RetroPie 4.7.1: Input device splash showing on launching every game

[Alturis]

I thought this might have been specific to one emulator but I am seeing that every game in every rom folder with every emulator shows a greenish splash message dialog in the lower left corner telling you what input device it is using when you launch a game and it first starts up. I am assuming this must be coming from retroarch or emulation station rather than any emulator.

e.g.
Generic X-Box pad configured in port #1

As I am currently using an xbox controller to get things setup over by my computer.

I was looking through the retroarch.cfg and es_settings.cfg for something that sounded like it might control this. I would prefer to not having that splash up every time a game starts.

There must be some way to not show those?

[mitu]

@alturis said in RetroPie 4.7.1: Input device splash showing on launching every game:

I am assuming this must be coming from retroarch or emulation station rather than any emulator.

Yes, it's a RetroArch notification - it appeared before also, it just used a yellow font to show the notification. You can disable it by setting menu_enable_widgets=false in retroarch.cfg. Newer versions of RetroArch have per-notification-type toggles, but not the one included right now in RetroPie.

[Alturis]

@mitu Thanks again! You have an irreplacable wealth of knowledge. ;)

[Alturis]

Oh, I see. So that just disables the widgets but still leaves the yellow text splash.

Is there any way to disable it completely?

[mitu]

You can disable the On screen notifications from the RetroArch settings (User Interface). The setting in retroarch.cfg is video_font_enable (effective once you disable the menu widgets). This will suppress any OSD messages (saving/loading/ff/etc.).

[Alturis]

@mitu Excellent thanks!