I figured it out actually and it ended up working. Thanks!

@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 So, I couldn't wait for you to come out with this and decided to take a stab at making a theme that takes inspiration for yours. I call it Focus since the main focus is on the game and not much else. I tried to put the minimum amount of information in there. It's focused on having a screenshot and video for each game with a CRT shaped overlay that goes over the screenshot/video (you have to use VLC for this to work correctly). I also have a proper CRT scanline overlay that goes over the game screenshot/video that looks pretty nice (very similar to the zfast_crt_standard shader) when running on a physical RetroPi. This screenshot is ES running on Windows, and it does some weird scaling that makes the scanline overlay look terrible.

Anyway, I appreciate your inspiration! I don't plan to release this theme without your permission since it is so similar to your work.

@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 ;)