HOWTO: Get Gens running on Dapper

[psyke83]

Try "Sound/Rate/44100" instead of 22050. It solved the problem for me =)

Thanks, I already tried that. It's strange, after updating a few packages and recompiling this morning with my patch, the speed is perfect now . I've enabled VSync, but it has a bug. When you return from fullscreen while a game is running then go back to fullscreen, VSync gets disabled. You need to press Shift+F3 *twice* while in fullscreen to get VSync working again.

I can't have the list on the roms in gens.

Sorry, I think that code simply hasn't been implemented fully.

By the way, it seems that this gens will compile fine with gcc4 (which I've done today), perhaps that's what solved my problems...

[jon_benge]

calabris, great tutorial! I am using Breezy Badger so I wasn't sure if your tutorial would work or not.

The only problem I had were the SDL libraries. Installing libsdl1.2debian-alsa made no difference, so I reverted back to the libsdl1.2debian-oss library. I fixed the issue by going into the Synaptic Package Manager and installing the libsdl-dev package!

Gens compiled and installed OK from there

DoktorSeven, thanks for pointing out the OpenGL version! It has joypad support, unlike other Gens for linux versions that are around

On a side note, if you enable sound then your computer might struggle! To solve this, simply change the frame skip from auto to 2

[escape]

Honestly, this has worked fine for me in numerous different versions of dapper:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ght=howto+gens

[Chrono86]

When doing 'make' I get this

root@adam:~/Desktop/GensForLinux# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src'
Making all in starscream
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream'
Making all in main68k
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/main68k'
make all-am
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/main68k'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/main68k'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/main68k'
Making all in sub68k
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/sub68k'
make all-am
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/sub68k'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/sub68k'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream/sub68k'
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/starscream'
Making all in gens
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/gens'
source='gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c' object='gens_core/cpu/68k/gens-cpu_68k.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/gens_core/cpu/68k/gens-cpu_68k.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/gens_core/cpu/68k/gens-cpu_68k.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../../depcomp \
/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./gens_core/cpu/68k -I./gens_core/cpu/sh2 -I./gens_core/cpu/z80 -I./gens_core/sound -I./gens_core/mem -I./gens_core/misc -I./gens_core/gfx -I./gens_core/io -I./gens_core/vdp -I./segacd -I./mp3_dec -I./sdllayer -I./util -I./port -I./emulator -I./debug -I./netplay -I./gtkui -I./gtkui/anjuta_widget -I./gtkui/glade -I. -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/gens\" -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -g -O2 -c -o gens_core/cpu/68k/gens-cpu_68k.o `test -f gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c || echo './'`gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:27: warning: initializer element is not computable at load time
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:27: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:27: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[1].offset')
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:27: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:27: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[1]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:28: warning: initializer element is not computable at load time
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:28: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:28: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[2].offset')
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:28: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:28: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[2]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:29: warning: initializer element is not computable at load time
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:29: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:29: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[3].offset')
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:29: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:29: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[3]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:30: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:30: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[4]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:31: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:31: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[5]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:32: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:32: error: (near initialization for `M68K_Fetch[6]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:63: warning: initializer element is not computable at load time
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:63: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:63: error: (near initialization for `S68K_Fetch[0].offset')
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:63: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:63: error: (near initialization for `S68K_Fetch[0]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:64: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:64: error: (near initialization for `S68K_Fetch[1]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:65: error: initializer element is not constant
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:65: error: (near initialization for `S68K_Fetch[2]')gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c: In function `M68K_Set_32X_Rom_Bank':
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:365: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c: In function `M68K_Set_Prg_Ram':
gens_core/cpu/68k/cpu_68k.c:390: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
make[3]: *** [gens_core/cpu/68k/gens-cpu_68k.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src/gens'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/Desktop/GensForLinux'
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@adam:~/Desktop/GensForLinux#

What's wrong?

[-DarkMind-]

please, upload a .deb

[hanzomon4]

please, upload a .deb

Try this one

[Lestat1975]

I've gotten as far as [gens_core/cpu/68k/gens-cpu_68k.o] Error 1 etc. etc. etc.

I had it running perfectly on Dapper for i386 a few months ago but I decided to try the amd64 flavor because I wanted to see UT2004 64-bit. I've gotten my xbox360 controller working, xmame, snes9x, and a fewe other things but will keep looking for gens.

[hanzomon4]

Your xbox360 controller is it a third party controller, I ask because I've been trying for the longest to get to get my Pelican XBOX360 wired T5Z working.

[Lestat1975]

Sorry but no...my controller is a microsoft controller.

[joflow]

The dpad on my gamepad doesnt work with gens (I used the deb in this thread). All the other buttons works. The dpads work with zsnes, so I know its not the hardware. Anyone have similar issues?