Fallout-CE

Fallout Community Edition is a fully working re-implementation of Fallout, with the same original gameplay, engine bugfixes, and some quality of life improvements, that works (mostly) hassle-free on multiple platforms.

Quote from https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout1-ce/blob/main/README.md

This system scrapes metadata for the “fallout” group(s)

Grouped with the “ports” group of systems.

Quick reference

  • Emulator: FallOut
  • Folder: /userdata/roms/fallout1-ce and /userdata/roms/fallout2-ce
  • Accepted ROM formats: .f1ce, .f2ce

BIOS

No Fallout(1 or 2)-CE emulator in Batocera needs a BIOS file to run.

Fallout 1: How to install game

Create empty file Fallout.f1ce in /userdata/roms/fallout1-ce for example with touch “/userdata/roms/fallout1-ce/Fallout.f1ce”

Configuration

The main configuration file is fallout.cfg. There are several important settings you might need to adjust for your installation. Depending on your Fallout distribution main game assets master.dat, critter.dat, and data folder might be either all lowercased, or all uppercased. You can either update master_dat, critter_dat, master_patches and critter_patches settings to match your file names, or rename files to match entries in your fallout.cfg.

The sound folder (with music folder inside) might be located either in data folder, or be in the Fallout folder. Update music_path1 setting to match your hierarchy, usually it's data/sound/music/ or sound/music/. Make sure it match your path exactly (so it might be SOUND/MUSIC/ if you've installed Fallout from CD). Music files themselves (with ACM extension) should be all uppercased, regardless of sound and music folders.

The second configuration file is f1_res.ini. Use it to change game window size and enable/disable fullscreen mode. 

[MAIN]
SCR_WIDTH=1280
SCR_HEIGHT=720
WINDOWED=1

Recommendations:

  • Desktops: Use any size you see fit.
  • Tablets: Set these values to logical resolution of your device, for example iPad Pro 11 is 1668×2388 (pixels), but it's logical resolution is 834×1194 (points).
  • Mobile phones: Set height to 480, calculate width according to your device screen (aspect) ratio, for example Samsung S21 is 20:9 device, so the width should be 480 * 20 / 9 = 1067.

