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Given that the keymap is specific to XBMC, perhaps you can force this Linux-wide instead. You probably would have to make it specific to an emulator somehow. For instance, if you had the ability to make it conditional you could say that the button only functions as Esc if Gens is running. Not sure how possible this is, but that's another mode of attack in concept at least.
Given that that works, you could do the same for all the other emulators.
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I'm close to finalizing my EMU configuration within XBMC (zsnes, gens, mupen64plus, mame, scummvm) on a Dharma beta 2 live install (Revo 3610, 2GB RAM). Everything is working almost perfectly except for mupen64plus. With certain ROMs (Mario Kart 64, F-Zero X, Zelda - Ocarina Of Time) I experience extreme sound stuttering which makes playing those games impossible while Super Mario 64 for example doesn't show the problem. Within Launcher I use the script from this thread which stops XBMC before launching the emu.
Has someone else with a comparable hardware the same problems with mupen64plus? From the posts in this thread I got the impression that for most of the people everything is fine regarding sound after using the 'START/CONT XBMC' script.
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Hi all,
After a re-import, ZSNES only seems to grab the thumbs for some of my ROMs, e.g. It'll happily match up "Super Mario World.jpg" with "Super Mario World.smc" but not "Cannon Fodder.jpg" with "Cannon Fodder.smc", any idea why please?
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I can get mupen64 to launch correctly with the launcher but I would like to use the launcher.sh script to get the most available resources. I'm running into some trouble though. When I use the launcher.sh script, xbmc just blinks away and comes right back. The emulator never runs.
This is how I have it setup. (my computers name is htpc)
I created launcher.sh at /home/htpc/launcher.sh
contents of launcher.sh:
/usr/bin/killall -STOP xbmc.bin
"$@"
/usr/bin/killall -CONT xbmc.bin
Then from the terminal I ran: chmod +x /home/htpc/launcher.sh
launcher.xml:
<launcher>
<name>Nintendo 64 (N64)</name>
<application>/home/htpc/launcher.sh</application>
<args>/usr/games/mupen64plus</args>
<rompath>/home/htpc/Documents/N64 Roms</rompath>
<romext>z64</romext>
<thumb>/home/htpc/Documents/N64.jpg</thumb>
<wait>true</wait>
<roms>
<rom>
<name>Doom 64</name>
<filename>/home/htpc/Documents/N64 Roms/Doom 64.z64</filename>
<thumb>/home/htpc/Documents/N64 Roms/Doom 64.jpg</thumb>
</rom>
</launcher>
I know there has to be some little mistake that I am making. Big thanks to whoever can help me out on this.
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Thanks! My menu sounds and emu sounds all work like a charm.
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I'm going to +1 what htpcguy is having problems with. I've tried the launcher.sh script with mednafen and mupen64 with the same results. I did everything he's done (written the script, made it executable and so on) and double checked all my paths. When I click on a game, it just blinks for a second and the emu never starts. Other people have gotten this to run apparently (henwy, post #69 and bmmcguir14, post #70). If anyone has got a fix for this, or can help me run this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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I'm using Dharma Beta 3. I wasn't able to get launcher.sh working with any of the emulators. I was actually wondering if it was because of the version I am using.
I also just want to make sure I made the launcher.sh correctly. When I ran the command for chmod +x /home/htpc/launcher.sh, it did not give me any indication that it worked or failed. It just took the command without confirmation. I also ran the same command as sudo.
I can get mupen64plus to launch by pointing to the application without any problem but it is extremely sluggish on my system. I need to figure out a way to get it to launch without XBMC running in the background.
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2010-11-01, 19:11
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-01, 19:21 by htrodscott.)
I'm also using Dharma Beta 3 on a Revo 3610.
I created an identical launcher.sh file (placed in /home/htpc)and made it executable by running the sudo chmod +x /home/htpc/launcher.sh (also with no response from the system. It just goes back to the prompt after).
My rom paths have no spaces and I included the --fullscreen and --nogui arguments in my arguments section within launchers.xml.
Any other ideas?
Thanks for all the help so far.
EDIT:
Just a quick tack-on question after some linux command reading...
Should the command be sudo chmod +x <path> or sudo chmod +X <path>? It seems there's a difference between the lower case x and uppercase X, but still being new to linux, I'm confused.