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    Eater_Of_Cheese @edmaul69
    last edited by 23 Feb 2017, 13:19

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

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      edmaul69 @Eater_Of_Cheese
      last edited by 23 Feb 2017, 13:23

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

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        edmaul69 @challenger2010
        last edited by edmaul69 23 Feb 2017, 13:25

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

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          Eater_Of_Cheese @edmaul69
          last edited by 23 Feb 2017, 13:25

          @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.

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            challenger2010 @edmaul69
            last edited by 23 Feb 2017, 13:46

            @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😀

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              edmaul69 @challenger2010
              last edited by 23 Feb 2017, 16:17

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

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                challenger2010 @edmaul69
                last edited by 24 Feb 2017, 00:12

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

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                  Zigurana
                  last edited by 24 Feb 2017, 07:46

                  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?

                  If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.

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                    pjft
                    last edited by 24 Feb 2017, 08:06

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

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                      Rion @pjft
                      last edited by 24 Feb 2017, 09:03

                      @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.

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                        pjft @Rion
                        last edited by 24 Feb 2017, 10:47

                        @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!

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                          challenger2010
                          last edited by 24 Feb 2017, 20:13

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

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