Emulationstation Enhancement Request (loading screen)

[robertybob]

@AlexMurphy What does option two do?

[AlexMurphy]

@robertybob enables / disables the RetroPie splash screen or custom video splash.

[jdrassa]

There are 2 ways to do it. --no-splash is a command line argument. You can edit the startup script to add this.

The better way is to edit /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg and add the following line:

<bool name="SplashScreen" value="false" />

It would be nice if it was configurable in the Settings menu in EmulationStation though. I'll have to add that to my todo list.

[AlexMurphy]

@jdrassa Good man. And just to clarify... hahah! That will disable the ES retina burner splashscreen but leave the RetroPie splashscreen/video?

[jdrassa]

@AlexMurphy Correct

[Capeman]

Brilliant! I can't wait to test it out!

[AlexMurphy]

@Capeman Just added it myself. It worked great. A 1 or 2 second black screen then straight in. I hated that bloody screen!

[herb_fargus]

For the record I did create a black splash screen for ES :

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/52

But... The white fade is hardcoded into the whole system so it looked stupid to have it flash white as it loaded a black splash

[AlexMurphy]

@herb_fargus You're right of course. Just checked it again and there is a momentary flash of white just before the ES carousel pops up. But I can definitely live with that for now. That pure white ES splash was just too much.

[Totaltweaker]

@jdrassa This method seems to work great if the UI modes are not in use but if it's set into Kiosk mode the es_settings.cfg reverts to an unmodified state after reboot. Does enabling the Kiosk mode overwrite the es_settings.cfg file? If so can I modify the Kiosk mode to include the splash screen setting?