Game launching video loading screens

PISCES3988

Well, I see a red line through retropie and a red line through runcommand-onstart.sh those are the only mistakes that I see.

PISCES3988

@mitu

Where do I go on from here???

Clyde

@pisces3988 What red lines? The runcommand-onstart.sh is just a plain text file that should't have any colour codes or the like. How do you display the file on your machine?

However, I think you really should upload your runcommand-onstart.sh to https://pastebin.com/ like @mitu suggested before. It's very hard for us to tell if or what is wrong with it just from your own descriptions.

PISCES3988

@clyde

Well the other person earlier to me to use a different command on the terminal, then they told me to use pastebin to check for errors that's what happened.

The command the other person told me is

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log

Do you know how to guide me with this command?

mitu

@pisces3988 said in Game launching video loading screens:

then they told me to use pastebin to check for errors that's what happened.

I told you to check for any differences in your runcommand-onstart.sh file to the commands posted in the topic starter, not to use pastebin.com to check for errors. The cat /dev/shm/runcommand.logs showed you have some errors in the .sh file. As @Clyde said - and I also suggested in my previous post - upload the file to pastebin.com so we could see what it contains exactly.

Clyde

@pisces3988 In addition to what @mitu said, if your /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh isn't longer than the 16 lines the instructions told you to add to this file, you could just post its contents here in a code block instead of uploading it to pastebin.com.

This is a code block. You cane make one by clicking on the button named "code" with the symbol </> in the forum's editor.

Just in the case that you have problems with the upload to pastebin.com. We only need to see the contents of your runcommand-onstart.sh in some way.

PISCES3988

@clyde

Can you explain how to use code block???

PISCES3988

@pisces3988

Is this the runcommand-onstart.sh your talking about to upload to pastebin, This is the one I uploaded to pastebin

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand/logs
cat: /dev/shm/runcommand/logs: No such file or directory
pi@retropie:~ $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.logs
cat: /dev/shm/runcommand.logs: No such file or directory
pi@retropie:~ $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
/opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 7: /home/pi/RetroPie/video loadingscreens/: Is a directory
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libr etrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-l ibretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/1941j.zip" --appendc onfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
pi@retropie:~ $ /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 7: /home/p i/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/: Is a directory
-bash: /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh:: No such file or directo ry
pi@retropie:~ $ Parameters:
-bash: Parameters:: command not found
pi@retropie:~ $ Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /o pt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropi e/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/1941 j.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

PISCES3988

@pisces3988

please tell me what I'm doing wrong

Clyde

@pisces3988 said in Game launching video loading screens:

Can you explain how to use code block???

I already did in my example code block:

This is a code block. You cane make one by clicking on the button named "code" with the symbol </> in the forum's editor.

Is this the runcommand-onstart.sh your talking about to upload to pastebin

No, this is your runcommand.log. To display your runcommand-onstart.sh, use this command:

cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh

PISCES3988

@clyde

do I type the code block in the runcommand-onstart.sh

Clyde

@pisces3988 No, the code block is a formatting option in this forum. It makes quoted program outputs much more readible.

Example without a code block:

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
/opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 7: /home/pi/RetroPie/video loadingscreens/: Is a directory
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libr etrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-l ibretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/1941j.zip" --appendc onfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
pi@retropie:~ $ /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 7: /home/p i/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/: Is a directory
-bash: /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh:: No such file or directo ry

And the same text in a code block:

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
/opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 7: /home/pi/RetroPie/video loadingscreens/: Is a directory
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libr etrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-l ibretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/1941j.zip" --appendc onfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
pi@retropie:~ $ /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 7: /home/p i/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/: Is a directory
-bash: /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh:: No such file or directo ry

The latter is much more readible. So just copy the contents of your runcommand-onstart.sh in your forum post in a code block.

It's bedtime now in my part of the world. See you tommorow.

PISCES3988

Can someone please make this easier, please with a cherry on top!

PISCES3988

@pisces3988

I really don't have a clear understanding of what I'm doing with all these different commands, just to get videoloadingscreens to work.

PISCES3988

@pisces3988

I have no programing or coding experience to pull this off easy, like someone that does.

mitu

@pisces3988 said in Game launching video loading screens:

I have no programing or coding experience to pull this off easy, like someone that does.

Adding some text to a file doesn't require programming/coding experience. The topic starter explains in detail how to do that, just editing a file.

Can someone please make this easier, please with a cherry on top!

Please check the contents of the /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh file - open it in an editor, like you did when following the installation instructions - and post its contents here, surrounded by a block delimiters (three backticks - ```).