Video screensaver displays "Mega Drive" as system on MD/Genesis titles even when platforms.cfg has been created to display elsewhere as Genesis. Is there a solution to this?

mitu

@rc_cola I think the video screensaver will play randomly one of the videos associated with your ROMs, the video is not generated by ES. What version of ES/RetroPie do you have installed - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

RC_Cola

@mitu 4.3 updated through update script in retropie-config before I even started all of this, a few days ago. Updated all packages and emulators again after making the new method change to display Genesis instead of Mega Drive.

Sorry, I realized I left out a fairly important detail: I am referring to the "show game title" option available for the video screensaver, which displays game name (not ROM name) and system over the videos as they play on the screensaver.

That title is displaying "Mega Drive" instead of Genesis when a Genesis title randomly appears in my random videos rotation in the screensaver, and I am unsure why/where it is getting that data from as everything else is displaying as Genesis for me.

mitu

@rc_cola said in Video screensaver displays "Mega Drive" as system on MD/Genesis titles even when platforms.cfg has been created to display elsewhere as Genesis. Is there a solution to this?:

I am referring to the "show game title" option available for the video screensaver

I see, so that is actually generated by ES, but since the real ROM folder/system name is still megadrive (genesis is just a symlink), the system name that's added is obviously MegaDrive.
I don't think there's a solution to that, but maybe an ES dev might have a different opinion.

zerojay

Get rid of the symlink, create a genesis folder, move your roms and videos and fix up the es_systems.xml if needed, I would imagine?

RC_Cola

@zerojay said in Video screensaver displays "Mega Drive" as system on MD/Genesis titles even when platforms.cfg has been created to display elsewhere as Genesis. Is there a solution to this?:

Get rid of the symlink, create a genesis folder, move your roms and videos and fix up the es_systems.xml if needed, I would imagine?

I will do that, but I am guessing this causes things to potentially be overwritten and need re-writing each time the things are updated? That's fine, but just checking. I am also guessing I will need to go undo the "new way" to display Genesis instead before doing so.

quicksilver

@rc_cola you can make a copy of your es_systems.cfg and place it here:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

ES looks for the file here first. You can make manual changes to the file and it won't get updated. That way when you update it won't overwrite your changes. You will have to manually update it though with any future changes.

RC_Cola

@quicksilver said in Video screensaver displays "Mega Drive" as system on MD/Genesis titles even when platforms.cfg has been created to display elsewhere as Genesis. Is there a solution to this?:

@rc_cola you can make a copy of your es_systems.cfg and place it here:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

ES looks for the file here first. You can make manual changes to the file and it won't get updated. That way when you update it won't overwrite your changes. You will have to manually update it though with any future changes.

Thanks. I just tried this and it works well.

I previously had changed my default MD/Genesis emulator to lr-genesis-plus-gx, as it started on picodrive (not sure why, compatibility with pi 1/2/zero?)

As long as I don't change the path for the emulator call in my custom es_systems.cfg file, just the names and the roms folder, it will still reference the .cfg file in the /opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/ folder when checking which emulator to launch, correct? As that's where I changed it.

ChuckyP

That will work. When you update it tries to recreate the symlink, so on first reboot after an update you will need to delete the created folder. Otherwise there are 2 genesis folders and it will crash to the terminal.

quicksilver

@rc_cola I don't think you have to change the name of the rom folder. I think as long as you change the name in the platform section.

jdrassa

@RC_Cola The screensaver displays the fullname value from es_systems.cfg. You should be able to edit es_systems.cfg to set it to whatever you want it to display.

ClassicGMR

@jdrassa said in Video screensaver displays "Mega Drive" as system on MD/Genesis titles even when platforms.cfg has been created to display elsewhere as Genesis. Is there a solution to this?:

@RC_Cola The screensaver displays the fullname value from es_systems.cfg. You should be able to edit es_systems.cfg to set it to whatever you want it to display.

Thank you for this. Made things more consistent on my setup and this was - by far - the easiest way I have found to fix the issue.

daphnefan

Hey, i wanted to ask a somewhat related question: what could be the reason that my screensaver never plays genesis snaps when the screensaver is running? Every system i have on my retropie 4.4 makes an appearance as a random video screensaver and it doesnt matter if the snaps are located within the emulationstation folder or in the rom folder for the system itself. I'm just puzzled as to why my genesis games don't show it. Would it have anything to do with having changed all mentions of megadrive to genesis within emulationstation and this having borked whatever emulationstation looks to when seeking random videos?