All the manipulations are carried out inside the Retropie interface, so follow all the steps below to install ExaGear Desktop.ġ. Let’s assume, that you have already got your Retropie on an SD card up and running. Now, this pain has been cured! You may install ExaGear Desktop directly on Retropie and launch all the games, both PC and console ones, from one place!
Espescially, if they have already been aware of ExaGear or have ever tried it for the purpose of playing Windows games on RPi. This causes a great inconvenience to combining the PC gaming and console retrogaming, players used to face. In fact, Retropie is usually installed on a separate SD card and being launched directly from it automatically as soon as you insert the SD card into the slot. You now can avoid all this endless switching between the applications. It’s worth saying that the best feature of ExaGear on Retropie is that you can now setup and launch your favorite Windows games right from Retropie GUI, which is way more convenient than using ExaGear Desktop separately. If you would like to learn more, read the case of launching games on Odroid – there are much more games that you can try on RPi as well. To get the list of possible PC games, that we have already tried on Raspbian read this article.
What’s the profit? With ExaGear Desktop, you’ll be able to play PC games on Raspberry Pi from really old and iconic ones (like Dune 2000 or Doom) to more modern and legendary (like Counter-Strike and Diablo II). Replace the GRP file with EditDisk and run the game to try it out.By saying the “extended” I mean that we have brought a new feature to the Retropie app by adding the possibility of ExaGear Desktop emulator to be integrated into Retropie interface. To edit those, follow these steps:Ģ) Open a PI file from any other Touhou game with a hex editor ģ) Change the first 12 values of the GRP file (ZN PC98 / 5A4E1A000000000450433938) to those of the PI file (Pi WIN* / 50691A000000000457494E2A), save Ĥ) Change the file extension from GRP to PI ĥ) Now you can convert the PI file to PNG format with ViX, and edit it with any image editor (I used a combination of Photoshop for text editing, and Windows XP version of Paint for editing and saving) Ħ) After editing, convert the PNG file back to PI, open the converted PI file with a hex editor and change the values at offset 0x5 from 0101 to 0000 ħ) Additionally for HRtP files, change back the first 12 hex values from step 3 (ZN PC98), and change the file extension back to GRP PI files, just like the ones found in other games. Most of the images with text can be found in the. After failing stage 6, after the fade out, I got a STOP error. Was playing LLS on hard with homing Reimu (NP2 if that makes any difference). Again, not that big of a deal, just a minor annoyance.ĮDIT: Found a problem. Looks like whatever trigger that sets the text speed is being skipped. On the patched version, it seems to stick for quite a few lines of dialogue. It's not a big deal but it appears that only segments are supposed to do that, after watching a Youtube video to confirm. While reading through the text in PoDD with Reimu during the dialogue parts, certain parts scroll the text very slowly. I haven't noticed any problems with the English patches with that rom file either so far. There's no difference between "h" and "m" in those bmp files and the font overall looks a little messy. I use the T98-Next font.rom for the font file in NP2 simply because it's easier to read than the provided font files. (and HRtP multiple times because for some reason, EditDisk didn't like me editing that one)