Is there any way to display a pre-game controller layout splash screen?

[candre23]

When a game is initiated, before the game actually runs, I would like a platform-specific controller layout image to be displayed until any button is pressed.  Is this something launchbox is capable of doing?

[harryoke]

Anything is possible if it is programmed properly. But who is going to create all the necessary layouts for the thousands of games.

[candre23]

I'm not expecting per-game, I'm talking about per-platform.  So if you loaded a megadrive/genesis game you'd get a splash screen like this, and if you loaded a neogeo game you'd get something like this.  I'm willing to make my own image for each platform that matches up to my controllers and button mapping, I'm just wondering if launchbox is capable of displaying those images before the game.

Edited January 14, 2018 by candre23
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[Retro808]

There is actually a post where someone had images of controller button layouts as well as a way to get it to work here. 

[damageinc86]

There is also a controller section to show your image in the PAUSE feature of rocketlauncher.  Might be worth looking into.

Edited January 15, 2018 by damageinc86

[candre23]

Thanks for the suggestions.  The 3rd-party route (either AHK or rocketlauncher) is an option, but not exactly a simple one.  If I get annoyed enough, I may try to get it working.

General consensus in the linked thread seems to be that this is a desired feature worthy of inclusion in Launchbox itself.  I have submitted a feature request to that extent.  Even if Jason agrees and wants to add it, I'm sure it won't be high up on the list of pending features.  But maybe it's simple enough that it will make it into an update sometime soon.