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    Grey Box for Emulation settings disappears after a while.

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    • meleuM
      meleu @RedBatman
      last edited by

      @RedBatman Well, maybe you can record a video of this issue happening...

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      • AlexMurphyA
        AlexMurphy Banned @RedBatman
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        @RedBatman Yeah, lets see this. I think you possibly have a non-standard set up that you have omitted to mention.

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        • RedBatmanR
          RedBatman @AlexMurphy
          last edited by

          @AlexMurphy okay when I have the time I'll do it

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          • AlexMurphyA
            AlexMurphy Banned @RedBatman
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            @RedBatman It wasn't a "put up or shut up" thing. You just seem to be having an issue that you, solely, are having. That just suggests to me, and others, that the issue is with your set-up, rather than the software. That makes stuff very difficult to fix / debug.

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            • RedBatmanR
              RedBatman @AlexMurphy
              last edited by

              @AlexMurphy Oh I'm not mad, actually I'm kinda happy I think I figured out what I was doing wrong, I was making my video output for roms DMT, instead of CEA, I learned that CEA was fo tvs and DMT is for pc monitors. So yeah that's seems to have fixed it, I'll post again if I run into issues again.

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              • AlexMurphyA
                AlexMurphy Banned @RedBatman
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                @RedBatman No one suggested you were "mad" but as usual it is something that people think is "irrelevant". As I said "the issue is with your set-up". Try looking at that first.

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                • RedBatmanR
                  RedBatman
                  last edited by

                  Well yeah I switched my emulators from using DMT to CEA and that's seems to have fixed it since I usually play the Retropie on my TV. I'll give it a few days and post back if I get issues again.

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                  • RedBatmanR
                    RedBatman
                    last edited by

                    Well bad news its still happening, good news is that its happening less now. I will try to film it next time its happens. Also if I didn't make it clear before when this happens, if I were to go into Retropie-Setup it will be a black screen as well unless I type a key on a keyboard if I have one plugged in. I'm thinking that maybe after awhile it goes to sleep om itself or something but yeah I will try to capture it again when I see it again. Any other advice is helpful.

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                    • RedBatmanR
                      RedBatman
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                      Okay so I learned yesterday that the grey box I'm talking about is Run Command. So yes Run command after awhile will go black, though I think it's more fair to say it goes to sleep. See for now it can take me going through over 10, sometimes 20 roms before the Run Command goes to sleep. Which like I said in a previous post it will affect Retropie setup and Raspberry Config, which is usually remedied by a keyboard press.

                      I can tell that a lot of people here probably use thier scrapped game art as a splash screen and probably won't even notice anything. But if someone could test it out on there end and maybe see if it happens to them after a number or times, since I'm treating this as a minor software bug, which I imagine wouldn't bother most people. Still any help is appreciated.

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
                        last edited by

                        Can you post a video of what's going on and possibly your setup? It would help a lot.

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                        • RedBatmanR
                          RedBatman @A Former User
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                          @itsnitro Okay I should do that since I have said I would a few times already, also what exactly do you want to know of my setup like what types of emulators I'm using?

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                          • ?
                            A Former User
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                            @RedBatman Maybe the image you are using, the emulators, themes (they might do something) and what Grey Box you are talking about.

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                            • RedBatmanR
                              RedBatman @A Former User
                              last edited by

                              @itsnitro The post I gave not too long ago about the grey box I'm talking about is Run Command, also what do you mean by image, sorry whIle Imy tech savvy when it comes to Linux I'm bit of a newbie.

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                              • RedBatmanR
                                RedBatman
                                last edited by RedBatman

                                I just found another topic from a year ago with my exact issue

                                https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2831/runcommand-dialog-before-game-sometimes-disappears

                                Could this fix still work? If so how do I implement correctly?

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                                • meleuM
                                  meleu @RedBatman
                                  last edited by meleu

                                  @RedBatman You should provide details about your setup. Like that form in the read-this-first post.

                                  EDIT: I've just realized that I asked for this info 4 days ago.

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                                  • RedBatmanR
                                    RedBatman
                                    last edited by RedBatman

                                    Okay its a raspberry pi 3 b

                                    Retropie 4.2.3
                                    Emulation Station 2.19
                                    Xbox 360 contoller
                                    47inch lgtv

                                    So how do I add something to cmdline.txt? Since I tried the fix in

                                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2831/runcommand-dialog-before-game-sometimes-disappears

                                    and I don't think I'm doing it right.

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                                    • meleuM
                                      meleu @RedBatman
                                      last edited by meleu

                                      @RedBatman If you started your RetroPie with 4.2 there's no need to do that workaround in /boot/cmdline.txt.

                                      By the way, how did started in RetroPie. I mean, how did you got an SD card with RetroPie installed in it? Did you install the 4.2 or a previous version?

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                                      • RedBatmanR
                                        RedBatman @meleu
                                        last edited by RedBatman

                                        @meleu Well funny thing is that I fixed it for now. And I installed it via Raspian Desktop the first time.

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