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Taking an actual screenshot?

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    Floob @briankross
    last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 10:41

    @briankross Try holding your hotkey enable button (usually Select) and then tapping F8.

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      briankross @Floob
      last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 17:36

      @Floob said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

      @briankross Try holding your hotkey enable button (usually Select) and then tapping F8.

      When I do that, it kicks me out of the game (either mame or nes) and I don't see anything in:

      /home/pi/.config/retroarch/screenshots
      

      or

      /home/pi/RetroPie/MyScreenshots
      
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        Floob
        last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 17:59

        Thats odd. Can you put a copy of your opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg on pastebin.com?

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          briankross @Floob
          last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 18:47

          @Floob said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

          Thats odd. Can you put a copy of your opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg on pastebin.com?

          Yes, thank you for checking it out.

          /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

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            dankcushions Global Moderator
            last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 19:06

            
            # Directory to dump screenshots to.
            screenshot_directory = /home/pi/RetroPie/MyScreenshots
            

            needs quotes. should be:

            
            # Directory to dump screenshots to.
            screenshot_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/MyScreenshots"
            

            also, does the directory exists and do you have write-access?

            also, i probably wouldn't use the function keys as mame already uses them for things, so every time you take a screenshot with f8 you'll be activating some mame option (i think possibly to do with frameskip).

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              briankross @dankcushions
              last edited by briankross 19 Jun 2016, 19:40

              @dankcushions

              Thanks, I made the change! This makes sense for directories.

              Great point about the F8 key for mame games. I'll have a look for which keys may be unused, do you have a suggestion that's good for lr-mame2003 and lr-nestopia?

              Permissions for the directory is 755, created by root.

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                dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 20:07

                @briankross said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                @dankcushions

                Thanks, I made the change! This makes sense for directories.

                Great point about the F8 key for mame games. I'll have a look for which keys may be unused, do you have a suggestion that's good for lr-mame2003 and lr-nestopia?

                i think 'p' is the default in retroarch, so that would be my preference :)

                Permissions for the directory is 755, created by root.

                755 is fine if it is owned by the pi user.. but i guess will be a problem if not.

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                  briankross @dankcushions
                  last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 20:20

                  @dankcushions

                  I just uncommented the retroarch.cfg screenshot line and it was already set to f8. It looks like input_pause_toggle is set to p, but is commented out.

                  I've tried print_screen and "print_screen", neither work.

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                    dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                    last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 20:22

                    @briankross said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                    @dankcushions

                    I just uncommented the retroarch.cfg screenshot line and it was already set to f8. It looks like input_pause_toggle is set to p, but is commented out.

                    I've tried print_screen and "print_screen", neither work.

                    my mistake! f8 is the default key.. hmm, i dunno what i would use in that case... i take screenshots via the RGUI when i need to.

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                      briankross @dankcushions
                      last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 20:25

                      @dankcushions said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                      @briankross said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                      @dankcushions

                      I just uncommented the retroarch.cfg screenshot line and it was already set to f8. It looks like input_pause_toggle is set to p, but is commented out.

                      I've tried print_screen and "print_screen", neither work.

                      my mistake! f8 is the default key.. hmm, i dunno what i would use in that case... i take screenshots via the RGUI when i need to.

                      When I use the quick menu from RGUI, it kicks me out of the game.

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                        dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                        last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 20:29

                        @briankross that's very odd. anything in /tmp/runcommand.log when that happens?

                        all this stuff should 'just work'

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                          briankross @dankcushions
                          last edited by briankross 19 Jun 2016, 21:10

                          @dankcushions said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                          @briankross that's very odd. anything in /tmp/runcommand.log when that happens?

                          all this stuff should 'just work'

                          Edit: url in pastebin.com
                          Here's the log.

                          I ran Contra (nes), pressed select + x on a SNES gamepad to reach the RGUI, quick menu, take a screenshot.

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                            dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                            last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 21:14

                            @briankross i thought you said quick menu crashed? if it's crashing when you create a screenshot i think maybe it's that permissions problem i mentioned earlier... but not sure. IMO it would have been best to test they work in the default directories before changing them.

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                              briankross @dankcushions
                              last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 21:19

                              @dankcushions said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                              @briankross i thought you said quick menu crashed? if it's crashing when you create a screenshot i think maybe it's that permissions problem i mentioned earlier... but not sure. IMO it would have been best to test they work in the default directories before changing them.

                              Doing what I mentioned above kicks me from the game back to Emulation Station.

                              There were no directories set previously.

                              Here's the original retroarch.cfg entries:

                              # Take screenshot
                              # input_screenshot = f8
                              
                              # Directory to dump screenshots to.
                              # screenshot_directory =
                              
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                              herb_fargusH 1 Reply Last reply 19 Jun 2016, 21:20 Reply Quote 0
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                                herb_fargus administrators @briankross
                                last edited by 19 Jun 2016, 21:20

                                @briankross if you don't set the directories I think it just dumps them in the home directory.

                                If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  UDb23 @herb_fargus
                                  last edited by UDb23 31 Jul 2016, 08:28

                                  @herb_fargus
                                  Screenshots taken thru RGUI are saved in the home/pi/.config/retroarch/screenshots/ folder.
                                  I think it's default as I have never set any screeshot_directory parameter.
                                  Just tested with lr-mame 2003 (retropie 3.8.1).

                                  RGUI takes a screenshot of the actual game screen area; it is not including bezel (when you enter RGUI the bezel is no longer shown). Does anybody know how to get also the bezel ?

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                                    RetroResolution @UDb23
                                    last edited by RetroResolution 31 Jul 2016, 12:00

                                    @UDb23 hi,
                                    If you use raspi2png (I covered this earlier in the thread I think - it was a while ago!), it grabs the entire GPU frame buffer as a .PNG file, so you'll get everything that is on-screen.

                                    [Edit: 4th post down in this thread, covers installing and using raspi2png]

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                                      Floob @UDb23
                                      last edited by 31 Jul 2016, 13:46

                                      @UDb23 You can keep the bezel in RGUI with an option in there - its under the overlay section, and something like "keep overlay in RGUI"
                                      Not sure if that will help include it in the screenshot though.

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                                        briankross
                                        last edited by 31 Jul 2016, 13:48

                                        Just wanted to jump in with a quick question.

                                        Is "raspi2png" the only option if not using retroarch based emulators? (I hope I said that right!)

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                                          RetroResolution @briankross
                                          last edited by 31 Jul 2016, 15:07

                                          @briankross it all depends on the emulator. The Atari ST emulator, Hatari, for example, has an in-built screen-grab (and Audi/video recording) facility. The Atari 8-bit emulator, Atari800, provides a screen shot feature.

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