runcommand launching images for ANY theme

[FlyingTomahawk]

No hurry here. When ever you find time to look into it is fine with me.
I haven't update anything on the Pi Zero. With only 1 USB port my possibilities are limited.
I downloaded the image file from the RetroPie website, installed everything and I am using your script before it was merged into RetroPie.
I ordered a Pi Zero W and also a Zero4U so I will have more possibilities then.
Thanks.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@meleu
I am running this Famicom-mini theme with only 4 systems (NES,SNES,Megadrive,GBA) so it is not a big deal for me to create the launching.png images in Photoshop and upload them to my Pi Zero.
Here a sample.

[meleu]

@FlyingTomahawk hey! It looks great! But I want to debug the script anyway. :)

Thanks for the feedback.

[HurricaneFan]

@meleu I'm running retropie version 4.1.18 and am encountering issues making launching images from Carbon theme.

Settings:

Errors:

[meleu]

@HurricaneFan try this solution here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/59747

And please let me know if it solves your issue.

It seems that your original installation was before 4.1. Am I right?

[HurricaneFan]

@meleu I started with the default 4.1 build that was released in November. Then I upgraded all packages before I installed this through retropie setup.

[meleu]

@HurricaneFan did that solution work for you?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/59747

[HurricaneFan]

@meleu Your suggestion worked!

[meleu]

@FlyingTomahawk I've fixed the script and now it's able to generate images for the @ruckage 's Famicom-mini theme. You can update the script inside RetroPie-Setup, choosing "Update from binary" option.

Here's the megadrive launching.png as an example (I think your "hand-made" image looks better, anyway):

./generate-launching-images.sh -t famicom-mini --loading-text-color red --press-button-text-color white --system megadrive

Thanks again for reporting this issue. ;-)

[fnkngrv]

So how can we go about being able to figure out a way to generate for systems that are not in a theme that we choose? Example is I am going off the Tronky (sp?) theme. It doesn't generate for PCEngineCD, TG16, and TG16CD. Thanks!

[meleu]

@fnkngrv said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

So how can we go about being able to figure out a way to generate for systems that are not in a theme that we choose?

With some knowledge of how to use GIMP, Photoshop, etc. :)

[lilbud]

@meleu Is the logo supposed to be blurry?

[meleu]

@lilbud the script doesn't apply any blurry effect to the logo. Can you show me some example?

[lilbud]

@meleu The Megadrive logo itself It has a faint, but noticable blur to it.

[meleu]

@lilbud oh yeah, I noticed it too. Not sure, but maybe the logo file isn't in svg format.

[FlyingTomahawk]

As far I know it happens only with png format logos. SVG shows just fine.

[backstander]

@fnkngrv

So how can we go about being able to figure out a way to generate for systems that are not in a theme that we choose? Example is I am going off the Tronky (sp?) theme. It doesn't generate for PCEngineCD, TG16, and TG16CD. Thanks!

I had a similar issues and meleu had me create a symbolic link to pcengine
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7193/runcommand-launching-images-for-any-theme/70

Something like this:

cd /etc/emulationstation/themes/tronkyfran/
sudo ln -s pcengine tg16
sudo ln -s pcengine pce-cd
sudo ln -s pcengine tg-cd

Even though this will create a pictures saying "PC Engine" when you launch a TG16 or TG-CD game.

Maybe @meleu should put something about this on the first post? ;-)

[FlyingTomahawk]

Can anyone check if they can access the launch menu by pushing the A button while the launching.png screen is showing.

[dankcushions]

@FlyingTomahawk no one can.

[EctoOne]

@FlyingTomahawk It's not always the A button on the controller. It's whatever key is 0 in your config. For me it's the B button, so I changed the text to that. Also you need to press it after the image is gone, it's a very small time limit.