Re: [Zsnes-devel] [Zsnes-main] zsnes still won't load a file from command line

[Jeremy B. <je...@br...>]

Ben Ford wrote:

> I'm trying to run zsnes with freevo, and for the life of me, I can't get
> zsnes to actually load the games.  Freevo calls it with the game as a
> parameter, but zsnes just opens up its gui with the menu ready for you
> to browse and load a game.
>
> I even tried running zsnes manually under strace to see what was
> happening, and it never even *tried* opening the file.


Have you tried checking out and compiling the code currently in CVS?  I 
just did that and it seems to work correctly.  When I do something like:

bash$ zsnes /home/jeremy/downloads/roms/zelda3.smc.gz

...then ZSNES starts up and is playing Zelda 3.

Is it possible Freevo is passing the wrong filename to ZSNES, or maybe 
not escaping it appropriately if it contains spaces?  Can you give us a 
sample command that Freevo is using to try to run the ROM, along with 
the output of "ls -l $romfile"?

The argument processing code for Linux ZSNES looks kinda kooky too.  If 
you're a programmer type, you might take a glance at the file 
"zsnes/src/linux/zloaderw.c", particularly the main() function.

Jeremy