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    • hiulitH
      hiulit @Flapperultra
      last edited by

      @flapperultra I'm sorry, but this script doesn't work with videos, only images. It creates a splashscreen (the one shown at boot) based on an image you choose and the color for the Fun Fact!™.
      It was never intended to create videos with fun facts.

      If you want to show a video splashscreen you've created, see the Splashscreen Wiki.

      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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      • meleuM
        meleu @hiulit
        last edited by

        @hiulit there's another PR on your repo.

        Also, I'm thinking if this functionality could be converted in a scriptmodule and submitted to @zerojay 's RetroPie-Extra repository... What do you think?

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        • Z
          zerojay
          last edited by

          If you build it, I'll take it. I accept PRs. :)

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          • hiulitH
            hiulit @meleu
            last edited by

            @meleu Thanks again for the PR! :) There's quite a few changes, so I'll try to understand everything. Then maybe I'll ask you some questions about it :P , test it and merge it.
            @zerojay That's a great idea! I'll take a look at how to implement that :)

            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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            • hiulitH
              hiulit @zerojay
              last edited by

              @zerojay @meleu I've created a PR ;) https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/pull/265

              My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

              • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
              • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
              • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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              • hiulitH
                hiulit
                last edited by hiulit

                I think we are ready for a v1.0.0!!! https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens

                Here are the latest updates:

                • Added a bunch of new Fun Facts!
                • Had a lot of help from @meleu , so the code should be quite good :P
                • Some refactoring has been done. Check out the new README.
                • Created a GUI. Some examples:

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-01

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-02

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-03

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-04

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-05

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-06

                Retropie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens-GUI-07

                Also, I created a scriptmodule that is waiting to be integrated in @zerojay 's RetroPie-Extra repository. This will make installation and usage easier, because the script will be in RetroPie Setup.

                My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                • hiulitH
                  hiulit
                  last edited by

                  Thanks to @zerojay , Fun Facts! Splashscreens for Retropie is officially on the RetroPie-Extra repository!!! :D

                  You can find it in the supplementary section.

                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                  • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                  • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                  • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                  • meleuM
                    meleu @hiulit
                    last edited by

                    @hiulit well done sir!!

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                    • hiulitH
                      hiulit
                      last edited by

                      Good news everyone! Fun Facts! Splashscreens v1.1.0 is here! :D

                      Added

                      • --apply-splash to use the generated Fun Facts! splashscreen.
                      • --update to check if the Fun Facts! script needs updates.

                      Deprecated

                      • --splash is now --splash-path.

                      Now it's possible to apply/set/use the Fun Facts! splashscreen right within the script, with the command --apply-splash.
                      This will append the generated Fun Facts! splashscreen to /etc/splashscreen.list. This file is the one responsible to tell the system which splashscreen to show at boot.

                      Also, I've added the --update command, to stay up to date with the latest changes ;)

                      0_1513599944323_fun-facts-splashscreens-gui-06.jpg

                      It would be awesome if you guys could try this script :)
                      Let me know if it's working (or not), if you find some functionality is lacking, etc.

                      Thanks!

                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                      • hiulitH
                        hiulit
                        last edited by hiulit

                        We are now at Fun Facts! Splashscreens v1.4.1! :D

                        You can check the CHANGELOG to see the latest changes, but the main ones are:

                        • More Fun Facts!, thanks to Thunderforge.
                        • "Set the text color" is now split into 2 subsections, basic colors and full list of colors.
                        • Check if there are updates to download.

                        You can use the Update script option from within the script to get the latest version.

                        If you are using the script via the RetroPie-Setup (if you installed it via the Retropie-Extra repository), go to:

                        • Manage packages
                        • Manage experimental packages
                        • fun-facts-splashscreens
                        • Update from source

                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                        • fnkngrvF
                          fnkngrv
                          last edited by

                          This is definitely pretty cool however why are you saying that it is only able to be used on the Raspberry Pi boards?

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                          • hiulitH
                            hiulit @fnkngrv
                            last edited by

                            @fnkngrv I guess you are referring to other boards like Odroid, Orangepi, Tinker boards, etc, right? Maybe I should change that. What I meant is that Splashscreens are NOT available on these systems !x86 !osmc !xbian !mali !kms.

                            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                            • fnkngrvF
                              fnkngrv @hiulit
                              last edited by fnkngrv

                              @hiulit said in Fun Facts Splashscreens:

                              @fnkngrv I guess you are referring to other boards like Odroid, Orangepi, Tinker boards, etc, right? Maybe I should change that. What I meant is that Splashscreens are NOT available on these systems !x86 !osmc !xbian !mali !kms.

                              Correct.

