Re: Preenv webOS games compatibility list
 

Can anyone please help finding where the step by step procedure written for installing preenv and playing game.

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Fantastic news! the palm webos EZ chroot image has just released! it means we won't face the incompatibility issues anymore, well, we can download it, resize it and use it with EZ chroot or we can extract it, and install it on our memory card (power kernel needed).

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let's begin
first you need to activate Extras Devel in your catalog in hildon app manager(or add it) you should be able to get the catalog activation link at repository.maemo.org
second you need to update the catalog list(warning:lots of updates or new applications may appear, remember that they are unstable and you should not use them unless you have accepted the risk)
go to X-Terminal
type:
root
apt-get install preenv filebox
wait for installation
exit X-terminal
In PC:
copy (or cut) the game folder after extracting it( first extract the .ipk file with 7zip in pc then extract the data.tar) go to the [extracted area]usr/palm/applications/
copy the [game folder] inside it to your mobile
open filebox
copy(or cut) the [game folder] into home/user (one folder up from mydocs(your mobile storage folder)
close filebox
open X-terminal
cd [game folder]
sudo gainroot
preenv
desktopgen appinfo.json
you should get a can't execute [folder/file] or [file] message
type chmod +rwx [appfolder/folder/file] or [appfolder/file]
type deskt... again
go to your desktop
open options/add shortcut
you should be able to see the game's shortcut now
add it,have fun.

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Can somebody explain me what he mean and what to type in xterm????
it is for the game ground zero i cannot launch the game with the created icon and the step above explains how to but i dont understand what to do and where to start.
some one please direct me to the right way??
please

thanks

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well, first you should find hildon/yourshortcut with find command(if you don't know about it you can search for find command in unix)
then sudo it(if you don't know about sudo command then search for ...[you know it])

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Okay, so in theory we can now get by some of those WebOSverision and Segment faults right?

Please say this is true cos i wanna play some Gangstar :D

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multitouch problem still happens tough, we need to trick it in some way.
also you need to get some 3rd party applications like palm quick application install and opengl runtime, it's a little tricky if you are not familiar with the webos.

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hi guys,

sorry but i still couldn't get ground effect pro to work with the icon i created.

if i type find ./ ground_effect_pro nothing happens and i am really trying to search more solutions but no luck!

can somebody just show me what to type if i want to find the shortcut to ground effect pro???

thanks

Attachment 16044

what am i doing wrong here?? i understood the line of exec where to put "sudo" at start so i did but i cant figure out which is the serverline impeham meant???

can somebody point it at me pleaseeee

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Easy now, have you tried http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=366 and http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=336 .

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EDIT: After creating driver.ini and inserting the text using Vi editor in x terminal, no more shadows.

Perhaps using vi to create the file should be noted in the FAQ.

This is in re: Driver. I installed everything properly, got the game running but got the black shadows.

I did apt-get install libgles1 libgles2, installed those packages. Still got the black shadows.


I created driver.ini in Leafpad and inserted

[default]
ForceExternalZBuffer=0


I placed this file in /etc/powervr.d as the instructions state.

After reboots, reinstalling the libgles libraries, I still get the black shadows.

Any ideas?

Re: Preenv webOS games compatibility list
 

Here is ur fix i encountered the same problem too:
driver.ini should contain
be sure to place one and only one empty line under ForceExternalZBuffer=0

Re: Preenv webOS games compatibility list
 

Ah okay, I bet I missed the empty line the first time around. Thanks for a great fix.

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SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3-do...8h-source.html
Should be compiled for device use, and scrabble will work(and others maybe)

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I searched this thread and didn't find this addressed, but forgive me if it has been:

I installed and got HAWX running fine, BUT, the font does not show. I just see character boxes instead of text.

I noticed that the hawx folder in com.gameloft.app.hawx has "gll_font.pak" and some related files. In Filebox, it shows a "package" icon for these files as if they're compressed.

I tried addressing this, but can't find a fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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About those videos, I see that the "SDL Device Emulator" is filed with 0x080810 color, but only when in dashboard mode - you can actually see a portion of the video that way. But when it goes back to fullscreen, the color is 0x000000. Like it's not the same window. Any progress on this?

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is it possible to correct this bug implementing accelerometer too?

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I to have installed Tetris Touch as i am a fan of tetris D: and i get the same problem Anyway to fix i thought maybe if more then 1 person complains we can get a fix on this :3 im only new to this site, sorta ;P

i have so far fixed everything from reading from this forum and have installed,

3 games Sims 3 TetrisTouch and Asphalt 5

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Here is the full list of palm pre games that should be tested yet:
Air Hockey
Ancient Frog
Angry Birds
Asphalt 5
Assasins Creed
Avatar
Backgammon
Battleship
Blackbox
Blades of Fury
Boggle
Brain Challenge
Brain Exercise
Brothers in Arms - Hour of Heroes
Brothers in Arms 2 - Global Front
Bubble Bash
Castle of Magic
Checkers Pro
Chess
Clockwork
Connect 4
Cronk
Crosswords
Crusade of Destiny
Deer 3D
Defensive Warfare
Driver
Droplets
Dungeon Hunter
Earthworm Jim
Enjoy Sudoku
FIFA 2010
Galcon
Gangstar
Giant Robots
Glyder 2
Guitar Hero 5
Heroes of Sparta
How to Train Your Dragon
LCD Power Racer
Let's Golf
Mahjong Solitaire
Mini Golf: Wacky Worlds
Modern Combat: Sandstorm
Monopoly
N.O.V.A. - Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance
Need for Speed: Undercover
NFL 2010
Orbium
Oregon Trail
Paratrooper
Pegged
Plumbers Nightmare
Pong
Raging Thunder 2
Real Soccer 2010
Real Tennis
Road Rage
R-Tycoon
Scrabble
Settlers
Shrek Karting
Sims 3
Skater
Slot Machine
Solitaire
Spit!
Sudoku
Super KO Boxing! 2
Tetris Touch
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Topple Ball
Transformers GI: Awakening
UNO
Virus Defense
Wizards RPG
World Series of Poker: Hold'em Legend
XPlane: Airliner
XPlane: Carrier
XPlane: Default
XPlane: Glider
XPlane: Racing
XPlane: Shuttle
Yahtzee

