Update to the very latest nightly version of BlastEm and restrict home directory access by techmetx11 · Pull Request #17 · flathub/com.retrodev.blastem

techmetx11 · 2026-02-03T00:43:04Z

This PR updates the BlastEm's source archive to the very last commit made (as of the time of this PR)

Also, the program has been patched to use the XDG Desktop Portal file chooser and enable it by default within the program's settings, which means the program no longer requires read-only access to the user's home directory.

…emove home directory access

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techmetx11 · 2026-02-08T19:38:36Z

CC @hadess

hfiguiere · 2026-02-19T22:32:49Z

+			{
+				"type": "git",
+				"url": "https://github.com/flatpak/libportal.git",
+				"commit": "086cc57372989117cfb6ef4c565bdd316db2e536"


why isn't this a release?

hadess

We would definitely need to see separate patches (and reordering) for the build fixes, the version update, new dependencies, and applying the file chooser patch.

There's one big problem with this whole patch though, we only get access to the ROM file, and BlastEm expects to be able to access the directory the ROM is in to save the corresponding .SAV file when the game supports saves. This will be broken with this setup. What's the plan for fixing that?

hadess · 2026-02-25T10:55:24Z

+From 464bbad5dea3c481600b206f0bcaa5ace7861650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: techmetx11 <techmetx11@disroot.org>
+Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 23:51:58 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Integrate a native file chooser into BlastEm using XDG


This patch is added in this commit, and then modified in a later commit. I'd much rather see a single commit that added the final version of the patch.

I didn't want to clutter the repository with unnecessary commit files. If you want me to split it all into seperate patch files, then I can do that

hadess · 2026-02-25T10:57:28Z

                    "paths" : [
-                        "0001-Add-support-for-Flatpak-config-data-dir-variables.patch"
+                        "0001-Add-support-for-Flatpak-config-data-dir-variables.patch",
+			"0002-Integrate-a-native-file-chooser-into-BlastEm-using-X.patch"


That patch is nice, but what's its upstream status? Is the maintainer going to review it/merge it soon? We would at least want a reference in the commit message.

I have not talked to Michael Pavone yet, besides the patch is a bit messy (in the Makefile, it affects Linux builds in general, not just Flatpak builds)

flathubbot · 2026-03-01T16:07:15Z

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flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/260395/com.retrodev.blastem.flatpakref

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techmetx11 · 2026-03-01T16:23:37Z

There's one big problem with this whole patch though, we only get access to the ROM file, and BlastEm expects to be able to access the directory the ROM is in to save the corresponding .SAV file when the game supports saves. This will be broken with this setup. What's the plan for fixing that?

From what I can tell, BlastEm saves game files (if you're talking about EEPROM and SRAM files) in its own directory:

	#path template for saving SRAM, EEPROM and savestates
	#accepts special variables $HOME, $EXEDIR, $USERDATA, $ROMNAME
	save_path $USERDATA/blastem/$ROMNAME	#path template for saving SRAM, EEPROM and savestates
	#accepts special variables $HOME, $EXEDIR, $USERDATA, $ROMNAME
	save_path $USERDATA/blastem/$ROMNAME

Regardless, I'm already planning to patch BlastEm further to fix the screenshot, and VGM/video+audio recording paths (using the XDG user directory paths). If you can point out where it does this, I can also patch that

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Update to latest LATEST nightly version of BlastEm, and patch it to r…

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