BUG supposed missing config about mednaffe

[AmatCoder]

Check if "echo $HOME" gives you the correct home directory.
Also check if configuration file is correctly named (mednafen-09x.cfg) and you have read permissions for the file (i.e. you can open it with a text editor).

If it still does not work, you can try to delete the file and start mednaffe (that creates a new configuration file for mednafen emulator).

[DanHolli123]

the "echo $HOME" gave...
/home/'my user name'
will try moving or renaming config in case it doesn't work

[DanHolli123]

still didn't work

I poked through the source for a bit and figured out what's going on.

It is because mednaffe is searching for mednafen-09x.cfg in ~/.mednafen/ .. which is part of Mednafen 0.9.x

Ubuntu's repositories have not updated mednafen on Trusty since 2013 and has version 0.8.D.3-6 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mednafen

So anyone running 14.04 or Mint 17.x etc will get this error and you'll need to compile mednafen from source and install manually.

EDIT: There is currently a bug in the version check function. @AmatCoder

if (aline[1][11]!='9')
      return FALSE;
    if (aline[1][13]-'0'<3)
      return FALSE;
    if ((aline[1][13]=='3') && ((aline[1][14]-'0')<9))
      return FALSE;

The third if statement is checking 9 or lower, making it check for a minimum of 0.9.39, so it will fail on even the most recent version of mednafen (0.9.38.7).

I had to change the 9 to a 6 and now it finally works.

I am not familiar with github .. or I would push a fix myself

[DanHolli123]

OK and thanks for explaining the reason