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    Cant autostart emulationstation

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    • J
      Johnmon16
      last edited by

      Hi there. I'm running a raspberry 3b+. I've been trying to get emulationstation to autostart. I have gone into the setup menu and tried that. Many times. It just boots to the command prompt. I'm new to editing scripts and all that. So forgive me for lack of knowledge. Thank you in advance.

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Can you please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

        If you use the provided image to install RetroPie you shouldn't need to configure anything - any reason you're not doing so ?

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        • J
          Johnmon16
          last edited by

          I'm using the pi 3 b+
          5v 3a power supply
          retropie v4.5
          I'm using the official retropie img. I got it from the site.
          I have a keyboard and snes controller connected
          No error messages.
          I hope this answers everything correctly. I'm making a little side table with a flip up monitor. The other day I wanted to add background music in emulationstation. I quit ES and got to the command prompt and now I can't get it to boot to ES. I've looked all over and I cannot find the answer. I did go into the retropie setup and had it boot to ES but it doesn't work. Let me know if you have any other questions.

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @Johnmon16
            last edited by

            @Johnmon16 said in Cant autostart emulationstation:

            The other day I wanted to add background music in emulationstation.

            Revert your modifications you did for background music and see if it fixes the issue. Which file did you modify ?

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            • J
              Johnmon16
              last edited by

              So I went back and looked it up. It was in the autostart.sh. I deleted a line and it works and I still get to keep my background music. Thanks for your time :).

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