Replacing Emulationstation splash screen
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@obscuredbyclouds correct. Though you are on the retropie forums so we kinda assumed that's what you're using.
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@quicksilver said in Replacing Emulationstation splash screen:
@obscuredbyclouds correct. Though you are on the retropie forums so we kinda assumed that's what you're using.
Ah got it. Yeah looking to replace the ES splash.
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@obscuredbyclouds Do you have a walk through for the changes to use a different video/image?
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Can anyone help with this request? Thanks!
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@obscuredbyclouds according to this thread which is a couple of years old there are no solution to what you're asking https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/805/changing-es-splash-screen
The best you can do is to make an image or video that play enough until you reach the main menu. -
@obscuredbyclouds You got an answer on your first post - did you look at it ?
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@obscuredbyclouds are you asking how to change the retropie splash screen? Are you using retropie?
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@mitu said in Replacing Emulationstation splash screen:
@obscuredbyclouds You got an answer on your first post - did you look at it ?
Yes, tho I don't understand it. I asked if there was a walk through, or some direction. I understand it is read from the splash.svg image file. Which is in the resources folder. I don't know what to do with that information.
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Yeah I saw that thread, which is why I was asking if there was any up to date information.
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@quicksilver I would like to replace EmulationStation loading splash screen with a custom video/image. I can not find any info on that that is up to date. I can find how to disable the splash screen but not to replace. Any help would be great!
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@obscuredbyclouds last I checked the emulationstation splash had to be converted to binary and recompiled into the source. But it may have changed since then.
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@obscuredbyclouds Can you give some more information about your setup then? Are you using retropie? on a pi? a computer?
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@quicksilver Yeah@ RetroPie 4.4 on pi B plus, running the 128GB RetroRama.Rampage v2 image.
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@herb_fargus Is there a walk through for this? Otherwise it's above my pay grade.
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@obscuredbyclouds 3rd party images are not supported here. But why do you want to replace the ES splash screen? Are you trying to run two splash screens? Just turn the ES one off and replace the default Retropie splash screen with one that you want. Problem solved.
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/splashscreen
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@quicksilver the problem is, when I disable ES splash screen then there is a minute or two of a black screen while it loads. I can replace RetroPie splash screen, that's not an issue. Which is why I am looking to replace ES splash screen. Then there would be two splashes, which is fine I guess. If I know how to REPLACE ES splash screen I could disable RetroPie splash screen and there would only be one.
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@obscuredbyclouds said in Replacing Emulationstation splash screen:
Yes, tho I don't understand it. I asked if there was a walk through, or some direction. I understand it is read from the splash.svg image file. Which is in the resources folder. I don't know what to do with that information.
There is no walkthrough, but do you really need one for just replacing a file ? The installation folder for Emulationstation on a RetroPie system is
/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation. You have to replace thesplash.svgfile in theresourcessub-folder - so in/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources- with your own.svgfile. Does that make it easier ? Note that the regularpiuser cannot write to that folder, so you'd have to usesudoto copy the file in that location. -
@mitu thank you, this I can do once I figure out how to make my own, .svg file. I should be able to search for that. Thank you very much. I will give this a go when I get home, again, thanks.
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@obscuredbyclouds Inkscape is an open source SVG editor you can install and use to create your own image.
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@obscuredbyclouds This is a tutorial by our very own UDb23
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7357/tutorial-create-vector-logo-from-bitmap
Its has some good info on how to make SVGs
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