Emulator Will Not Launch

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add SNES9x as an emulator for use in Rom Collection Browser.
2. Click on any of the games imported using XBMC.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect SNES9x to launch and run the game.  Instead, XBMC goes into windowed 
mode, text comes up saying that it's launching the emulator, then it goes back 
to fullscreen as if nothing ever happened.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using XBMC Darwin 11.3.0, SNES9x 1.53 and Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3.

Please provide any additional information below.
Could this have something to do with the fact that it won't let me select 
SNES9x.app?  I have to go into the Package Contents, then to MacOS, and then 
there's the executable SNES9x inside.  Could that be a problem?  I've tried 
moving that executable to the applications folder, but the same thing happens.  
I can launch ROMs fine from the Finder, but something goes wrong when using Rom 
Collection Browser. Could it have something to do with the %ROM% vs. %ROMFILE%, 
etc.?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by deset...@gmail.com on 9 May 2012 at 6:54

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There are several issues with launching roms on Mac. Last posts in the forum 
can be found here: 
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=70115&pid=1091596#pid1091596

Unfortunately a lot of people are reporting problems and I try to give advice. 
But nobody came back until now to report if it is working or not. So I don't 
know if these steps work as I don't have a Mac here.

Original comment by maloep on 13 May 2012 at 8:09

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Hello, I have looked high and low after starting SNES9x emulator (with game!) 
from inside XBMC on a Mac with OSX 10.7.4 on it.
Maloep, you are 100% correct, (I recon you are malte on the forums?). It will 
work as you described on the forums!

"If this works you can try to do the same thing from RCB. In this case I guess 
you need to use "open" as emulator cmd and -a /Applications/Snes9x.app "%ROM%" 
as emulator params."

You need to edit directly inside the config.xml located here:

/Users/username/Library/Application 
Support/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/script.games.rom.collection.browser/config.xml

1. Remove everything between the <emulatorCmd></emulatorCmd> tags. (This is 
most probably the location of the Snes9x.app.) Add "open" between the tags(with 
no "").
Like so: <emulatorCmd>open</emulatorCmd>

2. Remove everything between the <emulatorParams></emulatorParams>.
   Make it like this: <emulatorParams>-a /Applications/Snes9x.app "%ROM%"</emulatorParams>

Thats it! Hopefully this can be added to the wiki, as this can be a tricky 
thing to find out on yourself :)

Original comment by tmidtbo@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2012 at 12:36

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ok, Im getting this problem with windos 7 32 bit. I am brand new to xbmc as a 
whole. I cannot get the emulators to load at all on any of them. Command line 
comes up, then goes off, back to xbmc screen like nothing happened. Help would 
be greatly appreciated with this.

Original comment by timmtmm...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2012 at 11:55

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I guess this is not related to this issue as this was special to Mac OS. If you 
have trouble launching emulators first try to launch the emulators from command 
line to check if they are configured correctly. If you still have problems 
please come to the RCB thread at the xbmc.org forum. You should get some help 
there.

Original comment by maloep on 8 Nov 2012 at 10:21

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Original comment by maloep on 22 Dec 2012 at 12:36

• Changed state: Done

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Original comment by maloep on 22 Nov 2013 at 6:48

• Changed state: Fixed