[mythtv-users] Mythgame on svn

[John Biundo]

Has anybody managed to get the svn version of mythgame to work?

Is there any current documentation available?

I've read every HowTo I could find, every README file, every thread I 
could find on gossamer, everything remotely relevant on the wiki, 
googled every combination of related words and I simply can't find any 
clear instructions on how to set up a simple "PC game" (I assume this 
means a native Linux game that I can launch under X from a command line).

Most of the howto's are pre-svn, and apparently mythgame was completely 
broken for 0.18.  Many notes and posts hint at "major changes" for 
mythgame in svn, so I'm not sure how relevant most of the howto's are 
anyway.

For starters, all I want to do is get neverball (a simple native SDL 
game) plugged into mythgame.

There seems to be a need for a "gamelist.xml" file (indeed, there is one 
in the mythgame src directory, and the readme file makes reference to 
it, though I suspect the readme may not have been updated), though it's 
not clear where that file needs to be placed.  Putting it in 
/usr/local/share/mythtv and then doing all the possible magical 
incantations to have mythgame scan for games doesn't seem to create any 
playable entry based on that file.

Ironically, I suspect I could probably get xmame or some other emulator 
working more easily since the UI seems geared for entering that kind of 
info.  I wanted to start with something simple first so I could 
understand how things work, then deal with game pads, screen size, file 
locations, etc. a little bit at a time.

Hoping someone has blazed a trail, or perhaps one of the developers will 
have mercy (I PROMISE to writeup whatever I learn on the wiki in return! ;-)

Cheers,
john