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Is it possible to remove the built in kodi splash? I read that it cant be accessed after installation, so must be removed when the package is made. The splash is really annoying and increases the boot time. Most skins have there own spash scree, so it actually is double the wait, you see the built in kodi splash and then it changes to the skins splash, and then finally kodi appears. Lets remove all the kodi splashes and have it boot as quickly as possible!

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thanks smithers. no biggie if its not included in future builds, just thought people might be interested in a confluence (like) skin that can launch retropie.

and was just looking at the Xonfluence options and realized that it might be possible to launch the games.sh directly with Xonfluence using the “kodi command” option? Does anyone know it that is possible? I have no issues with advanced launcher (it gets the job done everytime) but would really be a seamless launch to retropie if you can launch the games.sh directly.

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here check this shit out. I made a video of smithers dualboot package using the Xonfluence skin…

http://webm.host/52925/

Its the skin that was destined to be used with this dual boot package.

[pimaster]

Actualy no reason he couldnt include the ugly aeon skin (that people arent familiar with) and Xonfluence skin in the same package. Also the Xonfluence allows 15+ add-ons/menu items just like Aeon.

[pimaster]

Also in addition to adding saturn to the next build, I would also like try dreamcast (even tho it will probably run shitty for most games). Was sad when the reicast (dreamcast) folder didnt exist in the roms folder.

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Oh and if people are interested in trying Xonfluence on the current v8 smithers build. Then you must install an older isengard version of the skin, if you try to download the latest version from github….

https://github.com/Helly1206/skin.xonfluence

It won’t work, latest version only supports the latest jarvis builds of Kodi. You will get “Dependencies not met” error on Kodi since the latest smithers version is still on isengard.

To install an older working version of Xonfluence on isengard you must install directly from the helly repo on Kodi. So Install this repo…

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Helly1206/_repo/master/hellyrepo.kodi/hellyrepo.kodi-0.2.1.zip

then once installed search under skins and select Xonfluence, the repo will automatically download a compatible isengard version of the skin. Which works great, but is missing some of the nice features from the newer jarvis builds.

[pimaster]

Hey Smithers! I love the V8 RetroPie+OpenELEC dualboot package you made. I’ve install it on every raspberry pi I come in contact to.

As you are aware the 1.0 Jarvis release is coming out soon. So I’m hoping an update to your dual boot package will come soon after. I’m sure retropie has some nice updates since the november package also.

I’m not a fan of the default aeon skin you used, that was needed for the retropie launcher. So I looked into the matter of getting a seamless “GAMES” option from the home menu and launch retropie from the confluence skin… and I was successful! Besides the fact that I prefer the confluence skin, I feel the way I launch to retropie is even better than the method you included (since you had to press down to actually launch the submenu, not sure if this was by design so people wouldnt accidently launch retropie? either way I didnt like the way you couldnt directl launch from the games button) On my setup you can launch directly from the GAMES button. I know I’m not alone in preferring the stock confluence skin, so you should consider including the tweaked version that allows launching RetroPie from the home menu.

To launch retropie from confluence you need…

Xonfluence
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=238630

Add-On
Advanced Launcher

Add-On
Script.Favourites

Xonfluence is amazing, Its completely stock confluence, but with the option to tweak almost anything about the skin from entirely in the skin settings menu (no tinkering with xml’s required). The most valuable function is to allow a seamless RetroPie launch from the home screen, but you can do many more tweaks to the skin if desired. The only catch is the guy that works on it is only supporting the latest version of kodi, meaning Jarvis required. Hence why I cant wait for your next dualboot package which will include the jarvis build of kodi. So I go to this topic in hopes of a new release almost daily lol.

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