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Tutorial: How to Add a Custom Startup Animation to Your Legion Go or Windows 11 gaming device

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Introduction

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to play a video after login in to your Legion Go. Whether you’re customizing the experience or making your Legion Go truly yours, this guide walks you through the process step by step.

You will be making something like this

Works with any Windows 11 device

New Animation! 🚀

I’ve created a console-inspired startup animation for the Legion Go!

Check it out here.

Prerequisites

Before starting, ensure you have the following:

  1. Your custom video file (in MP4), the zip file with the custom app has an animation without my username hahaha, hope you love it.
  2. The custom app.

Step 1: Download the custom app

  1. Download the app from Google Drive.
  2. Extract all the files from the ZIP and place them in a dedicated folder (e.g., C:\CustomStartup).
  3. Launch the app by double clicking the StartupLegionGo.exe
  4. If you don’t have the 6.0 .NET Runtime it will ask you to download it from Microsoft, click Ok, it would open a Microsoft website in your default web browser and open the installer that automatically will start downloading, after the installation is completed, try opening again StartupLegionGo.exe
  5. If you have the 6.0 .NET Runtime it will open a window and start playing the video.

My app is designed to check if Windows has a logged in user, if it has, it will play the video file, because it might be times that the app would be executed while you have the Log In Screen.

Step 2: Execute the Custom app at start up

  1. Go to your dedicated folder where you placed the custom app (e.g., C:\CustomStartup).
  2. Right click StartupLegionGo.exe
  3. Click Show More Options
  4. Click Create Shortcut
  5. Copy the new created shortcut (it is the file that has a small blue arrow in the lower left corner pointing to the top right corner).
  6. With the full screen keyboard or a physical keyboard, press ⊞ Win (Windows key) + R
  7. In the Run window, type shell:startup
  8. It will open a folder, paste the shortcut in that folder.

Step 3: Set Playnite to start with windows

I’m using Playnite as my launcher, but also worked like a charm with Steam Big Picture, in theory it would work with any launcher as long as you set it to launch when you start your computer.

  1. Download and Install Playnite as normal.
  2. Once you have installed Playnite, launch it and click in the controller icon in the top left corner.
  3. Click in Settings
  4. In the General view, make sure you have checked ✅Launch in Fullscreen Mode and ✅Launch Playnite when you start your computer.
  5. Click Save

If you want to use the same theme in Playnite as I did, you have to go to Addons >> Themes Fullscreen (Browse), search Playnite Deck and install it.

Custom Animations

You can use any H.264 MP4 video of any length, you just have to use the same name Legion Go Startup Animation HB rev 0.mp4

Bonus Animation

LOADING + LEGION at the beginning

The app automatically closes itself after playing all the video file.

Your imagination is the limit, enjoy 🥳🥳🥳

I will love to see what you create!

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Have a suggestion or theme in mind? Let me know in the comments—I’d love to hear your ideas!

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