Configuration for text-based game

rickrratliff

I must not be using the right search words because I think this should be pretty easy to do.

I want to create a configuration to launch nethack without dropping out to the command line. I'm setting this up for my daughter and I don't want her to exit emulationstation to type nethack.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

meleu

@rickrratliff said in Configuration for text-based game:

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Ports

rickrratliff

Thanks, but I did read through this. The real problem I think is I want to run something that doesn't really require an emulation.

If I create a configuration to simply execute "nethack". It displays an error that this must be run in a terminal.

meleu

@rickrratliff Sorry for the lateness.

The ports "roms" (they are NOT roms actually) must be a file with a .sh extension.

What I did to invoke nethack from the ports section in emulationstation (just the commands so you can copy and paste on your terminal):

mkdir -p ~/RetroPie/roms/ports
echo nethack > ~/RetroPie/roms/ports/nethack.sh
chmod a+x nethack.sh

ATTENTION: you must be logged as the pi user (if in a Raspberry Pi installation) to perform this commands.

rickrratliff

@meleu An error flashes to the screen "You must play from a terminal."

The shell script will execute from the command line but within emulationstation it doesn't run.

meleu

@rickrratliff oh, Sorry. I've only tested on my debian based RetroPie... I'll try on the raspi and let you know.

rickrratliff

@meleu I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running retropie-v3.8.1-rpi2_rpi3.img.

BuZz

@rickrratliff you will need

echo "nethack <>/dev/tty" >~/RetroPie/roms/ports/nethack.sh

rickrratliff

@BuZz Thanks, it worked. I was just killed by a jackel.