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    Emulationstation Enhancement Request (loading screen)

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    • CapemanC
      Capeman
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      I notice lots of people are currently working on updates for EmulationStation, which is awesome.

      I would like to request that one of you extremely clever, talented and good looking programmers could try to make the EmulationStation splash screen (the one with the ES logo that says loading) load from a separate image file instead of being embedded within the binary. If we could just replace a jpeg to change that screen, it would be absolutely stellar for people who crave customization, such as myself.

      Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @Capeman
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        @Capeman you can disable the ES splash and use a custom boot splash screen. It accomplishes the same thing.

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • CapemanC
          Capeman
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          Interesting! I didn't know there was an option to kill the ES splash screen. It would be great to just have the 1 boot screen without having to see the blinding white of EmulationStation Loading every time i boot up.

          Not to change this to a Help & Support topic, but may I inquire as to where this setting is located (and does this require a more recent build of ES, I havent updated since January)?

          Thanks lots!

          Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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          • AlexMurphyA
            AlexMurphy Banned @Capeman
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            @Capeman Yeah, it burns the retinas off me if I'm sitting in a dark room and launch ES. I have a custom splash video but that plays when I boot up. I boot by default to the command line and have a custom menu here to launch Kodi, RetroPie, Desktop, Midnight Commander etc... When I launch ES from here I get the blinding white ES splash. The ability to hide / alter / turn this off would be appreciated by so many.

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            • CapemanC
              Capeman
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              As Herb noted, an option to hide it looks to have been implemented in a more recent version of ES, which i plan to update to.

              I found documentation on this in Github...
              Added a --no-splash option for disableing the ES logo

              But, unfortunately I'm bad at reading code and it doesnt seem to outwardly explain how this setting works... I'm still looking around and/or waiting for somebody smarter than myself to chime in. I'll let you know if i come across anything.

              Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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              • AlexMurphyA
                AlexMurphy Banned @herb_fargus
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                @herb_fargus That really only works if you boot straight into ES afaik (unless I have missed a recent change).

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                • CapemanC
                  Capeman
                  last edited by Capeman

                  You know about this one already? Do you know where to activate this setting?

                  Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                  • AlexMurphyA
                    AlexMurphy Banned @Capeman
                    last edited by AlexMurphy

                    @Capeman As I said it only works if you boot straight to ES. See this https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/splashscreen

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                    • CapemanC
                      Capeman
                      last edited by Capeman

                      I do boot directly into ES.

                      But, I think I'm confused, the link you posted directs to the splash screen menu on retropie setup which controls the customizable splash screen that replaces the Retropie Logo splash screen. Not the hard coded white ES loading screen.

                      Herb said above you could disable the ES splash screen and just have the customizable boot splash screen, if i read that right... and there seems to be github commit that was merged just a month or so ago that allows the white ES menu to be turned off... The wiki page doesn't seem to have been updated since june of last year, so it can't have this recent commit information on there.

                      Maybe I'm reading this all wrong, haha.

                      Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                      • AlexMurphyA
                        AlexMurphy Banned @Capeman
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                        @Capeman Maybe I'm confused! I don't think the ES screen can be disabled without replacing it. I'm not able to access the Pi to check atm. @herb_fargus any clarification?

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                          EctoOne @herb_fargus
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                          @herb_fargus said in Emulationstation Enhancement Request (loading screen):

                          @Capeman you can disable the ES splash and use a custom boot splash screen. It accomplishes the same thing.

                          This is a thing I was wondering about the last 2 days. How exactly do we do that? I guess we have to edit a script but I was never that deep into Linux to know what is executed in which order while booting.

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                          • AlexMurphyA
                            AlexMurphy Banned @Capeman
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                            @Capeman This if from setup scrip 4.1.19. There is no option to simply disable the ES splash. Maybe I am missing something...0_1489183913521_Screenshot_2017-03-10-22-09-02.png

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                              robertybob @AlexMurphy
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                              @AlexMurphy What does option two do?

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                              • AlexMurphyA
                                AlexMurphy Banned @robertybob
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                                @robertybob enables / disables the RetroPie splash screen or custom video splash.

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                                  jdrassa
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                                  There are 2 ways to do it. --no-splash is a command line argument. You can edit the startup script to add this.

                                  The better way is to edit /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg and add the following line:

                                  <bool name="SplashScreen" value="false" />

                                  It would be nice if it was configurable in the Settings menu in EmulationStation though. I'll have to add that to my todo list.

                                  Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                                  • AlexMurphyA
                                    AlexMurphy Banned @jdrassa
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                                    @jdrassa Good man. And just to clarify... hahah! That will disable the ES retina burner splashscreen but leave the RetroPie splashscreen/video?

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                                      jdrassa @AlexMurphy
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                                      @AlexMurphy Correct

                                      Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                                      • CapemanC
                                        Capeman
                                        last edited by

                                        Brilliant! I can't wait to test it out!

                                        Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                                        • AlexMurphyA
                                          AlexMurphy Banned @Capeman
                                          last edited by AlexMurphy

                                          @Capeman Just added it myself. It worked great. A 1 or 2 second black screen then straight in. I hated that bloody screen!

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                                          • herb_fargusH
                                            herb_fargus administrators
                                            last edited by

                                            For the record I did create a black splash screen for ES :

                                            https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/52

                                            But... The white fade is hardcoded into the whole system so it looked stupid to have it flash white as it loaded a black splash

                                            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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