HOWTO: Install (G)FCEUX 2.0 NES emulator

[lariosa42]

Any tips on doing this for us svn-virgins?

[Grishka]

Any tips on doing this for us svn-virgins?

install subversion. then do

svn co https://fceultra.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fceultra/fceu/
svn co https://fceultra.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fceultra/gfceux

and proceed with the installation as normal. or get a gui for subversion, like this one.

[reloweb]

I've installed fceu and gfceux both from svn and source but when I launch gfceux it return me this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gfceux", line 9, in <module>
    from gfceux import main
ImportError: No module named gfceux

EDIT: I've solved
One thing, when i'm in game, the sound result a bit not synchronized. How I resolve it?

[f16]

Hello, gfce hangs after sometime.
Why?

[droazen]

For those who are sick of having to compile fceux from source, there is an experimental "official" ubuntu package built on 2009-05-09 available in this PPA:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~fabrices...e/experimental

The packager needs people to test it on their systems and report the results in a comment to this bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...eu/+bug/254352

If it works for people, it will be submitted for inclusion in a future version of ubuntu (finally!)

[oleoleole]

I've installed fceu and gfceux both from svn and source but when I launch gfceux it return me this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gfceux", line 9, in <module>
    from gfceux import main
ImportError: No module named gfceux

EDIT: I've solved
One thing, when i'm in game, the sound result a bit not synchronized. How I resolve it?

And how did you solve it?

[James79]

Hi. Firstly - thanks to those who've picked up and extended the FCEU project. I love this emulator.

2 things -

1. I recently upgraded my TV to a plasma 1920x1080. Games now seem a little jerky. In fceu it's tolerable but still noticeable; in fceux it's downright unplayable and slow. I've tried turning everything down, and using OpenGL. The best settings seem to be to render to a smaller resolution like 640x480 and have it stretch to fit the screen, but it's still not perfect. It's frustrating because I don't appear to be cpu limited - the emu takes roughly 20% according to top (amd X2 1.8ghz). Any ideas?

2. I truly don't understand why all these emus don't let you map important things like save/load state, and EXIT to controller buttons. Surely I'm not the only person who plays this with a MythTv frontend, on a keyboardless computer? Currently I'm using qjoypad to work around this situation but it feels like a dirty hack and not entirely reliable.

Thanks!

[reloweb]

And how did you solve it?

I've compiled it with --prefix=/usr/local/ both fceux and gfceux

[slightlystoopid]

I'm trying to reinstall FCEUX on Jaunty. Everything appears to install fine, except when I try to run it I get

Starting FCEUX 2.1.0a...
Could not initialize SDL: No available video device.

I tried compiling from source as well as downloading the .deb off launchpad. Apparently I'm missing something related to SDL, but I don't know what.

dpkg -l *sdl* | grep ii
ii  libsdl-gfx1.2-4                            2.0.13-4                                                 drawing and graphical effects extension for 
ii  libsdl-gfx1.2-dev                          2.0.13-4                                                 development files for SDL_gfx
ii  libsdl-image1.2                            1.2.6-3                                                  image loading library for Simple DirectMedia
ii  libsdl-image1.2-dev                        1.2.6-3                                                  development files for SDL 1.2 image loading 
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2                            1.2.8-5                                                  mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2-dev                        1.2.8-5                                                  development files for SDL1.2 mixer library
ii  libsdl-sound1.2                            1.0.3-3                                                  Decoder of several sound file formats for SD
ii  libsdl-sound1.2-dev                        1.0.3-3                                                  Development files for SDL_sound
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0                            2.0.9-1                                                  ttf library for Simple DirectMedia Layer wit
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-dev                          2.0.9-1                                                  development files for SDL ttf library (versi
ii  libsdl1.2-dev                              1.2.13-4ubuntu3                                          Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
ii  libsdl1.2debian                            1.2.13-4ubuntu3                                          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsdl1.2debian-all                        1.2.13-4ubuntu3                                          Simple DirectMedia Layer (with all available

[slightlystoopid]

ugh, the SDL FAQs have this...

Q: I get the error: "no video devices available"
A: SDL doesn't use the X11 video driver if it can't open the X display, and if no other drivers are available, it will report this error.
To fix this, set your display environment variable appropriately:
sh: DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY
csh: setenv DISPLAY :0
If you still have problems, try running xhost + localhost
Finally, if all those didn't work, and you built SDL from source, make sure that you have the X11 development libraries installed, otherwise you'll get a version of SDL that doesn't include X11 display support. After you install the X development libraries, you need to "make clean" and then rerun the configure and build process.

of course, the DISPLAY variable is set properly, and xhost +localhost doesn't do anything. all X11 dev librarys are insalled. man, a complete SDL removal and reinstall would require removing soooo much stuff. and it's probably not gonna work anyway. *sigh*