runcommand launch art and Skyscraper images

[sleve_mcdichael]

Raspberry Pi 4B with official Pi 4 power supply. RetroPie Version 4.7.11, built from pre-made image on RetroPie website, updated though setup script and/or sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.

USB Devices connected: USB extender -> splitter -> generic Amazon SNES-style USB gamepad and Logitech USB keyboard.

File: /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh

How to replicate the problem: Add custom path for images, ca. line 1192; ensure .png image file with ROM base name exists at path; start EmulationStation, launch game.

Skyscraper outputs those fancy composite images with the screenshot, logo, and 3D box art. I want runcommand to display those images when launching a game instead of the plain box art downloaded by the ES scraper.

I found the part in runcommand.sh where the image paths are defined, around line 1190:

# if using art look for images in paths for es art
“$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$SYSTEM/images/${ROM_BN}-image”
“$HOME/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/$SYSTEM/${ROM_BN}-image”

I thought I could do it just by adding the path to the Skyscraper images, like so:

“$HOME/.emulationstation/downloaded_media/$SYSTEM/screenshots/${ROM_BN}”

...in between the other 2 lines (so images in the roms folder would still take precedence over all, but _media would have priority over _images), but that didn’t work. It still displayed the plain box art from downloaded_images. If I removed the files from that directory, it just showed a black screen while launching. When I check the file location:

$ fbi $HOME/.emulationstation/downloaded_media/arcade/screenshots/gamename.png

...I see the fancy composite Skyscraper image displayed on my screen. Why doesn’t runcommand show the image? I notice the Skyscraper images don’t have “-image” appended to the rom name. It didn’t seem like that should matter but to make sure, I performed a test: I changed my additional line to use ${ROM_BN}-image just like the other two, then I did a simple cp gamename.png gamename-image.png in the appropriate directory and launched the game...still got black screen. Any idea what else I’m missing here?

[mitu]

Support for Skyscraper's downloaded media has been added recently (via this commit). Your modifications seem similar, it sounds that you've just switched the search order.
Are you sure you're modifying the right file ? The file in the $HOME/Retropie-Setup is not used at runtime, it's just the source, when installed it's copied in /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand - which is used to for launching.

[sleve_mcdichael]

@mitu said in runcommand launch art and Skyscraper images:

Are you sure you're modifying the right file ? The file in the $HOME/Retropie-Setup is not used at runtime, it's just the source, when installed it's copied in /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand - which is used to for launching.

Aha, yes I was modifying the one in $HOME. I’ll try the one in /opt tomorrow and see if that does the trick.

Edit: I snuck a peek while closing up for the night and that was it, thanks for the tip! Now I wonder if there’s a way to get the transparent background to display as black instead of that light grey...