pumptools/doc/hook/hook.md

Pumptool's hook libraries

A collection of libraries that need to be pre-loaded when running vanilla dumps of Pump It Up games. These hooks allow you to run any of the supported games on any* Linux distribution and hardware.

Each game might require a different hook library as the software evolved as well as the hardware and original operating system changed a few times as well.

General features

A few notable features:

• Run any supported gam on recent kernel versions thanks to various fixes
• Run any supported game on 32-bit and 64-bit distros (64-bit distros require additional 32-bit libs to be installed)
• Full dongle emulation
• Remove HDD checks to run this on "non legit" drives
• Full IO hardware emulation: MK6 PIUIO, Pro Button board (PIUBTN)
• Real IO passthrough
• API: Implement support for your own custom IO

Supported games and versions

Check each of the dedicated hook readmes which games and versions are supported.

Hardware, operating system and environment

A general outline is given by this readme if you want to setup something yourself. Otherwise, you should checkout the pumpos project in a repository nearby which takes care of installing a fully configured OS to a physical disk to run the games on dedicated hardware for cabinets.

Quick start: how to run (official release)

The following steps apply to any game of the "officially" supported release data.

1. Install the required dependencies which can vary per game. Check the section "required dependencies" in the dedicated readme files of each hook.
2. Unpack game.zip and lib-local.zip to a folder of your choice.
3. Your folder should contain the following files and folders: game, lib, piu, version
4. Unpack the hook which supports the game you have chosen, e.g. for Exceed use exchook.zip, from the pumptools-X.XX.zip release package next to the piu executable
5. Unpack the piuio.zip from the pumptools-X.XX.zip release package next to the piu executable
6. Rename the hook library, e.g. for Exceed exchook.so, to hook.so and the hook configuration file, e.g. for Exceed exchook.conf, to hook.conf
7. Open hook.conf with a text editor and set the patch.piuio.emu_lib property accordingly:
   • For keyboard usage: patch.piuio.emu_lib=./ptapi-io-piuio-keyboard.so and patch_hook_main_loop.x11_input_handler=./ptapi-io-piuio-keyboard.so"
     • Configure your keyboard mappings using ./ptapi-io-piuio-keyboard-conf
   • For USB PIUIO usage: Do not set the patch.piuio.emu_lib property and have the hardware plugged in.
8. Run the game as logged in root user: ./piueb run or if you have sudo installed and configured: sudo ./piueb run

Details to specific games are given in the hook read files dedicated to each supported version. Further general configuration and technical details as well as troubleshooting known issues are described in following sections.

Dependencies

A list of dependencies is provided in the dedicated hook readme files for each game. The following is a general guide on how dependencies of the games can be resolved to run them.

Right now, there are two methods for resolving the dependencies and which dependencies to use for the game:

• Method 1: Install as many dependencies as possible using the package manager of your distribution. Usually, you want to go for method 1 and if the game runs, you don't have to bother with method 2. A few less common libraries are provided with the official data release and are loaded from the local lib folder instead.
• Method 2: Provide all libraries except GPU related ones and a dedicated ld-linux loader with the game independent from your system. Theoretically, this gives you full distribution independence but it is more complicated and comes with a few unresolved issues so far. If method 1 doesn't work for you, try this method. For details, see the following section.

Data setup

You are expected to get a clean set of data from a pristine drive. Ensure that the game is supported by one of the hook libraries coming with pumptools and the game's version is on the list supported versions.

You are not required to have the pulled data in the same locations as on the original drive as the hook library can be configured to have everything in a single local folder. These settings can be found and tweaked in the hook.conf file which is created after you started the game once.

Local data folder

Your local data folder must contain the following folders and files:

• game: The game asset folder from the HDD. Filename casing depends on the games and is relevant on case-sensitive file systems. Exact requirements are explained in the readme files of each hook. Otherwise, the game crashes because of files/folders it cannot find. Furthermore, put any additional files/folders that are game assets and not located in the original game folder into the game folder, e.g. mission.txt, SCRIPT folder etc. which are located in the cramfs on some games.
• lib: Put any libraries (especially older versions of libraries that can't be installed anymore using the package manager) the game uses and aren't installed on your system in here. Using piueb, you have two options with potential different (in-)compatibility issues:
  1. Have all libraries the game requires to run (except GPU driver specific libs) with compatible version in that folder including a dedicated ld-linux.so. See piueb script header documentation.
  2. Have only additional libraries that are not common/available on with your package manager without a dedicated ld-linux.so.
• save: Empty folder where the the game stores configuration. These files are created by the game automatically and contain default values if missing.
• piu: The Linux port piu executable.

