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So my old dingux system on my SD card got corrupted, so I decided to try OD... Not very impressed so far, it looks better, but not much actually runs on it.

Meritous still segfaults (though I can't be sure, as I don't get any terminal messages any more) constantly after playing a while, Free Heroes 2 doesn't run, that one Dink Smallwood port hangs at loading screen, aleph one doesn't work at all, the Star Control II port (UQM) doesn't run, and pretty much everything else (except Powder, eduke and scummvm) either hangs on launch or bails to menu.

Old Legacy Dingux's binaries are not supported in OpenDingux. If you're using the same binaries then everything you posted is known and expected. Try new builds of those apps, builds made using the OD toolchain.

Working apps/games/ports/etc should be top priority before features - who cares about features if nothing works or even runs?

They changed internal libraries and some other stuffs following the standards and made it more developer friendly than Legacy Dingux stuffs (like accessing directly to memory or reading a physical register to read the input, things that only work on Legacy Dingux), but they can't go and port/fix every known app and emulator from Legacy Dingux to OpenDingux BEFORE the releases. That's why they released to beta versions, so developers can fix they're apps. If you find a non working app try contacting the developers of it. Or if you find the sources, fix them if you know how to do it and share the results with everyone.

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Meritous still segfaults (though I can't be sure, as I don't get any terminal messages any more) constantly after playing a while

In the Settings tab you can find a "Log viewer" that logs the output of the app you just launched. If an app crashes, you can see there why.

that one Dink Smallwood port hangs at loading screen

You have a good explanation what to do to make it work on release page by jhonnyonflame. You should create blank file named swap.conf
at  local/etc
with "SWAP_SD_SIZE_MB=32" line (only what is in "") or maybe with "SWAP_SD_SIZE_MB=128" for high details version to work.

Now just unzip first file you downloaded and in the same folder unzip the patch(second file you downloaded). Link the high or low .dge file in OD menu and you will play the game. If you want the sound, you just edit .dge file and delete --nosound. You shouldn't use windows notepad for editing.

The best way to enjoy as everybody else is to read and ask questions. Nice people here will always answer you as they answered me.

As well as Free Heroes 2.

Thanks for all the tips, guys. Great to see someone actually hangs around here still.

I figured out why I had so much trouble... My SD card got corrupted somehow... again. Reformat and (almost) everything works.

I tried applying that trick for FreeDink that was mentioned with the swap.conf file, but doing this only resulted in weird behavior by the system, namely; I can't add new links and filesystem seems to have become read only.

Removing the swap.conf file resolves this. What am I doing wrong?

How do I add wallpapers in opendingux I noticed there's just a .gmenu2x folder but that's it.. do I make a folder then set a path?

ruffnutts

Go to local/home/.gmenu2x/skins/Default/, go to the folder screenshots (if it doesn't appear create it) and put your wallpapers here (in PNG format).

Ayla said "local/home/.gmenu2x/skins/Default/wallpapers" here, wich makes much more sense than screenshots . The screenshots folder has the screenshots you take with the "power+x" function.

Hi, Shin-NiL, how much harder would it be to port OpenBOR to android ? I made a couple of games with it and would be great to have them with me all the time.