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At the very beginning of one of my VN's, I want to make it look like a start up screen for an old NES game- it says ROM check, the you click each time for the dot dot dot to appear (as in, each click reveals a dot) and then it says 'OK !', moving onto Checking Higher Function, dotdotdot, 'OK !' and finally, Starting Dream Sequence, dotdotdot, and then the story officially begins there. The only problem is, none of the images will show up! It goes directly to when the character starts speaking.

I have tried different iterations of show [and hide], scene, removing everything before it so it literally is the very first part of the story, but nothing works. It skips directly to the commands beneath it, which interestingly enough, are play music [which I removed] and scene, and after removing the music which was the barrier between the images with ROM check, etc and the scene background for when the first character starts speaking, it still skipped directly to the background for when the character first speaks.

Basically: how do I make a series of images appear using show, hide, scene or any other commands? I'm sorry if it's a simple fix, I used to be well-versed in this and I used to have a friend of mine help me, but it's been a long time since I've bothered with Ren'py :/

It's hard to understand what's going on without reading the script. From now, on, post the script if you want support. That being said...

In Ren'Py, scene, show, and hide are instantaneous, and don't cause an interaction that updates the screen. You probably want to use pause to add a time delay between each scene. Some variant of:

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Thank you (sorry for not posting the code, didn't think it was needed, but I just realized how rushed my first post was) and your suggestion worked up until I got to beginning 10 and 11, where sometimes (I must have ran it about 10 times) it cuts off at 10 to skip directly to when the character starts speaking, and sometimes it cuts off at 11 to skip ahead. The .5 pauses are ROM Check, Checking Higher Function, and Starting Dream Sequence, the .15 are the dots, and the .25 are 'OK !'s, if it matters- I'm going to make the .15 and .25 longer anyways.