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    Taking an actual screenshot?

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    • FloobF
      Floob @briankross
      last edited by

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

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      • briankrossB
        briankross @Floob
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        @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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        • FloobF
          Floob
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          Thats odd. Can you put a copy of your opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg on pastebin.com?

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          • briankrossB
            briankross @Floob
            last edited by

            @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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            • dankcushionsD
              dankcushions Global Moderator
              last edited by

              
              # 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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              • briankrossB
                briankross @dankcushions
                last edited by briankross

                @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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                • dankcushionsD
                  dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • briankrossB
                    briankross @dankcushions
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • dankcushionsD
                      dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • briankrossB
                        briankross @dankcushions
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • dankcushionsD
                          dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                          last edited by

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

                          all this stuff should 'just work'

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                          • briankrossB
                            briankross @dankcushions
                            last edited by briankross

                            @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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                            • dankcushionsD
                              dankcushions Global Moderator @briankross
                              last edited by

                              @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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                              • briankrossB
                                briankross @dankcushions
                                last edited by

                                @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 =
                                
                                • Brian
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                                • herb_fargusH
                                  herb_fargus administrators @briankross
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                                  @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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                                  • UDb23U
                                    UDb23 @herb_fargus
                                    last edited by UDb23

                                    @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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                                    • R
                                      RetroResolution @UDb23
                                      last edited by RetroResolution

                                      @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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                                      • FloobF
                                        Floob @UDb23
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • briankrossB
                                          briankross
                                          last edited by

                                          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
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                                            @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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