Hi guys.
I have a question about running things in RetroPie (EmulationStation).
I have what seems to be everything installed correctly. By this, I mean I have a system in EmulationStation called Pico8, and I have a list of cartridge games that boot just fine when selected.
At some point, I added a script file that appeared at the top of the Pico8 game list. When selected, this script booted straight into SPLORE, and loaded the main SPLORE browser. I had an SD Card failure, and as a result, I had to revert back to an older image of my RetroPie before I added Pico8. I have the cartridge games in my Pico8 system and they boot just fine as before, but the script I acquired beforehand has been misplaced. I can't for the life of me remember where I got it etc.
I have read tutorials (such as the one here) that demonstrate creating the script, such as +Start PICO-8.sh, and then adding code such as this:
!/bin/bash
pushd "/home/pi/pico-8"
./pico8 -splore
popd
When I run the script from the games list, Pico8 loads, but I get an error saying
COULD NOT LOAD /HOME PIE/RETROPIE/ROMS/PICO8/+START PICO-8.SH it loads SPLORE
TYPE HELP FOR HELP
If I type SPLORE and press enter, it loads the SPLORE Browser.
The script I had beforehand booted straight to the SPLORE Browser without the need to type SPLORE. I would like the script to do this as the plan is to user Pico8 without a keyboard.
Please can you help me to get a working script that sits in the games list of the Pico8 system to boot straight into the SPLORE Browser area.
I hope the above makes sense, and thanks ever so much in advance for your help.
Vox.
Have you read the existing threads?
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3935
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=36031
I think you may have to configure two systems: one with 'pico8 -run %ROM%' to see carts as games in ES and run them with pico8, and another entry just to run 'pico8 -splore'.
I haven’t used retropie or ES, but with pegasus-frontend I was able to configure a custom game ('_splore.png') in my pico8 game collection to run a special command, so in the end I see only one pico8 system but the first game lets me get splore. I don’t know if that would be possible with retropie!
Hi again merwok. Yes I have read those threads, multiple times might I add. In the end, I did configure two systems as you have suggested.
I was hoping that someone would know how to somehow have a script in the standard %ROM% command system to do this. As I said, I did have a script that I added from somewhere before the SD card failure, so I know it can be done.
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