Configure IO

The hooks allow you to hook any implementation of pumptools's API to the game to drive any type of IO hardware. See the dedicated readme on how to configure the PIUIO with the different types of implementations available, e.g. keyboard, joystick, ...

Troubleshooting and FAQ

The following sub-sections apply to all hooks.

USB 3.0 vs 2.0 issues with USB thumb drives/profiles

This affects ALL games that make use of USB thumb drives for storing player profile related data.

Due to how the Linux kernel treats bus-port mappings for USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 different, it is recommended to limit the usage of USB thumb drives either to 3.0 or 2.0 drives only after having configured the port assignment for the affected games.

For example, you use a USB 2.0 thumb drive to assign one physical USB ports on your machine to each player side using NX2's operator menu configuration option. However, the configured assignment is only working for USB 2.0 drives. If you repeat this configuration step with a USB 3.0 drive (if your mainboard supports them because it has a USB 3.0 host controller), you will get different bus:port values shown on the configuration screen. Keep this in mind when setting up the game, assigning the ports and using USB thumb drives with the games.

My USB thumb drive is not detected by the game at all

Which means you cannot use it to even map the USB ports in the test menu.

Make sure to try at least another one by a different brand. There have been reports of some thumb drives simply not working, e.g. a fairly old Kingston 1GB. In general, everything that gets detected fine by Linux should work.

My USB thumb drive works when mapping the ports in the test menu but is not recognized on the game login screen

Might be the same issue as here. Try out different USB thumb drives. Be aware of the USB 3.0 vs 2.0 issue as well.

The game enters the operator menu when I start it

This is known to happen consistently on NX but was observed on other versions like Exceed 2 and Zero in the past. The cause for this is unknown so far. Even with all usb emulation layers removed from pumptools and a real MK6 PIUIO attached this still happens. If the game is run without the PIUIO attached, everything's fine. Therefore, we suspect this is a bug within the game's PIUIO driver, likely some uninitialized buffers (due to the randomness of this bug being triggered).

How to I generate a fresh configuration file with default values

If you deleted your hook.conf file or you just want a clean start with default values, the hook creates a clean hook.conf file if none exists once you run piueb.

What are the command line arguments supported by the hook

Just run piueb run -h to get help output from the hook library. This also provides you with shortened command line parameters for all options available from the configuration file.

How do I provide command line arguments to quickly change configuration settings for the game

Just run piueb run with the shortened command line parameter, e.g. piueb run -w.

The game's music plays too fast, too slow, or sounds weird

Depending on the game version you play, the audio subsystem is set to either render to an output device with a frequency of 44100hz or 48000hz in SE16_LE format. Alsa needs to be configured accordingly to play back the audio data at the right sample rate to make it sound right.

Games and audio settings required:

• 44100hz: MK3 Linux ports 1st to Prex 3, Exceed (1), Pro 1 and Pro 2
• 48000hz: Exceed 2 and newer

One possibility to fix that is change the values in your config, e.g. /usr/share/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf when using the dmix device (the location and config can differ depending on your setup). In case you have to set them to 48000hz, search for the following configuration values and replace them with these values:

format S16_LE
rate 48000

If the contents of the files are just variables, check /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf something similar like this:

defaults.pcm.dmix.rate 44100
defaults.pcm.dmix.format "S16_LE"

The same method applies to replacing 44100hz with 48000hz.

How do I figure out which sound device to select

You can list the currently connected devices/sound cards using the following command:

cat /proc/asound/cards

Example output:

 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xfb610000 irq 51
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfb080000 irq 52

You can see two audio devices available: 0 being the built-in sound chip and 1 the audio output on the installed GPU (i.e. HDMI audio out).

To route the audio to the device of your choice, e.g. device 0, add the number to the hw: path: hw:0 for device 0. Set hw:0 in the configuration file:

patch.sound.device=hw:0

The game plays/renders too fast

The game relies on vsync to lock to the target framerate of 60 FPS. Ensure vsync is turned on in your GPU settings.

libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install your GPU drivers. This library depends on the GPU driver and is not included with the distributed data.

There's no sound at all, even with the correct sound device selected

On certain setups, the sound output only seems to work after already having attempted to use the sound device once. In a shell, try running the following command twice:

aplay -q /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

If after a fresh boot the sound plays after the second attempt, your setup suffers from this issue. Simply putting the above command once in a boot script will make sure the sound device is activated.