Opie-sh Script For Snes9x, Since zemufe doesnt work anymore... Options

[MrSquishy]

I've had problems getting Zemufe working on 3.5.2 so I took it as a good excuse to learn Opie-SH a little better. Awesome stuff.

Here is a script to make a list of Roms and run them.
This is made up for Snes9x, but it'd be painless to switch it to something else, since all it really does is make a list of files and pipe it to the command at the bottom.

IT it looking for Roms as *.zip (case sensitive)

CODE

#!/bin/sh
#Path to your Roms

LOCATION=/mnt/card/games/snes

#Load a game from your list
ROM=`   cd $LOCATION; ls -1 *.zip \
       | opie-sh -i -l -t "Roms" -F  -g `
if [ "$ROM" = "" ]
then exit
fi

#Enable Sound Button
setsound () {
       opie-sh -m -t "Sound"   \
       -M "Do you want sound?" \
       -g -0 Yes -1 No
RETURNCODE=$?

#Hitting "OK" returns 255, so if you press "OK" you get sound.
case $RETURNCODE in
       255) SOUND=-sound;;
       0)  SOUND=-sound;;
       1)  SOUND=-nosound;;
esac
}

setsound

if [ "$SOUND" = "" ]; then
       exit
fi
snes9x $SOUND $LOCATION/$ROM

It's ugly, but it works.
Be sure to change the location of your roms.

I added this to my /etc/profile to get the buttons the way I like them.

CODE

S9XKEYS=113,32,293,291,290,111,112,13,46

A = Center Button
B = Home
X = Contacts
Y = Calendar
L = o
R = p
Start=Enter
Select=Space
Quit = q

then add S9XKEYS to the end of the "export" line.

[Appleman]

This works pretty slick.

However, whenever I run snes9x it starts up then quits right away with Fatal Signal: Bus Error (SDL Parachute deployed)


Any ideas?

[MrSquishy]

You did change the $LOCATION I am assuming, otherwise you wouldnt have any games listed.

What kind of errors does it spit out from the console?
Are you using snes9x-sdl-qpe out of the 3.5.2 feed?

I have only used this on a 5500, but I dont imagine that matters much.

[anunakin]

Hey! this works fine here and I create a snes9x.desktop... works fine!
I using this icon /usr/kde/3.3/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/package_games.png from KDE 3.3 Crystal Icons... very good...
http://www.geocities.com/anunakin/images/package_games.png

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Snes9x is a powerfull SNES Emulator
Exec=sn.sh
Icon=package_games
Type=Application
Name=Snes9x

[x86Daddy]

I've *almost* got this perfect on my SL-5500.... Someone please tell me there's a way to make it portrait mode?

[anunakin]

I think, u need edit and recompile snes9x to do it!

[MrSquishy]

I would send baskets of money to whoever made a portrait snes9x.

Im working on building yet another mutant ipk of qtopiagnuboy.
Replacing qtopignuboyl with some Opie-SH scripts, so it should look very similar to the SNES frontend up above.

[Duskrider]

Hey guys =) I got a 1gig memory card for christmas and with it came a determination to run FFIV on my Zaurus. However, I am totally illiterate when it comes to mucking about in the innards of computers...so would someone be so kind as to give me a clue (or even something like a step by step guide) to how to get this to work? I literally don't know where to begin - I copied this into a .txt file, and then I guess I have to convert it to something, somehow, and then put that converted something on the Zaurus, but I have no idea how to do such a thing or even if that is the concept at all.

Many thanks if anyone can help me with this one

[MrSquishy]

Its pretty easy once you get into it, but looking at it for the first time is probably intimidating.

What you can do (I'll let you cheat and I can send you an ipk of the files) is copy the text for that into a file called "opie-sh-snes.sh" and save it into /opt/QtPalmtop/bin on your zaurus.
make sure to do a 'chmod +x opie-sh-snes.sh' to get it to be executable.

The hard part is making the .desktop file to go with it, and using an icon that is there.
Save the icon into /opt/QtPalmtop/pics
and save

CODE

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Snes9x is a powerfull SNES Emulator
Exec=opie-sh-snes.sh
Icon=package_games
Type=Application
Name=Snes9x

into a file called snes9x.desktop in /opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Games

then you just restart opie, and it should show up.

Here is an ipk of the thing you'll need.
It is looking for games on the SD card at /mnt/card/games/snes, if you need to change this, edit opie-sh-snes.sh and change the LOCATION variable at the top.

You'll still need to do the export thing in my first post to get your keybindings to use the Application Buttons.

Attached File(s)

 opie_sh_snes_0.1_arm.ipk ( 3.52K ) Number of downloads: 26

 

[anunakin]

Great man! nice job!

[CoreDump]

If you add a popup / message where the script is looking for games, I'd be happy to add it to OE (and any future OZ feed for that matter).

The only difficulty I can see here are the buttons (S9XKEYS)
Does the current configuration work on other devices than a Z5x00, too?

[MrSquishy]

Wow, quite an honor to get a package into the feed.
This one has an entry for rom location (Which can be disabled in the script) and I fixed the icon I broke in the 0.1 ipk above.
I didnt make the depend's need snes9x-qpe-sdl because this should work with several versions of snes9x.

Thank you everyone for the help.

Attached File(s)

 opie_sh_snes_0.2_arm.ipk ( 3.63K ) Number of downloads: 24

 

[CoreDump]

Could you please try the attached ipk if it works for you?

Attached File(s)

 opie_sh_snes_0.2_r0_arm.ipk ( 3.71K ) Number of downloads: 33

 

[MrSquishy]

It's odd that attaching the ipk converts the dashes to underscores. That could possibly mess up a package manager couldnt it?

Looks like the package works fine though.

[CoreDump]

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<CIA-4> CoreDump  * r1.2774 openembedded/packages/opie-sh-snes/ (4 files in 2 dirs): Add opie-sh-snes, an opie-sh wrapper to launch SNES ROMs. Credits to MrSquishy @ ZUG

Gratulations