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    SNES MSU-1 Guide

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    • E
      edale
      last edited by

      Well... That took more than a few days... here's the "final" beta for the Dancing Mad FFVI MSU-1 mod.

      https://github.com/Insidious611/DancingMadFF6/releases

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        edale
        last edited by edale

        With the official release of Snes9x v1.55 a week ago, the first official release of Snes9x to support MSU, the lr-snes9x emulator core for RetroPie has also been updated.

        I'd strongly suggest everyone update (from source) their lr-snes9x on their RetroPie setup.

        The new version has fixes for a few MSU related issues, the biggest one I'm aware of is a fix on a bit of code that actually lets music resume properly (so after a battle when you show up on the worldmap, the music will continue where it left off, rather than starting over, as one example). It actually supported it before but wasn't reading the settings properly, so resume didn't work.

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        • hooperreH
          hooperre
          last edited by hooperre

          Is there a way to launch a custom launch bash file so I can call the .sfc file from my /.Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA)[MSU-1] folder containing all the random files? Trying to do this for organizational purposes.

          Both of the following work when called from the command line, but not from EmulationStation:

          #!/bin/bash
          "/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _SYS_ "snes" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/.Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA)[MSU-1]/alttp_msu.sfc"
          

          or

          /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x/snes9x_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/.Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA)[MSU-1]/alttp_msu.sfc" --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
          

          Thanks.

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
            last edited by

            @hooperre Is the command output depending on the starting folder ? I.e. you're in the /.alttp_msu folder when running that command ?

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            • hooperreH
              hooperre @mitu
              last edited by hooperre

              @mitu I had the folder name mixed up and it has been updated in my original post.

              The command is being launched from the ./RetroPie/roms/snes folder. The actual alttp_msu.sfc and all the .pcm files are located within the ./RetroPie/roms/snes/.Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA)[MSU-1]folder.

              I don't think it depends on the starting folder. If I just (from the command line) ran the .sh file containing either one of the blocks of code written above:
              sudo bash home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/alttp_msu.sh
              the file runs correctly, and with all the correct RetroArch configs, but this doesn't happen when launching from EmulationStation. I'm not sure if launching it from ES changes the way that RetroArch handles it somehow or something.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                last edited by

                @hooperre You can see the launch command used by Emulationstation by looking at the /dev/shm/runcommand.log - it should be the first line. That being said, the command you posted (using runcommand) seems like something similar to what Emulationstation would launch.
                If the launching commands prove to be the same, try running with verbose logging when you launch from Emulationsation (by using the runcommand launch menu) and maybe there's some clue in the detailed log about what's missing.

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                • hooperreH
                  hooperre
                  last edited by hooperre

                  Ah. It's calling for the actual .sh file itself when I use the runcommandas opposed to the .sfc. Dump:

                  Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x/snes9x_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/alttp_msu.sh" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

                  Not sure how to get around that. I'll try the other one again.

                  The other script with verbose logging: https://pastebin.com/BuUJbxN9

                  Appears to be calling for the .sh file as well. That one makes less sense to me.

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                    last edited by

                    @hooperre said in SNES MSU-1 Guide:

                    Ah. It's calling for the actual .sh file itself when I use the runcommandas opposed to the .sfc. Dump:

                    That's not correct. Did you customize the EmulationStation system config file (es_systems.cfg) and added the .sh extension as a valid ROM ? By default, .sfc is one of the included extensions, so if you have the .sfc ROM file in the folder, runcommand should invoke the correct emulator.

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                    • hooperreH
                      hooperre
                      last edited by hooperre

                      I did not add .sh .SH to the es_systems.cfg.

                      The script works well in the ports folder/menu in emulationstation and will launch the MSU-1 version of the game. It appears that runcommand is ignoring the text within the file and just launching the .sh file as an accepted rom. I can't figure out a way around this and suppose I'll just have to create an extremely messy MSU-1 folder.

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                        last edited by

                        @hooperre Can you post the es_systems.cfg on pastebin.com to take a look ? Is your .sfc file addd in the snes folder ?

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                        • hooperreH
                          hooperre @mitu
                          last edited by hooperre

                          @mitu

                          es_systems.cfg: https://pastebin.com/3V4uAygY

                          alttp_msu.sh is located in //home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes containing:

                          /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x/snes9x_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/.Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA)[MSU-1]/alttp_msu.sfc" --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

                          And alttp_msu.sfc is located in //home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/.Legend of Zelda, The - A Link to the Past (USA)[MSU-1].

                          4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator
                            last edited by

                            According to your config file, the snes system doesn't launch .sh files

                             
                              <system>
                                <name>snes</name>
                                <fullname>Super Nintendo</fullname>
                                <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes</path>
                                <extension>.bin .smc .sfc .fig .swc .mgd .zip .7z .BIN .SMC .SFC .FIG .SWC .MGD .ZIP .7Z</extension>
                                <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ snes %ROM%</command>
                                <platform>snes</platform>
                                <theme>snes</theme>
                              </system>
                            

                            but it should be able to launch .sfc files. I don't understand how it launched runcommand with a .sh file.

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                              joelkolb
                              last edited by

                              @hooperre I was trying to do the same thing and I recently got it all sorted out. I described what I did to get it all working nice and clean in another thread.

                              Check it out here: Load NON-PC rom with a script?

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                              • hooperreH
                                hooperre @joelkolb
                                last edited by hooperre

                                @joelkolb Nice! They've been in my ports folder! Thanks!

                                4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                  Addison @hooperre
                                  last edited by

                                  Tagged for later reading.

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