Byron Pezan 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.
[...]
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.
Pulled it from MySQL:
/usr/games/bin/snes9x -stereo -tr -fs -joydev1 /dev/input/js_madcatz
-joymap1 2 1 3 0 4 5 9 8 -joydev2 /dev/input/js0 -joyaxis1 0 1
Nothing special to it other than the X-Box joystick magic. My guess
would be that your ROMs might have bad checksums.
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Well it turns out you were right Jesse. Apparently every ROM from Vimm's
Lair fails the checksum. I'm assuming this is because he adds the website
info to the ROM header. I was able to find a ROM that passed the checksum
and MythGame found it and happily added it to the database. That's great
news. The bad news is that I have over 600 ROMS that all fail the
checksum :( If there weren't so many I would re-download them (or rather
write a scraper to download them for me). Now I think my options are
either to find a way to re-write the checksums into the ROMS or look at
disabling the checksum function of MythGame for the SNES emulator. I
think I'd rather re-write the checksums. I've read that there are tools
available to do this, but I've been unable to find any so far. If anyone
knows of any tools I would love a heads up.
Thanks for all help and suggestions.
byron
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I've also run into this problem with a number of roms. If you don't
want to run svn or re-download the roms, do what I did. Manually enter
the roms into the database. It's a bit of a pain but worked for me. I
dumped the 'gamemetadata' table, make sure you have at least a couple
SNES roms in there, then edit the .sql file to include all the snes roms
in the directory. Of course you'll have to load the script back into
the database.
Calvin...
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