Bug#882666: gnome-games-app: unable to load SNES ROMs

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: gnome-games-app
Version: 3.26.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi there,

isn't Gnome Games supposed to support SNES ROMs via libretro modules?

I have a handful of SNES ROMs in SMC format and also one in SFC
format, but Gnome Games is unable to play any of them. It just
presents me a frowny stating "Oops! Unable to run "Super Mario World"
The system "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" isn't supported yet,
but full support is planned".

However, I am sure I have already read blog posts of people reporting
that they played SNES ROMs with Gnome Games.

I have the following libretro modules installed:

libretro-bsnes-mercury-balanced:amd64 094+git20160126-1
libretro-snes9x:amd64 1.53+git20160522-1

Cheers,

 - Fabian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-games-app depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.1-1
ii  libc6                                        2.24-17
ii  libcairo2                                    1.15.8-2
ii  libevdev2                                    1.5.7+dfsg-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.54.1-1
ii  libgrilo-0.3-0                               0.3.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.24-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               232-1
ii  libretro-gtk0                                0.12.1-1
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.18-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.60.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.21.0-1
ii  libtracker-sparql-2.0-0                      2.0.2-1
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.4+dfsg1-5+b1
ii  tracker                                      2.0.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-games-app recommends:
ii  grilo-plugins-0.3  0.3.5-2+b1

gnome-games-app suggests no packages.

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