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    • cdaters

      EmulationStation fails to launch after update on Pi4
      Help and Support • error startup filedata folder • • cdaters

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      cdaters

      Thank you @mitu!

    • nunna78

      Press a button to configure at game start
      Help and Support • netplay startup menu press a button configure • • nunna78

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      nunna78

      @dankcushions great i'll try thanks

    • Agrajag

      ES Config Slow?
      Help and Support • startup • • Agrajag

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      mitu

      @agrajag Yes, that's the one.

    • treki

      User Menu > Entry is not saved
      Help and Support • rom startup user menu • • treki

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      treki

      @mitu
      I have now managed to get the test script to read the following data.

      mame-libretro lr-mame2016 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/galaga.zip /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2016/mamearcade2016_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/galaga.zip"

      Test script:

      system=$1 emulator=$2 path=$3 commandline=$4 echo $system > /home/pi/test.txt echo $emulator >> /home/pi/test.txt echo $path >> /home/pi/test.txt echo $commandline >> /home/pi/test.txt

      Where do I enter the option Y for the game and how do I read this option into my script?

      E.g:
      if type = Y then ./script1.sh
      if type = X then ./script2.sh

      Edit:
      Now I have a solution.
      My script:

      ############################################################### # 4 oder 8 Wege Joystick von runcommand-onstart.sh aufgerufen # # (C) 2021 treki # ############################################################### # Namen der 4-Wege Games in /home/pi/4way.games eintragen #system=$1 #emulator=$2 #path=$3 commandline=$4 echo $commandline > /home/pi/game.name.txt #Name des 4-Wege ROMs in diesem File, welches in 4way.games geschrieben werden muss var=$(echo $commandline | grep -o -f /home/pi/4way.games) if [ -z "$var" ] then echo "8-Wege Joystick" > /home/pi/test.txt else echo "4-Wege Joystick" > /home/pi/test.txt fi

      In the file /home/pi/4way.games are the names (.zip) of 4-way games.
      My 4way.games file looks like this:

      asteroid1 astdelux bzonec pbobble2u dkong dkong3b dkongjrb fantsia2 galaga galaxian mspacman pacman pengo phoenixt popeyebl qbert qixb spacedx supertnk tankfrce atetrisa tetrisp tron4 uniwars

      Entry in /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh :

      bash "/home/pi/4or8way.sh" "$@"
    • HairDyeGuy

      Speeding up boot time and the necessary commands
      Help and Support • boottext startup bluetooth wifi ssh • • HairDyeGuy

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      mitu

      @hairdyeguy said in Speeding up boot time and the necessary commands:

      Tried it along side to disabeling bluetooth and rainbow splash screen + inserting the quiet flag to kernel. Booting time is now 28 seconds!
      Are there more things you'd recommend?

      The EmulationStation settings I mentioned in my first post - they should speed up dramatically the front-end startup.

      Other services that are not strictly needed - raspi-config(?), hciuart (which you don't need if you disabled Bluetooth), rpi-eeprom-update (the Pi zero doesn't have an EEPROM).
      You can also disable the swap service (dphys-swapfile) and test, but the Pi 0 has limited memory and swap may be useful if you want to install from source or run other things.

      I'm not sure why the dev-mmcblk0p2.device takes so long, maybe the sdcard is not so fast (?).

      There may be other - more radical - options

    • carotman

      Emulationstation crash on startup - segfault (PC - Lubuntu)
      Help and Support • crash lubuntu startup ubuntu 20.04 segfault • • carotman

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      carotman

      Well, It turns out that my sound problem was probably due to the display refresh rate not being on sync.

      After many reinstalls (both OS and Retropie) I was able to make sense of all this and I now can enjoy Retropie again on my old laptop with Lubuntu 20.04.

      Thank you mitu for your time, this is really appreciated.

    • misterbirra

      Emulationstation not showing up after recent update (it was working with root)
      Help and Support • startup error root emulationstatio • • misterbirra

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      misterbirra

      I've "solved" by keeping "pi" as login user and disabling password when doing sudo
      thanks

    • Ezkabani

      ubuntu retropi start up issue in terminal
      Help and Support • error startup terminal ubuntu • • Ezkabani

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      mitu

      On a PC (Ubuntu & forks, Debian, etc.), EmulationStation should be started from a desktop environment, not from a terminal.

