My Anti-Kid mode

challenger2010

Thanks for the reply. I tried that package but my kids still brought up the pop-up menu screens and drove me crazy to help them get out of it. As for long game lists, you can just use the upper buttons to jump a screen at a time. My biggest list is around 700 games so this works fine. I have been using PI for 2 years and have not messed up an SD card yet over three different systems. I do keep an image of the card ready to go just in case. I personally just needed a complete lockout for my kids.

Eater_Of_Cheese

@edmaul69 really? The Konami code gets out of it?
Well, that was an unnecessary reimage.

edmaul69

@Eater_Of_Cheese yup. Sucks you had to do a reimage.

edmaul69

@challenger2010 You have to select kid mode in the menu to activate it. Then the only popups they get is shutdown and letter select.

Eater_Of_Cheese

@edmaul69 I reimage way too much anyway. Sometimes it's pulling the plug accidentally, sometimes I just am messing around and I corrupt it, and so on, and so on.

challenger2010

@edmaul69 Yeah, got all that. I just don't want any menu options for them. Just the ability to pick a game, that's it. Every time someone new uses it, they pick a game then hit start. Then they bother me how to get out of the menu and how to pick a game. All that is gone now😀

edmaul69

@challenger2010 thats why they have kiosk mode on it. No menus. But you still can get back to it if you need to.

challenger2010

@edmaul69 Kiosk mode still uses start and select to bring up pop-up menus. My way eliminates all of it.

Zigurana

Interesting solution.
I made de kid-kiosk UI EmulationStation a while back, this is the first time I got this particular feedback,

I find it funny though, while my kids were able to completely destroy the regular ES within 5min ('daddy, the up/down no longer works!'), they never had an issue with pressing a button twice, thereby simply closing the menu. The youngest is four yo btw.

Does anyone else think it's worthwhile to introduce another UI-mode, say 'minimal', in order to get rid of even more UI elements?

pjft

I could see that as an option, though I struggle to see how to properly shut down the system?

Rion

@pjft By switching to a bare minimal you could just use the Konami code to get back and from there shut it down.

I know @Zigurana has been working on this alot and even if it's not possible right now i would love to see this implemented in to the main branch at some point.

This and @fieldofcows work on video support is my favorite features so far.

pjft

@Rion Oh, don't get me wrong - I am a big fan of the ES Kids version that Zigurana develops! In fact, I had it on my setup until the Video one came up. I'd certainly like to see it in the main branch :)

My question was about how to then shutdown the system without menus, but I forgot about the Konami code.

Thanks!

challenger2010

Well, you know that I think it would be great! And needed😀