TinyZSNES ! ...and some questions...

[Medox]

Hello again,

After Jason W filled my request, I worked on TinyZSNES... a LiveCD just for (z)snes fans, like me

It contains zsnes (of course) and ALSA. (ok, nano too but that's not important)
It starts in text mode and loads zsnes automatically with the rom path already set.
Put your roms in the "snesroms" folder (in the iso) so that you find them in zsnes (game -> load)



I'll put new versions (or just the last ones) in this forder:

http://www.box.net/shared/p02j5j78m1

This is my first public LiveCD so it's still far from what I want or what I could learn from now on... so please test it and tell me it something goes wrong.

Some questions for the next releases:

• How do I remove or change the PNM/image that shows up when booting? (if it's ok to do so...)
• I would like to have the "snesroms" folder mounted automatically, if it's on a cd/dvd/usb or any other device, independent of hdc/sr0/sdb1/sdc1.... My laptop needed sr0 but in virtualpc/qemu it's hdc, so my startupscript includes both... and if one fails the other one gets mounted. I know, it's not really how it should be done, but how? Scripts that mount everything and search for that folder just slow down the bootprocess, I think.
• What should a script contain so that, after exiting zsnes, it would shut down or restart the pc. Well, maybe return to a filemanager also, but that's just big thinking (maybe in some other upcoming version). The shut down should do it for now.

p.s. I didn't remove the gui... so it still has 3-4 MB's too much but I'll wait for the microcore version... (I don't really know how to strip it down correctly). Then it would be really the smallest zsnes livecd, ever

[curaga]

The pic is compiled in in the kernel. You can prevent it from showing with the bootcode "logo.nologo".

To shut down after running zsnes, the script would do something like:

zsnes
poweroff

[Medox]

@curaga
thanks

Another question/problem...

I made a script that lets me choose if I want to reboot or shut down. Something like this:

echo ...
echo "R - reboot"
echo "Q - turn off"

read -n 1 -s -p option

case $option in

"R" | "r" )
...

* )
echo "Wrong key..."
...

and so on, the script works great with "./options" or something that I run myself but not if I place it after zsnes, in bootlocal.sh. It chooses "* )" automatically and I get "wrong key" instead of letting me press R or whatever.

How do I get the script to really pause & read my pressed key?

[curaga]

read -n 1 -s -p option

should be

read -n 1 -s -p option option

aka there was no variable to store the result to, and so $option is empty

[Medox]

thanks but it still jumps right to the * ) case...

[curaga]

Is zsnes exited with a keypress? maybe that key is taken then

[Medox]

well, zsnes exits by selecting Game -> Exit (and pressing enter, of course) but that's not the problem, I guess, because even without zsnes, the problem remains and nothing in bootlocal.sh (or scripts that run from here) can pause this script(s) to read a pressed key.

Weird...

I'm trying to solve this for some days now, still nothing

[curaga]

Ah, bootlocal.sh is backgrounded as not to slow down boot. Since you're running everything from there, you should remove the "&" from the line calling bootlocal.sh in /etc/init.d/tc-config.

[Medox]

works great!

thanks!