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Disable or password protect the retoarch configuration menu?

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DaOld Man:
On Emulation Station (Retro Pie),
there is a screen where you can go in and mess around with the configs or what not. Is there anyway to password protect this menu, or hide it from someone accidentally messing with the settings?

DaOld Man:
Ok, just in case anyone else would like to remove the retroarch setup screen from the emulation station front end, here is how I did it.
Exit emulation station by pressing F4.
Then CD /ect
CD emulationstation

Open es_sysytems.cfg with
sudo nano es_systems.cfg

Find this section and delete it:

  <system>
    <name>retropie</name>
    <fullname>RetroPie</fullname>
    <path>~/RetroPie/retropiemenu</path>
    <extension>.rp .sh</extension>
    <command>sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch %ROM%</command>
    <platform/>
    <theme>retropie</theme>
  </system>

Im sure you can just add # in front of each line to have Pi ignore it, if you dont feel safe about deleting it.
There is also a backup, es_systems.cfg.bak that you can restore from.
Then save, overwrite, and exit.
Then type exit to return to emulation station.
May have to reboot to see your changes, not sure.
The retropie setup screen should not be visible now.

severdhed:
awesome, i was just wondering how to do this myself.  Once it is setup, i don't need or want that menu to be available.

Thanks for posting your solution

Slippyblade:
You can also add "--no_exit" "--no-exit" to the EmulationStation launch script so that the "Exit ES" menu option is no longer available.  That prevents someone from exiting ES to the prompt using the controller.  F4 will still work if you plug in a keyboard though.

DaOld Man:

--- Quote from: Slippyblade on October 13, 2015, 01:45:33 pm ---You can also add "--no_exit" to the EmulationStation launch script so that the "Exit ES" menu option is no longer available.  That prevents someone from exiting ES to the prompt using the controller.  F4 will still work if you plug in a keyboard though.

--- End quote ---

Cool. I was wondering if there was a way to disable that.

Hmmm, where exactly would you add this?

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