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    Taking an actual screenshot?

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    • briankrossB
      briankross @Floob
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      @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
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        # 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
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            @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
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              @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
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                  @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
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                        @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 =
                          
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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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                                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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                                      • briankrossB
                                        briankross @RetroResolution
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                                        @RetroResolution said in Taking an actual screenshot?:

                                        @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.

                                        Ah, nice thanks! My goal is to assign a button on the console to take a screenshot. I'll continue researching.

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                                          RetroResolution @briankross
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                                          @briankross cool, but bear in mind that for non libretro-core (non-retroarch) emulators assigning custom controller buttons can be tricky - it all depends in whether the emulator allows custom configuration (or if a controller-to-keypress tool can be used).
                                          For the Atari800 emulator I located a retroarch port that somebody shared on github, compiled that on my Pi, and integrated it into emulation station so I could easily grab screens and record footage using retroarch.

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @RetroResolution
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                                            @RetroResolution where does raspi2png save the screenshots to?

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