Interface Behaviors

Interface behaviours

Menu behaviours that are configured from Settings but need more than a one-line description: folder browsing, the parental lock, and the audio system.

For the button map, see CONTROLS.md.

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Folder browsing

Settings → General & System → Browse Folders in Game List. Off by default.

With it on, subfolders of CD/ and DVD/ appear in the game list as browsable entries instead of the loader flattening everything into one long list.

• Folder rows sort to the top of the list, ahead of games, and are drawn with a trailing /. Within each group, entries sort by title.
• Select opens a folder; the cancel button goes back up a level. Which face button that is depends on your Select button setting.
• A folder row has no info page and no per-game settings, so Square and Triangle do nothing on one.

Supported devices only

Folder browsing works on BDM devices (USB, MX4SIO, iLink, exFAT HDD), MMCE, and UDPFS in Files mode.

It does not apply to:

Device	Why
APA/PFS HDD	Stores games as HDLoader partitions; there is no CD/DVD directory tree to scan
PS1 / VCD list	Same — the VCD view is not a directory scan
UDPFS block device	Block transport, not a file tree
SMB / ETH	Deferred, not yet supported. SMB paths use a different separator (\) from the loose-file scanners

Turning the setting on simply has no effect on those pages.

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Parental lock

Parental Lock Password, on Settings → General & System. Sets a password that must be entered before configuration can be changed. Leave it blank to disable the lock.

What it actually gates

The parental lock guards configuration and destructive actions, not game launching. Anyone can still start any game on the list. Behind the password:

• Settings, and the per-game / per-app settings screens (Triangle on a title)
• Rename and Delete on a game entry
• Network compatibility update and Start NBD Server

It is not a content filter. If your aim is to stop a particular game being played, the parental lock will not do it — it stops the library being changed, not played.

Setting, using and clearing it

To set one, enter a password and save. To remove one, clear the field and save — RiptOPL confirms with "Parental lock disabled."

Entering the correct password unlocks for the rest of the session: RiptOPL stops asking until the next restart, so you are not re-prompted between one settings screen and the next.

A master override password exists for a forgotten lock. Two things about it are worth knowing:

1. It does not grant one-time access — it deletes the stored password and saves immediately, showing "Parental lock disabled." After that there is no lock until you set a new one.
2. It cannot be chosen as your own password. Trying is rejected with "Error - this password cannot be used."

The value itself is not printed here, matching the documentation site's convention of pointing people at the community forums for it.

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Background music and sound effects

Settings → Audio Settings.

Background music

BGM is Ogg Vorbis (.ogg). RiptOPL streams it rather than loading it into memory, so a long track costs no extra RAM. It looks in this order and takes the first that works:

1. <theme>/sound/bgm.ogg — a disk theme's own music.
2. The Default Theme Music path from Audio Settings.
3. THM/bgm.ogg under the active settings home — built-in themes only (<OPL> and <Coverflow>). A disk theme never falls through to this.

That order is why a disk theme with its own sound/bgm.ogg ignores your Default Theme Music setting: the theme wins. To use your own track everywhere, pick a theme that ships no music of its own.

Sound effects

SFX are PS2 ADPCM (.adp, 44.1 kHz), supplied by the theme in its sound/ folder. There are eight:

File	Played when
boot.adp	RiptOPL starts (the Boot Sound setting)
cursor.adp	Moving the cursor
confirm.adp	Confirming
cancel.adp	Going back
message.adp	A message or dialog appears
transition.adp	Changing screen
bd_connect.adp	A block device is connected
bd_disconnect.adp	A block device is removed

The two built-in themes use effects embedded in the ELF and read nothing from the card. A disk theme supplying only some of the eight falls back to the built-in sound for the rest.

Sound effects, the boot sound, and background music each have their own on/off switch and their own volume. See THEME_ENGINE.md for packaging audio with a theme.

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See also

• CONTROLS.md — the button map, including menu rumble
• THEME_ENGINE.md — theme-supplied audio

Related guide: Settings.

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Source: docs/INTERFACE.md @ 3ce281b0793c.