Taking an actual screenshot?

[briankross]

@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

[dankcushions]

# 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).

[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.

[dankcushions]

@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.

[briankross]

@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.

[dankcushions]

@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.

[briankross]

@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.

[dankcushions]

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

all this stuff should 'just work'

[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.

[dankcushions]

@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.

[briankross]

@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 =

[herb_fargus]

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

[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 ?

[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]

[Floob]

@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.

[briankross]

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!)

[RetroResolution]

@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.

[briankross]

@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.

[RetroResolution]

@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.

[edmaul69]

@RetroResolution where does raspi2png save the screenshots to?