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I cannot launch exe files from EmulationStation if the folder name is too long, contains spaces, or other characters.

For example: I have a folder ~/RetroPie/roms/pc/My Game (1989) [Action] that contains an .exe file

When I change the folder to ~/RetroPie/roms/pc/mygame, the game launches just fine from EmulationStation, otherwise it won't run, it just returns to ES

Any ideas on how to get these to work? I have quite a few abandonware games with folders like this, so the only options I can think of are renaming all of them, or creating symbolic links with more DOS-friendly names (less than 8 characters long, no special characters, etc)

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  • Have you tried enclosing the file name/path in quotes?
    – Steve Robillard
    Nov 24, 2015 at 8:04
  • Yea. Didn't seem to help, even when I used the abbreviated form e.g. MYGAME~1, I just get an invalid path. But they work great if I rename them beforehand.
    – DWils
    Nov 25, 2015 at 12:31
  • I was actually wondering if LFN folders worked as mount points, and where the script would be that initializes the dos emulator before running it from emulation station, perhaps I could turn the parameter into the C: mount point, then run the exe from C:
    – DWils
    Nov 25, 2015 at 13:51

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As commented here and in this forum thread the latest DOSBox 0.74 still lacks long filename support so you should rename the files to 8.3 file names or call the filename ######~1 etc.

In the latest thread however they are working on supporting long file names. You can get the latest code and some binaries on www.dosbox.com/wiki/SVN_Builds. For Linux you could try the SVN builds of Taewoong's page, otherwise try other pages of dosbox.

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  • I'll have to follow this. Thanks for the heads up!
    – DWils
    Nov 25, 2015 at 12:32

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