Couldn't find this on the forum, but it is sorta hidden in the mythTV docs:



FYI, if you set joytype=1 it seems to work nicely with USB gamepads.

Why they buried these startup params in a database is beyond me.

I had a problem with mythgame on R5A16 where after verifying all the paths were set correctly, copying the catver.ini, history.dat and hiscores.dat files in the proper places, etc. - Myth still wouldn't let me actually select a game to play it.

It would display the ROMs I had in my folder, and knew which category they were in and what year they were from, but none of them would ever start.

Finally, I found out it was because the catver.ini file I downloaded was in MS-DOS file format (with line feeds and carriage returns at the end of each line of text). Unix/Linux wanted the file to have the line feed codes stripped out. Loading catver.ini into nano, hitting a character and then backspacing it again (just so nano would believe the contents of the file had indeed changed), and saving it back out on top of itself fixed it for me.

I had to tell Myth to search for my games again, one last time, so it would rebuild its index. But after that, I could finally select the ROMs and play them!

There's a bit of discussion in this thread about other ways to do the dos2unix conversion: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4759&highlight=dos2unix Including the guts of this quickie shell function substitute: