[olive sparrow]

-# sorry

[mellow path]

totally my fault

I forgot to push the final fix. The current zip on this testing thread is correct and I have a PR open to fix the release in the app.

[olive sparrow]

#1472822060966477914 message ← this one ?

[olive sparrow]

Seems to be working.

[mellow path]

Yeah also you can just replace this one file:
#🩺｜port-help message

[alpine scaffold]

@mellow path merged mate, new build will be out in a few minutes. 🫶

[mellow path]

As my Yorkshire friend says... "Foooking legend!"

[alpine scaffold]

https://tenor.com/view/night-goodnight-haggard-gif-13275573

[sleek nest]

In that case I happen to check portmaster new and get 1 mins reupload lol I mean what's the deal

[terse obsidian]

the wait begins

[simple brook]

Its gonna be so confused by the 1 TB ram in there

[terse obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/seriously-let-me-tell-you-gif-13129374

[hoary kayak]

can someone look what's happened i tried gog version to test dlc but it crashing before compilation

[simple brook]

See this #🩺｜port-help message

[hoary kayak]

yep now compiling started thanks for help

[olive sparrow]

Loading 241 swap textures…

This is going well.

(but it went well before, so it's par for the course)

[cinder heron]

What's that handheld? Looks curious

[limpid nimbus]

So the one on PM right now is not correct?

[limpid nimbus]

Saw this after
Sorry

[mellow path]

AISLPC rg43h prototype.
rk3562 CPU

[spare ferry]

I can't download the file from this link. My VPN doesn't support it either, and it gives an error.

[mellow path]

Use the Portmaster app its released now

[spare ferry]

is portmaster comp

[limpid nimbus]

Huh?

[spare ferry]

In the first two screenshots, you can see a stripe at the top. In the other two, instead of a white square, there should be a death scythe; that's her attack.

[spare ferry]

compiled from portmaster

[limpid nimbus]

This isb34xxsp

I wonder if the 720x480 really does break cause issues

[spare ferry]

May be

[spare ferry]

I'll reinstall everything now.

Portmaster gives an error and does not work.

OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
0: 1
{'name': 'muOS', 'version': '2601.0_JACARANDA', 'device': 'rg34xx-sp', 'resolution': (720, 480), 'analogsticks': 2, 'cpu': 'h700', 'capabilities': ['power', 'armhf', 'aarch64', 'restore', '3:2', '720x480', 'muOS', 'rg34xx-sp', 'analog_0', 'analog_1', 'analog_2', 'hires', 'wide', '1gb', '2gb', 'ru_RU'], 'ram': 2048, 'primary_arch': 'aarch64', 'glibc': '2.38'}

I don't understand what to do.

[limpid nimbus]

Hmm..

[mellow path]

no it doesn't, this was developed on 34xx-sp

[mellow path]

OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Looks like your sdcard is corrupting