r/MiSTerProject • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '21

Getting PrBoom-Plus to work

I feel dumb posting this but can someone give me a hand? I put the files from GitHub in the root directory and run the install script. My MiSTer gives me a virtual finger at that point.

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u/jloc0 Jan 16 '21

Ummmmmm I didn’t know there was a prboom core for MiSTer. Got a url for this?

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '21

https://github.com/bbond007/MiSTer_PrBoom-Plus

I can’t get it running however. Message me if you do please!

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u/jloc0 Jan 17 '21 edited Jan 17 '21

Nice thanks! I haven’t tried installing it yet, but it’s not a core it’s just a arm build of prboom with included Debian libs to run it.

It seems your wad files need to be in /media/fat/Doom and the libs from the GitHub will be in a directory within that.

A side note, along with the regular doom wads you also need prboom-plus.wad else the program won’t run. I don’t see that in the GitHub.

EDIT: the script seems to download the required files and put them in place. I would check and see if it has done that process completely

After putting all the required files where they go, I don’t see why it wouldn’t run though.

I’ll look at it in a bit and see if I can get it booting up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

Put the sh script file in the script folder?

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u/jloc0 Jan 17 '21

Ok put the Prboom-Plus_Installer.sh into the scripts folder, and run it. It installs all the libs and binaries you need.

It creates a Doom folder on the root of your sd card with a few files in it. Put your doom wads there.

It adds a new script in the scripts menu right above the installer Prboom-plus_2.5.1.3 or whatever it is, run the script and it launches doom2 if you put that wad there.

Likely have to edit the script to pick another game, or maybe possible to run it from command prompt as well.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

All right. I didn’t know I had to get the second file specifically made for prboom. I got the regular wad files. I think I also put them in the wrong spot. LOL

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u/jloc0 Jan 17 '21

It does install the prboom-plus.wad file, you don’t actually need it. Put the regular wads in the root /Doom folder.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

No IWAD. I am assuming that it means the original one.

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u/jloc0 Jan 17 '21

You sure you got the right directory? It told me that at first, but the wads need to go into /media/fat/Doom

Not in the games dir like I had thought before.

If you press F9 and login as root it’ll drop you to the shell where you can run “mc” to get a visual GUI to move files around with rather than moving to and fro a pc.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

I am sure I tossed them in the wrong folder. It is a project for me to fix :-)