I tried several times to make the scripts but doom does not start. Retropie of 3.3 worked. From retropie 4 they do not start the scripts. The procedure is the same but does not start. Click on the item (eg Doom2) and remains black screen and returns to emulationstation. Only shareware doom works. In the shareware doom script there are not all these written. What can I do? I've already done the script as you said, but will not start. I also checked the permissions and access are the same and have enabled the script as a running program. I do not know what else to do ... you have any idea? Thanks for the help given so far.

Ok managed to get the TAB back by remove the default.cfg file in \home\pi\RetroPie\roms\mame-libretro\mame2003\config

Resetup the ingame mame button configs and it is all working as it was before. Thanks

@thetechkid said in How do I make game cartridges???:

I want to make an old school game system,

I'd suggest start with getting a Pi and putting RetroPie on it and playing around a bit to get familiar with how things work

and make separate cartridges for it.

This could be accomplished a number of different ways

I know that (after watching someone else's video) that I can just use NFC tags,

just is certainly a loaded term. There is a lot going on with that NFC setup.

but I have no idea how

Figuring this kind of stuff out is where a lot of the fun comes in.

and I don't want to be buying an Arduino as well.

an Arduino may not be required for what you come up with, but it seemed to work well in the mini NES NFC setup you mentioned

Is there a way to have kind of flash drives and make Emulation Station run a game from a flash drive automatically? Thanks in advance.

The NFC chip had the name of the game on it and then a script was running on the Pi to start that game (the game itself wasn't on the cartridge) but I'm not sure what commands the script is kicking off. If it were my project, before I introduced a "cartridge" aspect to it I'd look at ways to kick off an emulator with a specific game independently of the EmulationStation menu.

Problem solved!

@BuZz im sorry!! thank you very much!!

you can mark threads topics as "solved" under topic tools btw. I will do that now.

@battlecat

A normal pi (not zero) supports analog over CVBS but its interlace so it will look shimmery.

I believe it may be possible to get it to output 25p over HDMI, convert to VGA, then convert to RGB on scart lead using a cable like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cable-VGA-RGB-ARCADEVGA-SCART-CON-JACK-SONIDO-EUROCONECTOR-JAMMA-ARCADE-/131577748414?hash=item1ea2a51bbe

The problem if i recall correctly is that the second player is player 1 in that game. Some emulators fixed it but some didnt.

@g0nz0uk said in C64 mapping buttons to custom keys?:

Do you know how to bind a button to space bar? Or bring up a virtual Keyboard?

@Pyjamarama said in C64 mapping buttons to custom keys?:

I cannot find a way to map other emulator actions like eg Warp to my 360 pad buttons e.g right trigger

I've put together a guide here that deals with mapping keyboard keys to the controller using software already available in RetroPie. I personally run a map for C64 that binds most elements of the interface to my controller. Warp and the virtual keyboard cannot be bound to a certain key, but the virtual keyboard can be accessed from the menu and the menu can be mapped, making it at least accessible from the controller. Also, warp can be set to start at launch and will usually detect when the game has loaded and stop itself, but in the rare occasion it fails, you can just pull up the menu with your controller and stop it manually.

@Pyjamarama
Yes, that's likely to be this issue.

thanks guys. the sd card isnt full as it says there's like 29 gig free on it. ive tried the inbuilt scraper and the sselph one and still get errors. i thought the images wrre stored in the roms folder now in a folder called images so therefore stored on my nas? I could be wrong though.

It is never planned that stuff you have set-up breaks, but I can't guarantee it hence backing up first. Sometimes certain packages are reworked in a way that isn't very backward compatible, but backup - try and update and then post if you need help ?

Right but like I said, it runs just fine and as expected if it's started manually after a restart.

Perhaps turning it into a service would be better since it needs to be run as root?

@BuZz
Hm, thats not that much... ;)