Copy Data

Put following files into /userdata/roms/fallout1-ce

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/userdata/roms/fallout1-ce/
            ├── CRITTER.DAT
            ├── DATA
            │   ├── art
            │   │   ├── intrface
            │   │   │   ├── HR_ALLTLK.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_IFACE_800.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_IFACELFT1.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_IFACELFT2.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_IFACERHT1.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_IFACERHT2.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_IFACE_SELECT.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_MAINMENU.frm
            │   │   │   ├── HR_MENU_BG.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_OPTIONS_BG.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_OPTIONS_DN.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_OPTIONS_UP.FRM
            │   │   │   ├── HR_SCRN_BG.FRM
            │   │   │   └── MAINMENU.FRM
            │   │   └── tiles
            │   │       └── grid000.FRM
            │   ├── MAPS
            │   │   ├── BRODEAD.edg
            │   │   ├── BROHD12.edg
            │   │   ├── BROHD34.edg
            │   │   ├── BROHDENT.edg
            │   │   ├── CARAVAN.edg
            │   │   ├── CAVES.edg
            │   │   ├── CHILDEAD.edg
            │   │   ├── CHILDRN1.edg
            │   │   ├── CHILDRN2.edg
            │   │   ├── CITY1.edg
            │   │   ├── COAST1.edg
            │   │   ├── COAST2.edg
            │   │   ├── COLATRUK.edg
            │   │   ├── DESCRVN1.edg
            │   │   ├── DESCRVN2.edg
            │   │   ├── DESCRVN3.edg
            │   │   ├── DESCRVN4.edg
            │   │   ├── DESERT1.edg
            │   │   ├── DESERT2.edg
            │   │   ├── DESERT3.edg
            │   │   ├── DETHCLAW.edg
            │   │   ├── FOOT.edg
            │   │   ├── FSAUSER.edg
            │   │   ├── GLOW1.edg
            │   │   ├── GLOW2.edg
            │   │   ├── GLOWENT.edg
            │   │   ├── HALLDED.edg
            │   │   ├── HOTEL.edg
            │   │   ├── HUBDWNTN.edg
            │   │   ├── HUBENT.edg
            │   │   ├── HUBHEIGT.edg
            │   │   ├── HUBMIS1.edg
            │   │   ├── HUBOLDTN.edg
            │   │   ├── HUBWATER.edg
            │   │   ├── JUNKCSNO.edg
            │   │   ├── JUNKDEMO.edg
            │   │   ├── JUNKENT.edg
            │   │   ├── JUNKKILL.edg
            │   │   ├── LAADYTUM.edg
            │   │   ├── LABLADES.edg
            │   │   ├── LAFOLLWR.edg
            │   │   ├── LAGUNRUN.edg
            │   │   ├── LARIPPER.edg
            │   │   ├── MBDEAD.edg
            │   │   ├── MBENT.edg
            │   │   ├── MBSTRG12.edg
            │   │   ├── MBVATS12.edg
            │   │   ├── MNTCRVN1.edg
            │   │   ├── MNTCRVN2.edg
            │   │   ├── MNTCRVN3.edg
            │   │   ├── MNTCRVN4.edg
            │   │   ├── MOUNTN1.edg
            │   │   ├── MOUNTN2.edg
            │   │   ├── MSTRLR12.edg
            │   │   ├── MSTRLR34.edg
            │   │   ├── RAIDERS.edg
            │   │   ├── SHADYE.edg
            │   │   ├── SHADYW.edg
            │   │   ├── TALKCOW.edg
            │   │   ├── TARDIS.edg
            │   │   ├── USEDCAR.edg
            │   │   ├── V13ENT.edg
            │   │   ├── VAULT13.edg
            │   │   ├── VAULTBUR.edg
            │   │   ├── VAULTENT.edg
            │   │   ├── VAULTNEC.edg
            │   │   ├── VIPERS.edg
            │   │   └── WATRSHD.edg
            │   ├── SAVEGAME
            │   ├── SCRIPTS
            │   │   ├── BITSBOB.INT
            │   │   ├── COCDOOR.INT
            │   │   ├── GABRIEL.INT
            │   │   ├── GIZMO.INT
            │   │   ├── glowgen.int
            │   │   ├── HALLDED1.INT
            │   │   ├── HARRY.INT
            │   │   ├── HOTELMAP.INT
            │   │   ├── HUBDWNTN.INT
            │   │   ├── inblade.int
            │   │   ├── JUNKCAS.INT
            │   │   ├── JUNKENT.INT
            │   │   ├── KILLIAN.INT
            │   │   ├── LARIPPER.INT
            │   │   ├── LARS.INT
            │   │   ├── MASTER1.INT
            │   │   ├── MASTER2.INT
            │   │   ├── MORPH.INT
            │   │   ├── MSTMERCH.INT
            │   │   ├── NH2OPUMP.INT
            │   │   ├── RAIDMAP.INT
            │   │   ├── RAZOR.INT
            │   │   ├── RHOMDOOR.INT
            │   │   ├── rndmtn.int
            │   │   ├── SLAPPY.INT
            │   │   ├── TANDI.INT
            │   │   └── V13CAVE.INT
            │   ├── SOUND
            │   │   └── MUSIC
            │   │       ├── 01HUB.ACM
            │   │       ├── 02MSTRLR.ACM
            │   │       ├── 03WRLDMP.ACM
            │   │       ├── 04BRTHRH.ACM
            │   │       ├── 05RAIDER.ACM
            │   │       ├── 06VAULT.ACM
            │   │       ├── 07DESERT.ACM
            │   │       ├── 08VATS.ACM
            │   │       ├── 09GLOW.ACM
            │   │       ├── 10LABONE.ACM
            │   │       ├── 11CHILRN.ACM
            │   │       ├── 12JUNKTN.ACM
            │   │       ├── 13CARVRN.ACM
            │   │       ├── 14NECRO.ACM
            │   │       ├── 15SHADY.ACM
            │   │       ├── 16FOLLOW.ACM
            │   │       ├── MAYBE.ACM
            │   │       ├── WIND1.ACM
            │   │       └── WIND2.ACM
            │   └── TEXT
            │       └── ENGLISH
            │           ├── DIALOG
            │           │   └── RAZOR.MSG
            │           └── GAME
            │               ├── COMBAT.MSG
            │               ├── LSGAME.MSG
            │               ├── MAP.MSG
            │               ├── PROTO.MSG
            │               └── ScrnSet.msg
            ├── fallout1-ce
            ├── f1_res.ini
            ├── fallout.cfg
            ├── Fallout.f1ce
            └── MASTER.a

