Can't use my splashscreen as a loading screen anymore

mubonassi

Edit: I figured it out! After reflashing my SD Card again, I did all the steps again, updated the script, enabled SSH, and nothing happened, but, I remembered that: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/39078

At the step:
2. edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and before emulationstation is called;
while pgrep omxplayer >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
mpg123 -Z /home/pi/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

It forced the BGM script after the EmulationStation is loaded, by putting that line after the "emulationstation" line on the autostart.sh, it started the script after emulationstation is called, so, I can use now my SplashScreen as the loading screen again, since there's no script between them

Hello!
I don't know if it's the recent update, but I used to have my 30s splashcreen video as my loading screen

But, now I got a linux kernel version text between the Splashscreen and the Emulation Station loading screen

I did all the steps from both of these tutorials: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-hide-the-boot-text

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/59310/remove-boot-messages-all-text-in-jessie

And by doing that, I got rid of all the texts, but I still got a 1s black screen between the Splashcreen and the Emulation Station Loading Screen, and I wanted to get rid of that, so I could use a longer Splashscreen video as the loading screen again

And, before asking what changes I did before this started happening, I only updated the new version of Retropie and enabled SSH

Thank you!

mitu

@mubonassi Have you configured the Splashscreen in RetroPie-Setup - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Splashscreen/ ? If you upgraded by using the new 4.4 image, did you copy your video files on the new system ?

mubonassi

@mitu My splashscreen is working, but, no matter how long the video is, I still get a 1 second black screen after it, and then the Emulation Station Loading Screen
Before that, my 30 second Splashscreen worked as the highest layer and surpassed the emulationstation loading screen (As explained in your link), but now, I get a mid black screen between both of them, that used to have a linux boot text, and now my splashscreen can't surpass the loading screen anymore, because of that mid screen between then
And I updated my software by script from the rpsetup, I didn't flash the new version

mitu

@mubonassi Ah, so it's just a timing issue, I though the whole splashscreen was not working.

mubonassi

@mitu But, I don't know what to do, the same video used to work, after updating and enabling SSH, I got a linux version boot text between the Splashscreen and the Emulationstation Loading Screen, and now my splashscreen can't surpass the emulationstation screen anymore because of that
I got hid of all the boot texts by doing the steps from the tutorials, but, I still get a 1 second blackscreen that used to have the Linux Version text on it

mubonassi

@mitu Update: I changed to tty1 again in the cmdline.txt in case there are more texts
And now I can see these lines are shown between the Splashcreen and the EmulationStation Loading Screen

[ 2.259017] systemmd-fsck[108]: e2fsck 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)
[ 2.260346] systemmd-fsck[108]: retropie: clean, 134569/1869728, 7270910/7776128 blocks
[ 4.120511] systemmd-fsck[280]: fsck.fat 3.0.27 (2014-11-12)
[ 4.122607] systemmd-fsck[108]: /dev/mmcblk0p1: 146 files, 10768/29117 clusters

My theory is the booting order is messed up, I think those lines should be shown before the splashscreen, and I didn't see those before because I changed to tty3 in the cmdline.txt

But I still don't know what to do

mubonassi

I figured it out, see the edit

Drakaen391

May attempt your fix for a similar issue I have

mitu

@mubonassi It might have been useful to provide that information beforehand, but glad that you got it sorted out in the end.