                              Is this specific capability 100% dependent on OMX player? I ask because as an example the Odroid XU4 has a mali GPU and we (Odroid Retro Arena) do have splashscreens working albeit they are the video ones. I have not tested static images as of yet because quite frankly most people I know prefer video over static.

                              To provide further background my dev team that I put together a few months ago have been working to provide a base RetroPie image for the Odroid XU4 that rivals the experience on the Raspberry boards and in many cases surpasses it. My goal when I started was to work toward assisting to have more robust support for the board and eventually providing our results to the RetroPie devs to incorporate those results and make the experience for the XU4 users more seemless from the start like with the RPi boards.

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                              • hiulitH
                                hiulit @fnkngrv
                                last edited by

                                @fnkngrv I really don't know what makes splashscreens work, I actually just copied the flags that RetroPie is using, assuming they would know :P
                                That being said, those flags are only used in the scriptmodule, if you use the "standalone" fun facts script https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens/blob/master/fun-facts-splashscreens.sh it should work. It doesn't check any of those flags.

                                My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                • hiulitH
                                  hiulit
                                  last edited by hiulit

                                  @fnkngrv said in Fun Facts Splashscreens:

                                  !x86 !osmc !xbian !mali !kms

                                  Maybe @herb_fargus or @BuZz could tell usa bit more about these flags !x86 !osmc !xbian !mali !kms in splashscreen.shhttps://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/f482904f8e2fd0edb02057805b7ed813e3265f9b/scriptmodules/supplementary/splashscreen.sh and when do splashscreens work and when they don't.

                                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                  • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                  • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                  • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                  • hiulitH
                                    hiulit
                                    last edited by

                                    New Fun Facts! Splashscreens version v1.5.0.

                                    Changelog

                                    Fixed

                                    • Fixed issue in create_fun_fact() which was not getting proper values and therefore making the function not to work.
                                    • Fixed issue in Set splashscreen path option which was setting the path incorrectly.

                                    Added

                                    • Merged #16 - More Fun Facts! thanks to Thunderforge.
                                    • Added documentation for --version.
                                    • Added a style guide for adding new Fun Facts!.

                                    Changed

                                    • Applied the style guide to Fun Facts!.
                                    • Updated help for the scriptmodule.
                                    • Cleaned up code and comments.
                                    • Changed some outputs that were too much verbose.

                                    I guess there aren't many people using the script because there were a couple of big bugs and nobody noticed :P

                                    Anyway, I keep working on improving it :D

                                    My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                    • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                    • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                    • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                    • fnkngrvF
                                      fnkngrv @hiulit
                                      last edited by

                                      @hiulit said in Fun Facts Splashscreens:

                                      @fnkngrv I really don't know what makes splashscreens work, I actually just copied the flags that RetroPie is using, assuming they would know :P
                                      That being said, those flags are only used in the scriptmodule, if you use the "standalone" fun facts script https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens/blob/master/fun-facts-splashscreens.sh it should work. It doesn't check any of those flags.

                                      good to know....It would be interesting to see this also get implemented in the launching images via runcommand.

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                                      • hiulitH
                                        hiulit @fnkngrv
                                        last edited by hiulit

                                        @fnkngrv Yeah, that's something we talked about with some people here in the early stages of the Fun Facts! Splashscreens development but I decided to start with the boot splashscreens as it was easier to do. I've never work with the runcommand but I wanted to, so I guess now it's a good time to take a look at it ;)
                                        Also, there was some talking about the possibility that launching the script via the runcommamd could take too much time to create the splashscreen and therefore the user would have to wait too much to start the game.
                                        I'll open an issue in the GitHub repo so I don't forget!

                                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                        • cyperghostC
                                          cyperghost @hiulit
                                          last edited by

                                          @hiulit said in Fun Facts Splashscreens:

                                          Also, there was some talking about the possibility that launching the script via the runcommamd could take too much time to create the splashscreen and therefore the user would have to wait too much to start the game.

                                          I'm here!
                                          Well the runcommand-onstart.sh is the key for this and afaik runcommand itself starts the emulators AFTER the onstart-script gots completly excuted and closed.
                                          Why do I say that? Because if you add a sleeptimer of a few seconds. The runcommand call is delayed for a few seconds. So I think it doesn't matter at which point a splashscreen is created.

                                          I would suggest to use /dev/shm because that's a RAM-drive (fast) and will cleanup itself after powerdown ;)

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                                          • meleuM
                                            meleu @hiulit
                                            last edited by

                                            @hiulit @cyperghost my 2 cents, call the script via runcommand-onend.sh. When an user launches a game he is eager to play, and even a short delay can be frustrating. When he leaves the game he is already satisfied and a small delay to go back to emulationstation won't hurt that much. ;-)

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