talanis85 / retrohack

Frontend for libretro, written in Haskell.

retrohack

A libretro frontend. Currently only works with Linux.

Dependencies

• libasound2
• libGL
• libGLU
• libglfw3
• libX11
• libXi
• libXrandr
• libXxf86vm
• libXcursor
• libXinerama
• libXext

Installation

1. Install stack
2. git clone https://github.com/talanis85/retrohack.git
3. cd retrohack && stack install

Command line

Examples:

• Just load a core with a game: retrohack /path/to/core.so /path/to/rom

• Also load a lua script: retrohack /path/to/core.so /path/to/rom script /path/to/script.lua

• Also execute some lua commands at initialization: retrohack /path/to/core.so /path/to/rom script /path/to/script.lua "some.global = true"

Whatever you choose, you will still have to type run to start the emulator.

Usage

retrohack uses a REPL-style console interface. The following commands are available:

• run

  Runs the game.

• pause

  Pauses the game.

• continue

  Continues a paused game.

• info

  Shows information about the loaded core.

• avinfo

  More information about the loaded core :)

• exec /path/to/script

  Executes the given file line by line as if they were entered in the REPL.

• peek <type> <segment> <address>

  Get the value at the given address. <type> is one of:

  i8, i16, i32 (signed integers), u8, u16, u32 (unsigned integers)

  <segment> is one of:

  sram, rtc, main, video, rom

  (rom is not actually supported, but it works with a patched version of snes9x)

• poke <type> <segment> <address> <value>

  Set the value at the given address. See peek for arguments.