Turn off text prompts in game

Hyruleslink

I was curious if there was a way to turn off the yellow text prompts that pop-up in the lower left part of the screen. Text prompts like telling you a controller is connected or what save state was saved/loaded. If so, can someone point me in the right direction? Looked all over, but haven't seen this mentioned anywhere. I'm running Retropie on a Raspberry Pi 3B.

Ashpool

@Hyruleslink That one post from @sleve_mcdichael from the what line controls the on-screen-notificationsmay be helpfull to you.

sirhenrythe5th

@Ashpool i am not quit sure, but AFAIR the options to enable/disable onscreen notifications were introduced in Retroarch in times when buster was allready default for retropie.
As far as we are talking about stretch (Pi3) the options may not be available.

Floob

Does flipping this to false in your global retroarch.cfg do it?

# Enable usage of OSD messages.
video_font_enable = true

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch/#default-retroarchcfg

Ashpool

@sirhenrythe5th said in Turn off text prompts in game:

As far as we are talking about stretch (Pi3) the options may not be available.

Really? Retropie for RP3 is still on stretch? Sorry then!

mitu

@Ashpool said in Turn off text prompts in game:

Really? Retropie for RP3 is still on stretch? Sorry then!

It's not, but who knows what version or RetroArch/RetroPie is @Hyruleslink running. The old style notification was present before Raspbian buster support was added to RetroPie, as @sirhenrythe5th said. If you're running an old RetroArch version, you'd get the simpler (text-only) notification style messages that can be disabled with the option that @Floob mentioned.

Hyruleslink

@Floob Nope, didn't seem to do anything. As soon as I saw OSD in your message, I thought for sure that was it. Any other ideas on what it might be?

Floob

@Hyruleslink
Do you know what version of RetroArch you are running? Its usually in the bottom left somewhere when you are in the UI (Hotkey + X usually)

It might help to paste your retroarch.cfg file on pastebin or similar in case there is something obvious.