[mythtv-users] Re: Mythgame issue with CVS version

[Steve Hall]

I've tracked this down.

When you define the settings for Mythgame within the GUI (Settings->Game Settings) the path for:

MAME history path: was set to /usr/share/xmame which *was* the directory which, as the help text
says:

Directory where MAME history files are kept.

However, reading through the code in mamehandler.cpp the exec string that is built up uses -history_file
or -historyfile depending if the release version is greater that .62 or not.

So, changing the /usr/share/xmame to /usr/share/xmame/history.dat fixes the problem, and everything is
good in the world.

Now, to add insult to injury, the output from xmame --help for the version im running, (xmame 0.72.1 Aug 16 2003)
that the following parameters are all defined as files, not directories:

* cheat_file
* history_file
* hiscore_file

but they are all referenced within the setting screen's as being directory's. But only history causes the error.

I will endeavour over the weekend to produce a patch file to correct the issues.

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