Disable Notifications Globally

[GreenHawk84]

Hello, is there an easy way to disable notifications across all cores, or is this something that has to be toggled off for every system I use? I am talking about the yellow text notifications upon every start of a game.

[FroyoXSG]

You should be able to turn them off by launching RetroArch from the 'RetroPie' system in ES, then changing the option in RetroArch and saving the configuration. This will put the setting in the base configuration file at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg. Your cores inherit settings from it. If you've saved the system configs previously, the base retroarch.cfg might still get overridden, unfortunately.
Check in /opt/retropie/configs/<system>/retroarch.cfg -- if that file is significantly longer than the block below, that means that those settings override your base configuration.

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/<system>/"

#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

(above: a vanilla system cfg file)

[GreenHawk84]

@froyoxsg thank you, I did navigate this file before and I could not find the setting for the notifications on game startup. I may have overlooked it?

[ChaosEffect]

@greenhawk84 The line you're looking for is "video_font_enable." What FroyoXSG recommended doing is going to RetroPie -> RetroArch from the main system-select menu. Then, when the RetroArch menu pops up, you can go to

Settings -> On-Screen Display -> On-Screen Notifications

In there, "On-Screen Notifications" are the little text messages you see at the bottom of the screen, while "Graphics Widgets" are those more elaborate boxes telling you about remap and other files being loaded. You can set each to "OFF." I'm not sure what the corresponding line in the config file for the widgets is.