Programmatically run game from console

[advancedservers]

Hi,

I am buiding a NESPi DIY based off of DaftMike's incomplete work (http://www.daftmike.com/2016/07/NESPi.html My Work - https://github.com/benmprojects/NESPi_DIY). When launching game manually from in retropie the controller works. When launching from my script my controller doesnt work. I am getting the follow error

retropie usb gamepad not configured

My script is below.

subprocess.call("sudo openvt -c 1 -s -f -- " + "/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ snes" + "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc " + "&", shell=True)

Any Ideas???

Thanks

Ben

[BuZz]

Please use a code block / inline code block as otherwise the forum will think some characters are styling - http://commonmark.org/help/

Can you enter the runcommand menu both ways ? Enable verbose logging and compare the logs.

[advancedservers]

Hi BuZz,

can you explain how to run the verbose logging and the file location. I have only just started playing with retropie.

Thanks

ben

[BuZz]

available in the runcommand menu - https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

logs to /dev/shm/runcommand.log

[advancedservers]

this is from my script

Parameters: 0 _SYS_ snes /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x2010/snes9x2010_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
PPU.RenderSub = 0
PPU.FullClipping = 1
Settings.Transparency = 1
Settings.SpeedhackGameID = 7
PPU.SFXSpeedupHack = 0
coldata_update_screen = 0

[advancedservers]

And launching it manually

Parameters: 0 _SYS_ snes /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x2010/snes9x2010_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
PPU.RenderSub = 0
PPU.FullClipping = 1
Settings.Transparency = 1
Settings.SpeedhackGameID = 7
PPU.SFXSpeedupHack = 0
coldata_update_screen = 0