This is the first time I've ever tried to use Higan, so I may have missed a few things. Please bear with me.
I have some ROM files for SNES with names like *.rom
, *.smc
, *.srm
and I'd like to play them on my Mac running El Capitan. I've used Nestopia before for NES but see that Higan has continued development, so I thought I'd try it for SNES.
I grabbed the latest v097 source and built it with a simple make
command once I unpacked the archive. (No docs + good guess = working higan.app
bundle. w00t!)
Higan is fairly inert without games, so I've been trying to figure out how to import. Seems irarus
is needed. Okay, another make
and I have icarus.app
which runs, but won't let me actually select any of the ROM files that I have. I can see them in the Icarus interface, but I can check any of the checkboxes. Okay, maybe this is an OS X thing. So, I grab the Windows x86-64 binary and run that in a VirtualBox, and I'm able to convert a ROM file into a directory containing a single file: program.rom
.
When I try to run this using Higan, I get two errors:
- The required file
Game/manifest.bml
is missing - The required file
~/Library/Application Support/higan/Super Famicom.sys/manifest.bml
is missing
I solved that second one by copying the Super Famicom.sys
directory from the source directory into my ~Library/Application Support/higan
directory and now I'm left with a single error. I tried just creating the missing file, but that just gives me no errors and black screen in Higan (with a frame rate of ~60 fps -- great!).
I think I've gone about as far as I can without professional help. Does anyone know what I'm missing, here?