Emulationstation Enhancement Request (loading screen)

EctoOne

@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.

AlexMurphy

@Capeman This if from setup scrip 4.1.19. There is no option to simply disable the ES splash. Maybe I am missing something...

robertybob

@AlexMurphy What does option two do?

AlexMurphy

@robertybob enables / disables the RetroPie splash screen or custom video splash.

jdrassa

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.

AlexMurphy

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

jdrassa

@AlexMurphy Correct

Capeman

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

AlexMurphy

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

herb_fargus

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

AlexMurphy

@herb_fargus You're right of course. Just checked it again and there is a momentary flash of white just before the ES carousel pops up. But I can definitely live with that for now. That pure white ES splash was just too much.

Totaltweaker

@jdrassa This method seems to work great if the UI modes are not in use but if it's set into Kiosk mode the es_settings.cfg reverts to an unmodified state after reboot. Does enabling the Kiosk mode overwrite the es_settings.cfg file? If so can I modify the Kiosk mode to include the splash screen setting?