How to disapear this config message of mame games

Dochartaigh

@BuZz said in How to disapear this config message of mame games:

Not seen that either. I would need details about setup etc (retropie versions / platform and so on)

RetroPie 4.0.2 (and the small .03 update), most recently RetroPie 4.1, all on Raspberry Pi 3's. I know it did it last night but I'll try to pay more attention to which emulator I was using, and exactly what I was doing before it happened (thought it was the stock NES emulator last night...but I was messing around with a bunch of them as usual ;)

BuZz

@Dochartaigh How did you update ? please can you post the output of cat /boot/cmdline.txt

Dochartaigh

@BuZz said in How to disapear this config message of mame games:

@Dochartaigh How did you update ? please can you post the output of cat /boot/cmdline.txt

Most lately is was a fresh install off the BerryBoot image from this website. I just took a crappy cell phone video of it happening twice, then I reboot to show you how it works properly again after simply rebooting - let me know if you need me to post that video somewhere. Here's my cmdline.txt:

elavator=deadline quiet bootmenutimeout=10
datadev=mmcblk0p2

...although this might not be the code you're looking for - I could only find cmdline.txt through the BerryBoot menu. When I ran "cat /boot/cmdline.txt" through Terminal (once in RetroPie) nothing happens. Also did a quick internet search and ran "sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt" which only shows a blank document when it's opened up.

BuZz

@Dochartaigh you need to add the part to disable Plymouth to the berryboot boot line. Via the berryboot gui. This is why it helps when people provide info as we ask, as this is not a problem with the RetroPie images. I would have known the problem right away had you mentioned berryboot.

Dochartaigh

@BuZz said in How to disapear this config message of mame games:

Do you happen to know that exact line of code? There's a mere 7 results in Google when I search for "berryboot cmdline.txt retropie disable Plymouth"...most talking about hiding the boot-up lines of code I see on the screen when RetroPie boots for the very first time (which I don't mind).

I'm just looking to be able to see the "press a button to configure" screen/text to ALWAYS show up when I load a rom so I can hold any key to get into the options (because I didn't mention it before, but when that goes missing, and I do hold a key, the system commonly freezes and I have to reboot).

BuZz

@Dochartaigh sorry I thought I posted it. It was another topic. You need plymouth.enable=0 in your kernel boot parameters. Or don't use berryboot which is easier :-)

Dochartaigh

@BuZz said in How to disapear this config message of mame games:

@Dochartaigh sorry I thought I posted it. It was another topic. You need plymouth.enable=0

Thanks. So in the BerryBoot menu, I clicked on my 'RetroPie 4.1" menu item, and hit "Edit Config". I added that line under the other two lines I posted above, and saved. It seemed to save it for ALL the images I have (I multiboot OpenElec, RasPlex, and Ubuntu Mate which is why I use BerryBoot to begin with). Is that going to mess up anything else for those other systems?

I tried a bunch of different emulators (mostly NES, SNES, Genesis, and PSX), and it's still happening on occasion... anything else I can try? I really don't want to loose BerryBoot as it's TONS easier than swapping SD cards (let alone having to buy more SD cards and keep track of those tiny things ;) ...plus, to be honest, this is only a small problem which I can live with...everything else, for the most part (controllers are ALWAYS a problem for me and everybody it seems) is fine so I'll stick with BerryBoot if there's nothing else I can try.

BuZz

I can't advise on berry boot - I don't use it. the commandline is in the pre boot gui somewhere. Our images are provided "as is" just because they were asked for and it wasn't a big deal to provide them but on the download page I wrote

We also offer up images for use with BerryBoot, although we are afraid we cannot offer support for them as we don’t use them ourselves – but feel free to post on the forum if you have trouble. They can be downloaded directly from GitHub –

Which is basically the case. PS. you can run Kodi well under RetroPie - but berryboot is limited as it shares a single kernel between all OSes. Things will break or not work - so you are on your own. :)

Dochartaigh

@BuZz said in How to disapear this config message of mame games:
berryboot is limited as it shares a single kernel between all OSes. Things will break or not work - so you are on your own. :)

Is there a list somewhere of known problems with Berryboot? I've heard this before - that their kernels aren't the most up to date ones (which normal people like me don't even know what the heck a "kernel" is FYI lol)

BuZz

@Dochartaigh not that I know of.