Fallout 2: How to install game

Create empty file Fallout 2.f2ce in /userdata/roms/fallout2-ce for example with touch “/userdata/roms/fallout2-ce/Fallout 2.f2ce”

Configuration

The main configuration file is fallout2.cfg. There are several important settings you might need to adjust for your installation. Depending on your Fallout distribution main game assets master.dat, critter.dat, and data folder might be either all lowercased, or all uppercased. You can either update master_dat, critter_dat, master_patches and critter_patches settings to match your file names, or rename files to match entries in your fallout2.cfg.

The sound folder (with music folder inside) might be located either in data folder, or be in the Fallout folder. Update music_path1 setting to match your hierarchy, usually it's data/sound/music/ or sound/music/. Make sure it match your path exactly (so it might be SOUND/MUSIC/ if you've installed Fallout from CD). Music files themselves (with ACM extension) should be all uppercased, regardless of sound and music folders.

The second configuration file is f2_res.ini. Use it to change game window size and enable/disable fullscreen mode. 

[MAIN]
SCR_WIDTH=1280
SCR_HEIGHT=720
WINDOWED=1

Recommendations:

  • Desktops: Use any size you see fit.
  • Tablets: Set these values to logical resolution of your device, for example iPad Pro 11 is 1668×2388 (pixels), but it's logical resolution is 834×1194 (points).
  • Mobile phones: Set height to 480, calculate width according to your device screen (aspect) ratio, for example Samsung S21 is 20:9 device, so the width should be 480 * 20 / 9 = 1067.

The third configuration file is ddraw.ini (part of Sfall). There are dozens of options that adjust or override engine behaviour and gameplay mechanics. This file is intended for modders and advanced users. Currently only a small subset of these settings are actually implemented.

Copy Data

Put following files into /userdata/roms/fallout2-ce

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/userdata/roms/fallout2-ce/
            ├── critter.dat
            ├── data
            │   ├── art
            │   │   └── tiles
            │   │       └── grid000.FRM
            │   ├── critter.dat
            │   ├── maps
            │   ├── proto
            │   │   ├── critters
            │   │   └── items
            │   └── worldmap.dat
            ├── f2_res.ini
            ├── fallout2-ce
            ├── fallout2.cfg
            ├── Fallout 2.f2ce
            ├── master.dat
            └── sound
                └── music
                    ├── 01hub.acm
                    ├── 03wrldmp.acm
                    ├── 05raider.acm
                    ├── 07desert.acm
                    ├── 08vats.acm
                    ├── 10labone.acm
                    ├── 12junktn.acm
                    ├── 13carvrn.acm
                    ├── 14necro.acm
                    ├── 16follow.acm
                    ├── 17arroyo.acm
                    ├── 18modoc.acm
                    ├── 19reno.acm
                    ├── 20car.acm
                    ├── 21sf.acm
                    ├── 22vcity.acm
                    ├── 23world.acm
                    ├── 24redd.acm
                    ├── akiss.acm
                    ├── wind1.acm
                    └── wind2.acm
  • systems/fallout1-ce.txt
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