@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?

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! :)

@stuart2773 Thanks. Yea, he uploaded the correct .ogg file there. The games seem to work very well.

@hyruleslink Yes it is planed ;)

@detron thanks! You can change when the caption shows - during the entire clip or just beginning and end - in the video screensaver options menu. You can also launch it directly by pressing start while the clip is showing ;)

Add direct link to DL all the 5 games Images stuff (Cover n Logo) + Videos. https://mega.nz/#F!LcMB3IpR!ZUQxRnBMndIL1aFx8OoL7A!LMcGFAJa

@darknior I don't think our script is what you need then. You might want to look into Skyscraper that muldjord is working on. I can't remember if he ever added the ability to use our synopsis or not, but he was willing to do it. The script that meleu's been tweaking does it all. There's no way to just convert the synopsis.txt files to xml files with it. Even if there were, I don't know how this would save you any time. I'm afraid that you're going to end up spending tons of time making xml files that you don't need to. It really doesn't take that long to follow the instructions and set up your media correctly. You can then run the script and let the pi make every gamelist.xml for every system that it currently handles. It would take about 16 hours on a Pi Zero and would probably be much quicker on a Pi 3. Not bad, considering if I were to do it all by hand it would probably take me 2 or 3 thousand hours to write them. It's up to you though. :)

necro post but just wondering if these found their way to the libretro thumbnails repo? https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/libretro-thumbnails might be worth looking into as it seems both sfc and nes are incompllete thus far

@Zigurana Thanks for your answer. I already think to this with a friend and the best solution is the second. Like it is used in Kodi. Every one can add and use the media he want like he want without any new coding. And it use less memory for guys who don't use many media. But like you write it is harder to code :( If i found some one who can code the second solution it will be the best. If not i think i will try to code myself the 1rst easy solution for the moment. Maybe you have the skill to do it, but for myself i haven't :(