add tcp input server to support linux with wine#373
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Add a TcpInputServer listening on a 33610 for 46-byte input packets sent by a Linux client (tcp_mouse_client.py). Each packet carries normalized X/Y coordinates and trigger/reload/action button states for up to 4 players: X[4](float) Y[4](float) EnableInputsHack(byte) HideCrosshairs(byte) Trigger[4](byte) Reload[4](byte) Action[4](byte) config.ini: ;Player1 Device configuration P1Mode = TCPINPUT P1DeviceName = TCPINPUT ;Player2 Device configuration P2Mode = TCPINPUT P2DeviceName = TCPINPUT ;Player3 Device configuration P3Mode = TCPINPUT P3DeviceName = TCPINPUT ;Player4 Device configuration P4Mode = TCPINPUT P4DeviceName = TCPINPUT
tcp_mouse_client.py is a Linux evdev client that reads light gun and mouse/ touchpad devices and forwards coordinates + button states to DemulShooter or BepInEx game plugins via TCP. Device handling: - --gun1..--gun4: assign evdev devices to player slots (P1..P4) - Auto-detected type: ABS_X+ABS_Y → GunState (light gun, reads absinfo min/max for normalization); REL_X+REL_Y → MouseState (clamped to screen) - Offscreen reload: when a light gun fires outside the screen boundary the trigger is suppressed and a reload signal is sent instead Packet formats (--game): demul, rha, wws, tra, owr, mib, mia, nha2, marss, pvz, pbx, rgs Each format matches the expected layout of the corresponding game plugin. Button remapping: - BTN_MIDDLE → KEY_1..4 (Start), BTN_1 → KEY_5..8 (Coin), per player slot - BTN_5..8 → arrow keys (d-pad), shared across all players - A UInput virtual keyboard device is created per player; the source device is grabbed exclusively (dev.grab) so the display server does not also receive the raw gun button events Screen resolution: - Auto-detected via xrandr (Xorg/XWayland), wlr-randr (Wayland), or /sys/class/drm/card*-*/mode (kernel DRM); --width/--height override - Reconnects to the server automatically with a 2 s back-off
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Hi, To be honest I've been really busy - out of the computer world - for some time and I'm not really available to check and dig into DemulShooter core input parts for now On top of that, I've been working for months on some other project that might replace DemulShooter one day (if it goes more public than my own computer, not sure yet) and I'm not really into deeply modding DemulShooter for that reason. I'm keeping the request here if you want other people to be able to use it, but in the current state I'm not sure to push it into the project Now, about some technical points : I made a linux equivalent of DS (very light, no GUI) a long time ago when I released the packed VMs with Star Trek or Target Terror games. Only thing is, I don't know how that would work with WINE.... |
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Hi, no problem if it's not merged, I wanted to share it with other linux users that could use it. I really don't known if we could have something similar to DS running on linux, then hooking into game.exe running under with wine. That's why I have done it this way. (The linux client example I have posted in second patch is also able to connect to unity plugins tcp ports directly). anyway, maybe one day wine will finally fix on their side multiple raw device handling, but until that, this is doing the job :) have also done the same patch for teknoparrot for people that want it: |
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Hi,
currently we can't use multiple guns on linux with wine, because wine is not supporting multiple rawmouse && merge all mouses input into a single one.
This patch serie add tcpinput instead rawinput in demulshooter , allowing a linux client to communicate through tcp with demulshooter directly.
I have use same kind of protocol than the unity plugins.
A linux python client is provided, connecting to demul or directly to the unity plugins tcp server for the unity games.
I have tested all unity games, model2, typex, sega ringedge/ringwide, seganu games.
Some games are not working (The House of The Dead : Remake for example, some arcadepc, but I think that not evertyhing is handled by demulshooter for theses games), but 90% of games are working.