@discgolferusa
Very nice. I like the marquee and the fact that your controls are spaced out enough that you won't be rubbing elbows with player 2.

@ronbo85. Apologies. I haven't been on the forum in a long while. If you need any help with the ButtonMap work I did, post again. Agreed. I stopped at buttons, and never directly used controllers.xml...

Regarding FBI:
Take a look at the Python file: simpleServer.py on my github area.
These are the args I'm using to show the image.

sudo fbi -vt 1 -a --noverbose </path/to/image>

Hopefully one of these switches will help your scripting.
Cheers

You can also shrink your Daphne .m2v video files with

for %%a in ("*.m2v") do 01-ffmpeg -i "%%a" -crf 30 -vcodec mpeg1video -acodec copy "newfiles\%%~na.m2v" pause

Before
abelt.m2v = 460 MB
After
abelt.m2v = 67.4 MB

I named It 00 -m2v to m2v .bat

@gamehedpro You click on the Code button at the top of the repository and you can download the theme as a .zip file:

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After you extract the archive, you can copy the theme's folder to \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\themes (create the themes folder if it doesn't exist) and then you can choose the theme from EmulationStation's menu.

@jimiga are you able to share your theme?
This is the exact type of theme I would like to use.

Maybe you all can help me. In the first screenshot here, it shows the "gameOS" logo with a video (or something) playing behind it on the homepage. I want mine to replicate that. Mine seemingly loads my most recently played or favorite games and puts them in a carousel/slideshow. Is there a way I can disable this?

@arcanthur loop Thanks for your great effort. Could you share me your scraped image and bezel? My image does not fit a grid entirely.

Been years, but I am planning to pick this back up and finish it!

@victimrlsh alt text
this is how the actual marquee looks. unfortunately not high res.

This looks awesome! I am definitely gonna be adding this to my RetroPie console. 😃

Also, can't wait to see version 3.0!

And how is this related to RetroPie ? Are you running RetroPie on your system where you want this login feature to work ?

@cnoto Cool! I did something similar with the speakers in my cabinet, but I think yours turned out even better. The speaker covers were a good choice.

There are actually several MAME roms that are essentially video pinball machines. The coolest thing about them compared to console or PC pinball titles is that they actually prompt for coins (like any other arcade game) and keep real high-score lists (also like most other arcade games). Some are better than others, FYI. Time Scanner is pretty good, as is Pinball Action, Speed Ball and Grand Cross (which is really unique).

http://mamepedia.com/game/category/pinball

@rookervik Hey Rook! It's been awhile since I've been on these forums. Been tweaking my build here and there optimizing boxart and other QOL improvements. That Mega Man X load screen looks awesome man! You really have some amazing skill for converting these title screens! Is it possible to get the full sized file for it?

@rookervik
Have you got a GitHub page for it?

@clyde Thanks! Over the years I had a lot of time to think about creative solutions to problems in the build. I never anticipated taking it as far as I eventually did (you can tell the original design was quite simple). But I'm happy with it now. Maybe someday I'll try something more advanced, like rebuilding a classic cabinet in need of saving or something.

i added a (re)Action Cam, a fisheye lens mounted inside the bezel.

it shoots out so you can watch faces people make while playing—more fun than staring at backs.

the camera is connected to the direct interface slot of the pi that controls the LED marquee, running the RPi Cam Web Interface; the feed can only be viewed inside my house's network, it is not connected to the internet. It's just for fun.

IMG_6167.jpg

Hey all, just and update, I've made some revision changes and improvements on the original code. I consider the scripts relatively stable now.

For detailed changes see:
https://gist.github.com/Langerz82/ec7c60edd6b02da78018fa113fda27b0/revisions

Kind regards,
Langz