Cannot disable RunCommand Splash screen.

carlhungus74

Hello,
I have previously set runcommand to display a splashscreen. Working great.
For various purposes, I now need to disable it to get the "press button" message back again.
Unfortunately, it still displays the splashscreen.
This is my config.
Pi Model or other hardware: 3B
Power Supply used: original (2.5A)
RetroPie Version Used : 4.4
Built From: installed on ubuntu 18.04 64bits
USB Devices connected: none
Controller used: 8bitdo
Error messages received:

runcommand config :
use_art = "0"
disable_joystick = "0"
governor = ""
disable_menu = "0"
image_delay = "2"

I try to reboot, but the splash screen is still displayed at rom launching.
Strange. Not a big problem, but slightly disturbing.

thanks for your replies.

mitu

You can still get to the Runcommand launch menu by pressing a button, even if you have a splashscreen enabled. Just wait for the splashscreen to go away, then press a button immediately - there should be a small delay after the splashscreen is closed and the game/rom start.

carlhungus74

yes, I still can access runcommand (although it is a bit more difficult), nevertheless, I wonder why this setting is ignored ?
Any idea, or logs to look at ?
thanks.

mitu

@cacrlhungus74 You're right, I think there is a bug in runcommand that shows the launch art, even if not configured to do so. Where do you have the launch/splash image ? Is in the ROMs' folder ? Does this happen for all ROMs or just for one/few ?

carlhungus74

yes they are in roms/%systemname%/images/%gamename%-launching.png
I've got one splash screen per game.

Happens for all roms with splash screen.

I try to rename the "images" folder. to "_images" and launch a game : runcommand menu appears again.
rename folder"images" : splash screen appears again (setting is still on disabled).

Thanks

BuZz

It's actually by design. The launch splash is used if the files are in place so just rename / move them. The art setting is only for using box art.

carlhungus74

Thanks for the reply.
I will move folders when not needed.

mitu

@buzz I figured as much after posting.

Just on idea on the splash screen set-up: right now if the system has a launching.[png|jpg] in the /opt/retropie/config/$system folder, it's shown as splash screen. Can we add also the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$system as search path for the launching.[png|jpg] file ? This way copying the ROM folder would copy the launch image and it would make it easier to transfer/backup the launching image ? It can also be something like /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$system/images/launching or /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$system/media/launching (which I'd prefer, since scrapers can save information in the media folder).