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Title: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: UFO on August 29, 2016, 03:53:07 pm

Hi all,

Been doing some Google searching on this with mixed answers. Some say it is possible, but don't indicate how, and some say it's not.

Say I wanted to boot directly into a single game when the emulator boots up or is switched on. Is this possible with the Pi?

Thanks all...

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: Duhjoker on August 29, 2016, 04:11:25 pm

 Yea it's possible and not to hard but you will need to learn the language which is super easy to memorize and have some basic compiling skills.

Adafruit has a few good tutorials on all this just google raspberry Pi handheld game emulator and start reading. With the adafruit retro game thingy you can pretty much get it to any thing you want.

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: Slippyblade on August 29, 2016, 04:37:06 pm

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/rc-local.md (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/rc-local.md)

That article will show you where to put the command. 

The command to use will depend on the exact setup you have.  Figure out what you need to type to run the game from the command line.  Then put that exact command into the rc.local file.

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: UFO on August 30, 2016, 04:10:30 am

Thanks chaps, that's fantastic.

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: philby95 on September 04, 2016, 04:37:56 pm

This is what I used works a treat and is easy to setup

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2357/boot-directly-to-mame-rom (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2357/boot-directly-to-mame-rom)

cheers

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: UFO on September 05, 2016, 11:02:51 am

Quote from: philby95 on September 04, 2016, 04:37:56 pm

This is what I used works a treat and is easy to setup

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2357/boot-directly-to-mame-rom (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2357/boot-directly-to-mame-rom)

cheers

Nice one ... Thanks buddy ...

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: Slippyblade on September 05, 2016, 01:22:42 pm

That article confuses the hell out of me.  Why would you use EmulationStation if you were building a single game cab?  Seems like a LOT of wasted boot time and overhead that doesn't need to be there.

Title: Re: Booting directly into a MAME game
Post by: philby95 on September 05, 2016, 04:24:28 pm

Quote from: Slippyblade on September 05, 2016, 01:22:42 pm

That article confuses the hell out of me.  Why would you use EmulationStation if you were building a single game cab?  Seems like a LOT of wasted boot time and overhead that doesn't need to be there.

My thoughts would be that emulationstation has a great gui to setup various parts of the system inc controller setup, most people would hate to do that via the command line.