byron wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
byron wrote:
My recent Myth project has been to get MythGame functional. My goal was
to get MAME, NES and SNES all working through the MythGame interface.
So far I've been successful in getting MAME and NES roms detected and
playable through MythGame. However SNES has proven to be a little
trickier.
My problem:
When going into the games menu it scans for SNES games every time but
never updates the UI or the database as far as I can tell. Running the
emulators from a console works in both zsnes and snes9x. I do not see
any info logged to the backend log with verbose set to all, nor do I see
anything sent the console when running mythfrontend from the command
line. I have tried zipped and unzipped roms with varying permissions
all to no avail. I've also tried using both zsnes and snes9x without
success.
Here is my config as it appears in setup
Dropdown: Zsnes
binary: /usr/games/bin/zsnes -m
rompath: /media/emu/snes/roms
screenshots: (blank)
The setup seems very simple I just don't see what I'm doing wrong.
Anyone have any ideas? Is there a way to increase logging with
mythfrontend?
Yeah, wrap the snes9x binary with a shell script that logs command line
options as well as
command output.
That's what I did. I had more trouble with xmame than snes9x though.
I'll try to get you
my command line later tonight.
First, some questions:
1.) Why zsnes? Why not snes9x? I've had better performance, features,
and general luck
with snes9x 0.43. Just don't forget to make it suid root or DGA won't
work.
2.) What versions are you running?
3.) You're running Gentoo, right?
4.) Which ROMs? Some don't pass their checksums, like Super Metroid, so
MythGame
won't add them.
1: No reason in particular. I vaguely remember seeing that some people
preferred zsnes. However, snes9x exhibits the same behavior. I have no
real preference either way.
2: MythTV 0.18.1
MythGame 0.18.1
zsnes 1.42
snes9x 1.43
MySQL 4.1.14
3: Yes
4: Roms were retrieved from Vimm's Lair http://vimm.net (if it makes any
difference).
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario All-Stars
Super Mario RPG
Legend of Zelda (Link to the past)
Donkey Kong Country
Final Fantasy 3
Super Castlevania IV
I'll write up a wrapper script tonight to see if I can get some more
visibility on the matter.
First: Your mythtv user is part of the games group, right?
Second: I'm running MySQL 4.0.x. Not sure if that matters.
So those roms are in:
/media/emu/snes/roms
And when you run snes9x as your mythtv user with a rom in that dir as an
argument it works?
In that case something is probably wrong with just the scan portion of
MythGame.
So... when you run mythfrontend as your mythtv user from the command
line, you don't see
any commandline output when you scan your rom dirs?
I run my mythfrontend from kdm and I think I remember seeing lots of
stuff in
/home/mythtv/.xsession-errors when I scan my rom dir.
If you go the wrapper route, definitely look for the command line
MythGame is using to scan
your rom dir, then try to run that exact commandline as your mythtv user
and see if anything
odd happens.
--
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
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