Looking to create a progress status type screen when loading a game

[VACRMH]

TL;DR - I want to be able to keep track of where I am in a game, and read it when on the now loading screen before hitting a button to continue.

 

I have a bad habit of starting games, usually RPGs and never finishing them. A friend of mine said he keeps notes of where he's at in a game to jog his memory when he gets a chance to start playing again. So I was thinking of trying to find a way to use it along with LaunchBox.

The idea I have in mind is that when I launch a game, the startup screen would show whatever notes I have for that game. Instead of setting how long the startup screen would display, it wouldn't disappear until I hit a button to make it do so. 

Not really sure how to go about this, maybe .txt files with the same file name as the matching rom that could get displayed on the startup screen just how an image would? 

[C-Beats]

Sounds like it may be easier to implement something like this into a Pause Screen more so than the Startup screen. Could potentially make it so you could edit your notes via the pause screen as well making the whole process far easier to use (so you know you ACTUALLY use it instead of ignoring it lol)

[VACRMH]

16 hours ago, C-Beats said:

Sounds like it may be easier to implement something like this into a Pause Screen more so than the Startup screen. Could potentially make it so you could edit your notes via the pause screen as well making the whole process far easier to use (so you know you ACTUALLY use it instead of ignoring it lol)

Not a bad idea! I've yet to mess with the Pause Screen feature as most of the time I just pull up the Retroarch menu with a hotkey I mapped to the PS button on the controller I've been using. I'll have to look into it. 

I could also just keep something on my phone to reference, but thought it would be fun to use more features of LaunchBox. And now I get to learn and tinker with the Pause Screen

Thanks!