Raine 0.94.12 : the crazy ips files !

[Tux]

1 hour ago, mer-curious said:

So, continuing from my previous post, unfortunately I wasn't able to enable any of the IPS files yet. I copy and paste my kof97.ini from FBNeo to Raine's IPS folder, and all I get when I start the game is this message:

And then I have to click "Ok" a few times in order to finally start the game.

For information, this is what my FBNeo's kof97.ini file has inside:

// FinalBurn Neo v1.0.0.03 --- IPS Config File for kof97 (The King of Fighters '97 (NGM-2320))

2-Stage1.dat
3-hchr2ps.dat
97lx.dat
k1-TimePS.dat
k4-flash.dat

Didn't I mention that this file is very sensitive to what's inside and is not supposed to be edited by hand, even less copy a file generated by something else here ???

No other comment about that, the parsing would fail at the very 1st line of your file here !

1 hour ago, mer-curious said:

I can see the "X" mark in those *.dat files when I navigate the list in Raine, but interestingly they don't seem to work.

Finally, I need to report a GUI glitch which I found in the IPS menu. If you scroll the list all the way down, click on the final *.dat file to select it and expand Raine's window, the file selection won't resize with the window expansion and will stay small. Here's a quick recording showing the issue happening:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tJRLyayBAP-FafJCqPPf_5Ue20YI9yH1/view?usp=sharing

Also, if you pay attention, the "X" mark in the file is lost either maximizing or restoring down the window size.

I think these are my comments for now on this new feature. Hopefully you'll be able reproduce and possibly fix some of them.

Thank you so much again for your continuing work in the emulator.

Easy fix : just don't do that ! (usually people start by choosing a window size, usually fullscreen and don't ever change after that). I'll look into that later...

[mer-curious]

On 2/26/2023 at 4:10 AM, Tux said:

Didn't I mention that this file is very sensitive to what's inside and is not supposed to be edited by hand, even less copy a file generated by something else here ???

No other comment about that, the parsing would fail at the very 1st line of your file here !

Hello Tux! I'm sorry for taking long to reply. I was hoping you would eventually try to investigate this a little further and post anything later about it, but since you didn't I left this feature for another time then.

After rereading your reply I noticed that I forgot to mention that I also tried a kof97.ini file with just the *.dat files in the very beginning, and sadly they still won't load in the emulator.

This is how I have them here:

2-Stage1.dat
3-hchr2ps.dat
97lx.dat
k1-TimePS.dat
k4-flash.dat

There is something still wrong with Raine detecting and loading the IPS files. I still get the same error message below:

 

Perhaps this error has to do with the two folders it shows in the beginning which you didn't reproduce yet?

This is what I have in my IPS folder:

Hopefully you'll reproduce this eventually.

  

On 2/20/2023 at 2:21 PM, Tux said:

And I still didn't understand how you got 2 kof97 directories, I can't reproduce that here...

Yes, I simply have my kof97 folder in the IPS folder and this is what Raine shows me:

 

And finally there is the GUI glitch, which I show in this capture:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tJRLyayBAP-FafJCqPPf_5Ue20YI9yH1/

By the way, here Google Drive is rendering the video in low resolution. If it happens with you too, just download it and it should be in the correct resolution.

 

All in all, I guess you will need to try all of these reports in Windows in order to reproduce them since you aren't being able to do that in Linux.

Hopefully you'll have time and motivation for that in the near future.

Thank you so much again for your attention.

Edited March 31, 2023 by mer-curious

[Tux]

I was about to reply that too much time passed and I lost all motivation for that, but I got curious how you could mess up your things so much... !

so all interest is not gone yet it would seem... !
Anyway, the 1st point is that I told already twice that the .ini file SHOULD NOT BE EDITED BY HAND, it's in bold and in uppercase, if you still don't understand, I don't know what I'll be able to do after that ! You are sure to make it fail if you edit it by hand, said twice, ignored twice. Here it's probably because of an empty line you added at the end of the file!
Yeah I will eventually add some at least basic parsing so that you are able to copy directly your precious files... ! But for now, just avoid that.

After that the double kof97 is because there were a few bugs in this new file selector in case there is only 1 directory in the ips directory. And why didn't I see it while I tested ? Because I unpacked the whole archive I got from the internet, and didn't try to do any subtle stuff here, I guess you didn't do the same because it was already unpacked somewhere on your disk... we have symlinks in linux for that to avoid to have to copy things over and over, microsoft says it's too risky for security reasons... !!! Anyway... The bugs are fixed, and that's where you see that I added that in a hurry, there were quite a few for sure, all small, but if you were in this specific case, it exploded. You are really a bug magnet to get all the worst stuff all the time, there was even a linux specific bug when doing things like that !

Anyway so it's fixed here, but for you for now : just put more than 1 directory in your ips directory, avoid to edit this damned ini file by hand, and it should finally work!

[mer-curious]

2 hours ago, Tux said:

Anyway, the 1st point is that I told already twice that the .ini file SHOULD NOT BE EDITED BY HAND, it's in bold and in uppercase, if you still don't understand, I don't know what I'll be able to do after that ! You are sure to make it fail if you edit it by hand, said twice, ignored twice. Here it's probably because of an empty line you added at the end of the file!

Thank you so much for your continuing work in this feature.

I forgot to mention that I had already tried to create the *.ini file from Raine without touching anything in the file later, and had the same results sadly. That's why I kept waiting for a further investigation from you on that issue. I did everything you recommended in the past comments but couldn't make the patches to work no matter what I tried.

Anyway, now I created a kof98 folder in the IPS folder to see if it would finally load those patches but incredibly it didn't. Actually I can't even see the *.dat files anymore using Raine. This is what's happening here:

- Raine is always crashing whenever I click on the empty kof98 folders (in the plural because now there's two of them)

- No *.dat files are shown in the kof97 folder

A screen capture of the issue (download the file if it renders in low resolution in the Google player):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CXdag2sQMdvI5tC7jq4uJIPLrJE4Yvm5/view?usp=sharing

I don't know why it is not showing the dat files anymore in the kof97 folder. Even if try to navigate into the IPS directory, the program crashes, as you see in the video. Hopefully you have already stumbled upon that issue too and fixed in your recent reviewing, but if not, it would be good to try to reproduce it so the next version is indeed free of bugs.

But I'm really looking forward to finally seeing this feature working in Raine (in Windows, I mean, because in Linux it seems OK at least).

Thank you so much again for your work.

 

PS: could you also reproduce the GUI glitch in the IPS file selector?

[Tux]

Ok, I surrender, you get your update, 0.95.1 released !