rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie

ohmycommodore

ok i think i get the difference between the repositories and the actual art.

so for the launching images, you do in fact need to manually delete / download images if you want to switch themes...?

i suppose one way around that would be if, in the future, system launching images were included as part of the themes themselves, as a default of sorts instead of the basic text that pops up during a launch.

meleu

@ohmycommodore said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

so for the launching images, you do in fact need to manually delete / download images if you want to switch themes...?

Yep. Maybe using the "uninstall art" option can be less painfull for those who have fear of command line. :)

i suppose one way around that would be if, in the future, system launching images were included as part of the themes themselves, as a default of sorts instead of the basic text that pops up during a launch.

I aggree it would be awesome, but I'm afraid it won't happen...

An EmulationStation theme is an EmulationStation thing. A launching image is a runcommand thing. The RetroPie developers have a strong conviction that RetroPie (which runcommand is part of) must be frontend agnostic, which means that EmulationStation must not deal with configs that has nothing to do with the frontend itself (the only accepted exception is the input config).

That being said, I think that moving launching image files automatically when the user changes the ES theme set in the UI Settings is something that won't happen.

@BuZz am I right saying that?

BuZz

@meleu yep. Pretty much :-)

beastmode

@meleu I'm unable to press a button to configure launch options for individual games after using the rpie-art tool to set 16:9 basic launching images by @tmntturtlguy

How do I go about solving this?

RetroPie-Setup Script Version: 4.2.12 (all packages updated)

meleu

@beastmode rpie-art can't do this kind of "harm" on your system. Maybe it's related with the issue reported here. The good thing is that it's already solved. You just need to update your RetroPie-Setup script and try again. ;-)

jdrassa

@meleu said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

That being said, I think that moving launching image files automatically when the user changes the ES theme set in the UI Settings is something that won't happen.

I was thinking about this recently and one idea I had would be to implement scripting similar to what Pegasus is doing.

meleu

@jdrassa it would be neat! You guys don't stop!! Hehehe!

ruckage

@beastmode
Are you waiting until the launch image disappears? You can't access the menu while the launch image is being displayed.

From the wiki:

Once these images are installed, the timing to activate the the runcommand menu differs, in that pressing a button will not register successfully until just after the image has disappeared.

TMNTturtlguy

@ruckage Very true. I have my launch images display for 4 seconds, i then have about 1/2 second to hit the button in order to access the options menu.

rkoster

Minor issue, but the script allows uninstalling of overlays specific to a game, but does not show the generic overlays for whole systems, such as NES or GBA, so they cannot be uninstalled from there.

Further, going into the Retroarch GUI and disabling the generic overlay or leaving the selected overlay blank doesn't take. Next time you launch the system, it's back.

VGMonkey

Wow, how have i only just heard of this? Thank you for the work involved in getting this up and running.

meleu

@rkoster thanks for the report. Will fix it when I have a chance.

rkoster

@meleu No problem!

For anyone who has need to uninstall manually, you can go to (from memory) /opt/retropie/configs/ and manually edit out the lines that were added to each system's retroarch.cfg.

I managed to get my GBA display stuck off to one side somehow; you can also basically regenerate the retroarch.cfg by reinstalling that package from Retropie Setup.

hansolo77

I just tried to do the install of this. Followed the instructions in the 1st post. I ran RetroPie-Setup and updated the script (now at 4.2.15). I then existed ES. In the terminal I cloned the repo, then I went into the directory and tried the ./rpie-art.sh --install command. It said this:

chmod: changing permissions of '/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/rpie-art.sh': Operation not permitted
FAIL: failt to install "rpie-art.sh" on RetroPie Menu.

Not sure what I could have done wrong... don't want to try a sudo ./rpie-art.sh --install until you say to..

meleu

@hansolo77 will look at it tonight. Thanks for the report.

hansolo77

@meleu OK cool. I was bored and decided to try and install this so I could get @TMNTturtlguy 's loading screen art for his ComicBook theme. Guess I'll just do something else in the interim. ^_^

meleu

@hansolo77 said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

Guess I'll just do something else in the interim.

For example use rpie-art with a keyboard. ;-)

hansolo77

@meleu Naw that'd be to easy. :)

meleu

@hansolo77 said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

I just tried to do the install of this. Followed the instructions in the 1st post. I ran RetroPie-Setup and updated the script (now at 4.2.15). I then existed ES. In the terminal I cloned the repo, then I went into the directory and tried the ./rpie-art.sh --install command. It said this:
chmod: changing permissions of '/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/rpie-art.sh': Operation not permitted
FAIL: failt to install "rpie-art.sh" on RetroPie Menu.
Not sure what I could have done wrong... don't want to try a sudo ./rpie-art.sh --install until you say to..

Everything is fine with the script. All files/directories under ~/RetroPie/ should be owned by user pi. Are you mounting a non-Linux partition in ~/RetroPie/?

Try sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie and then try ./rpie-art.sh --install again (without sudo!).

hansolo77

@meleu said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

Everything is fine with the script. All files/directories under ~/RetroPie/ should be owned by user pi. Are you mounting a non-Linux partition in ~/RetroPie/?

Try sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie and then try ./rpie-art.sh --install again (without sudo!).

Yeah my whole /RetroPie sub-folder is owned by root. I will try this soon as I get a chance.