    • redpiperbob

      Pi 400 problem
      Help and Support • pie400 pi400 config startup • • redpiperbob

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      BuZz

      @redpiperbob Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

      Please provide more details of your set-up - which image you downloaded and so on.

    • tinkydink

      Retropie won't load after initial startup script
      Help and Support • boot problem boot screen startup • • tinkydink

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      mitu

      hdmi_safe will set the resolution to 640x480, if your monitor supports a higher resolution, you can set it by using hdmi_group=2 and hdmi_mode set to one of the values detailed in https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md. You'll probably have to add hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080, my guess is that your monitor supplies a wrong EDID and the Pi tries to set the video resolution to an unsupported value.

    • rayvearn

      Startup/splash screens
      Help and Support • splashscreen splash-video splash video boot startup • • rayvearn

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      rayvearn

      @mitu not until now, let's see if it works!

    • AndrewH

      Retropie fastboot?
      Ideas and Development • retroflag gpi boot speed startup • • AndrewH

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      lostless

      @lilbud basically it’ll just continue to boot then next part of the os without waiting for a WiFi signal and will connect when it’s ready in the background . Without it, It’ll wait either for an connection or just timeout and then continue to boot. No need to to have a solid WiFi connection on a retro pie setup. Where you would want it is if your project requires internet or WiFi to run your project so it has WiFi before the whole OS boots.

    • un4

      cant start retropie from osmc kodi interface
      Help and Support • kodi osmc startup • • un4

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      un4

      Just as I posted this I managed to figure it out. It seams that when kodi in osmc starts a script it starts it in root directory where it has no privilages. Adding "cd /home/osmc" at the beginning of "/home/osmc/RetroPie/scripts/retropie.sh" solved the problem!

    • Cyberonix

      Are startup / shutdown buttons safe?
      Help and Support • button startup shutdown • • Cyberonix

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      Cyberonix

      Awesome. I will check out that link. Thank you.

    • rightytighty2

      RetroPie will not start after being shut down the first time.
      Help and Support • boot restart startup • • rightytighty2

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      rightytighty2

      Hi all! I just wanted to say that I got an answer to my issue! My particular problem was due to my using a VGA to HDMI converter to use with my old VGA monitor. What fixed my problem was to edit the config.txt file and uncomment the line "hdmi_force_unplug=1". Works perfectly now. Again, thank you all for your time.

    • larsks

      What is supposed to start emulationstation?
      Help and Support • startup • • larsks

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      larsks

      @mitu Thanks, that fixed it!

      Also, for anyone else who ends up here, it's important that you run raspi-config as sudo raspi-config from the pi user. If you're already root and you run it it won't know which user to configure for autologin.

    • retropier

      Script doesn't boot when I start my Retropie
      Help and Support • retropie boot script booting script startup • • retropier

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      chipsnblip

      someone asked about this on reddit a few weeks back, and i told them to add it to:
      /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

      expressvpn connect &
      emulationstation

      it seemed to work for them. here's the thread for reference.

    • gordonfreemanjr

      Startup fail after an update
      Help and Support • pi zero startup command line terminate aborted • • gordonfreemanjr

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      gordonfreemanjr

      @mitu I made it! I have deleted whole scummvm folder, rebooted and the ES finallt works!

      Thank you everyone. The problem is officially solved.

    • jbreitbart

      Delay startup until vpn is available
      Help and Support • startup vpn samba • • jbreitbart

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      BuZz

      @ericdave you should not edit that file but the autostart.sh. the file you edited is not meant to be user editable and will be overwritten.

    • megasweet

      (More) help removing log lines from startup screens
      Help and Support • startup cmdline.txt • • megasweet

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      megasweet

      I solved it!

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4057/can-t-remove-text-in-bootscreen/14

      Add "clear" as the first line in /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh. Never seen that tip anywhere other than that thread, but it worked!