Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

hi, i am looking into a way to get NOVA to run through a symlink.
i also found a new thing while poking around, if you open appinfo.json in notepad you can change the location of the executable! i trying it and it does work, however a symlink between my MyDocs nova files dir and com.gameloft.nova and all i get is a blank screen.

i hope some1 knows a way

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

hey people i got asphalt 5 1.1.4 running but the problem is that accelerometer does not work... if anyone has a fix for this please let me know asap...

regards

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

ey guys, i have installed asphalt5 1.0.3 and it runs but when i tap the race button it crashes, does anyone know this problem if so how ti fix it? thx in advance :)

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

so i've noticed that if i run the Asphalt 1.0.3 with the link on the desktop, it will shutdown as soon as i run a level... so, i went to the xterm, and ran the game without rooting, and i got the same results. Thing is, if i root, the game will run fine, but if i dont, it will shut down...

is there a way to make a link with root access or something? (i dont wanna go out looking for the version 1.1.4)

edit: when i run it on XTerm with no root acces, it gives me the "SEgmentation Fault" error... with root access works just fine.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

i have the same problem, it seems that it need root access to work fine (if you run it on xterm with root access, it will work with no problems at all)... so i guess the solution is to create a link on desktop that runs with root access... but i dont really know how to do that.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

blades of fury and assasins creed how to please..are they straight forward?

for the people havin trouble with asphalt....

page 14 of the preenv webos compatibility blog;)

http://forums.internettablettalk.com...=64392&page=14

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

i followed the instructions on the link, and it lemme see the level, bu as soon as i touch the screen, the game shuts down again ... this is really sad, since, that game is such a beauty.

EDIT: in case you followed the steps 1-9, and the game doesnt work, just do this:
preenv
cd /home/user/
chmod -R 0777 (game directory)

i did that a couple mins ago, and the game now works from the link on desktop.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

run it with root access it is fine. i had the same problem, the game crashes becuase it cannot save a game file. do this-
symlink the asphalt 5 properly, then go to x term to do this:

sudo gainroot
cd (game folder)
chown -R user:users Asphalt5

that changes the permission of the folder and enables it to save games.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

does anybody know how to uninstall nfs undercover from n900..i installed using nfsinstaller.thanks

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

I made a set of scripts:

http://cs.ozerki.net/zap/pub/pre-hel...ckager.tar.bz2

which can be used to convert WebOS .ipk files to N900 .deb files.
The scripts are designed to run in Scratchbox. There's a short doc inside the archive.

The script has been successfully used to build .deb files for following working games (where 'working' means more or less playable):

com-ea-app-battleship-pre-en_1.0.60_armel.deb
com-ea-app-monopoly_20.0.35_armel.deb
com-ea-app-nfsuc_20.0.28_armel.deb
com-ea-app-sims_20.0.22_armel.deb
com-ea-app-tetristouch_1.3.8_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-asphalt5_1.1.4_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-assassins_1.0.6_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-brainchallenge_1.1.1_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-brothersinarms_1.0.9_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-castleofmagic_1.0.3_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-driver_1.1.7_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-earthwormjim_1.0.3_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-hawx_1.1.5_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-heroofsparta_1.0.4_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-nfl2010_1.0.0_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-nova_1.0.9_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-oregontrail_1.0.7_armel.deb
com-gameloft-app-shrekkarting_1.1.1_armel.deb
com-jakyl-gepro_1.0.0_armel.deb
com-laminar-research-app-xplane-default_9.5.0_armel.deb
net-hexage-buka_2.22.327_armel.deb
net-hexage-radiant_2.11.383_armel.deb

The resulting .deb file doesn't require anything except preenv (and sometimes auxiliary libs like libavcodec52, libsdl-net etc, the usual stuff, dependencies are declared in the .deb file). It contains a .desktop file and icons, e.g. it's a complete end-user installable .deb file, without any tricks and/or manual work required. The only problem is that the icon appears as a blue square until reboot (or untill 'killall hildon-desktop'), but this is a well-known Maemo bug.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

remove data.sav file and it will works fine

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

thanks alot for making those, however i dont use linux.
is it possible to do this inside maemo?
also, does the deb install the game into home/user or to the emmc?

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Just a note with mod hat to say that this kind of post is fine: you are providing tools without distributing or linking to copyrighted material. I have banned, temp-banned, blacklisted IP and/or deleted a handful of threads/posts/accounts in the last few days because people couldn't be bothered to read or play by the rules.

This PalmOS compatibility detective work by javispedro is awesome, but i'm taking a no-tolerance approach to moderating the resulting traffic to prevent it from becoming a huge headache. So in addition to the existing rules, please also keep the discussion in the two existing threads as appropriate, and be sure to search the threads before posting questions.

Thanks for your help keeping t.m.o on legal solid ground.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

The scripts are designed to run within Maemo SDK. I run it inside a virtual machine; although my host is also Linux, but in fact the host OS doesn't matter.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Hi @all,

i have 100% CPU utilization in the game Need For Speed Undercover. The game sounds stuttering and game graphics has low-rate fps. When I overclock my N900 to 950Mhz, the issues don't go away (and a reboot doesn't help)!

