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Hi, I was thinking to a macro record/replay feature (handled linux side). 1) Is there some interest in the community for such feature? 2) Did someone already try to implement it? 3) Are there any plan to implement it in the future? 4) In case I develop it by myself, are there any chance that it will be eventually merged in the main repository? My p...

Digging into https://github.com/nilp0inter/MiSTer_WebMenu I found it is using a system similar to the one described in this thread. But it leverages mount points and a "Fake" /dev/input file instead of modifying MiSTer_Main app.

It should be possible to create a standalone command line launcher using this method.

dentnz wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:27 pm Would a possible work-around be to use the existing bootrom functionality?

As Sorgelig pointed out (https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... -612410931), this does not work for all the cores. In any case, at least a command to change the boot rom path could be added. So we can avoid the file copy.

I like the simple way you achieved this here, but this can no longer work due to refactoring of code The force_file command was superseeded by the scan_mask_add one ( https://github.com/pocomane/Main_MiSTer/commit/52f5679e3cd14cf42d9ffd2a5786614cc380b301 ), that seemed more polished to me. In both you have to select a rom from the menu (manually o...

Loading a rom from the command line should already work with my patch (practically it is the core of the patch). A script should just write the following lines to /dev/MiSTer_cmd: - scan_mask_add /path/to/rom - select_a_rom - scan_clear This still uses the "Input emulation" and "Fake filesystem" methods (and as I said, I would b...

I just believe that the MiSTer can archieve its goals without giving up the
convenience of a launcher or other linux-side administration interfaces. However,
I take note that this kind of features are not of interest. So, sorry for the noise,
and thank you for the MiSTer.

I would like Main_MiSTer to support linux-side interfaces or launchers [1]. I had some working code [2] but I would be happy if a better solution pops out. This is mainly a Feature Request, however I will discuss my prototype implementation for concreteness. I will suppose that no change to the core framework can be done. Moreover I highlight that ...