Changing splash screen without going through network

mikeh1982

Hi! I'm brand brand new to Retropie and even Raspberry pi. I'm learning everything as I go at the moment. I've been scouring the internet, YouTube and the forums here for an answer to my question. So I apologize in advance if this is a stupid basic question.

I want to change the splash screen to a custom splash video. All the tutorials I can find all seem to explain it as if it's a few clicks by going through the network. I was wondering if there was a way to transfer it via USB. I know when you first plug in a USB stick, it writes all the folders to move roms into and all that. So I thought there would be something similar for splash screens. But I can't seem to know what I'm looking for here. Any guidance is appreciated.

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3, model B. Using retropie 4.1. And I'm working on a Mac, if that's relevant. Please feel free to dumb it down as much as you wish. Thank you!

mikeh1982

Also, using retropie 4.1

mikeh1982

Actually, I think I was confusing myself unnecessarily. Let me retool the question. In your Retropie, you should have folders for BIOS, configs, roms, and splashscreens. Correct?

On mine, I don't. Mine just has folders for BIOS, configs and roms. So I guess my questions really are just as follows:

why don't I have a splashscreens folder on mine?
can I just create a folder with that name and will it just work if I move files into it?

AlexMurphy

@mikeh1982 You need to download the extra splashscreens first. In the main RetroPie configuration menu choose the option "Splashscreens". It's all in there.

mikeh1982

I got it. So even though the splashscreens folder was NOT on there when I plugged the USB internet my computer, it is there if I connect the Raspberry Pi to network then look it up that way. That's weird right? Why would a folder only show up over network when the other folders in the same directory are there whether I look through the network or by plugging the USB into the computer?

AlexMurphy

@mikeh1982 Transferring the ROMs via USB is done automatically so there is no need to look at the directories, you don't need to manually move anything. If you use samba share over the network then the 4 directories are automatically shared to allow you to edit, transfer, delete, manage etc... Just as a tip, you can add extra folders / directories to be shared over the network. If you go to /etc/samba and open smb.conf you can add entries, eg

[home]
comment = home
path = "/home/pi"
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = pi

Or add any other path you want to access...