![]() When I think about it, you could make it a lot easier when you just put all manuals into one folder and have the webserver just use this one folder.Ok, I'm trying to add my ScummVM games to RetroPie. Especually the downloading and sorting of the manuals into tge right folders. But it's not always a replacement.īut yeah, it taks some time to set up. Sometimes it is easier to use "cut" or "grep" for that mather. Indeed, if you never used sed it is quite difficult to understand. Well I assumed you extract the filename from the path and then use this to built the weblink including the filename of the game. Just curious, couldn't you use the cut command for cutting on delimiter ? I hope I have sparked some interest in this whole "manual-serving-thing" and whish you all happy said in Web file server for game manuals (scummvm, dosbox, said in Web file server for game manuals (scummvm, dosbox. Then it would be great if the *.pdf files could be viewed online without the need to download them (as some manuals are quite big). I was thinking of using the Retropie as a WiFi access-point, that displays the content of the manuals folder as soon as it is accessed, but so far I have no idea how to do that. What can be done now, is making it more easy to navigate. ![]() I made something similar for MS-DOS games, but as I have a custom-made dosbox starting script, it wouldn't work for everyone. I must say, it was a lot of fun tinkering around, but it took me a loong time (especially understanding those sed commands, but I think it was well worth the effort. ![]() In the runcommand_onend I put a line killing the webfsd using pkill webfsd. I can than access the Retopie under 192.168.1.15:8000 and download / view the manuals or whatever after I have started a Scummvm game. check, whether that path has a manual\ subfolder.copy the path line of that entry into $gamepath.copy the scummvm.ini from the entry starting with (so in my example ) until the next enty into the tmp_file.$gamename is the name of the rom without the ending.Sed -n '1,/\/d /\[/,$d p' /opt/retropie/configs/scummvm/scummvm.ini > $tmp_file I did that with the runcommand-onstart.sh script and entered the following: if Then you have to tell webfs, which folder to serve. I chose webfs, as it was easily installed. Now comes the webserver part: First you need some one-line webserver. And for the harder games, I also looked for maps or FAQs.Īll these files for each game I put into a manuals\ folder (something like ~\RetroPie\roms\scummvm\Zack McKracken\mauals\. So what I did was downloading the manuals (duh) from sources like GOG. Here is what I've done:Īs an example I will use ScummVM, because here many games still need some sort of lookup for the copy protection like many Sierra adventures. via http, when I access the Retropie in the local network.Īs I'm not too much at home in the *nix world (except for a bit of Retropie), please bear with my ugly code snippets. So I took some time and hacked together a little script, that serves game manuals, maps, walkthroughs etc. pressing T meant selecting the targeting computer while Alt-T was used to taunt the enemy. Or the infamous "Quick Reference Sheet", that helped understanding, e.g.Games like the Ultima series hat spell books or printed cloth maps of the game world.There is the dreaded copy protection that asks for words from the manual, or, in a nicer variant, that reading the manual to gives you essential hints (like the Infocom adventures).All who played games on MS-DOS know what I'm talking about: Many older (usually not console or arcade) games rely on the game manual in different special ways.
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