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DoomRL => Discussion => Topic started by: Sambojin on February 04, 2024, 02:15

Title: Turns out DoomRL works on Android with Winlator
Post by: Sambojin on February 04, 2024, 02:15

I'll spoiler the post I did on Bay12 (Dwarf Fortress).

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Been playing at tiny bit of DoomRL on my phone under Winlator. Yes, the most current windows version, with sound and graphics and mouse support and everything! Yes, I'm very proud of myself 😁

Winlator is essentially the Wine emulator for Android. It's easy to use, easy to setup, and has a heap of options to tweak in case a game won't work (DoomRL got an access error until I changed the DirectX graphics and sound version over to Wine-builtin. Also cranked the reported graphics card down to a 1070, because I like changing too many options at once).

And yeah, it works! It's like Wine for Dummies. Which is exactly what I need.

Get it here:
https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator/releases

You've got basic RTS controls available in the back menu, which includes a right mouse button (the fire button in DRL), a mini-keyboard up the top right for other keyboard inputs (like "g"etting items or "r"reload), and it runs at an ok'ish speed. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's not too bad. You need to pull up the actual keyboard to press ">" to go down the stairs, and a lot of the other keyboard work is cludgy, but it's playable in a general sense of the term.

So, get all the games running that you want. I haven't gotten ToME4 to run yet, and I haven't tried Dwarf Fortress, but I only just downloaded Winlator this afternoon. Give me time....

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So, yeah, works fine. And since Winlator is kinda open-source, all it would need is its RTS keyboard overlay to be changed to a DRL specific one. Essentially a touchscreen overlay at the sides, for the buttons you'll actually use in DRL. Not that hard, I'll make up a decent overlay in the next few days (I did it for the Dos version through Magic dosbox, and this one will probably be easier than that).

We could use it as a Wine-wrapper to deploy one of the best roguelikes ever on Android, in a way. There might be a bit of clicking before playing, but meh. Still worth it. DoomRL in your pocket can only be a good thing.

Title: Re: Turns out DoomRL works on Android with Winlator
Post by: nesbros_YT on October 13, 2024, 17:04

I actually discovered this on my own recently. unfortunately I only got console mode working but it does actually work, though winlator has a habit of crashing on me so until I can find anything better I would never consider doing a real run, I'm gonna get that 1 in 10 run that I actually get lucky enough to survive to phobos anomaly and I'll have it crash on me and I'll lose my entire run.

as for controls I did manage to get a good layout, winlator somehow just doesn't have the END key in its button dropdown so I just rebound walk sw to something else, but otherwise it's fully controllable :3 if anyone has any knowledge of getting other things (ie drl graphics mode) running in winlator and maybe any potential ways to reduce crashes I'd be very happy.

Title: Re: Turns out DoomRL works on Android with Winlator
Post by: carthagodrl on November 08, 2024, 02:46

Hi, semi-first-time poster here, so sorry if I do anything wrong! Just checking, did you guys encounter Access Violation errors when trying to use any kind of mods in-game?

They're consistently reproduced in my Winlator setup and kinda crimping my Gun Kata build as it really needs technical mods for pistols :')