Autostart function not working

Razak

@Clyde You too, Clyde! Thanks a million for your patience!!!

Razak

Wait, wait. I'm a bit confused.

After using the runcommand launch menu to choose stella as the default emulator for atari2600, do I have to go back to the retropie-setup menu to manually edit the autostart script of emulationstation?

I'm still not booting up to my game. I want for the pi to boot directly into the game and eliminate the emulationstation and/or retropie splash screens or console menus.

mitu

@Razak said in Autostart function not working:

do I have to go back to the retropie-setup menu to manually edit the autostart script of emulationstation?

if you disabled the auto-start line, then yes.

Razak

Ok, and should I manually edit the autostart script like so?

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0_SYS_ lr-stella ~/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/Yar_rev.bin

or

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0_SYS_ lr-stella ~/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/Yar_rev.bin

and do I need to eliminate the emulationstation #auto on the second line?

Can you confirm that I'm supposed to disable the auto-start line in which menu?

Clyde

Your first line has one error: There shouldn't be a ~ before /home/pi/…. In Linux, ~ stands for the home directory of the logged-in user, i.e. /home/pi in this case. So, ~/home/pi would expand to /home/pi/home/pi which is wrong. Is my explanation comprehensible? :)

Apart from that, both lines should work, since /home/pi/Retropie/… and ~/Retropie/… are interchangable.

If you keep emulationstation #auto after your custom line in the script, Emulation Station will be started when you exit the game. Nothing more, nothing less.

Razak

@Clyde Yes, now I understand much better! I inserted the line like so. and included the emulationstation #auto line at the bottom.

After re-booting–quitting out of emulationstation and the system, the pi will boot back into the retropie/emulation station menu.

I would it that after I interrupt the power on the pi (like, disconnect from the wall for example) that the pi boots directly into the Game and that I don't have to select the emulator/game. Is there a way to do this?

Clyde

@Razak said in Autostart function not working:

After re-booting–quitting out of emulationstation and the system, the pi will boot back into the retropie/emulation station menu.

Seems like that for some reason lr-stella doesn't start the game, or exits immediately, after which Emulation Station is started. You could look into /dev/shm/runcommand.log for any error messages.

Does the game start if you enter the line with lr-stella directly in Retropie's command console?

For further diagnoses, please show us the complete contents of your autostart.bat and, to check the validity of your path and file permissions of Yar_rev.bin, also the output of this command:

ls -l ~/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/Yar_rev.bin

Razak

Does the game start if you enter the line with lr-stella directly in Retropie's command console?

I get the 'launching screen/ press button to configure menu'

Where is /dev/shm/runcommand.log and autostart.bat?

Clyde

And what happens after the Runcommand menu (i.e. the "launching screen") is shown?

/dev/shm/runcommand.log is the full path of the file. The first / marks the top of the directory tree in Linux. There's nothing "above" it in the directory hierarchy.

Sorry, I meant autostart.sh (shame on me for involuntarily typing a Windows file extension 😳 ). It is located at /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh.

In the Retropie console, you can display these files easily by adding a cat before them, i.e. cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log, or copy them to your home directory via cp /dev/shm/runcommand.log /home/pi and cp ./opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh /home/pi, if you have better access to that location over the network or otherwise.

edit: I'm going to sleep now. "See" you tomorrow.

Razak

I get this on the cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log

Executing: stella
/opt.retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1002: stella: command not found

Razak

With /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh
I get:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0_SYS_ stella /RetroPi/roms/atari2600/Yar_rev.bin

It's supposed to be /RetroPie/roms/atari, right?

Clyde

As a last quick post before bedtime …

Why stella and not lr-stella? The error clearly says that it can't find a command named stella. You should look into that.
The path to the rom should begin with either /home/pi/RetroPie/… or ~/RetroPie/…. Your path is missing the ~ at the beginning.

Good night. 😴

Razak

Hi @Clyde

Hope you had a restful weekend.

I'm trying this again with another Pi.
-Have not yet installed Stella on this one. I'm doubting whether that was necessary?
-I dropped the ROM into /retropie/roms/atari2600/Yar_rev.bin
-I manually edited the autostart script in Retro-Pie Setup to this:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0_SYS_ atari2600 /home/pi/retropie/roms/atari2600/Yar_rev.bin

I performed a reboot to the system and when booting back-up I get a screen that states 'launching Yar_rev....press any key to configure'

I press a key and get to a menu where I can setup video. If I press 'Launch' I'm sent back to the Retropie GUI menu. If I don't press any keys, I'm set back to the Retropie GUI menu.

The runcommand log; cat /dev/sh/runcommand.logsays this:

Parameters:
Executing: Atari 2600
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line: 1002 atari2600: command not found

So the pi knows and attempts to boot into the game, but something happens int the process that makes it crash? Any thoughts on what that may be?

mitu

@Razak You mis-spelled the autostart line - there should be a space between the 0 and the _SYS_.

Razak

@mitu Ok, just added the space.

And still getting the same results where the runcommand displays a screen like the pic below:

And so, now, cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log gives me these results:

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretocores/lr-stella2014/stella2014_libreto.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/atari2600/retroarch.cfg "home/pi/retropie/roms/atari2600/Yarrev.bin" appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
Failed to open /home/pi/retropie/roms/atari2600/Yarrev.bin: No such file or directory

By the way, I changed the name of the ROM from Yar_rev.bin to Yarrev.bin out of suspicion that it may have to do with the way the autostart script is failing. Is the runcommand log telling me I need to get lr-stella2014 or that I need to configure something in retroarch?

mitu

@Razak said in Autostart function not working:

By the way, I changed the name of the ROM from Yar_rev.bin to Yarrev.bin out of suspicion that it may have to do with the way the autostart script is failing. Is the runcommand log telling me I need to get lr-stella2014 or that I need to configure something in retroarch?

Linux is case sensitive, so if the filename doesn't match exactly, then the file cannot be found. The error message is pretty clear - the file is not where you tell the emulator it is.
Please post the complete command line.

Clyde

All hail the all-knowing runcommand.log. 😊

At least the retropie in the rom's path is wrong. On a standard Retropie installation, it is called RetroPie. As @mitu said, Linux is case-sensitive, so retropie is a different directory than RetroPie (i.e. you could even have both in the same parent dir). Thus, if the rom's name really is upper case, the path should be /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/Yarrev.bin.

Razak

@mitu @Clyde That was it! I should've known and feel like such a dummy. The correct path is indeed /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/Yarrev.bin

But now I know the all-know runcommand.log :)

Thanks a trillion! <3