Use another front-end, maybe ?

@Davelusa yes P4 should be fine, I'm actually doing a Street Fighter cab conversion to an LED marquee and P4 is the best fit for that. Hit me up and I can send you some pics on how it turned out. Here also is a recent Bartop project I did https://www.instructables.com/id/Arcade-Machine-With-Changing-LED-Marquee/ . That one is PC based and has a nice feature unfortunately only available on the PC where the marquee will change also when scrolling through games and emulators on the front end.

you could try this project http://pixelcade.org , includes artwork for 128x32 too. Disclosure, I'm the creator of this one and sell them as kits.

@sirhenrythe5th Thank you! Im glad you enjoy it!

@stuart2773 Thanks. Yes I already use this site, they have some really good scans.

@jwbmonk @meleu created an amazing script https://github.com/meleu/generate-launching-images that creates launching images for a specific theme. What I think it does is take the console images of the theme and create launching images. I guess it could be possible to add an option to use the scraped box art instead of the console image.

It's not possible yet. Although @Zigurana is working on making the system carousel mechanic available in other views. Until then we only have text available as gamelists. Unless you want a theme that only shows 1 image per game without any other elements.

@EctoOne I second this, I've requested this before. It makes sense to have boxart and a screenshot option in detail view using the md_marquee. this could give people the option of displaying either static (screenshot) or video view, while still displaying the boxart. Plus - for my personal preference, i could turn off my annoying fan noise when using screenshots lol.

@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.

@lurker It can be done. A lot of people jump to the direct GPU which cannot be done, however the Displayotron Hat LCD panels you can get for the Pi which run over the GPIO interface use a frambuffer which runs independently from the GPU, so terrible framerates overall but for displaying 2D graphics.static images it is perfectly acceptable. All you need is a display of similar construction with an SPI interface to send the image to.

@y0da oh. You should also be able to find the option inside the "other settings" menu, isn't that the case? You can select a different theme that doesn't use overlays as predominantly. What theme are you using?

@Used2BeRX said in Best way to update marquee, video and other tags in your gamelist.xml: @darknior Nah. There's no clones in the Rx1.0 set. It's completely clone free. I already talked to Gilles and reclined the offer to work with you guys because you were removing a lot of games. I already knew we were working on two completely different projects. I was just letting you know that you should wait to make your gamelist.xml files until we get the program done. Otherwise you're wasting a lot of time making those by hand. Thanks but no, with Universal XML Scraper it is very fast to make an gamelist.xml Some Regex to add all Xtra and it is done. The long task was to found all the stuff in Full HD for our RVGM project :( We have it from xBox but it is long to work on it ... UXMLScraper have some (not all) bad stuff too ...

@jdrassa @ruckage this would be an excellent addition! I believe we had this discussion about a month ago and having the ability to have wheel art and also possibly thumbnail to allow box art, 2wheel art, screenshot all to be displayed! @jdrassa, I know this is a huge undertaking and not an immediate request, but if you do look into this, making the md have a true false option would be excellent. I am going to release a "special edition" of my theme so that users with wheel art in there "marquee" line of the gamelist can see that instead of the second system logo. If the md_marquee tag was True false, this could all be handled under one theme release. Thanks as always for you great work, and indeed no rush on my thoughts.

@UDb23 said in 16:9 Vertical Monitor - Marquee and Bezel Overlay?: Repo for custom overlays Many thanks for the suggested link. I will comb over it today as it just started to pour rain and need something to keep busy. Much appreciated.

@morpie overlays are only active when running the libretro (lr-) emulators/games of your choosing.