NQ Variables

This page documents all of the variables available to configure the behavior of NQ. As mentioned on the page which documents the config file sections, there are two different types of variables which may appear in the config file. This page concerns variables which NQ understands and uses to change its appearance or behavior, and these variables require specific names. The other type of variable is the user-defined variable, which are variables where you define the name as well as the value, and are meant to be a convenience for working with the configuartion file. Make sure you are on the right page to read about the kind of variable you are interested in.

NQ variables should appear at the top of the file, before the [emulator config] section. They take the form:

?varname value

If you've already familiarized yourself with some of the documentation on configuration sections, you will have noticed that lines of data for the various sections all separate their fields with a comma. Variable definitions are different, they just require white space to separate the variable name from the value.

Behavior variables:

• safeexit
  Set to 1 to activate the safe exit feature. This means that whatever button(s) are configured to exit the program need to be be tapped rapidly three times in order for the program to exit. Set to 0 for normal single-tap exiting.
• placeholder
  The file name of the image to be displayed when no other image file exists for the poster, or for the screenshot rectangle when there are no screenshots for the selected game.
• slidelife
  The number of milliseconds to show each slide.
• pauseforlogo
  The number of slides to show in the slide show before showing the hardware logo again.
• logolife
  The number of milliseconds to display the logo for before continuing the slideshow.
• rascalbreak1
  The number of seconds to wait between rascal animations.
• rascalbreak2
  The upper limit of a randomly-generated additional number of seconds to wait between rascal animations. The additional time to wait is re-generated after each animation.

Screen variables:

• menufontfile
  The font file to be used for the printing the names of the roms in the rom list.
• tierfontfile
  The font file to be used for printing the volume names and the rom list names.