 Some of you may remember a couple of years ago. I made this mini arcade using stuff. I already had I already had extra game controllers I used scrap wood that was just laying around in my garage an old tablet that I primarily used for reading comics before bed It's great. It works. I plug it in. There's one issue though these on-screen controls I'm running retro arch and by default on Android you have these on-screen controls now I can easily minimize it by clicking that but I still have that little button down in the corner I could also go into the menu then click on settings I can go down to where it says on-screen display on-screen display and I can turn that off And now if I go back into a game you can see that's gone and the controls are all gone Except next time I start retro arch those controls are going to be back on the screen and this is by design Think about it This is retro arch for Android so people are going to be running it on their phones or tablets Not normally have keyboards and controllers if you get rid of the on-screen displays You can't get into the menus and you can't control the game So they set it up that yeah, you can turn it off But when you restart they're gonna come back by default thing is most time it's not problem with my little arcade Yeah, I can just hit that little triangle in the corner and hide it not a big deal But if I wanted to make a mini arcade like this and have it be primarily a game console and arcade for people to play I don't want the on-screen controls at all. So how can I permanently remove them? So as you can see again We have a game running here and you have the on-screen controls You can always minimize them which is a great option But again if you're making a standalone arcade that you want to load a game at start and just use the joystick And you don't want anything on the screen. That's what we're gonna work on today We need to edit a text file on the phone So you can install a text editor on the phone You can open up a terminal on the phone you can SSH in the phone if you have that set up I'm just gonna use ADB from my desktop my phone connected. I'm going to ADB shell Of course you have to have develop mode enabled to do this So now I am logged into my phone and I'm going to go to my SD card, which is not an SD card It's your internal storage. It's just labeled as SD card on Android devices Inside this directory you'll have all your files and there's a directory called Android if you move into that There's some more directories We're going to move into the one called data and in here. It'll have a list of certain applications This is a place for applications to store certain types of information and configurations Unlike other places on device users can modify this information, which is what we're going to do So you're gonna find one that has the word retro arch and depending on where you installed retro arch from and your device It may be named something different Just find the directory that has retro arch in the name and move into it inside this directory There's a directory called files. We'll move into that and inside this there's a few files We are going to edit the one called retro arch Config again, you can edit this right on the phone with a text editor in the terminal on the phone I'm going to use vim since I have that installed but whatever text editor you choose You can always pull off the phone edit it and push it back to the phone if you need to So here we go and the second option down is input overlay enabled. We are simply going to change this to false From true to false now we will go back to our emulator here The overlay is still there. We need to close out of retro arch So we will swipe that away click on the icon again when it starts back up I will load content. I will go into my directory here Download choose the game load the archive and now we have the game running without any overlays on the screen So again in most cases you're probably not going to want to do this unless you are making a device such as this Where you can set it up to load a game Directly when it boots and it goes into it and you already have a joystick set up for the game And it's kind of a standalone thing. It was hard finding information on this Everyone always suggests going into the settings and changing it there, but again, that doesn't save it You have to go and edit that config file Also, you might want to look around in that file and see what other settings you can modify that make permanent changes to the Emulators usually before you edit a text file configuration file like that You want to make a backup of it in case you screw something up You can always copy back the original but in a case like this I'm pretty sure that if you mess it up you could just delete it and retro arch will recreate it next time You start retro arch So not a big deal there unless you've made a lot of changes and you want to make sure not to lose those films by Chris That's my website. Please visit it. I also have a patreon page. Thanks for watching as always. I hope that you have a great day