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TriForceX / MiyooCFW

Custom firmware source code and resources for BittBoy, PocketGo, PowKiddy V90-Q90-Q20 and third party handheld consoles
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hide ugly command line screens #43

Closed yepyepyep4711 closed 2 years ago

yepyepyep4711 commented 5 years ago

Hi,

as referenced here, this is a request to hide all the scrolling text appearing at boot or or when you load or quit a game.

At least during boot, my suggestion would be to hide it behind the "bitt boy" logo.

TriForceX commented 5 years ago

Techincally the "bittboy logo is just a post-load animation that can be removed. Also i was planning to replace the first boot logo (NXHope) with the Bittboy logo, because having two boot screens is too much, atleast for me.

ozgurkazancci commented 5 years ago

Having Bittboy animation as the only/single boot intro would truly be cool. 👍

yepyepyep4711 commented 5 years ago

yes please. Bittboy logo only, and no text walls at all. That would be ideal

yepyepyep4711 commented 5 years ago

let me correct myself. Since NES emulation is not an option on the Bittboy (see https://github.com/TriForceX/NewBittboyCFW/issues/45), the ideal thing would be to go straight from boot screen to game list, if possible a list that shows screenshots or covers of games so that it's pretty. That last part might be more work, but launching gambatte straight after boot is probably a matter of one line in a crontab, no?

Then I would put all games (GB & GBC) in the same folder, and lo! Huge gain in user-friendliness. Boot, select game, play.

yepyepyep4711 commented 5 years ago

let me correct myself. Since NES emulation is not an option on the Bittboy (see #45), the ideal thing would be to go straight from boot screen to game list, if possible a list that shows screenshots or covers of games so that it's pretty. That last part might be more work, but launching gambatte straight after boot is probably a matter of one line in a crontab, no?

Then I would put all games (GB & GBC) in the same folder, and lo! Huge gain in user-friendliness. Boot, select game, play.

I've now come to realise what I'm looking for would be to start the selector after boot, not an emulator. I've achieved cover previews with this https://github.com/m1024x/retrogame-preview-guide (I've used 128x128 for size). It's nice, but still not exactly "pretty". Maybe there are skins that work better with it. Happy for pointers.

So, once the "Bittboy logo everywhere" issue is fixed, what would be needed is a "start selector in rom folder automatically after boot"-option. I'll open a separate issue.