Re: Preenv webOS games compatibility list
 

Quite a few of these have been tested already, and quite a few of them aren't SDL based so there's no chance of them running with the current version of Preenv. Have you seen this?

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I have used the NFSU installer and the game is working OK but how do I now you delete the .ipk file?

I have tried apt-get remove /home/......... without success so far but I just get "couldn't find package"?

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Thank you very much, I can't believe this was not documented anywhere (well, not in any posts before yours NOR the Wiki). Driver working without corrupted graphics now.

Wiki has now been updated to add this fix as an option for Driver and Shrek Karting.

Thanks again, this forum just keeps proving to me that it is the best community forum on the Internet today.

Cheers,

travla

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I have some of these games on my iPhone [waste of time device] so if you are wondering which are good or suck just ask and I'll see what I can do.

For instance NOVA multiplayer online was better for me without multitouch using multitouch made me die a lot more, but that's just me.

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Yes,I did. But in fact,this preenv has some problems:
color bit has been reduced to 8(I don't know why);
it ignores double buffering.
PDL is not complete;
It has a fake touch function but it doesn't have fake multitouch function;
and at last, I am not sure if javispedro is going to develop this application anymore. :(

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Javispedro,are you on a holiday,seems that the preenv has not been developed since 26th of october.
also add this to wiki:angrybirds not working,undefined symbol:PDL_GesturesEnable.
:(

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You can update the Wiki!

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Please don't bother the developers with such silly messages.

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No problemo, :D
btw, in ShrekKarting's .ini you will have to place 2 empty lines under ForceExternalZBuffer=0 (just discovered that lately :D)

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how did you get it to work? I'm able to see the intro and choose from the menu but once I click on any of the game modes it closes the app.

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is there gonna be an update soon? I really wanna play that gangsta game :D

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How did you make Oregon Trail works?
For some reason my Oregon Trail crashes right after clicking Instant Play.

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Do it at ur own risk:

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Worked perfectly.

Just a little note; it's chown -R and not a small r.
But thanks!

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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :o i'm careless :p

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Just a follow-up to solving the problem of having all the game sound files being indexed by tracker and listed in media player when adding webos games to use with preenv. This method doesn't require messing with tracker:

I've found that if hide your webos game folder in MyDocs, it stops this problem completely so instead of using

/home/user/MyDocs/webos/

use a hidden folder (a dot in front of the name)

/home/user/MyDocs/.webos/

I use the visible folder webos folder for dropping in games I want to try and once I am happy it works ok, I move the game into the hidden folder and re-symlink the game files/folder in the home/user/webos.

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Preenv 0.1.2 has been initialized; first I should say sorry to the developer, second , I should bring you its new features:
* Now integrates with liblocation for Location stuff.
* Creates a separate thread to run GLib mainloop.
* Generates a "unique" ID.
* More calls implemented.
* Includes -dbg package
* SDL_Haptic stubs.
well, the first two lines fix the problem with GLib(segmentation fault and SDLGL,I hope so.) , line 3 fixes the ID error line 4 fixes the "not implemented" bug , line 5 fixes the "-dbg is mandatory" problem(Happened in some games but I don't know why it is not listed in the game compatibility list), line 6 fixes the SDL_Haptic open and SDL_Haptic close problems.
Problems not yet worked on:
External Forced Buffering that causes blank screen problem;
changing the 800*480 to 480*800 in portrait games to fix the bad scaling problem;
PDL library improvement;
better integration with opengles;
changing the emulator media player from the weak gstreamer to something more powerful like MAFW(Nokia's stock media player) with extra decoders.

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N900 power kernel has the potential for the fake-multitouch, tough I doubt that this kind of feature is going to be developed on this application, If you don't kind N900, so go ahead. Buy the newborn N8 because it has most of these games and it's multitouch,light weighed, and has lots of more features.

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You are not explaining yourself very well... (and MAFW uses GStreamer btw).

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You Have my thanks for the latest version release; but first I should tell you that your program(preenv-dbg) has broken dependencies, check them again; and what do you mean:"Explaning yourself", If you mean about the programming, I should tell you that I am a C++ programmer and not a noob; you have added comment that gstreamer and MAFW are the same? but they are a little different as the MAFW also includes the Extra Decoders and subtitle support with it, If using the MAFW is not possible ,then use MPlayer instead.

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It's a debug package; you should not install it unless I ask you or you want to use gdb (to create more meaningful stack traces). The missing dependencies are in the Nokia repos (like gdb).

I mean that what you're telling makes no sense to me (possibly because I'm not a native speaker, who knows); if you want, you can send code instead.

They're GStreamer codecs, MAFW uses GStreamer. What codec are we talking about (and what game?).

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what is this error? This game worked with previous preenv version!

Driver crashed too after i tried skip the intro video, worked on previous version too.
PlasmaCannon frozen on loading(?) screen. (yes, i deleted the music file) and worked on previous version too.

NOVA, Hero of Sparta and Sims3 works fine.