With htop utility, I see two "./nfsuc" processes, both have identical CPU utilization (in total there are five "./nfsuc" processes).

Now, if i kill one of the "/usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --high-priority" processes with "kill -9"... in this case, you have no game sound, but CPU utilization is go to normal (total "./nfsuc" processes are four), and the game graphic fps performance is also better!

My question: Has anyone the same problem?! I updated my N900 with Nokia Software Updater (NSU).

Thx.
Mic

Specs: Nokia N900 Maemo5 PR1.3 (Update via NSU)

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

I somehow deleted the asphalt5 or the gamefolder but the icon is still there and i dont know how to delete it.
help me pls

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Hey, I tried extracting the nfsuc ipk file with dpkg -X in x term and my phone froze up and i rebooted and now there's a usr file in MyDocs that won't delete saying it's read only, I did chmod -R 777 to the res_nfsuc folder but the broken/damaged files inside won't comply and I can't get them off, I made a thread
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...055#post858055

Thanks for any help in advance

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

haha i LOL-ed when i saw asphalt 5 on n8 it laggs like hell :D the game runs like 100x better on n900!

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

is your power cable connected? if yes try without it

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

I am able to get some of the games working, but where I lack knowledge is the following;

at chmod +rwx xxx, where does this xxx come from? for nfsuc I followed the youtube video and got it working, and also monopoly I "guessed it". But example for sims and nova, I just get "no such file or directory"

Help?

Thanks

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

chmod +x executable-file-here

chmod is the command
+x gives executable permission (-x removes, +rwx gives read, write, execute)
executable-file-here is the file you run (nfsuc, etc)

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Really dumb question, how do you know for sure which is the executable file? for example one was nfsuc, monopoly was monopolyclassic if I remember correctly. From where does one get the executable-file name?

Thanks

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With the command ls, you can view the files in the directory where you're in. For example:

Nokia-N900:/opt/preenv_games/radiant# ls
Radiant icon.png save0 save2
appinfo.json res save1

As you can see, there are 7 files in the directory. The game is probably the file named Radiant. thus, "chmod +x Radiant" is what you want.

Sometimes the executable is in a subfolder. For example:
Nokia-N900:/opt/preenv_games/tetristouch# ls
Game appinfo.json icon.png

You'll have to change the dir to Game and ls again:
Nokia-N900:/opt/preenv_games/tetristouch# cd Game
Nokia-N900:/opt/preenv_games/tetristouch/Game# ls
a.m4v e.m4v i.ogg save0.phf
a2 f.m4v icon.png save1.phf
b.m4v g.ogg j.ogg tetristouch
c.m4v gamelib.rlb k.ogg
d.m4v h.ogg license-ogg.txt
tetristouch is probably the executable, so now we can chmod +x tetristouch. Voila!

Use the tab key to autocomplete commands. In the last example you know Game is a folder because when you type
"cd G" [tab], it will autocomplete to "cd Game"
Also, "chmod +x t" will autocomplete to "chmod +x tetristouch"
If multiple files/dirs are possible when you press tab, it will display a list of possible completions of the file/directoryname.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Thank! Appreaciate it soooo much =)

edit: oh the instant gratification...

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

ey guys, i dont see the exit button on any of these games :( i mean is there any other way to quite the game or do we must press the power button everytime we will end a game?

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

[QUOTE=zerocool2k;857011]Did you "chmod a+x nova" ?
And did you "sudo gainroot" before doing that?

EDIT: OK, let's try again from the beginning, assume that you have nova in "/home/user/applications/com.gameloft.app.nova". Run the following:

[code]
sudo gainroot
cd /home/user/applications/com.gameloft.app.nova
preenv
chmod +rwx nova
./nova
desktopgen appinfo.json
exit

Please try this it will work

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Use ctrl + backspace
you will go to dashbord from there u can close the application

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thank you mate! :)

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Hi guys ! Firstly, thanks to Javispedro for his good work !
I have 2 problems please :
_ NFL 2010 stop when I begin a match
_I can't to save, do you know why ?

Thanks again to Javispedro and others for this marvelous work and sorry for my bad english

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

How can i make NFSU's music and videos not show up in the media player? I tried renaming one of the folders to Private but then the game wouldn't start.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Make copies of the mp3 files and pics in Your MyDocs directory, or your favourite music folder. I don't think tracker watches the /home/user/ directory...well at least it doesn't on my device.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Sorry, I'm kinda bad at this. I'm supposed to move the music and video files to /home/user/?

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

See: tracker-cfg

Get it from repos. Add NFSU directory to NoWatch list, then run this command via XTerm: tracker-processes -r

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

I*ve try without it, but no improvement :( the CPU has 100% utilization and I hear a *clack-clack-clack* sound :eek:... it's very very quietly!
When I stop one of the pulseaudio processes, it's gone and the CPU utilization is 40-70%, now.

