Heroic Games install on steam deck does not work about hephaistos HOT 16 CLOSED

Hi,

Is the /home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Hades/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/Saved Games/Hades/ path static, i.e. is it the same for all Heroic users, or is it something you configured yourself?

If it's a static path, I'd rather have Hephaistos support it rather than provide an additional flag for it.

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~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes is the default location for prefixes... However on any game install, the launcher allows the user to set the prefix location to be anywhere they want

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I suppose Heroic exposes this prefix in a configuration file that could be read by Hephaistos. Would you know where that is?

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Maybe in ~/.config/heroic/GamesConfig/Hades.json? (I'm reading the launcher's code and it seems to be where the game config is stored)

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Can you also check if maybe the install path of your game is listed in there? Or maybe in the Epic metadata? (I think it should be at ~/.config/legendary/metadata from the code) Or maybe .config/legendary/installed.json?

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It took a bit of digging but I found the game config. It was in this location for me
/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/GamesConfig/Min.json (The app name is "min" I guess, not "Hades")

Additionally, I found where the install path is located. All Heroic install paths are in the same json file located here

/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/lib-cache/installInfo.json

I believe these locations may correspond to the flatpak version of heroic, which is what I am using.

installInfo.json: https://pastebin.com/ytLnfVaC

Min.json: https://pastebin.com/xnFiyvdx

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Thanks. Interesting, why does it uses heroic and not legendary even though you are using Epic Games? 🤔

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Not totally sure. It may be in the legendary metadata as well somewhere. But as far as I could see the legendary metadata just had general info of the game pulled from the epic store

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Can you run this command to try and see if you find more stuff in the config?

grep -ri "hades" /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/

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Here you go: https://pastebin.com/SyTqTWuy

In particular I notice this line:
/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/legendary/installed.json: "install_path": "/run/media/mmcblk0p1/Heroic/Hades",

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Thanks. Can you upload these files as well? I think that should cover everything and then I can think on how to integrate Heroic to the supported launchers.

• /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/legendary/installed.json
• /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/legendary/metadata/Min.json
• /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/store/config.json

(Also, for future reference, you don't need to use pastebin, you can upload the files as attachments to GitHub comments as well)

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Also, where is Hades actually installed on your system? Is it /run/media/mmcblk0p1/Heroic/Hades as stated above?

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installed.json.txt
Min.json.txt
config.json.txt

For whatever reason, Github is saying it does not support json file uploads here, so they are in txt file format.

Also, yes I have it installed in /run/media/mmcblk0p1/Heroic/Hades
/run/media/mmcblk0p1/ is where the steamdeck mounts the sd card.

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Working on implementation in branch pr/heroic. Here is a test build for Linux: hephaistos-linux.zip

Can you please run it from outside the Hades directory, to check if it properly detects your Hades installation path from Heroic configuration files, and suggests you to move it there? And then you can run it from the Hades directory "as usual" to patch the game: it should be able to pick up your save file location from Heroic configuration files.

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Seems to be good! Ran it both out of and in the Hades directory.

Here's the output from both runs if you are interested

heroicTest.txt

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Perfect, thanks. Released in v1.7.4.

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