The mastery of AdvanceMenu/CD

[delta88]

I recently have mastered the art of setting up advance menu/CD to a point. The only thing I stil can't change is the startup screen, the one that says advance mame.. I like it.. I just need it sideways for a vertical display..

thx d88

btw, I can help answer any advance CD menu questions except that one

[Thenasty]

thats the background image. Easy, just edit it and rotate it. BINGO...

[delta88]

I'm talking about the very fist one you see.. I changed the 3 .png files in the img.app folder and then made my own advmenu.rc file which resides in the arcade folder to over ride the img.app settings... so really there are 4 backdrops and I can only change 3.. is there a way to cane the one that says "loading" at the very very start.

[Thenasty]

Just downloded and look. The other 3 png are there exept what you mentioned.  I would say that if this was a WINDOWS 9x, or even XP or 2000, I bet its just the logo.sys logow.sys etc.. file. But if it Linux, i would not know what that would be. I don't think that PNG file is embeded into ADVMAME, ADVMENU itself. So it has to be the OS BOOT process.

[gravity242]

I think that one is part of the Linux boot process.  I know for a fact it's not embedded into the advance mame/menu programs.  In addition to app.img there is a smaller file named initrd.img which handles some of the startup.  Try looking there.

[elvis]

There is a way to edit that image.  It's part of the Linux FBDev graphical boot overlay tools.

You need GIMP and a plugin to edit the image.  I'm just about to head out the door now, but when I get to work I'll find the relevant links and HOWTOs and post them up.

[elvis]

OK, as far as I am aware, the AdvanceCD uses bootsplash:

http://www.bootsplash.org/

Most of the hard work is done already (patching kernels and whatnot).  You should just need to re-attach a new bootsplash image as per the docs on that site.