Auto-Load pacman Rom

[mitu]

The command you posted seems correct, it works for me (minus the ROM name). I guess the command fails and that's why you get the login prompt after boot.
What's in /dev/shm/runcommand.log right after you try to auto-boot the game ?

[Fredthedoggy]

Is says:

Failed to open ~/RetroPie/roms/nes/pacman.zip:  No such file or directory

the thing is, I know that that is the filename
@mitu

[mitu]

@Fredthedoggy What is the output of the following command ?

ls -lh ~/RetroPie/roms/nes/pacman.zip

Also, post the complete autostart.sh file.

[Fredthedoggy]

@mitu that was the full file (/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS nes ~/RetroPie/roms/nes/pacman.zip) is that not the full thing?

[Fredthedoggy]

@mitu The command you gave me? it said

ls cannot access '~/RetroPie/roms/nes/pacman.zip': No such file or directory

[mitu]

@Fredthedoggy This means the file is not present there - so the Runcommand cannot run the ROM. You'll need to copy the ROM to the right place and re-try - how did you transfer the ROM to RetroPie and where ?

[lostless]

@Fredthedoggy maybe try unzipping the rom and use the .nes file?

[Fredthedoggy]

@lostless So put the .nes file in the nes folder directly?

[lostless]

@Fredthedoggy yes. Sometimes the zip files you find have multiple versions of a game and may confuse the emulator.

[Fredthedoggy]

Thanks for the advice guys, but turns out I have to press ctrl+\ not ctrl+' for tilda
Thank you.

[DNuno]

Well, I got the same idea. My objective was to start a mame game (Star Wars) automatically.

After spending some time to set up this, I wanted to share the solution to complete the explanation available of the Retropie FAQ.

So here's the content of my autostart.sh file :

pi@nunopi:/opt/retropie/configs/all $ more autostart.sh
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ "mame-libretro" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/starwars.zip"

It works as expected! Quite easy with an example now :-)