Getting BoR to run on RetroPie. I'm planning on making a tutorial and file host.

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Moco64

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Hell everyone, I'm trying to get OpenBoR working on a RetroPie and was told to get version 65xx so that I do not need to extract paks. The problem is, there are so many versions of OpenBoR that I do not know which one to get.

If I get it working I will be making a tutorial and hosting files on my website to make it easier for people to get it running.

In short, can someone please help me, I'm trying to get the latest version of OpenBoR on my retropie, please provide me with a link to the download.

Thank You very much in advance!
 
https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor/tree/v6391/engine seems to be the most current version, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it onto retropie.

It worked on my Pi4 because of cyperghost's script, but I'm trying to get it on Ubuntu x86 64
 
msmalik681 said:
this is not the best place to ask since we do not officially support retro pi.
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The question isn't really regarding RetroPie. He's asking which is the latest version of OpenBOR with CLI support, which happens to be important if you're trying to integrate it into RetroPie due to the way that emulationstation handles the program and the Paks. Cyperghost made a script to install OpenBOR v6510 on RetroPie on an RPi4, but there hasn't really been a whole lot of available options for x86.

I haven't been able to find much about 6510 in the github either. I'm pretty new to all of this stuff and I just managed to get the newest version to build on Ubuntu, but I'm still getting the stupid pak loader screen showing up and I'm trying to avoid that and launch Paks directly through emulationstation. Finding help for this kind of stuff is also pretty difficult because every forum/community refers you back to the other side. RetroPie will say OpenBOR is unsupported (and not many people use it), this place will say RetroPie is off topic, and ES, Retroarch, etc. will all throw you in the same loop.

I have to say that if someone got cleaner ports available for RetroPie, you'd see a large influx of users. OpenBOR is awesome and a lot of people have no idea what it is.
 
We're not trying to discourage discussion of RetroPie here, just for the moment we don't have any way to directly support it.

I've heard this same song and dance for going on 20 years now. Everyone thinks their favorite console should be our focus. Always, ALWAYS, ends the same way... another abandoned port I know jack spit about that I'm expected to support and maintain backward compatibility.

The main issue I have with retropie though is they expect us to change some of the engine logic to accommodate retropie (not happening). Moreover, their local representatives have shown absolutely zero respect for commercialy viable intellectual property, community policy, or my wishes as the lead developer and largest contributor of the OpenBOR codebase.

Maybe those guys are outliers, but it doesn't leave a great taste in my mouth for the retropie community.

DC
 
If the developers contact DC directly maybe they could join the dev team and we could offically support it.  The last developer to reach out about a IOS port was taken on as long as he did not abandon it down the line.
 
We do have a working official linux port  but it does not support the ARM cpu architecture.
 
msmalik681 said:
We do have a working official linux port  but it does not support the ARM cpu architecture.
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Yeah I'm running it now and I've managed to get it to run the paks from ES, the problem is the lack of command line support for running paks directly via script rather than going through the selection module.

Supposedly https://github.com/Darknior/OpenBORv3b6391 should be able to do it, but it won't compile and I don't know enough about it to understand why not. There is also https://github.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-63xx-RetroPie-openbeta but that is for ARM.

I've been running around reading stuff all over trying to figure out what is needed to get around the selection module, but I think it's just too far over my head.
 
FWIW, folks at the RetroPie.org.uk forum have this up and running.  You can see the thread here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19326/openbor-6xxx-openbeta-testphase/449.

Long story short:

Install RetroPie-Extra from github,
download the most recent OpenBor script from github: (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/ports/openbor.sh)
replace the old openbor install script from RetroPie-Extra with the new one from GitHub.
run the updated openbor install script

put your .pak files in the OpenBor folder in ES.

Run your games.  Yeah, it is more complicated then this but the point is there is a process that allows you to run OpenBor in the current version of RetroPie.

David
 
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