Help With Scripts

[TelcoLou]

Ok, I'm Soooo close to figuring this out :lol:

I wanted to make an "Emulators" folder to store all my quick-launch scripts. So far, I can only get emulators that are contained in seperate folders to run.

Here's 2 examples that work:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 200
cd /mnt/sd/DrMD/
./DrMDx.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

As I understand it, this will run the LCD_CPU Tweak program (located in my SD's root), then Change Directory to my DrMD folder which contains the DrMDx.gpe file.

This works perfectly.

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
cd /mnt/sd/gp2xmess-0.9-beta/gp2xmess
./a7800.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

^ this also works perfectly ... however, this one does not:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
./squidgesnes.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

Seems like any .gpe that is stored in the root of the SD will not run via a script inside my Emulators folder. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated

 

[Shikaku]

Ok at I'm Soooo close to figuring this out :lol:

I wanted to make an "Emulators" folder to store all my quick-launch scripts. So far, I can only get emulators that are contained in seperate folders to run.

Here's 2 examples that work:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 200
cd /mnt/sd/DrMD/
./DrMDx.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

As I understand it, this will run the LCD_CPU Tweak program (located in my SD's root), then Change Directory to my DrMD folder which contains the DrMDx.gpe file.

This works perfectly.

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
cd /mnt/sd/gp2xmess-0.9-beta/gp2xmess
./a7800.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

^ this also works perfectly ... however, this one does not:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
./squidgesnes.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

Seems like any .gpe that is stored in the root of the SD will not run via a script inside my Emulators folder. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated

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When in doubt, full paths!

You are currently in the Emulators folder: squidesnes.gpe is not

That ./squidgesnes.gpe needs to be something like /mnt/sd/squidgesnes.gpe if it's in the root.

... I can do a for loop in bash script XD

 

[bjimba]

Just like the other ones -- change to the directory in which it resides.

In this case:

cd /mnt/sd

ought to do the trick.

 

[TelcoLou]

Thanks for the help ... strangely enough, I got Handy to work:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
/mnt/sd/GP2XHandy.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

But when I run SquidgeSNES, I get the black screen with text, then get dumped back to the GP2X menu:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
/mnt/sd/squidgesnes.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

... yet, when I run the squidgesnes.gpe directly, it works fine :lol:

I'll figure it out ... thanks again guys

 

[TelcoLou]

Hmmmmm.... it seems like ONLY squidgesnes won't work using a script ... here's a stare & compare:

DrMDx:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 200
cd /mnt/sd/DrMD/
./DrMDx.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

squidesnes (Note: I deleted all squidgesnes files and re-installed the .gpe, .cfg and the skin folder in a SNES directory):

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 266
cd /mnt/sd/SNES/
./squidgesnes.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

And again, It works fine if I run the .gpe directly ... using the script as shown, I just get dumped back to the GP2X menu. All my other emus work using scripts, just not squidgesnes.

 

[judge0]

In both your example scripts for squidgeSNES, you aren't actually changing to the the directory that the executable resides in. It appears squidgeSNES uses relative paths to resource files & can't find them when running from your script.

Try this:

#!/bin/sh
cd /mnt/sd/{[I]SquidgeSNES directory here[/I]}
./squidgesnes.gpe
sync
cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

EDIT: typo's

EDIT: Apologies, your second example should work, tested it on mine, strangely enough it doesn't.