[mythtv-users] MythGAME problems

[Chuck Ferring]

The Snes support in mythgame was written specifically to work with
snes9x.  I'd try it with snes9x first.  Also, when you say that you set
the binary to where the executable is, are you using the path to the
executable including the name of the executable or are you just using
the directory that the executable resides in?  You should be using the
former.

-Chuck

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 06:17, Jonathon.Schmidt at sasktel.sk.ca wrote:
> Ok,
>       Right now I am only trying to use Zsnes to play ROMS because xmame is
> failing on something.  I can use zsnes from outside mythtv and it loads the
> roms fine.  In mythgame setup I set the directory for SNES games to where
> the roms are stored, and I set the binary to where zsnes executable is.  I
> ran scan for games and in the command line it even picks up a couple of the
> games.  HOwever when I go to mythgame, it shows SNES and XMAME neither of
> which can be executed.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Jon
> 
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> > On Monday 22 December 2003 12:12,
> > Jonathon.Schmidt at sasktel.sk.ca wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >       Does anyone know much about MythGame?
> >
> > I don't. :)
> 
> I just learned.  And why are the menus for MythGame so darned slow???
> 
> > > instructions I have it set up, and I did the apt-get install xmame
> > > fceultra snes but now I have a couple games, and I tried
> > seeing them
> > > in mythtv's frontend and I see nothing.  Ive gone through
> > the mythgame
> > > setup of the directories to put things and such but I cant
> > seem to see
> > > the games, is this because they are .zip files?
> 
> Can you launch the games from the command line using xmame?  You may
> need to set up an xmamerc with some settings before this will work.  It
> took me about 4 hours to get my first rom to work.
> 
> Also, MythGame uses the xmame executable to scan for games.  If "Scan
> for games" or whatever it reads doesn't appear to do anything (you
> should get a progress dialog) then your mame executable path is not set
> right in MythGame.  The default was wrong for mine.  Look to see exactly
> where xmame (or xmame.SDL or whatever) is on your system and plug that
> into MythGame.
> 
> > However, I do know that when everything is set up just right,
> > the game will
> > play fine from within .zip files (all mine do, or at least
> > did, the last time
> > I checked, but that was a while ago...).
> 
> Yep.  Also you'll need the right version of xmame for the roms you have
> apparently.  That wasted another 3 hours of my time...
> 
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