RetroPie Boot into a Single ROM

[mediamogul]

@Healy_um

@TMNTturtlguy's idea sounds interesting and you might also try changing your command to:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS gba ~/RetroPie/rom/gba/Pokemon\ Fire\ Red.gba && emulationstation

@TMNTturtlguy

Ok, this might be crazy talk

That's the best kind of talk.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@mediamogul hmmmm....looking at my code more, we are telling it to launch lr-gpsp and for lr-gpsp to look to retroach.cfg for how to run the emulator. This will get us to the emulator, but not rom.

[mediamogul]

@TMNTturtlguy

I believe you'd just replace %ROM% with the full path to the ROM, adding a backslash wherever there's a space.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@Healy_um If you are up to it, give this a try, go to: /etc/profile.d and open this file in notepad ++ 10-retropie.sh

Replace if lines with the code below:

 if [ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
        bash "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-gpsp/gpsp_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/gba/retroarch.cfg /RetroPie/rom/gba/Pokemon\ fire\ Red.gba
 fi

Let us know if it works!

[tikiandskull]

Maybe that can help link text

[TMNTturtlguy]

@tikiandskull I think the link you sent just tells users how to enter the mame gui screen by hitting tab. I read through the post and i do not believe the poster actually tells anyone how to boot directly into a single game. Thanks

[Healy_um]

@mediamogul It worked!!! Thanks everyone who helped :) really didn't expect to get this working so fast! Thanks again all

[mediamogul]

@Healy_um

I'm glad to hear it. For the benefit of others who might follow along behind you, can you specify which tactic worked for you?

[Healy_um]

@mediamogul I've just edited the first post to include it :)

[mediamogul]

@Healy_um

Nice! Glad to see you're up and running.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@mediamogul nice work on the solution! much easier than mine was

[mediamogul]

@TMNTturtlguy

I'm always thankful when an easy solution pays off. More often than not I usually find that I've blown thrown 72 potential easy solutions, when a more complex approach would have ultimately saved time.

[LinuxArcadeGuy]

this is the line that works:
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS capcom ~/RetroPie/roms/capcom/sfiii2.zip

backup your autostart.sh by duplicating it to autostart.sh.bak in WinSCP

customize to your own directory structure and rom name omit spaces or use \ like: Street\ Fighter\ 2.zip

[LinuxArcadeGuy]

@tmntturtlguy question that is right up your alley... looking to run a rom directly from main ES menu, versus opening a directory list... is this possible, thru my research I have found no way to do this, and a few nay-sayers...

What do you think?

[mediamogul]

@linuxarcadeguy said in RetroPie Boot into a Single ROM:

looking to run a rom directly from main ES menu, versus opening a directory list... is this possible, thru my research I have found no way to do this, and a few nay-sayers...

Emulation Station is open source, so of course it could be done. However, you'd have to add the basic functionality for it first.

[mitu]

What exactly do you want to do ? You found a way to launch a single ROM on boot, if you want to go back to ES, just add the ES start command to the autostart.sh file, right after the runcommand you're using.

[mediamogul]

@mitu

I believe he's wanting to launch an item by selecting a system heading from the carousel. The practical uses would be pretty limited, but if memory serves, people are usually looking to launch Kodi directly without selecting a launch script from the resulting directory.

[emuola]

Hi. Having some problems making this work. Trying to boot directly into a2600 and the legendary E.T. However, although I made the changes, the system still boots happily to ES. Weird. Here's my changes to /etc/profile.d/10-retropie.sh

"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS atari2600 ~/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/ET.bin"

Thanks for your help in advance :)

[mediamogul]

@emuola said in RetroPie Boot into a Single ROM:

Here's my changes to /etc/profile.d/10-retropie.sh

The launch command should be added to /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh.

[emuola]

@mediamogul said in RetroPie Boot into a Single ROM:

@emuola said in RetroPie Boot into a Single ROM:

Here's my changes to /etc/profile.d/10-retropie.sh

The launch command should be added to /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh.

Ooh. Am I stupid or what :D :D Thank you!