How do I turn off the generated game list? Takes so long on boot ........
Also does it need to generate it every time it boots or does it only need to do it once?
Thanks!
Mat
Game list on boot options
Moderator: dee2eR
Re: Game list on boot options
it can be switched off in /boot/run.sh by commenting out the 3 lines that do a romscan (1 scans arcade games, another scans console games and the third combines the lists generated by the other 2).
Assuming you don't change your roms you only need to scan them once. If you do need to change some roms you can also scan them from the service menu if the auto scan at startup is disabled.
Assuming you don't change your roms you only need to scan them once. If you do need to change some roms you can also scan them from the service menu if the auto scan at startup is disabled.
Re: Game list on boot options
I tried editing run.sh, but then after the "Arpicade" logo I get a text screen saying something about it can't locate the run.sh file?!
What I did: I just put ## in front of "bash /boot/launchers/scanRoms.sh all 2> /dev/null" then saved the file (using Paragon Linux File on Windows).
Now even when I edit the run.sh file back to the way it was, I get that text screen and Arpicade can't startup.
EDIT: I flashed a fresh image and started over.
Can someone explain EXACTLY which 3 lines in run.sh should be commented out?
What I did: I just put ## in front of "bash /boot/launchers/scanRoms.sh all 2> /dev/null" then saved the file (using Paragon Linux File on Windows).
Now even when I edit the run.sh file back to the way it was, I get that text screen and Arpicade can't startup.
EDIT: I flashed a fresh image and started over.
Can someone explain EXACTLY which 3 lines in run.sh should be commented out?
Re: Game list on boot options
Sounds like you may have broken the format of the script accidentally. Did you use the built in Windows text editor? It tends to break the format of Linux based files. I recommend using Notepad++ instead of the default text editors, it's free and will not break the file formats. You shouldn't need to use Paragon for the first partition but I don't know if it could cause this issue, I would hope it doesn't.
It's possible if you didn't safely eject/remove/unmount the SD card after the edit that caused the problem too, not sure if that is done differently using Paragon.
Otherwise it looks like you did the right thing with your edit of run.sh, you no longer need to edit 3 lines that was in older versions of ARpiCADE. You only need one hash to comment out the line but having an extra hash there won't break anything.
I wish I had a more definitive answer for you. Hopefully whatever happened on the first try won't happen to you again.
It's possible if you didn't safely eject/remove/unmount the SD card after the edit that caused the problem too, not sure if that is done differently using Paragon.
Otherwise it looks like you did the right thing with your edit of run.sh, you no longer need to edit 3 lines that was in older versions of ARpiCADE. You only need one hash to comment out the line but having an extra hash there won't break anything.
I wish I had a more definitive answer for you. Hopefully whatever happened on the first try won't happen to you again.
Re: Game list on boot options
Thanks. I will try again. Fingers crossed!
UPDATE: yep, works fine now.
UPDATE: yep, works fine now.
