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    Guide: Video on Launching Game

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    • cyperghostC
      cyperghost @wcarvalho
      last edited by

      @wcarvalho said in Guide: Video on Launching Game:

      Sorry for the delay in answering, I had some personal problems.

      No problem at all, you're welcome. Tidy your things in RL then you have more fun at all and for RP ;)

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      • markyh444M
        markyh444
        last edited by markyh444

        I found this post recently and thought it was a great idea, so I have modified the launching image for each system I have installed into an animation instead. I've created a little script that pulls through the system variable and then looks for the launching.mp4 file in each of the image directories I have my scraped artwork in.

        It works great, so thought I'd share it:

        #!/usr/bin/env bash
        
        system="$1"
        viddir="$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$system/images"
        
        omxplayer -b "$viddir/launching.mp4" > /dev/null
        
        fi
        

        I saved this as launch-video.sh and placed it in the configs/all directory and then edited the runcommand-onstart.sh file to include the path of the script in quotations so it will load. I admit, I'm really not a coder, so I copied the layout of @meleu 's joystick-selection script and added the same "$@" at the end of the line. I assume this did something fancy, as my script didn't work without it, and worked great with it. (I'd be happy if somebody could enlighten me as to it's purpose, as I'm always wanting to learn.)

        So anyways, same thing applies as with the OP's guide and you'll need to turn off the runcommand menu for it to not appear after the video has ran. I basically mocked up a similar loading screen to my Original NES splash I made ages ago -

        but instead of it loading up the "Nintendo Presents" bit, it loads a system-specific loading splash then fades to black. It's dead simple, but I like it.

        Anyway, feel free to steal my hashed-together script it you want.

        Retropie in a NES - Pi 3 with Mausberry circuit shutdown switch wired to buttons and 8bitdo NesPro30 controller
        Retropie in a Saturn Controller - Pi Zero, GPIO controls using DB9 driver
        Retropie in a PSX - Pi3
        https://markyh444.wordpress.com

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        • cyperghostC
          cyperghost @markyh444
          last edited by

          @markyh444 $@ expands all command parameters....
          so $@ pathes $1 $2 $3 ... to your script

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          • EldelinCuentE
            EldelinCuent
            last edited by EldelinCuent

            hey thnx for the share , i like this video loading it give an extra to this great retro gaming Pi ....
            but my problem is i cant get it to run i think i forgot something ..When i start a game i still get the Image instead of video launching.
            I adjust the run command and linked my Video Dir In it. Im pretty sure i need to do something else or adjust another script , but here im Lost haha :D i Video Tutorial would be great since the One ETA Prime shared is Broken , that link wont work --->

            Greets

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            • PeridotP
              Peridot @markyh444
              last edited by

              @markyh444 said in Guide: Video on Launching Game:

              I found this post recently and thought it was a great idea, so I have modified the launching image for each system I have installed into an animation instead. I've created a little script that pulls through the system variable and then looks for the launching.mp4 file in each of the image directories I have my scraped artwork in.

              It works great, so thought I'd share it:

              #!/usr/bin/env bash
              
              system="$1"
              viddir="$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$system/images"
              
              omxplayer -b "$viddir/launching.mp4" > /dev/null
              
              fi
              

              I saved this as launch-video.sh and placed it in the configs/all directory and then edited the runcommand-onstart.sh file to include the path of the script in quotations so it will load. I admit, I'm really not a coder, so I copied the layout of @meleu 's joystick-selection script and added the same "$@" at the end of the line. I assume this did something fancy, as my script didn't work without it, and worked great with it. (I'd be happy if somebody could enlighten me as to it's purpose, as I'm always wanting to learn.)

              So anyways, same thing applies as with the OP's guide and you'll need to turn off the runcommand menu for it to not appear after the video has ran. I basically mocked up a similar loading screen to my Original NES splash I made ages ago -

              but instead of it loading up the "Nintendo Presents" bit, it loads a system-specific loading splash then fades to black. It's dead simple, but I like it.

              Anyway, feel free to steal my hashed-together script it you want.

              This seems like a nice way to do it, so thanks!

              Can you post the exact line you added to runcommand-onstart.sh ? I looked at meleu's joystick-selection script but couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance.

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              • markyh444M
                markyh444 @Peridot
                last edited by

                @peridot it was the path to my script with "$@" at the end

                Retropie in a NES - Pi 3 with Mausberry circuit shutdown switch wired to buttons and 8bitdo NesPro30 controller
                Retropie in a Saturn Controller - Pi Zero, GPIO controls using DB9 driver
                Retropie in a PSX - Pi3
                https://markyh444.wordpress.com

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                • cyperghostC
                  cyperghost @Peridot
                  last edited by

                  @peridot The user @7heSandman created some wonderfull system startup videos. I think that will fit all your needs

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                    n4tur3502
                    last edited by

                    Is something like this possible for the ubuntu version of retropie? I have tried searching all over but cant seem to find anything. Maybe im just out of luck.

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                    • A
                      albpara
                      last edited by

                      I was looking to something like this. My idea was to add something like the retro analog tv snow/noise before launching the game.

                      I disabled the runcommand output and added the video to the runcommand-onstart.sh as suggested but there is a big delay between the end of the video and the start on the game and I don't see such delay in your video @wcarvalho.

                      Am I missing something?

                      Thanks for information guys :)

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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost @albpara
                        last edited by

                        @albpara
                        You can try to add an ampersand after the launching line in runcommand
                        omxplayer -b "path/to/video/launching.mp4" > /dev/null &

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