It seems this is a pulseaudio problem. Can anyone confirm? Please.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Ok, I did this and now all of my videos and songs are gone.
EDIT: Nevermind, they came back :P
thanks for all the help.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

Can say I've had the same issue. Is it possibly the versions of any software you're using? Maybe an outdated OS, Preenv, or NFS is causing the issue, because you're the only person I've seen with this issue. Maybe trying deleting the installation of NFS you're currently using, deleting the current files you're using, and try starting from scratch to possibly isolate your issue.

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

hey guys, i have a problem.

video cutscenes wont play on need for speed, it works fine before..

the error i got is "GStreamer Pipeline Error : Resource Not Found"

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

I've read the Wiki for compatibility and some of them aren't descriptive or correct, so I was wondering if there was a recommended place for discussions on particular games and if not, where exactly should I make the thread? I'm thinking that if I were to simply put it under games, the wrong people would be looking at because the games on there are Maemo specific. Should I just ask questions here or should we begin some new threads on the specifics experiences people are having on certain games?

Re: Palm Pre gets SDL! native gaming
 

My Nokia N900 has currently PR1.3 firmware installed. I've updated from PR1.2 with NSU. The Preenv version ist 0.1.1, NFS version is com.ea.app.nfsuc_20.0.29 - with the old 20.0.28 I had the same issues. I've try uninstalling and deleting all of the NFS folders, but it doesn't help. :mad:

UPDATE:
I've solved it!!!:D

If i start the game via xterm with sudo gainroot and preenv, the CPU has 100% utilization:

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ sudo gainroot
Root shell enabled


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # preenv


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # cd nfsuc/
/home/user/nfsuc # ./nfsuc
SDLGL: called sdl_init with flags = 0x100231
Home directory /home/user not ours.
X11: PID is 24250
SDLGL: Requested GL major version 1
SDLGL: SDL_GLES initialized (res=0)
SDLGL: Requested GL minor version 0 (ignored)
PDL: Init: Service name is com.javispedro.preenv.nfsuc
PDL: Failed to initialize libosso
PDL: Init: Service name is com.javispedro.preenv.nfsuc
PDL: Failed to initialize libosso
PDL: Switch orientation to 3
PDL: Application handles pause events
PDL: Init: Service name is com.javispedro.preenv.nfsuc
PDL: Failed to initialize libosso
SDLGL: Called SetVideoMode(320, 480, 0, 0x2)
SDLGL: Requested OpenGL video mode
SDLGL: Asked if video mode 800x480x16 (0x90000000) is ok
CINEMA: Init; window xid is 0x340000c
ACCEL: Application will poll accelerometer by itself
SDLGL: called sdl_init with flags = 0x200
ACCEL: Opening accelerometer
ACCEL: Application will poll accelerometer by itself
Home directory /home/user not ours.
PDL: Init: Service name is com.javispedro.preenv.nfsuc
PDL: Failed to initialize libosso
SDLGL: Sending lose focus event
10982 - processSDLEvents::SDL_ACTIVEEVENT-gain:0
11002 - Card/Sleep.
SDLGL: Sending gain focus event
28351 - processSDLEvents::SDL_ACTIVEEVENT-gain:1
28351 - Uncard/Wakeup.
PDL: Init: Service name is com.javispedro.preenv.nfsuc
PDL: Failed to initialize libosso
SDLGL: Sending lose focus event
37021 - processSDLEvents::SDL_ACTIVEEVENT-gain:0
37021 - Card/Sleep.
CINEMA: DeInit
ACCEL: Closing accelerometer
SDLGL: Called SDL_Quit
SDLGL: Called SDL_Quit
Segmentation fault
/home/user/nfsuc #


But with xterm run as user and preenv, the CPU utilization is normal:

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ preenv


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ cd /home/user/nfsuc/
~/nfsuc $ ./nfsuc
SDLGL: called sdl_init with flags = 0x100231
X11: PID is 24320
SDLGL: Requested GL major version 1
SDLGL: SDL_GLES initialized (res=0)
SDLGL: Requested GL minor version 0 (ignored)
PDL: Init: Service name is com.javispedro.preenv.nfsuc
PDL: Screen dimming prevention ON
PDL: Set do_not_disturb flag to true
PDL: Switch orientation to 3
PDL: Application handles pause events
PDL: Music is playing
SDLGL: Called SetVideoMode(320, 480, 0, 0x2)
SDLGL: Requested OpenGL video mode
SDLGL: Asked if video mode 800x480x16 (0x90000000) is ok
CINEMA: Init; window xid is 0x320000c
ACCEL: Application will poll accelerometer by itself
SDLGL: called sdl_init with flags = 0x200
ACCEL: Opening accelerometer
ACCEL: Application will poll accelerometer by itself
PDL: Music is playing
SDLGL: Sending lose focus event
PDL: Readjusting dimming prevention timer
50796 - processSDLEvents::SDL_ACTIVEEVENT-gain:0
51142 - Card/Sleep.
CINEMA: DeInit
ACCEL: Closing accelerometer
SDLGL: Called SDL_Quit
~/nfsuc $


Greetings
Michael