"Single game mode" suggestions?

[jayuni100]

Hi Retropie!

I've been wanting to set up an #arcade , i.e. of individual boxes that only play one game each.

Has anyone ever done anything like this with retropie, and have a workflow template i can borrow? I've never built a retro gaming setup before. My goals are:

• Distraction free video games
• Maintaining the simple aesthetic of "this physical machine plays this game".

Does anyone have an approach for building ROMs that run in this mode? I didn't see a post in this forum with that concept, but maybe I didn't search the right keywords.

By the way, I'm in the bay area if anyone wants to discuss this topic in person !

...More thoughts....

Specifically, I want to have individual games because I don't want my kids to fiddle around with the menus (i.e. i want them to learn super mario end to end - and as soon as the box powers on, it boots in super mario mode).

I suppose this could be done w/ actual cartridges, I was thinking maybe theres a way to simply have 50 different physical roms or something... but, i figure there's probably someone out there who built an arcade or other similar setup who has figured out a way to keep the "one game aesthetic" in tact.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@jayuni100 see here:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-would-i-start-from-command-line-say-the-snes-emulator-by-itself

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ "<SYSTEM>" "<ROM>"

• To automatically start a specific system and a game directly instead of EmulationStation, you need to edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and add the above line (again replacing the variables with your own values). Then, in the same file, remove any line containing #auto entirely to avoid EmulationStation or KODI to autostart again.