[jeffdamann]

Okay maybe I did something wrong. When I reboot the pi, I get the terminal for a good 10 seconds, then my video plays, then terminal again, and then the emulation station loading screen.

Is it possible to not show the terminal messages, leave a blank screen before playing the video, play the video, and then jump straight into system select on emulation station?

[jeffdamann]

I resolved this issue by using method 2 on the wiki, I was just unsure but I’ve been in chat with some other pi owners and have confirmed everything is well. Sorry for the needless topic.

[jeffdamann]

You sir, have conducted one of the best inout lag experiments I have ever seen, Why did I never think of hooking an led into the button circuit and then sit it in front of the tv and record.

Applause my good sir.

[jeffdamann]

Thank you very much, I had read that, but wasn’t sure.

You have been a big help in the past few days HerbFargus, hopefully when I get my pi and some experience I can reciprocate to other users on this board. Thank you.

[jeffdamann]

Thank you Herbfargus, but Ive used the wiki. I still don’t understand if ES can actually load in the background.

From reading it seems like no matter what you do, or how long your video is, the video only covers the terminal text, and then ES is loaded after the video is done. Or you can have it set up to skip the video once the Pi boots up and is ready for ES.

As stated in the post above, Im wondering if that is the case, or if you make the boot video long enough will it effectively bypass the ES loading screen.

[jeffdamann]

Have any of you figured out a way to get this version to load automatically on boot in place of the one included with retropie?

[jeffdamann]

I need every last bit of space on the SD card that I can get though.

For instance, my snes set is 600 mb zipped, and 1.02 gb unzipped. Spread this out over 30 other systems and that will eat up TONS of space on my sd card.

Typically, all my emulators on PC support zipped files, except for emulators that use an iso image, If no one knows any emulators that wont allow zip files for certain I will keep poking around and see if I can’t find out the info.

[jeffdamann]

Thanks herbfargus. I am using emulation station because even though it takes time, and I have fullsets for every system, I need to do it manually so that it doesnt mess up things like the Dragon Warrior series for nes. All 4 of them would have been made Dragon Warrior 3.

It takes forever, but I’ve divided the work between 3 people, doing fullsets for every system retropie supports. I ought to finish in a few days.

I was just wondering because I don’t want us to do all this work and then not be able to transfer it over. I didn’t see a reason why not, but I don’t have a pi on hand yet to test it out.

Also, can you tell me or point me somewhere that will show me any emulators that don’t support zipped roms, so that I can make sure to unzip them before scraping them?

[Author]

Posts