Boxart & Screenshot display - same time

paffley

Thanks lilbud and dudleydes! Super, I'll look into these options and let you know. :)

HurricaneFan

I believe your theme can use 2 different images. You could use md_image for the boxart and md_marquee as the screenshot.

md_image
md_marquee

paffley

@HurricaneFan hi thanks for that! What directory do the images go in to read as md_marquee please?

HurricaneFan

@paffley You can put them anywhere you want. Just reference the path in your gamelist.xml file. I store mine in a folder called marquees inside the rom directory. You can name your folder whatever you want.

Example:

<marquee>./marquees/Aerial Assault (World).png</marquee>

paffley

@HurricaneFan Thanks! I'll do that! Thank you! :)

paffley

Hi again,

I believe I have things setup correctly but cannot get my marquee image to display for some reason, not sure what I've missed.

I have my marquee images stored in the rom folder in /marquees
I have edited my gamelist xml and added the marquee tag with directory to the image
I have added the md_marquee code to my main theme xml

p.s it wont let me add code to this post to show what I have - comes up with a spam warning on the forum

mattrixk

@paffley I think you need some videos before a System will recognise the marquee element.

paffley

@mattrixk

ahh got you, thank you! :)

paffley

@mattrixk does it recognise flv files as video?

Update: yep it does :)

KyoXBR

So... i found this topic searching for the same question paffley did... and while the solution for him was to use the "marquee" category, I wanted instead to keep marquees showing, and displaying screenshot and boxart on my theme's video view for the games that doesn't have video. So, I was in need of a third set of displaying artwork... and after searching a lot, I found it on the development fork of EmulationStation!

For those that, as me, ended up here, here it goes the "workaround":

you have to install "emulationstation-dev" instead of the default "emulationstation" for it;
then you need to change the resource (probably a repeated "image" field on the same position and size of the "video" field) on your theme to the "thumbnail" tag (i used ComicBook theme for this example, on the video view);
lastly, after scraping (i used skyscraper), on gamelist.xml, change your boxart XML tag to "image" and your screenshot XML tag to "thumbnail" (i did a replacing macro on notepad++).

Tested here and works flawlessly! You don't have to switch exactly the same XML tags, it's only an example of how I did mine.