Launching native Linux games?

[erwan]

I mostly have Mame and emulated games in my arcade cabinet, but I also have a couple native Linux games (Bit trip runner, Jamestown, etc.).

Is there a way to launch them from Attract Mode? I've seen a default file for Windows games and tried to tweak it but I couldn't get it to work.

[raygun]

Doing something like the windows one should work if you use /bin/sh as the executable and -c "[romname]" as the parameters.

I would expect that to allow you to launch shell scripts (or maybe you could use symlinks?) that would then launch the corresponding game. 

Something like that should work.  I haven't tried using attractmode with linux games myself so I can't be any more help.

[bionictoothpick]

Has this been solved?

[rcampbel3]

Maybe not "solved" in the sense that it's silly to require a dummy executable to launch a shell script, but this works fine for me -- my "Linux Games.cfg"

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1-41-dirty
#
executable           /bin/bash
args                 "[romfilename]"
rompath              /usr/local/share/games/ports/
romext               .sh;.SH
system               PC
info_source          thegamesdb.net
artwork    boxart          /usr/local/share/games/ports/boxart
artwork    cartart         /usr/local/share/games/ports/cartart
artwork    flyer           /usr/local/share/games/ports/boxart
artwork    marquee         /usr/local/share/games/ports/marquee
artwork    snap            /usr/local/share/games/ports/videos;/usr/local/share/games/ports/snap
artwork    wheel           /usr/local/share/games/ports/wheel