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    Using Chromium as an "emulator" for Scratch projects

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      Rhys
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      I am planning an arcade cabinet build project for a local code club. Some of the young coders have created some impressive games using Scratch and I was thinking that their projects could be showcased on the arcade machine using Retropie. I have RetroPie running on a Pi Zero 2 W. My idea was to use Chromium browser as an "emulator" and html files made using HTMLifier (https://sheeptester.github.io/htmlifier/) as "roms". I've managed to set this up, but have run into a brick wall because enabling the Raspberry Pi GL drivers breaks RetroPie, and without this WebGL cannot be enabled in Chromium and therefore Scratch 3 games will not run!

      Does anyone know if there is a way to temporarily enable and disable the GL drivers from the shell, on the fly, without having to do a reboot? Or have I reached a dead end?

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        mitu Global Moderator @Rhys
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        @Rhys said in Using Chromium as an "emulator" for Scratch projects:

        Does anyone know if there is a way to temporarily enable and disable the GL drivers from the shell, on the fly, without having to do a reboot?

        No, unfortunately this is cannot be done on the fly - it needs a reboot and thus would 'break' RetroPie's front-end (EmulationStation).

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