Splash screen on jjos 2xl not working!

I have an mpc 1000 running jjos 2xl version 3.40. Is this os version not able to display a splash screen? I designed a splash screen on Photoshop and followed all the steps mentioned here on the forums. When I power up the mpc, the display shows the jjos version then the screen goes blank for a few seconds like it wants to show the splash screen. Any help is appreciated.

Creating your own Splash Screen can take a little practice to get a good mix between reducing it enough that the MPC can display it and still having detail to it.

As far as I know it works on all 2XL versions and there's no reason you shouldn't have the latest 2XL release anyway.

DL a test Splash screen thats already been prepared and see if it displays that.
If it does then you just have to keep futzing with the settings of your custom one.
Try to copy the dimensions, size and resolution of the test one.

It took me couple of days the first time to get one that displayed well and I was happy with. And it was enough trouble that I'm still using the same one a year+ later.


Good luck.

Thanks for your time. I'll try that.

I figured this out last night. Don't put the .bmp extension in the file name. I noticed JJ's sample was named just mpc1000 and mine were mpc1000.bmp and his worked and mine didn't.

Now they do.

Perhaps you accidentally added an extra .bmp to the end of the filename—easy mistake to make, since it's normally hidden by default.

My bootscreen does say "mpc1000.bmp".

There's an option on at least w7 and up on the folder toolbar under: folder options/view for "hide extensions for known file types" that like sciguy said doesn't show that part on the file name when enabled.

I always turn that off because I like to see what I'm looking at and dealing with.
But I suppose its arguable that everything looks prettier without seeing all the technical details of things.