Sorry for the long delay, my Retropie related activities were severely limited in the last months, and this issue wasn't among the urgent ones. That said, it is still nagging at me, so I'd like to give it another try.
@mitu said in Loading ROM completely while displaying launch image:
That's abnormally long. Does this happen with the runcommand launch menu disabled ?
It does, depending on the emulator. While most libretro console cores load in 7-9 seconds, lr-mame2003-plus and lr-fbneo take 10-13 seconds. I just tested it again to be sure, with the runcommand menu disabled, but artwork enabled to measure the time after the artwork disappears.
My guess is that the STDIN (standard input) is 'stolen' by fbi, so any inputs (keyboard mainly) are not interpreted by the program which you expect (emulator or runcommand). Try running the command via nohup and feed-it /dev/null as STDIN/STDOUT.
Using nohup resulted in the image not being displayed, see my posts above:
@Clyde said in Loading ROM completely while displaying launch image:
(For the records, I tried nohup at the beginning of the line before, but the image wasn't visible then.)
@Clyde said in Loading ROM completely while displaying launch image:
If anyone can explain why putting fbi in the background leads to problems with the Enter key in at least RetroArch's MAME cores, or why using nohup doesn't display the image at all, and even with fbi's options -T and -d to choose a particular terminal or framebuffer, please share your wisdom with me and anyone else interested here.
Although I'm planning to upgrade my cab to a Pi 4 in the near future, which hopefully should shorten the loading times, I am still interested to solve this irritant conundrum.
