Homebrew Help compiling niuus' Snes9x RX and FCE Ultra RX... :(

[SaulFabre]

Hi to all GBAtemp!!!

I've recently cloned @niuus' FCE Ultra RX and Snes9x RX for make a version of each one of them for add a proper "autoboot ROM / game" feature when provided arguments in the meta.xml file of each emulator, additionally in my fork of FCEURX i've added some color palettes for increase the choice of selecting a custom color palette when playing.

I got devkitPro and all the required files for GC/Wii homebrew compiling.

But I still need help about what is the setup of devkitPro (devkitPPC) for compile properly Snes9x RX and FCE Ultra RX, becuase I always got stuck in those errors in these versions, (except of the official FCE Ultra RX source code from @niuus which i don't have problems), as shown:

Snes9x RX official from @niuus:

Snes9x RX Mod by me, @SaulFabre https://github.com/saulfabregwiivc/Snes9xRX/

FCE Ultra RX Mod by me, @SaulFabre https://github.com/saulfabregwiivc/FCEUltraRX/

I'm using the following setup:

• devkitPro 3.0.3
• devkitPPC r39
• libogc 2.3.1
• libfat 1.1.5
• all the other required files for Wii homebrew compiling

Any help please? And what is the correct setup of devkitPro (devkitPPC) for compile properly Snes9x RX and FCE Ultra RX?

Greetings

@SaulFabre

 

[Lostbhoy]

Hi @SaulFabre, sorry for the bump but I'm wondering if you ever managed to find a solution to this? I'm looking to compile the same snes9x with my own menu background edits and was wondering if you could assist with any information, ie are the above packages still relevant and anything else I should look for?

Thanks man.

 

[SaulFabre]

Hi @SaulFabre, sorry for the bump but I'm wondering if you ever managed to find a solution to this? I'm looking to compile the same snes9x with my own menu background edits and was wondering if you could assist with any information, ie are the above packages still relevant and anything else I should look for?

Thanks man.

sorry for not giving news of this, but i solved this

@InfiniteBlue sent me the libOGC 1.8.15-1 and portlibs files required for this.
You must compile the RX emulators using devkitPPC r26.

Anyways, if you got devkitPPC r26, get the portlibs and libOGC for this attached here.

Best regards, @SaulFabre

 

[Lostbhoy]

sorry for not giving news of this, but i solved this

@InfiniteBlue sent me the libOGC 1.8.15-1 and portlibs files required for this.
You must compile the RX emulators using devkitPPC r26.

Anyways, if you got devkitPPC r26, get the portlibs and libOGC for this attached here.

Best regards, @SaulFabre

Excellent, many thanks for that... Wish me luck!

 

[Lostbhoy]

My devkit is newer, like this year!! I can't seem to find devkitPPC r26 as the main link is dead. Does anyone have a share at all?

 

[SaulFabre]

My devkit is newer, like this year!! I can't seem to find devkitPPC r26 as the main link is dead. Does anyone have a share at all?

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/j0juqb5vvd6z5/devkitPro_archives

 

[Lostbhoy]

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/j0juqb5vvd6z5/devkitPro_archives

Thank you so much...

 

[Lostbhoy]

I am in way over my head here!! How do i tell msys2 to create the dol? I can't find ANY information on where to start with this. If there are any tutorials without a university degree at the end I'd appreciate the link.

Or can I be really galling and ask if someone can compile this for me please? I've only edited the menu png files.

 

[godreborn]

I am in way over my head here!! How do i tell msys2 to create the dol? I can't find ANY information on where to start with this. If there are any tutorials without a university degree at the end I'd appreciate the link.

Or can I be really galling and ask if someone can compile this for me please? I've only edited the menu png files.

it errors at the menu.cpp iirc.

 

[godreborn]

alright, it does it to me with the regular version. something above is not the right version as that's the files I used. tried with cmd prompt and msys64.

 

[godreborn]

@SaulFabre , could you take a look at @Lostbhoy 's link? I'm continuing to try to compile it, but with devkitppc r26 and libogc and portlibs you've supplied, I get iirc the same error as your third image. it was just updated a month or two ago, so it may be using a newer version of the files.

 

[SaulFabre]

@SaulFabre , could you take a look at @Lostbhoy 's link? I'm continuing to try to compile it, but with devkitppc r26 and libogc and portlibs you've supplied, I get iirc the same error as your third image. it was just updated a month or two ago, so it may be using a newer version of the files.

Yesterday i tried compiling @Lostbhoy's modified code of Snes9x RX and it throwed error when compiling menu.cpp.

I will try to compile the original 5.2.0 code for see if this occurs.

 

[godreborn]

I think it does as I tried compiling it myself. using the newest causes an f2build.h is missing error yet it's present.

 

[SaulFabre]

These are the errors i get when compiling both official Snes9xRX 5.2.0 code and @Lostbhoy's code, stops at menu.

But i think i know what's exactly causing the issue:

If you look at commit https://github.com/niuus/Snes9xRX/commit/378aef3c

@niuus accidentally removed the "HiResolution", "cpuOverclock" and "SpriteLimit" variables on snes9xgx.h file, which caused the code to not compile.

Adding them back again now it compiles the menu.cpp correctly, and by now it's still compiling everything.

I will bring later a fix to compiling error to niuus on the Snes9xRX GitHub.

EDIT 1: Submitted a fix for the code compilation on: https://github.com/niuus/Snes9xRX/pull/57

For apply this fix yourself, look this: https://github.com/niuus/Snes9xRX/pull/57/files

 

[godreborn]

thanks, but I already fixed it. trying to see if it will compile now.

 

[godreborn]

@Lostbhoy , here's your dol:

 

[godreborn]

btw, @SaulFabre , there's a function I learned quite a while ago to determine differences between two gits. it's called git diff in command line. iirc, it's git diff folder 1 folder 2, and it will compare them.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Wow... Thank you so much for your time with this guys, I really do appreciate it.

Will try it out when i get home and the screenshots above have actually helped me also as to how to begin the compile. Some reading and some experimentation will be on the cards as I really want to try this myself but again, thanks @godreborn and @SaulFabre.... Legends

 

[Lostbhoy]

Just a little progress report! and don't worry, I'm not looking for anyone to fix it lol

Dol loads and operates perfectly fine however there is no bg music or sfx in the menu and the screens below is where my confusion really begins!

I made a mock up of what I hoped to achieve...

Spoiler

And by using the original png images from the source files as a template I simply copy and pasted my images over the original images while keeping the same dimensions as the original so I do not know why it ended up like this...

Spoiler

The background in the options I sort of expected as the image was called options bg lol...no clue what the main window bg is or how it is generated and the ratio is way off on the top and bottom borders as well as the game list scroll bar but strangest of all are the vertical lines best seen in the pics on the scroll bar. This encompasses the whole of the game list box and nowhere else. (There are more visible lines from the gamepad screen and my crappy camera!!)

Ah well, will try again at the weekend if I can get the compiling to work myself. If not, it's been a wild ride lol!

 

[godreborn]

Ah well, will try again at the weekend if I can get the compiling to work myself. If not, it's been a wild ride lol!

probably better as no one else will need to compile for you. I didn't look at what you did, but it's not like I'd know if it was going to work.