[mythtv-users] MythGAME problems

James L. Paul james at mauibay.net
Mon Dec 22 21:31:09 EST 2003


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On Monday 22 December 2003 13:00, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> 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. :)
>
> > By going through Jarod's
> > 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?
>
> Not good. Do your paths to the games have trailing slashes, or no? I think
> I had a problem at one point with one module when I either had a slash or
> didn't, and it would only work the opposite way. I dunno if that applies
> here though... (If it does, the default paths contain no trailing slash --
> just looked on a workstation install where I hadn't touched the mythgame
> config).
>
> 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...).
>
> Oh, I'm presuming you already ran the "Scan for Games" thing in the Game
> Settings area...

I had a similar problem, caused by the history path pointing to a directory 
instead of a file, or some such thing. I recommend reading this thread from 
October:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=86559;search_string=mythgame;guest=1857295&t=search_engine#86559
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