How to disable or remove "press "a" button to configure..." pop up window.

hakan1708

Hi,

Can somebody tell me if there is anyway to disable or remove "press "a" button to configure....." pop up screen right before the game rom loads? This is important because otherwise it will be useless for kids to play with retropie. Any help? Thanks in advance.

BuZz

@hakan1708 I did ! It's on the wiki. Check runcommand configuration from retropie menu in emulation station

herb_fargus

@hakan1708 I can believe people who use this forum don't read this first!

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

glennlake

@herb_fargus I can!!!

Drakaen391

@hakan1708 seeing as my 5 yr old has no trouble playing with the pop up... I think kids are just fine with that pop up

hakan1708

@herb_fargus oops! I figured it out. I should have read the manual first. Thanks a lot. Everything was up and running almost perfect until I chose "show favorites only" in "kid" mode. It crushed and didn't start. I really appreciate the guy who wrote the script but I wish they had something dead simple for kid mode. Like just playing the games and shutting down the system. Nothing else. I think once they start to add all the extra goodies it is getting complicated. I could be wrong.

hakan1708

@Drakaen391 I am thinking about the worst case scenario like kids are slamming the hell out of all the buttons constantly. Haha.

hakan1708

@glennlake haha.. They actually thought about it.

hakan1708

@BuZz Thanks. Really appreciate it.

jeanfredson

Here
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

andohh

@jeanfredson Thank you -- this was helpful. Searching for this answer this is the thread that comes up you seem to be the first person to actually answer the question.

SolidOlicom

Created an account just to answer this thread.
This is how you disable the launch menu configuration pop up while the rom is loading:

In the Retropi configuration screen
Go to :

retropi setup
configuration/tools
runcommand
Launch menu (set to Disabled)
exit and reboot to confirm

dankcushions

@SolidOlicom this thread was created (and answered) in 2016 and the last reply was in 2019...

AeroBlaster

@SolidOlicom Thank you very much. I ran in this issue this week.
Your solution is quick and easy to understand without further reading or link following.
I don't agree with the reply of dankcushions.
The already and old given answer was not a quick solution just a link where maybe the answer could be found if read. The link is not current anymore and your answer was the quickest and best solution if you ran in this issue nowadays.
Giving urls as 'answers' is a bad idea as they get old or lead to 404s in the worst case in the future.
Exception if there is a lot to read. But if the answer can be a quick list of "whats to do" do not point readers to urls please. In my point of view this is bad practice.

mitu

@AeroBlaster Don't necro-bump old topics.