OS X and CLI

RetroArch General
#1

Hi there, I’m curious about the future of the OS X port of RetroArch,

First of all, kudos to you guys on making such a thoroughly awesome piece of software. I am mainly wondering if it will be possible in the future to still give CLI arguments to directly jump into games with different configs, without going through any sort of GUI. Or if it is currently possible?, the best I can figure is…

$ open /Applications/RetroArch.app/Contents/MacOS/RetroArch --args [arguments, yada, yada]

which obviously doesn’t work.

I really hope that this feature will be returning (If it is missing) as it is the main reason why I use RetroArch. I use it on an HTPC with XBMC being the frontend. I see that a lot has been changing with OS X port, so if this is currently just unimplemented (or if i’m too dumb to figure out how), great.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this.

#2

You should run it as:

/Applications/RetroArch.app/Contents/MacOS/RetroArch -- -c /path/to/config /path/to/game

The plain ‘–’ argument is required to keep any arguments passed from the system being picked up and passed to RetroArch’s core.

The window won’t open up directly in fullscreen mode yet (it will show up as a normal window briefly before going fullscreen), it can be annoying but fixing it is high on the todo list.

#3

Well, that was simple.

Thank you.