search

sigboe / pie-galaxy

A GOG Galaxy like client for RetroPie
24 stars 9 forks source link

Adding an interactive mode to wyvern? #1

Closed nicohman closed 5 years ago

nicohman commented 5 years ago

Hey! I like what you're doing here quite a bit, but I was wondering if you'd be OK with me integrating an interactive mode into wyvern directly. Effectively, I'd expand several of the already-existing interactive things like what's currently in extras or download. I wouldn't want to add something like this if you felt it would be too similar or copying this project, but certain things seem like they'd be much smoother to implement if they were written in wyvern directly, and I think that having this feature would make using wyvern much smoother for the user. Obviously I'd still be happy to add what you needed to complete the retropie functionality for galaxy-pie into wyvern. Great work on this so far, too -- really cool idea to use wyvern for dosbox games on a raspberry pi.

sigboe commented 5 years ago

No please feel free to do what ever you want!

The goal of my frontend was to get DOSBox games and convert them to native RetroPie (of course, can also make it work on any linux platform). And also I wanted it to be navigable with the gamepad, like other ncurses menues on RetroPie.

Everything you add that I waned to do, I would just switch over to using your methods.

If I complete the DOSBox converting method, and you want to use some ideas from it, feel free to steal as much as you want.

If you end up doing everything, I could even think about just making a wrapper that starts joy2key for retropie. I am not married to any idea, I just wanted to install DOSBox games in retropie. (heck, the time I put into this, I could do every game I have now (1) manually, but thats not the point is it hehe)

sigboe commented 5 years ago

I didn't think about this before, but scummvm games should also convert quite comfortably to linux and raspberry pi

sigboe commented 5 years ago

Oh, seams like there are also NEO-GEO games on gog. Including BIOS file. This should also just be a copy to the correct folder. :yum:

Maybe even populate metadata but that would be a totally other thing to think about.

sigboe commented 5 years ago

There are also games on GOG that has gotten source port. I probably need to do a special case for each of these games.