Neogeo Pocket Emu + Selector

[sparkyidr]

sorry... posted a long post...then realised I had forgotten to copy the "selector" file into my RACE directory..

hah

 

[sparkyidr]

sorry... posted a long post...then realised I had forgotten to copy the "selector" file into my RACE directory..

hah

hmmm.. still cant get it to work

keep getting the error message that has been posted by some of you

I have my race folder on the sd card as

/Emulators/NeoPocket/

I have the selector file in there too, and a fondo.png

I also have a roms folder in there..

by using what you guys have said, and checking out some other selector files I have this as my config :

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#Selector configuration file
#Version 1.0

#Full path to skin files
skinPath=./

#List of full paths of command line options
cmdLine=./race.gpe

#Full absolute path to base directory for file explorer
baseDir=./roms

selectRectangle=1

#File filters
fileFilter=ngp
fileFilter=ngc


but still getting that same error..

dunno what else to try now.

Anyone spot anything glaringly obvious I have done wrong?

 

[Fishbong]

It seems like the possibility of commandline executions and bash scripts has made the emu authors lazy. They just do quick ports and don´t bother with creating a decent GUI.

 

[Flavor]

It seems like the possibility of commandline executions and bash scripts has made the emu authors lazy. They just do quick ports and don´t bother with creating a decent GUI.

RACE was no "quick port."

Let me know your SourceForge name. I'll add you as a RACE developer, so we can get a decent GUI.

#Full absolute path to base directory for file explorer
baseDir=./roms

That says, "Full absolute path."

./roms is a relative path.

Try something like
baseDir=/mnt/sd/Emulators/NeoPocket/roms

or

baseDir=/mnt/sd/roms/NeoPocket

Also, make sure all your capitalization is correct. Sometimes, stuff that shows up as capitalized on my WinXP, shows up as lower-case on my GP2X.

EDIT: Added /mnt/sd to the absolute paths.

 

[freddykreuger666]

neo-geo pocket stuff (gpe's config files here) - G:\emulators\neo-geopocket
roms here - G:\emulators\neo-geopocket\roms (one word, no wierd symbols, unzipped)
skins here - G:\emulators\neo-geopocket\Skins

config file shows this -
#Selector configuration file
#Version 1.0

#Full path to skin files
skinPath=/emulators/neo-geopocket/Skins

#List of full paths of command line options
cmdLine=./race.gpe

#Full absolute path to base directory for file explorer
baseDir=/emulators/neo-geopocket/roms

selectRectangle=1

#File filters
fileFilter=ngp
fileFilter=ngc


Selector race .gpe file says this -

#!/bin/sh

./selector ./selectorRACE_config
sync

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

Plz help me, wen i load selector race i get black screen and it crashses
i have got fondo.png in the neo-geo folder

 

[Flavor]

#Full absolute path to base directory for file explorer
baseDir=/emulators/neo-geopocket/roms

I spoke a bit hastily in my previous post, so my example was not a good real-world one.

In your case, try something more like

#Full absolute path to base directory for file explorer
baseDir=/mnt/sd/emulators/neo-geopocket/roms

Anything that asks for a "full absolute path" should start with /mnt/sd

Here's my config file. I have race in
sdcard:\Games\race\

#Selector configuration file
#Version 1.0

#Full path to skin files
skinPath=/mnt/sd/Games/race

#List of full paths of command line options
cmdLine=./race.gpe

#Full absolute path to base directory for file explorer
baseDir=/mnt/sd/Games/race

selectRectangle=1

#File filters
fileFilter=ngp
fileFilter=ngc

 

[freddykreuger666]

pretty sure my config is correct now
but still getting black screen
couple hours ago i was getting that spanish error, now this crap black screen, ffs
even selector race oc just goes back to the menu wen u click it
omfg this emulator is pissing me off

 

[Flavor]

I've just uploaded a new release of RACE to the RACE! SourceForge page.

Download that, unpack it to your SD (wherever you want) and then plop in the "selector" executable from Selector v1.1.

I think it should work, and it fixes a couple bugs in the emulation, too.

It turns out (after a bit of testing) that selector says it needs absolute paths, but it doesn't.

 

[sparkyidr]

Yay... thankyou... this works great now.

Cheers

I've just uploaded a new release of RACE to the RACE! SourceForge page.

Download that, unpack it to your SD (wherever you want) and then plop in the "selector" executable from Selector v1.1.

I think it should work, and it fixes a couple bugs in the emulation, too.

It turns out (after a bit of testing) that selector says it needs absolute paths, but it doesn't.

 

[Nekki]

I think I've discovered my problem - the moment I touch the selector config file, it effectively kills it, even if I just open, save and close without doing any actual modification. I've tried this with both notepad and wordpad, etting the same results each time.

What's going on? Is it something to do with the special character at the end of the file? I can modify other selector config files without any problems, so that's the only thing I think it can be!

 

[Flavor]

I think I've discovered my problem - the moment I touch the selector config file, it effectively kills it, even if I just open, save and close without doing any actual modification. I've tried this with both notepad and wordpad, etting the same results each time.

What's going on? Is it something to do with the special character at the end of the file? I can modify other selector config files without any problems, so that's the only thing I think it can be!

Yeah, it's because Linux doesn't like the way that Windows ends lines. If you can edit it on a Linux PC, you'll be better off. The other option is to run the file through some utility that will strip off carriage returns. I have a little DOS app called strip_cr.exe that will do it. The only problem is that my DOS app doesn't handle long filenames very well.

Perhaps someone else can suggest a more elegant solution.

 

[Ze_ro]

Perhaps the problem has to do with carriage returns and line feeds.

--Zero

 

[BobBorakovitz]

Woo Hoo! Now I can use this! I think my problem was that I was always trying to edit the selector config file in Windows also. I'm very impressed by the emulation! Thanks for taking the time to update this for us.

Woo Hoo! Now I can use this! I think my problem was that I was always trying to edit the selector config file in Windows also. I'm very impressed by the emulation! Thanks for taking the time to update this for us.

 

[Nekki]

Is it definitely a Windows issue? The reason I ask is that I've modified other selector config files (GnGeo for example) via Windows without any problems.

 

[gaterooze]

I use EditPad (when it opens the file, tell it NOT to convert to DOS), but Programmer's Notepad also works perfectly.

 

[kardasan]

one more thing!! The emulator hates spaces in rom filenames, so you'd better change spaces to underlines " " ==> "_" and it should work every time.