I would have thought, if u can get it to compile and work, then it should be ok, though I think it only works in X and retro is setup to run from command line

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so no way to get this to work within emulationstation? sad :-(

only the offical one wich reads :

Daniel Frisk has provided the following instructions on how to get started.

Minecraft – Pi Edition runs on Raspbian “wheezy” with XWindows. If you need to set that up, visit http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and follow the detailed instructions within.
Boot up your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian. If you haven’t set XWindows to start automatically upon boot, type in “startx”.
Next click the icon for LXTerminal to open a new terminal window. Use the following commands (in bold) to download and launch:

To download it: click here or visit https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.minecraft.net/pi/minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz
To decompress it: tar -zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz
To run it: cd mcpi
Followed by minecraft-pi

[quote=82572]I’m not sure on this, but I believe that Minecraft relies on the X-Window thing to listen for keyboard/mouse inputs. So I don’t think it will work to add it directly to the emulationstation menu.

However, you can do what I did, set up a new emulator in RetroPie/roms/Raspbian/ and put in that a rom called “Start Raspbian.sh” which has these contents:

#!/bash/bin
startx

Then you can navigate to /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg, and add a new entry at the bottom named “Raspbian”, and put in the correct path to the emulator file, as well as setting <extension> to “.sh .SH”. Then, if done correctly, you can launch raspbian desktop from the emulationstation menu. Just not minecraft itself.
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Re-This couldn’t you very well have a Raspbian desktop pre-loaded with Minecraft (Obviously not ideal but). If you setup Raspbian to start Minecraft up on start-up wouldn’t this ‘In essence’ be starting up Minecraft in a way? Instead of exiting Minecraft you would have to save/logout and exit the OS though. Not sure if it would kick back to ES.

That is interesting! Forgot about the xinit command. Too bad there’s no way to do fullscreen though.. I tried messing with it for a bit, but I had no luck. I’d definitely add this to my emulationstation menu if it could fullscreen, though. I wonder if a mod for minecraft pi would be in order?

Funny thing: I just reset my Pi yesterday so that I could dedicate it to a RetroPie project, and when I started Emulation Station for the first time since restarting I went into ports and lo and behold, there was Minecraft. It wasn’t there before I restarted my Pi… I’m kind of confused as to why it’s there now. Is everyone else seeing Minecraft under ports? If so, I guess I sound like a total noob right now… lol. Anyone got ideas on how to run it?

576p is to small and 720p is to big. Someone could ask the minecraft developer to add a fullscreen mode and an exit button –> http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/other-platforms/minecraft-pi-edition.

Is there something specific I need to do to get this to pull into my ports section? Do I need to install this manually or just run an update command?

Sorry I haven’t given an update, and it seems like this thread is dead, but I believe that the dev has added minecraft.sh to the ports section. However, whenever I click on it the game fades out and comes back in. Just interested in seeing if anyone else is still trying to work this out.

thanks for that, biglazyb. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch half of what you said. I’m not ultra savvy with all the retropie lingo yet. Still, it sounds like a lot of work that you have to go through to get minecraft to work. What I don’t get is that a while ago, when I tried ES for the first or seccond time, minecraft worked through it, without any hasle. However, I have since wiped my pi clean and started anew, and now it doesn’t work so easily. Any idea why? If this is indeed the only way to get this to work, would you mind taking the time for me to simplify the instructions a bit? Not sure what “tar” is, or how to execute the shell script! Thanks! :)

Hello,
Quick question. You mentioned you got it working, but it looks like all you’re doing is installing it in a different directory (the emulators directory) and linking it on emulationstation. Is this correct? If so, did you figure out a fix for the screen resolution issue that occurs even when running xinit on it from the default install directory?

Also, if you can figure out the controller mapping that’d be amazing. I have no idea where to start with that :D

Thanks for the input!

Minecraft-pi running from EmulationStation:

Hi,

I’m using the “Matchbox” window manager to start Minecraft-Pi fullscreen.
You can install Matchbox with the following command: sudo apt-get install matchbox

I’m using this file (startMinecraft.sh) to start Minecraft:

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms  # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off  # disable screen saver
xset s noblank  # don't blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
/opt/retropie/emulators/minecraft/mcpi/minecraft-pi

And then run it with this command:
xinit ./startMinecraft.sh