No new title screen

[White Rabbit]

It's been a while since I've played this game. I recall at least two title screen competitions having taken place, but after downloading 1.6.0, I was met with the original OTTD title screen from the year 2004. How do I get the new title screens?

[kamnet]

The title screen competition is normally organized by Planetmaker. However, no such competition was organized for this year's release.

[Transportman]

It's been a while since I've played this game. I recall at least two title screen competitions having taken place, but after downloading 1.6.0, I was met with the original OTTD title screen from the year 2004. How do I get the new title screens?

You could create your own titlescreen by renaming a save-file to opntitle.dat and placing it in the baseset folder of your OpenTTD install folder. If you want to use one of the previous titlescreens, you can download the zip-archive for that release and get the opntitle.dat file from it.

[Clemo56]

It's been a while since I've played this game. I recall at least two title screen competitions having taken place, but after downloading 1.6.0, I was met with the original OTTD title screen from the year 2004. How do I get the new title screens?

You could create your own titlescreen by renaming a save-file to opntitle.dat and placing it in the baseset folder of your OpenTTD install folder. If you want to use one of the previous titlescreens, you can download the zip-archive for that release and get the opntitle.dat file from it.

Great tip i never knew you could do that!

[White Rabbit]

The title screen competition is normally organized by Planetmaker. However, no such competition was organized for this year's release.

So new releases don't use the title screens of previous ones, but instead revert back to the default?

[Emperor Jake]

So new releases don't use the title screens of previous ones, but instead revert back to the default?

Usually yes. However if you upgrade OpenTTD like I do by simply replacing the .exe and lang files, you keep the previous title screen along with all config settings, saves, NewGRFs, etc. (if you keep your .cfg in the install folder)

[Zuu]

You shall also replace the compat.nut files and possible some other files too. If you use a new version of OpenTTD with compat.nut files from the past, scripts that you run that were made for an old version of OpenTTD may not work correctly.

In general, replace all files when you extract a new version. Only don't on file types you know exactly what they do and are fine with the consequence of not overwriting it.

[Alberth]

openttd has several places where it searches for its data, details are platform-dependentn, and explained fully in the readme file. If you move your openttd.cfg file, to one such place outside the openttd directory, all openttd program will share that new place, and put their files there. That makes is much easier to have several versions of openttd at the same system, which in turns makes that you can simply delete the openttd directory when you want, since all important files, such as downloaded newgrf and save files, are at the new shared place.

[Baldy's Boss]

I do my upgrades through the FreeBSD Ports system.
I do regret not saving the 1.5 titlegame but I assume it can be downloaded from its competition topic?

[BobFish]

I wish there was a way I could make my desktop background like the title screen.

[kamnet]

I wish there was a way I could make my desktop background like the title screen.

Run the game full screen, take a screen shot, update your background wallpaper.

[BobFish]

I wish there was a way I could make my desktop background like the title screen.

Run the game full screen, take a screen shot, update your background wallpaper.

I mean having it move. I'll probably use the method someone listed earlier to get a screen shot of one of my games though.

[Pyoro]

Animated wallpapers are actually possible on Windows 7 and newer.