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I have a couple of mame roms from my arcade cabinet that I want to play on my ALP. Found your project and was able to make the UCE files with the cook_batch.sh but they do not open in the ALP. It says 'Loading' and then just goes back to the menu. I am going into the BYOG/AddOn menu and the games show up there. I have tried 3 different mame cores (mame_libretro, mame2010_libretro and the default 2003) when building the UCE files. Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong? Thanks for making a linux tool for this.

On a CentOS 7 device, the saucepan.sh line:

mkfs.ext4 "${save_temp_file}" >& /dev/null

is silently hanging because it is asking a question but output is redirected to /dev/null:
/tmp/WHATEVERNAME_save.tmp is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n)

Thus, the script hangs until a button is pushed, but unless that button is Y, the save.tmp won't be properly formatted and the resulting ROM won't have access to save-states.

Adding a '-F' parameter forces the mkfs.ext4 to succeed, which works, but might be dangerous without sufficient validation that the tmp file path/name is correct, etc.