[REPLICA ARCADE CABINET] For anyone whom wants to autostart retropie into a single game

[LinuxArcadeGuy]

Anyone interested in doing a single game arcade cabinet replica? with this tweak you can use a raspberry pi and retropie as a stand-in for actual arcade hardware, in case you don't have access to, is broken or don't want to use the original pcb.

REMEMBER TO BACKUP ALL FILES PRIOR TO EDITING!

BE SURE TO PROPERLY CUSTOMIZE ALL YOUR SETTINGS FOR FORM AND FUNCTION AS YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY ACCESS TO THE ES FRONTEND DIRECTLY AND WOULD HAVE TO RUN IT VIA EXIT/TERMINAL, AS ESCAPE WILL STILL LEAVE GAME BUT WILL TOSS YOU OUT TO TERMINAL, JUST TYPE "EMULATIONSTATION" TO RUN ES, THE ESCAPE BUTTON SHOULD BE MAPPED TO AN ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS BUTTON BEHIND A LOCKED PANEL PER SAY AND YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO SSH INTO THE BACKEND.

Edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh
Backup file first, then delete all lines and replace with a custom variant of the below command.
you will no longer boot directly into ES but instead boot directly into your chosen game.

Example:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ capcom ~/RetroPie/roms/capcom/sfiii2.zip

Breakdown:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ *emulator-config-name-that-appears-in-retropie-setup-configedit* ~/RetroPie/roms/*roms-sub-dir-if-applicable*/*rom-filename.ext*

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