@just_jeepin
Have you tried skyscraper? The default for it gives me a screenshot with the marquee and boxart. Not sure if you can add everything you would like but the GitHub for it does talk about customize the scraped art so maybe you can? If nothing else you get some boxart.

Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

What does 'crash' mean ? EmulationStation freezes (without accepting any input) or it crashes with an error do the command line ?

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks!

@roslof

That did the trick! Thank you. I guess since I looked at the folder path in windows explorer, and it spelled "RetroPie" in lower case as "retropie" I assumed that would be the correct folder name. Thanks for you help!

Good to know!
Thank you both @mitu and @DTEAM

@bryan617 said in Nested ROM folders and box art:

Is there any way to have the box art for NES and SNES show up without taking the ROMs out of their nested folders and placing them directly in their system folder?

Short answer - no. The folder doesn't have box art, so it's normal you're seeing the boxartonly when entering the folder and looking at the actual ROM.

@Spudmckenzie Make sure you un-commented the password/username entries you added, they're commented (# at the beginning of the line) by default.

@jimiga are you able to share your theme?
This is the exact type of theme I would like to use.

@cwalk828 Usually this is up to the theme, the scraper just downloads the files (images/videos) and adds them to the gamelist.xml used by Emulationstation. But I don't think this is supported by Emulationstation (playing video in the bg) - if you're interested in this kind of display I think Pegasus (another front-end) might support this.

@Amishgamer
I just tested it again, with a few different systems, It does kind of squish the box, especially segacd, maybe a 640x640 square would be better. I'm sorry I'm not very good at this artwork.xml, I cant find a way around skyscrapers, compositing the boxart, even though all that it needs is for "cover" to be redirected to "screenshot". Did you try the built-in scraper?

Thanks blackshadow for your reply. I am using the tronkyfran theme, and the raspberry Pi 3b standard. My plan was to make the boxart at a high res, cause I am using the boxart as the screensaver.

I scraped again one full gamelist, at 1200 x 768 and that worked very well in the game list, no lag, and the screensaver boxart now doesn't look stretched or pixilated at full screen.

Hope this might help someone in future, if they planning to use boxart as the screensaver.

Thanks blackshadow all the best

You can, but only if you use the default video player. OMX does not support layers and will be always the top most element.

@cyperghost You mean like this?

SFC Pi

Box Art is not included in the ROMs, so it must be downloaded separately. You can use a 'scraper' program to do that, there are 2 included with RetroPie - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/ - but you can try others as well

Skyscraper - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11826/versatile-c-game-scraper-skyscraper Univeral XML Scraper - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5291/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2-easy-scrape-with-high-quality-picture

Just a suggestion for the devs: it would be cool if we could manually scroll the game description with the right analog stick, and if the stick isn't touched or the controller doesn't have one it would scroll by itself (adjusting the autoscroll time would be cool as mentioned above)

@valhalla_pi I couldn't find it at first but I found the lines were there in carbon.xml, not in theme.xml.
Like you said, I only had to change the showSnapshotDelay into true and add the extra delay line. Works!

Thank you.

@markyh444 very cool! Thanks for the time and effort! :)