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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