Speed up retropie's boot time?

[Darksavior]

I stumbled onto this video of someone booting their pi rather fast.

I'm sure some sacrifices had to be made, but since I'm not that familiar with everything retropie is loading during boot, is there a guide or tips on some stuff to disable to make it as speedy as that video or somewhat close?

I've only gone as far as disabling the samba shares and that disabling the looking for network or whatever it's called.

[mitu]

@darksavior said in Speed up retropie's boot time?:

I'm sure some sacrifices had to be made, but since I'm not that familiar with everything retropie is loading during boot, is there a guide or tips on some stuff to disable to make it as speedy as that video or somewhat close?

Not an expert advice, but as far as booting is concerned, you use the fastboot and quiet options in /boot/cmdline.txtto gain a few seconds.
Once booted, you can use the systemd-analyze command to see which services take the most time during the system start and try to disable what you don't need. This command will also help if you need measuring boot times once you start tweaking stuff.

If you can configure ES do not scan the ROM folders and only use the gamelist config file, that might also get a few seconds back (depending on the size of your ROM folders).

There are other configuration that can be tried - i.e. overclocking the SD card, the CPU, disabling ports - by modifying the /boot/config.txt file, but I'm not so familiar with them.

[Darksavior]

@mitu Thanks, that might be enough to get somewhere.