Exit to Main Menu instead of System menu

felipeseiber

So I've tried looking around but I can't seem to find an answer for this.

Here is the situation: I've created a custom theme using video previews (Works great! will hopefully share on here soon). When using video previews the clips will loop continuously. What's happening is that when I have people play the arcade (parties, work, etc...) people often exit the game and leave. Then the video preview starts playing again so you hear a continuous loop of the video game noises unless someone starts another game.

What I am wondering is there a way to change it so that when pressing both the Start & Select buttons it exits to the Main Menu (the menu where you select the console) instead of going back to the games list. This way when people exit the game and walk away the video previews don't start up again. Plus I think this would make it so the next person to come up knows there are other systems available (I've had some people never realize they could switch to a different system)

Thanks!

Sano

I see a major flaw in this :
If people just browse games without playing, the loop will continue.
Couldn't it be more efficient to look at ES screensaver, in order to stop video preview after a period of time ?
Other solutions include : video without sound, or a fixed number of loops.
Just my point of view :)

Looking forward to see your theme.

"Tell me what you need, I'll explain how you can do without it".
Too much time on linux IRC channels I think ;)

DarkWolf

@felipeseiber

change it so that when pressing both the Start & Select buttons it exits to the Main Menu

It don't know if this is hard coded , but I think that would have been the easiest way, so I guess it is hard coded

felipeseiber

@Sano said in Exit to Main Menu instead of System menu:

I see a major flaw in this :
If people just browse games without playing, the loop will continue.
Couldn't it be more efficient to look at ES screensaver, in order to stop video preview after a period of time ?
Other solutions include : video without sound, or a fixed number of loops.
Just my point of view :)

Looking forward to see your theme.

"Tell me what you need, I'll explain how you can do without it".
Too much time on linux IRC channels I think ;)

The browsing issue is a good and valid point I had not thought of, hmmm.....

I had thought about doing videos without sound but don't like that solution for 2 reasons:

remaking all of the videos would be a pain
many people I talked to liked having the sound during selection as it helps bring back some of the nostalgia

I also do have a screensaver in place but unless I really shorten the delay it doesn't help much with some of the game noises being obnoxious at times.

I think I might actually be ok with a fixed number of loops. However, when I looked through the theme documentation I didn't see any way or option to set this. Is there a property or something I missed that can be used to do this?

Thanks,