sergystepanov
commented
4 years ago Hey, @Scatmannn!
I agree, @giongto35 is a legend, who've made this cool project possible. And speaking about your issue, maybe, I could help you.
While it's just enough to place one of the currently allowed SNES ROM files (smc, sfc, swc, fig, bs (I wonder what it stands for (:) into the assets/games folder and restart the app (overworker) in order to load your games, it's possible that ROM filename can't be read by the loader or this ROM is broken. Currently, there is no way to see what's going on during loader loading because there is no trace logging for that, except hard crashes, or is there, @giongto35? Anyways, I've successfully loaded my own SNES ROMs without an issue on the latest app snapshot, so, @Scatmannn, it'd be great if you could provide the exact file names of your ROMs (to find and load them) or just post a downloadable archive with them somewhere. That'd be much easier, I guess.
How do I add games from other platforms?
Right now, it's kinda tricky. There is a config file where you specify libretro cores and available ROM file extensions for folder autoscan:
var FileTypeToEmulator = map[string]string{
"gba": "gba",
"gbc": "gba",
"cue": "pcsx",
"zip": "mame",
"nes": "nes",
"smc": "snes",
"sfc": "snes",
"swc": "snes",
"fig": "snes",
"bs": "snes",
// here you can map file extensions to cores: "file extension" : "libretro core"
// map any number of (unique among all the cores) file extensions to a core (e.g., "snes" mapping above)
}
...
var EmulatorConfig = map[string]EmulatorMeta {
// and here you can define any number of libretro cores which names are used up above
// don't forget to put a real libretro core library into the `assets/emulator/libretro/cores/` folder
// with the proper for your OS extension (or just all of them):
.so -- Linux,
.dylib -- MacOS,
.dll -- Windows (:
// you can download them here https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/
// set 0 to Width and Height and just add a proper Path
// and then you should rebuild the app before starting it
"gba": {
Path: "assets/emulator/libretro/cores/mgba_libretro",
Width: 240,
Height: 160,
},
"pcsx": {
Path: "assets/emulator/libretro/cores/pcsx_rearmed_libretro",
Width: 350,
Height: 240,
},
"nes": {
Path: "assets/emulator/libretro/cores/nestopia_libretro",
Width: 256,
Height: 240,
},
"snes": {
Path: "assets/emulator/libretro/cores/mednafen_snes_libretro",
Width: 256,
Height: 224,
},
"mame": {
Path: "assets/emulator/libretro/cores/mame2016_libretro",
Width: 0,
Height: 0,
},
}
Scatmannn
giongto35
Hello!
First of all, congratulations for the great work. I really liked it and found it very interesting!
I followed the description of how to build the application and it worked, with the 3 initial games working correctly.
So I tried to add my own snes games by adding the .smc file to the / assets / games / directory but the application doesn't recognize the file and still only displays the 3 by default.
How do I add games from other platforms?
Thanks for listening.
best regards