Creating a headless SM64COOPDX Server!

I recently wanted to set up a persistent running SM64Coopdx Server but found there was not a whole lot of documentation out there in getting started. Its possibly even something that is a touchy subject. But the talented team behind the project do have this feature available and even though it was a bit of a pain to set up, now that I have gone through the process I wanted to document and provide it in case others were interested and for my own references.

First, start up a container, or vm, or server – I decided to use a proxmox server I have to create a dedicated ubuntu container for this. That part was simple. But you do need to consider space and size requirements. I settled on 2 core, 2048 (2gb) RAM and 6GB disk space. After having the container installed, its time to set it up! Login and install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libglew-dev libz-dev build-essential git

Once completed, pull the repo for sm64coopdx to a folder of your choice. I am choosing to put it in /usr/games

git clone https://github.com/coop-deluxe/sm64coopdx

Now that everything is in the downloaded, we need to modify a few files.

Go to nano src/pc/mumble/mumble.c

Here you need to change the file from libc.h to unistd.h

Save the changes,

Now you can run the ./extract_assets.py

First change the name of the rom to baserom.us.z64

mv Super%20Mario%2064%20%28USA%29.z64 baserom.us.z64

Next run ./extract_assets.py us

./extract_assets.py us

after this completes, run Make HEADLESS=1

There will come a point when the build fails:

The workaround for this is to manually issue:

make build/us_pc/sound/sequences.bin

After this, resume the make using

make HEADLESS=1

the build should resume compiling and after a few minutes will wrap up

Lastly, cd into the build/us_pc directory, copy the baserom into the directory and run the executable with the server flag to set the port to your preference.