Retropie boot to Mame4All gamelist

[rawbe]

Trying to figure out how to have Retropie boot to Mame4all. I have crashed 2 sd cards trying to figure out on my own. Now I am frustrated....Can anyone help?

I would like to start the Pi3 (Retropie 3.7) and after the boot process (I don't mind the Emulation Station logo) go straight to Mame4All's gamelist.

Is it possible?

Thanks!
Robbie

[Riverstorm]

I don't think it can be done but I'm not 100% sure. Someone with more knowledge might need to verify that.

[BenWlson]

I believe EmulationStation initial display system is alphabetically based, so you can either remove all other systems that come before it, or possible rename it.

I removed Amiga and Apple from my system and have all my MAME roms in the Arcade folder, so that is the first one that shows when I boot.

[Riverstorm]

@BenWlson said in Retropie boot to Mame4All gamelist:

I believe EmulationStation initial display system is alphabetically based, so you can either remove all other systems that come before it, or possible rename it.

I removed Amiga and Apple from my system and have all my MAME roms in the Arcade folder, so that is the first one that shows when I boot.

I also comment out systems but I think what he's trying to achieve is to go directly to the detail view skipping the emulator selection screen altogether.

[BenWlson]

@Riverstorm said in Retropie boot to Mame4All gamelist:

I also comment out systems but I think what he's trying to achieve is to go directly to the detail view skipping the emulator selection screen altogether.

Yea, I don't think EmulationStation provides that functionality.

[Riverstorm]

@BenWlson said in Retropie boot to Mame4All gamelist:

Yea, I don't think EmulationStation provides that functionality.

I keep getting that wrong. I need to work on that it can be done but it's currently not a feature as Herb would say. :)

[rawbe]

Thanks guys for the response! I have put all emulators in an "unused" folder so when the Pi boots the only options in Emulations Station's menu is Mame and Retropie. I would like to boot straight to Mame's gamelist. I see you think it can't be done. After searching.....and searching the web I see people have PiPlay booting to Mame but nothing on Retropie.

[Riverstorm]

Yeah it might be a feature someday like PiPlay. You can also modify /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg. For each system you want to comment out put a <!-- before <system>and <--after </system>. That will comment out that whole emulator from showing up in you list. Example below for the Apple II.

<!--
<system>
    <name>apple2</name>
    <fullname>Apple II</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2</path>
    <extension>.sh .SH</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ apple2 %ROM%</command>
    <platform>apple2</platform>
    <theme>apple2</theme>
  </system>
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