ZSNES No Gui Mode

superm1 · Post by **superm1** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:44 pm

I am using a plugin for mythtv for linux (for the curious inquire at www.mythtv.org ) called mythgame. It basically handles a frontend for all gaming emulation, and catalogs all of my games. Now it adds two switches to the command line " -m -j " particularly, -m is supposed to disable gui and -j to disable mouse. Now that is all fine, except that this commandline never works. Even if i exist myth and try to launch from a terminal window, same results. If I launch without the nogui switch (-m), things work fine.

The command line is basically:

/usr/local/bin/zsnes -m -j %1, where %1 is the game name and path. Every time this command will just return the usage of zsnes. Any idea what I could do about this?

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:11 am

I haven't had time to play with it, but it's possible that the command line switch functionality was botched in one of the past updates. If so, Nach will almost certainly be able to fix it.

Did you try the latest WIP version?

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:35 am

I confirm. Latest WIP and 1.36 can't use -m switch.
-j works ok.

superm1 · Post by **superm1** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:03 am

So until a new version / patch is out, can someone confirm a version that will work that I can obtain?

Kagerato · Post by **Kagerato** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:56 pm

I would try 1.337.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:19 pm

-m works fine for me with CVS.
Just make sure you have it loading a game from the command line, -m is pointless if you don't have a game loaded.

A side note, glibc versions > 2.2 seem to have trouble loading a game from the command line, don't know why yet.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:29 pm

Nach wrote:-m works fine for me with CVS.
Just make sure you have it loading a game from the command line, -m is pointless if you don't have a game loaded.

Duh, of course I give it a game to load. :þ
It doesn' t work.

A side note, glibc versions > 2.2 seem to have trouble loading a game from the command line, don't know why yet.

I'm using glibc 2.3.3, so that may be the cause.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:00 am

I still haven't tested, but I bet the problem is related to the fact that ZSNES immediately exits if you run it from another directory than it is located in.

Example:
C:\>Emulators\SNES\ZSNES\zsnesw.exe smw.zip -m -j

^if the ROM path is not correct, ZSNES would exit without any error at all. It would appear as if the command was completely ignored.

Post by **Nach** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:26 am

I run it from any directory and have no trouble at all.

superm1 · Post by **superm1** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:31 pm

I have tried with CVS, and even if the game is in the same directory as zsnes, it still doesnt launch. So what other culprits are there, glibc, gcc, nasm what?

Post by **Nach** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:17 pm

As I already said: glibc versions > 2.2 are broken. Someone screwed up getopt() in them. I currently have someone looking into the problem with glibc.

jasonwoods · Post by **jasonwoods** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:47 pm

I just set up a Fedora 2 box and I've run into this same problem. Fedora Core 2 comes w/2.3.3 and obviously that does not work for command line. I've tried the latest WIP version and still no love... I am running a home theater program called mythTV and it uses command line arguements to load games. I prefer zsnes over snes9x because of it's features (like full screen actually working) but I can't use it without command line capabilities.
Is this a bug being worked on or is there a work around yet?

I've set up all my options in the gui so all I need is:

Code: Select all

zsnes /location/of/games/game.zip

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:25 pm

It's not zsnes' fault. What are we supposed to do, submit a bug report to the glibc guys ?

jasonwoods · Post by **jasonwoods** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:07 pm

I didn't mean to imply that zsnes had a bug. I was wondering if the zsnes developers had a patch for glibc or a work around. Since this affects you, I thought you might be working on it. I realize your difficulties and in no way assume you can make glibc do anything. My appologies for not being clear.

jdratlif · Post by **jdratlif** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:28 am

jasonwoods wrote:I didn't mean to imply that zsnes had a bug. I was wondering if the zsnes developers had a patch for glibc or a work around. Since this affects you, I thought you might be working on it. I realize your difficulties and in no way assume you can make glibc do anything. My appologies for not being clear.

Take a look at this thread in the official bug topic. There is a patch that might fix it for you.

It allows me to pass command line game args to zsnes 10/24 WIP, where before I could not. I use glibc 2.3.4.

jasonwoods · Post by **jasonwoods** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:23 pm

the patch works great! As you wrote before, I hope the zsnes team will include this patch in the next release!

Post by **Nach** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:29 pm

jasonwoods wrote:I hope the zsnes team will include this patch in the next release!

I'm sorry, but your request has come in too late.

ZSNES board

ZSNES No Gui Mode

ZSNES No Gui Mode

Any luck with glibc?