Runcommand System Splashscreens!

Rookervik

@meleu Aww man, now people want individual port splash screens? Hahaha, like this?

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I've already made images for all the ports. I don't think they were ever added to the distro like the RetroPie menu was. I even made a gamelist for them with images that can be linked in the roms folder.

detron

@Rookervik that is awesome!

meleu

@Rookervik oh man! How can I sleep knowing I have such big debt with you?!

I'm very very grateful. The Cave Story image is awesome!

Rookervik

Need some brave person to go get me the exact directory names for every port RetroPie has. Adventure Game Studio, LinCity, Warcraft, ev-a-ree-thang. :P

Got these so far, but I don't know if the directory structure is correct.
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Rookervik

If you want to try these out and see if the folder names are correct... or try changing folder names until they work... download this. Once I have all the correct folder names, I can add it all to the same big fat download.

I just used the Ports images I created some months ago. Around the same time we updated the RetroPie menu with icons. Used 8-bit PNG to save space and fit with the whole Pixel theme.

Pixel Runcommand Splash Screens - PORTS -

meleu

@Rookervik The ports I have here are all at/opt/retropie/configs/ports/. Like this:

$ ls -l /opt/retropie/configs/ports/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Out  6 14:23 cavestory
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Out  2 07:07 doom
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Out  1 17:33 duke3d
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2193 Out 13 02:27 launching.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Out  2 07:08 quake
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Out  1 17:34 quake3
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Out  2 07:09 smw

BUT I'm not sure if every port is a subdirectory of .../configs/ports.

Keep in mind that currently to get the launching image shown for ports it needs a workaround, like @Colossus did above. So my suggestion is to name the images with the name of the port and put them in only one directory (let's say ports/launching-images/), and then the user rename the files he/she wants.

Rookervik

@meleu Yeah, I referenced the ports section of the wiki to get the directory names I could find. Some seem wrong? Like CaveStory should be cavestory (makes a difference, stupid linux) And some like Minecraft and such are not even in the ports folder. Perhaps if this is popular, we can work on a workaround or something. But at least there are the pictures for people to use if they want. :D

PokeEngineer

@Rookervik

Yeah...the Minecraft thing was kinda my fault, as I changed the module so that it installs the version from the Raspbian repositories (a.k.a. the packaged version)... Sorry about that.

Rion

@Rookervik Hi again... Um... would you please please make a runcommand splashscreen for Sega-Mega-CD?

BuZz

I have modified runcommand so it will look in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/NAME/, then /opt/retropie/configs/ports/ for a ports launching image so you can have a single launching image or have one per port if you really want.

Colossus

@BuZz Great, thank you!

Zigurana

@herb_fargus said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

@BuZz I'm already planning the party. I bring the cake you bring the beer

I have been thinking of an international IRL meetup for some time now...

Rion

@BuZz Awesome!

lilbud

@Zigurana I think a skype meetup would be more possible.

Zigurana

@lilbud I always try to aim high, as to leave some room to fall short... :-)

Rookervik

@Rion

Runcommand collection updated

Includes all changes to Pixel up to v1.9.3. This includes Mega-CD.
Download link updated above.
Github repository updated.

Rion

@Rookervik said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

@Rion

Runcommand collection updated

Includes all changes to Pixel up to v1.9.3. This includes Mega-CD.

Download link updated above.

Github repository updated.

Thank you @Rookervik
Does this include Pixel-Meta theme?
Btw can i get the link to your repository so i can grab individual files?

Thank you once again :)

Rookervik

@Rion Runcommand splash screens are not attached to any one theme. It doesn't matter what theme you are using when you install these splash screens. These are pixel-based... so will look best with any of the pixel themes.

Lortropic

I hope this will be merged soon and be default in retropie. Is a very beautiful improvement.

herb_fargus

@Lortropic it's a user specific mod. Unlikely to be included by default as the default run command launch screen provides information on the emulator and rom being run. Also if other users choose a theme that isn't pixel it may look out of place for their system.