@mitu Much appreciated for your suggestion

@mitu I got my screenshot the way you suggested:

flip back to dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d in /boot/config.txt use raspi2png

Thanks!

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@goestohollywood This is specifically Skyscraper at default settings.

If you want to take a screenshot of just your current active window, type Alt-PrtSc instead of just the PrtSc key.

@sirhenrythe5th said in Game Screen Captures?:

I guess it will do what it is named for and save the picture to the rom-Folder, where you can pick it up and copy it to every Windows-, OS2- , -MacOS or even Solaris-System ;)

The screenshots are saved in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/screenshots. For convenience, I made a link at /home/pi/screenhots with this command:

ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/screenshots /home/pi/screenhots

@cyperghost said in [Solved] How to bind a shell command to a hotkey? (raspi2png):

I'm the (proud??) owner of such a device but I prefer the Pie

What I meant - since you have one - maybe you can find an equivalent program to raspi2png for the Droid and be able to test it (not create one from scratch). Something like fbgrab or fbdump maybe.

@second-exodous raspi2png or uv4l if you want to stream it remotely

@nicky_s14

raspi2png is probably your best bet. Here's a link where it's been discussed previously in relation to RetroPie.

@hyruleslink I just got lr-gw up and running myself and was thinking the same thing. A little googling and I found these. Honestly, I was hoping one of the scrapers had them already. I just finished missing artwork and metadata for Famicom Disk System and I’m really not looking forward to doing all that again by hand.

@mitu Thanks for your reply! I will take a look at this and perhaps give it a go. Many thanks

@atol I believe you you're talking about how to get your screenshots using another computer, right?

There are many ways, but I think that using a SFTP client is the most common. I use Filezilla on Linux, but if you are on Windows maybe you can try WinSCP. Maybe you can find more useful info on the Transfering ROMs part of the docs.

@linkreincarnate Then you need to do it on the Pi. Use raspi2png

Thanks, meleu
Already know how to get my own screenshots, also how to scrape manually, but not what I was looking for.
I thought ES calls internal scraper using some kind of (customizable) config file.
It's a pitty it doesn't :-( this is one of the most important parts of emulation: getting a preview of the games and not the boxes covers.

@Shakz I don't know how to launch RetroArch loading a specific saved state file. This feature is a must-have to start making it doable.

@herb_fargus Thanks herb!

Thank you for writing back @meleu I think my "method" is somewhere inbetween. The fact is my non-merged full 0.37b5 romset (2241 roms) matches perfectly the 0.37b5 snaps (2241 snaps, a lot of work saved!) so what I do basically is:
1.- add
screenshot_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/images/"
to
/opt/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all/retroarch.cfg
2.- move roms to Retropie/roms/mame-mame4all
2.- move snaps to Retropie/roms/mame-mame4all/images
3.- run
/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -add_not_found=true -append=true -download_images=false -image_dir="images" -image_path="images" -image_suffix="" -img_format="png" -img_workers=0 -no_thumb=true -thumb_only=false -thumb_suffix="" -use_ss=true -use_gdb=true -use_ovgdb=true -workers=4

Then gameslist.xml is created. I think those steps might be useful to users who already have a preference for snapshot packages.

However, I wonder what would be the best approach in the following scenario where there it no a rom <--> snap match:

1.- add
screenshot_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/images/"
to
/opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg
Move all 3438 No Intro SNES roms (Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (20161130-222348_CM).dat) to
Retropie/roms/snes
Move all 3352 .png snapshots (No-Intro 20061119 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Screenshots.7z) to
Retropie/roms/snes/images

One more problem, snapshots name do not match rom names but it is relatively easy to sort it out.
Eg. Actraiser (U).png versus ActRaiser (USA).zip
So I have run a number or find and replace to swap U for USA, J for Japan and so on. Once .png files match their counterparts in the roms folder, the same scraper command is run to generate gamelist.xml
In any case, it is clear that there are less snapshots than rom files so there will be roms without snap. Any ideas on how to find out (list) what are those roms?

PS. I am going to have a good look at that link. Thank you for it.