PortentaH7 DOOM with SD card, grayscale OLED and Joystick

[hpssjellis]

@facchinm I have a high school student working on what should be a fairly easy final robotics project. To get DOOM working on the Arduino PortentaH7 with a joystick connected to A0 for x, A1 for y and A2 as a fire button while putting the DOOM1.WAD file on the Portenta LoRa Vision shield SD card, and for output attaching a grayscale OLED working code here

DOOM is still and has been from the start a base example code for the Portenta, but I am a bit surprised how difficult the process has been for the student. Lots of examples on the internet on how to get DOOM running on other microcontrollers, and a few for the Portenta but nothing seems to still be working either compiling or actually running.

This link seems to be one of the better githubs but it also does not seem to compile for my student https://github.com/javos65/Arduino-H7-Doom-BLEhttps://github.com/javos65/Arduino-H7-Doom-BLE

The Portenta DOOM example seems to hide a lot of the details, which is good but editing the example is proving difficult. Any suggestions?

P.S. I hope you are doing well Martino, it has been a while since I have tackled a Portenta issue. I really enjoyed making my Portenta library of examples at https://github.com/hpssjellis/portenta-pro-community-solutions/tree/main/examples

[hpssjellis]

I had already put the DOOM1.WAD file on both the 2nd (5MB) and 4th (7MB) QSPI partitions, so I left those there.

Thanks to some encouragement and documents from Arduino co-founder David Cuartielles, I tried Portenta board version 2.x on the old IDE and it worked. I moved up to version 4.2.1 which worked, then 4.2.2 which red led flashing failed. I then tried the new IDE and the same issue, so Arduino Portenta board version 4.2.2 killed doom!

4.2.1 works fine I will work with that. I will make a repo like all my Arduino PortentaH7 work, but this time just for DOOM.

https://github.com/hpssjellis/Arduino-Portenta-Doom/tree/main

[hpssjellis]

Got it working with a joystick and 3 buttons, no OLED just HDMI. The big thing for Arduino ( @facchinm ) to know is that version 4.2.2 broke Doom, whereas anything on or before 4.2.1 runs fine. Doom is actually fairly easy to work with since you don't even have to touch the main example ino file the only file that needs to be changed is the doomgeneric_arduino.cpp which is a bit tricky to find in the libraries Doom src folder.

Full instructions at https://github.com/hpssjellis/Arduino-Portenta-Doom

A0 joystick X
A1 joystick y
D2 joystick button for run (auto on)
D3 button menu choose
D4 button open/close doors
D5 button Fire.