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A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.
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Can't launch emulators on Mac #510

Closed ryanc919 closed 4 years ago

ryanc919 commented 5 years ago

I can't seem to get Pegasus to successfully launch an emulator. If I'm trying to get to launch bsnes for my SNES games, no matter what I do I get an error message that the file can't be found or I don't have the permission to run it. What exactly should that line look like in the metadata file?

mmatyas commented 5 years ago

Hi, on Mac launching looks something like open <programname> --args <arguments>. For example:

collection: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
shortname: snes
extensions: 7z, bin, smc, sfc, fig, swc, mgd, zip, bin
launch: open -a bsnes --args {file.path}

Does something like this work for you? I'm not a Mac expert unfortunately.

ryanc919 commented 5 years ago

That worked! Is there a way to force these apps to stay full screen? If I have Pegasus open full screen and then have bsnes open, Pegasus goes down to a smaller window while bsnes does not open at full screen at all. If that isn't possible to do it's no deal breaker.

mmatyas commented 5 years ago

In theory, Pegasus should disappear when a program is launched, then reappear when it's finished, with the same window size or fullscreen. Not sure how well this is working on Mac (eg. whether open quits as soon as the requested app is launched).

As for bsnes, I wonder if there's some command line flags to change it's behavior? Pegasus itself has no control over what the launched applications do or look like, it can merely launch them with the parameters set in the files.

mmatyas commented 4 years ago

I guess the original question got resolved, so closing the issue.