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Had a stupid idea to "Load" games using 3.5 floppies... Thought it would be fun for both myself and my nephews, who are growing up without physical media.

I found this blog post which does what I want. Only instead of loading a url it would be loading a core and specific rom.
https://www.dinofizzotti.com/blog/2020- ... n-spotify/

I know that you can change the names to 'boot' and it will auto load a rom but but is there a better way? Can you load a core and rom from a bash script? Any help on how MiSTer works would be appreciated. Thanks

Found another person asking about loading a game using the command line in MiSTer
https://www.reddit.com/r/fpgagaming/com ... in_mister/

Based on their github it looks like they are renaming the rom to 'boot' like I thought and loading the .rbf for the core
https://github.com/mrchrisster/mister-screensaver I'll investigate this method, unless there are any better ideas?

I think that method does not work well with save files (it was not designed to do so)

Why are save files created based on the rom name?

twocuddlefish wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 3:06 am Why are save files created based on the rom name?

Yes, and also I believe the boot rom mechanism bypasses some of the normal loading procedures. It was discussed in a thread but I can't remember which one.

Well that's unfortunate, I know its the cores request which rom to load, but that seems weird to me (suppose it makes sense for the computer cores?)

Found some talk about 'Loading core/rom form the command line',
viewtopic.php?p=3384
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... -612410931

A couple more work around methods I might try,
https://github.com/pocomane/MiSTer_Batch_Control
https://github.com/nilp0inter/MiSTer_WebMenu

First is getting the drive/disk reading part working then worry about which method is best to get MiSTer to load... Well maybe first should be clean up the octopus that is my MiSTer, I've only had it a few days and don't have a case made for it yet...