[mythtv-users] mythgame - removing gui from emulators

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Jeff Simpson wrote:

> I currently have snes9x (SNES), fakenes (NES), stella (Atari 2600),
> and mupen64plus (N64) working in some fashion under mythgame. What I'd
> like to do is have those emulators load up and immediately load the
> rom. Then when ESC or Q or whatever is hit, have them exit completely,
> rather than exiting to their own GUI. What I'm effectively looking for
> is for a --nogui option. It would make it much easier to switch games
> with just the remote and joystick that way.
>
> Does anybody know how to do that for snes9x, fakenes, stella, or
> mupen64? I haven't looked into it too closely yet, but if you happen
> to have a commandline syntax that does that, please share it.
>
> - Jeff

To quit the emulator and go back to myth when you're done, you need to  
write a script that does a killall on any process that might be  
running that you want to stop and execute that script when a certain  
key is pressed using irexec.

As far as starting them up, they are all different in their  
requirements as far as what argument to pass to get the ROM to load  
and go into full screen mode.

-Brad