wolf: fix TI-99/4A console ROM location + add it via a tab-completing prompt

The build succeeded, but the follow-up message pointed at "ti99sim-sdl's
own README" for where the console ROM goes — useless, since that source
tree lived inside the throwaway build container and was already gone by
the time anyone could read it.

Got the real answer from RetroPie's own configure_ti99sim(): it symlinks
the console ROM into the emulator's own install directory, then cd's
there before launching (pushd "$md_inst" && ./ti99sim-sdl "$@") — so
ti99sim-sdl finds it via a plain relative lookup, not any search path.
Caught a real bug this exposed: our own ES-DE <command> line launched
ti99sim-sdl by full path with no cd, so even a correctly-placed file
would never have been found. Fixed to cd into emulators/ first, matching
RetroPie's own pattern exactly.

Also, instead of just printing the required path (emulators/TI-994A.ctg)
and leaving it at that, now prompts for it directly with a tab-completing
path picker (read -e -i, defaulting into the game storage dir) — if you
already have the file somewhere, it copies it into place immediately
instead of making you do it by hand afterward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VLX1yYKJExGSXmgUhxKQG6
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2026-09-02 19:11:13 +00:00
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@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ UDEV
<fullname>Texas Instruments TI-99/4A</fullname>
<path>%ROMPATH%/ti994a</path>
<extension>.ctg .rpk .bin</extension>
<command>%INJECT%=%BASENAME%.esprefix /home/retro/Applications/ti99sim-sdl --joystick1=1 %ROM%</command>
<command>%INJECT%=%BASENAME%.esprefix /bin/bash -c "cd /home/retro/Applications && ./ti99sim-sdl --joystick1=1 '%ROM%'"</command>
<platform>ti99</platform>
<theme>ti99</theme>
</system>
@@ -1044,9 +1044,33 @@ XMLEOF
else
log_info "ti99sim-sdl already present — skipping build."
fi
log_info "The one thing this can't do for you: your own TI-99/4A console ROM + GROM dump"
log_info "(real console firmware, same legal situation as any other BIOS) — ti99sim-sdl's"
log_info "own README covers exactly where it expects that once you have it."
# The one thing that can't be automated: the console ROM+GROM dump
# itself (real copyrighted firmware). Per RetroPie's own
# configure_ti99sim() — it symlinks this into the emulator's own
# install dir, then cd's there before launching — ti99sim-sdl looks
# for it as a plain relative file named TI-994A.ctg in the same
# directory the binary itself runs from, i.e. emulators/ here (the
# command line above now cd's into that directory first, matching
# RetroPie's own pushd + relative-launch pattern exactly).
local _TI99_BIOS_DST="$GAME_STORAGE_DIR/emulators/TI-994A.ctg"
if [ ! -f "$_TI99_BIOS_DST" ]; then
echo ""
log_info "TI-99/4A needs your own console ROM+GROM dump, named exactly TI-994A.ctg"
log_info "(case-sensitive), placed at: $_TI99_BIOS_DST"
if [ "$UNATTENDED" != true ]; then
local _TI99_BIOS_SRC=""
read -e -r -p " If you already have that file somewhere, enter its path now to copy it into place (Tab completes, Enter to skip): " -i "$GAME_STORAGE_DIR/" _TI99_BIOS_SRC
if [ -n "$_TI99_BIOS_SRC" ] && [ -f "$_TI99_BIOS_SRC" ]; then
cp "$_TI99_BIOS_SRC" "$_TI99_BIOS_DST"
chown "$ACTUAL_USER:$ACTUAL_USER" "$_TI99_BIOS_DST"
log_success "Copied to $_TI99_BIOS_DST"
elif [ -n "$_TI99_BIOS_SRC" ]; then
log_warning "No file found at that path — skipped. Copy it to $_TI99_BIOS_DST whenever you have it."
else
log_info "Skipped — copy it to $_TI99_BIOS_DST whenever you have it."
fi
fi
fi
log_info "Then just drop .ctg/.rpk/.bin cartridge files into roms/ti994a/"
fi
@@ -3538,10 +3562,16 @@ if the binary's already there.
The one thing this can't do for you: your own TI-99/4A console ROM + GROM
dump — same legal situation as any other console BIOS, and not something
any installer can supply. Per RetroPie's own documentation for this exact
emulator, it expects that combined into a single cartridge file named
\`TI-994A.ctg\` (case-sensitive). Then just drop \`.ctg\`/\`.rpk\`/\`.bin\`
cartridge files into \`roms/ti994a/\`.
any installer can supply. It needs to be named exactly \`TI-994A.ctg\`
(case-sensitive) and placed at \`emulators/TI-994A.ctg\` — the same
directory as the \`ti99sim-sdl\` binary itself, confirmed against
RetroPie's own \`ti99sim.sh\` (it symlinks the console ROM into the
emulator's install dir, then \`cd\`s there before launching; this repo's
own ES-DE command line does the same \`cd\`-first-then-relative-launch
before running \`ti99sim-sdl\`). If you already had the file somewhere
when the TI-99/4A prompt ran, the installer offered to copy it there for
you (tab-completing path prompt); otherwise copy it there by hand. Then
just drop \`.ctg\`/\`.rpk\`/\`.bin\` cartridge files into \`roms/ti994a/\`.
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