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    Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation

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      virg1
      last edited by

      Hi Floob. Will Attract Mode work with the latest image provided if roms from USB drive? the Retropie menu, Roms, configs, and bios folders were all properly mounted to USB drive using the Automatic Mount (easiest method). Everything gets moved over automatically when you create a folder called "Retropie-mount" as you probably already know (this came out a few weeks ago). There are other folders which get put into the roms folders, some maybe for scrapings (not sure how all that works) or other art and not sure if messes with the image I downloaded for Attract Mode Thanks!!

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      • InsecureSpikeI
        InsecureSpike @virg1
        last edited by

        @virg1 yup all will work perfect, fella

        RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
        RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
        both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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          virg1
          last edited by

          Fantastic! Thank you for the quick reply.

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          • InsecureSpikeI
            InsecureSpike @virg1
            last edited by

            @virg1 said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

            Fantastic! Thank you for the quick reply.

            just in your emulator configs edit the files location to where you have yours

            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
            both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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            • ?
              A Former User
              last edited by

              Ok, so I am having a problem with my version of attract mode + retropie.
              I am using v0.5.
              I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and a Samsung SD Card with 16 GB of Storage.
              For some reason, whenever I get onto this screen (shown below), and click on something, it redirects me back to this screen! 0_1488404756728_upload-c8959831-ca8b-4430-95e8-fda037ef9eed
              What do I do?

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              • BriganeB
                Brigane @A Former User
                last edited by

                @itsnitro The installation might have been corrupted somehow, have you tried to reinstalling Attract-Mode?

                Systems: Raspberry Pi 0/2/3 Model B+
                Os: RetroPie 4.5
                Frontend: Emulationstation & Attract Mode

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                  A Former User @Brigane
                  last edited by

                  @Brigane I have done it multiple times, but yet still not working.
                  I'm guessing the SD card I'm using is corrupted, might try and buy a new one.

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                    A Former User
                    last edited by

                    It worked! Yay!

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                      joelf
                      last edited by

                      Is there an easy way to get the rom lists from ES into AM?

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                      • BriganeB
                        Brigane @joelf
                        last edited by

                        @joelf I'm Quite sure that the scraper is the only solution

                        Systems: Raspberry Pi 0/2/3 Model B+
                        Os: RetroPie 4.5
                        Frontend: Emulationstation & Attract Mode

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                        • InsecureSpikeI
                          InsecureSpike
                          last edited by

                          yup, and it's not really too bad if a scraper

                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
                          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                          both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                          • strangerukS
                            strangeruk
                            last edited by

                            Hello, first time poster and relatively new to RetroPie as a whole but don't class myself as a noob as I have learnt a tonne of stuff sifting through these forums/wikis/github and hours of floob/ETA Prime Youtube vids!

                            Having got an ES setup the way I like it (vids, marquees etc) I thought I'd progress and give attract mode a go. I have managed to get it installed and launching and I'm not coming to configure the displays. My question is, can you use the same scraped info that exists for my ES setup to be used as the marquees/snaps for AM? From what I've read I can see that AM requires the snaps to be the same name but in a snaps folder, whereas ES creates an images folder and tags the snap as filename+"-video".mp4.

                            I can do a batch renaming job to get by, but I wondered if there was a universal way to use the scraped data in both ES and AM in case I need to use for multi-purpose, without having to duplicate the content?

                            Thanks,
                            Stranger

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                            • HurricaneFanH
                              HurricaneFan @strangeruk
                              last edited by

                              @strangeruk If you use the command line scraper, sselph it does allow you to remove the suffix -video, -image, etc.

                              But doing that would require a rescrape of all your stuff.

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                              • strangerukS
                                strangeruk @HurricaneFan
                                last edited by

                                @hurricanefan said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

                                @strangeruk If you use the command line scraper, sselph it does allow you to remove the suffix -video, -image, etc.

                                But doing that would require a rescrape of all your stuff.

                                @HurricaneFan That's handy to know, thanks! Does AM require the specific scraped data to be in separate folders, though (marquees, snaps, for example) as sselph dumps it all into one images folder for use within ES?

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                                • HurricaneFanH
                                  HurricaneFan @strangeruk
                                  last edited by

                                  @strangeruk You can specify different folders if you want with sselph scraper.

                                  Example settings:
                                  -image_dir=boxart -image_path=boxart -video_dir=videos -video_path=videos -image_suffix= -video_suffix=

                                  This would make an image folder called Boxart and no suffix for the images. It would also make a videos folder with no suffix.

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                                  • strangerukS
                                    strangeruk @HurricaneFan
                                    last edited by

                                    @hurricanefan Excellent, I didn't know you could have so much control over sselph (which is an amazing tool, by the way).

                                    I seem to have got it doing as I need by using this, should anybody else have the same requirements.

                                    scraper -add_not_found -download_images -download_marquees -download_videos -console_src ss,gdb -console_img b,3b,s,f -image_dir=boxart -image_path=boxart -video_dir=snaps -video_path=snaps -marquee_dir=wheel -marquee_path=wheel -marquee_format png -image_suffix="" -video_suffix="" -marquee_suffix=""

                                    Thanks again, what an awesome community here!

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                                    • HurricaneFanH
                                      HurricaneFan @strangeruk
                                      last edited by

                                      @strangeruk Glad to hear it.

                                      If you want to see all settings for the scraper. You can use the below command:

                                      scraper -help

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                                        tobas @Floob
                                        last edited by

                                        @Floob Hi there, I am desperately looking for an answer to my attract mode problem. I have upgraded my image from jessie to stretch. I managed to get emulation station working again fine, but I cannot figure out how to get attract mode to boot again. do you know any solutions?

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                                        • FloobF
                                          Floob
                                          last edited by

                                          Now updated for the Pi4. See first post for details.

                                          Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
                                          RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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