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NEW Openbor Beta 6xxx Install Guide

For Pi Zero/One

(It’s good practice to make a backup first)

Beginning

Install this script module

wget http://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-63xx-RetroPie-openbeta/master/scriptmodules/openbor-6xxx.sh -O- | tr -d '\r' > /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/openbor-6xxx.sh

Go into retorpie setup

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

manage package, and experimental, and install Openbor 6XXX from source.
let that finish, then we start building a replacement binary for it:

wget https://github.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-Raspberry/archive/master.zip

then unzip master.zip
then cd ~/OpenBOR-Raspberry-master

then get the patch (this is a pi zero specific patch!)

wget https://github.com/SinisterSpatula/RetroflagGpiGuides/raw/master/data/4-Galina.diff

apply patch patch -p0 -i 4-Galina.diff
build it sudo make BUILD_PANDORA=1

copy the compiled OpenBOR binary, replacing the one we got from the retropie-setup installation.

sudo cp ~/OpenBOR-Raspberry-master/OpenBOR /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx
sudo cp ~/OpenBOR-Raspberry-master/OpenBOR.elf /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx

GL4ES - Open GL

cd ~
mkdir opengl
git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/gl4es.git opengl/
cd opengl
mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -DBCMHOST=1; make

after you have openGL compiled it should give you a libGL.so.1 file, copy this file to lib folder next to openbor binary.

sudo mkdir -p /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/lib/ && sudo cp ~/opengl/build/lib/libGL.so.1 /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/lib/ && sudo chmod a+x /opt/retropie/ports/openbor-6xxx/lib/libGL.so.1

Add some pak files

Go and download HE-man masters of the universe or TNMNT Rescue Palooza (you can get the pak file from within it)
place your pak’s to: ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/openbor/
There’s no need to unpack them, and no need to place them in pak folder.

Let the fun begin

Launch a game using the Openbor - Module Selection Script found in your Ports section of emulation station. You may need to restart Emulation station before it shows up.

This might not be needed, but something you can try if it won’t load a game.

add a line to end of emulators.cfg:

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/ports/openbor/emulators.cfg

openbor = "pushd /opt/retropie/ports/openbor; /opt/retropie/ports/openbor/OpenBOR; popd"

the above emulators.cfg might not be fully correct.

Per Cypherghost

you may consider trying this instead, about the emulators.cfg, it should be:

openbor = "pushd /opt/retropie/ports/openbor; /opt/retropie/ports/openbor/OpenBOR %ROM%; popd"
The %ROM% is needed to start PAK-files through dialog menu or via EmulationStation as own system.

Controls:

You need to download the default.cfg file

sudo mkdir -p /opt/retropie/configs/ports/openbor/Saves && cd /opt/retropie/configs/ports/openbor/Saves && wget -O default.cfg https://github.com/SinisterSpatula/RetroflagGpiGuides/raw/master/data/openbor/default.cfg 

For HE-MAN you need to copy default.cfg to HE-MAN.cfg

sudo cp /opt/retropie/configs/ports/openbor/Saves/default.cfg /opt/retropie/configs/ports/openbor/Saves/HE-MAN.cfg

You can use this method for each and every game, just copy the default.cfg and call it whatever game-name.cfg or overwrite that games game-name.cfg with the one from defalt.cfg. If you don’t do this step, you will end up with controls that aren’t exactly right (you will see two players on your screen and it might be taking a bunch of screenshots when you press a normal button. This is because it didn’t load the correct config file, or you did not make a config file for it from the default.cfg.

Then use controllertools/controls Updater Menu to grab the latest update that adds proper controls for Openbor Beta.
For TNMNT Rescue Palooza, the controls will be mapped without any bindings needing to be set, via the default.cfg file you just installed. For Other games, You need to ask the game to load default.cfg, or read the openbor beta thread at retropie forums about how to setup a script that will automatically copy default.cfg for each game.

Controls use Advanced Controller Framework