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    Please test: Random Game selection/launch via Video Screensaver

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    • pjftP
      pjft @darknior
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      @darknior sounds like a plan. Using this with HDMI boost, does it help for you?

      Does your TV not have a mode for 1:1 pixel aspect ratio, fit to screen or something? Maybe you could disable overscan and set an option on the TV as suggested on the wiki page you linked to earlier?

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      • darkniorD
        darknior
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        PS : I have a request for you in this other thread if it is easy for you to release ?
        Thanks

        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10654/es-add-some-news-artworks-to-skin-like-in-a-vg-museum/6

        Life is game, just play it !

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        • darkniorD
          darknior
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          No, no option on this old Plasma TV with only YUV, the newest TV don't have this problem i think.
          I will try this week-end on my new TV and the Video Projector and make you a feedback ;)

          Life is game, just play it !

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          • pjftP
            pjft @darknior
            last edited by pjft

            @darknior not a big problem, I was just curious.

            As for your request, that is not my area of expertise at all, but I know @Zigurana Is working on something that will be able to make that happen, as you'll see on the GitHub issues.

            Hopefully that'll help!

            Edit: here's the link: https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues/132

            By the way, your work looks really promising! Good luck with it :)

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            • darkniorD
              darknior
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              I try with --line 1 and HDMI bost and it is a little better again, i think you can write it help for remove Glitch
              But the more important is --line 1 !

              Thanks a lot for @Zigurana , i will check his work :)
              Thanks for my work too, i think it will make a cool rendering at the end :)

              Life is game, just play it !

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                ferhound
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                It would be cool if this demo feature could be in the official img.

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                • pjftP
                  pjft @ferhound
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                  @ferhound what do you mean? This has been part of the official EmulationStation for the past 2 or so years. You can turn it on in the screensaver options > random video. You need to have videos set up for the games in your gamelists though.

                  What image are you referring to and what EmulationStation version are you on?

                  Best.

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                    ferhound @pjft
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                    @pjft said in Please test: Random Game selection/launch via Video Screensaver:

                    @ferhound what do you mean? This has been part of the official EmulationStation for the past 2 or so years. You can turn it on in the screensaver options > random video. You need to have videos set up for the games in your gamelists though.

                    What image are you referring to and what EmulationStation version are you on?

                    Best.

                    Im running the latest retropie on rasp 3 with everything up to date, I know about the screensaver videos but I mean a screensaver that takes a random game from the library and runs it.
                    Recalbox just added it.

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @ferhound
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                      @ferhound said in Please test: Random Game selection/launch via Video Screensaver:

                      Im running the latest retropie on rasp 3 with everything up to date, I know about the screensaver videos but I mean a screensaver that takes a random game from the library and runs it.

                      That's an option in the Screensaver settings in Emulationstation - did you look at the options available in the configuration menus ?

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                        ferhound @mitu
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                        @mitu said in Please test: Random Game selection/launch via Video Screensaver:

                        @ferhound said in Please test: Random Game selection/launch via Video Screensaver:

                        Im running the latest retropie on rasp 3 with everything up to date, I know about the screensaver videos but I mean a screensaver that takes a random game from the library and runs it.

                        That's an option in the Screensaver settings in Emulationstation - did you look at the options available in the configuration menus ?

                        Yes Im looking at it.
                        Im talking about a feature that its present in Recalbox that is a screensaver wich ITS NOT A VIDEO that selects a game from the library and executes it.
                        Is that hard to understand??

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                        • pjftP
                          pjft @ferhound
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                          @ferhound is it hard to understand that you're asking about something that's completely not related to the topic at hand, which dates back from 2017, and try people are trying to help you based on what you initially stated ("when is this available") where you clearly didn't understand what the topic was about, and yet still expect people to have an answer for something that doesn't exist in RetroPie?

                          Tone was not exactly deliberate, but really: @mitu is trying to help and so was I. If you don't do your homework or participate in a clearer manner, it's hard to help you better.

                          You resurrected this topic, the answer you got relates to it. Don't expect that RetroPie users necessarily know what new features other projects have, so you will have to explain in more detail on occasion if you'd want to be effective at interacting here over non-RetroPie-specific topics. Not because we have anything against other projects, it's really that not a lot of people actually actively follow other very similar projects.

                          Long story short: that feature as you described isn't available on RetroPie. If you do have documentation or links about it, though, and would want to share, I'm certainly curious about how they do it. It does look nice from your description.

                          Best.

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