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      Nismo @HemiJJ
      last edited by Nismo

      @HemiJJ Then if you don't want to have problems, you'll need to place marquees out from the screen, to fix marquees overlays on top of other elements, because even if you don't use marquees code in your theme xml, marquees will be displayed if they exist.

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        HemiJJ
        last edited by

        Thanks @Nismo

        So add an image tag for md_marquee and set the pos to something like -.5 -.5?

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          Nismo @HemiJJ
          last edited by Nismo

          @HemiJJ Yes, I think that should work.

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            mattrixk @Nismo
            last edited by

            @Nismo Quick question: If you have a gamelist with <marquee> tags, but not <video> tags, which View will be used? Detailed or Video? If Detailed View is used, will "md_marquee" images be displayed?

            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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              HurricaneFan @mattrixk
              last edited by

              @mattrixk It appears to use Detailed view if there is no video tag, and it ignores the marquee tag altogether.

              With Video tags:
              0_1487805588744_snapshot-with-videos.png

              Another gamelist with no video tag, but has image and marquee tags:
              0_1487805640354_snapshot.png

              It totally ignored my marquee and moved the image inside the box.

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                mattrixk @HurricaneFan
                last edited by

                @HurricaneFan That's good to know. Cheers for that.

                My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                  mattrixk
                  last edited by

                  Another question for whoever want to answer:

                  What does anyone put in the <marquee> tag? Do you scrape logos? Screenshots? Box art? Or a MIX image of any/all of the above?

                  The way I have my new theme set up, I have screenshots scraped into the <image> tag so the <video> will use them when <showSnapshotNoVideo> or <showSnapshotDelay> are set to "true", and I have a MIX image with logo, boxart and cartridge scraped into the <marquee> tag to show around the Video.

                  This looks great with my MIX marquee, but if someone has a different marquee, it might not look that good.

                  My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                    HurricaneFan @mattrixk
                    last edited by HurricaneFan

                    @mattrixk In my setup, marquees are the logo and image is the boxart. I've spent the better part of several weeks collecting logos, boxart and videos for every rom I have. Looks awesome once it is done but took me a really long time.

                    My understanding was the marquee would be like the wheel image in attract mode which was just the game logo.

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                      Nismo @HurricaneFan
                      last edited by Nismo

                      @mattrixk I use them for logos on console and marquees for arcade.

                      And yes, if no video tags detailed view will be used, but if you have almost only one video tag entry in a gamelist, video view will be used.

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                        mattrixk @HurricaneFan
                        last edited by

                        @HurricaneFan Hmm... I may have to have 2 chunks of code: One for anyone using my MIX images and one for people who just use the <marquee> tag for logos.

                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                          A Former User
                          last edited by

                          Ok, so I'm a little confused on how to add videos to this theme. Do I have to go into the code and change the <video> tag? Or is it different with RetroPie 4.2?

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                            robertybob @A Former User
                            last edited by

                            @itsnitro
                            https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support

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                              adon767
                              last edited by

                              So I'm having a issue where all my bos art are not the correct size. They are correct in other themes for it this one which I like it is not. Any ideas

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                                HurricaneFan @adon767
                                last edited by

                                @adon767 Check the xml file to see if its using maxsize on the box art image tag.

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                                  adon767 @HurricaneFan
                                  last edited by adon767

                                  How do I find that. I'm at the xml file for the es-theme-crt-master theme but don't know where to look and what values it should be.

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                                    HurricaneFan @adon767
                                    last edited by

                                    @adon767 What field in your gamelist.xml file is your box art image?

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                                      adon767 @HurricaneFan
                                      last edited by

                                      @HurricaneFan are you talking about the game list.xml that's in the rom directory?

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                                        adon767
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm sorry I'm very new with editing xml files. What should it be? Or what should I be looking for.

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                                          HurricaneFan @adon767
                                          last edited by

                                          @adon767 Yes, what is your box art saved as? <image> or <marquee>?

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                                            adon767 @HurricaneFan
                                            last edited by

                                            @HurricaneFan if i look at the gamelist.xml file in the roms folders. i have this

                                            <image>./boxart/2005 Minigame Multicart (USA) (Unl).png</image>
                                            <marquee>./wheel/2005 Minigame Multicart (USA) (Unl).png</marquee>
                                            <video>./snap/2005 Minigame Multicart (USA) (Unl).mp4</video>
                                            <thumbnail/>
                                            <rating>0</rating>
                                            <releasedate>00000000T000000</releasedate>
                                            <developer>AtariAge</developer>
                                            <publisher>AtariAge</publisher>
                                            <genre/>
                                            <players>1</players>
                                            </game>

                                            my artwork is saved in the boxart folder but when using the CRT theme they are stretched out and not the correct size.

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