And I was just planning on doing a Dreamcast only image! Keeping tabs on this one for sure!

This one's my favourite at the moment:

I recommend you post your splash screen here:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29132/splash-screen-ideas-discussion

EmulationStation will use the gamelist.xml ROMs folder, if found, otherwise it looks in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/<system>. The 2 files are not combined, just one of them is used, in that order.

If you enabled the 'Use Local Art' option in EmulationStation's settings, it will try find a video matching the game by looking under roms/<system>/media/<ROM_NAME>-video.mp4, so even if there's no video declared in gamelist.xml, it might still find a video associated with it.

In fact, what would be the best way to ensure that I get both videos and correct information into my setup?

Don't mix the scrapers if you want video - the internal scraper doesn't support videos so it might overwrite the video tags if you re-scrape with it. Use the external scraper and see which videos have issues - some arcade videos are incompatible with RPI's hardware video codecs and might not play correctly.

@mitu

Thank you Mitu, but for me, a power-user at best, thats going to be like looking for the proverbial needle. Before I spend hours trying to troubleshoot this Ill just save my roms and do a fresh install.

Thanks anyway and kind regards

@mitu

I've just installed LXDE and try again but nothing changes. I don't know if it helps but if i power off the display and/or detach from VGA it doesn't work; only thing is to close ES. I still think it is an ES issue...i don't know.

I will do other tests.
Thanks

@buzz

My was setup:

Raspberry pi 4 model B Rev1.2 (Stock Clocks) Raspberry Pi4 Argonone Case Retropie 4.6.8 43' 1080p TV 8bitdo controller Using 5ghz Wifi

Only occurs on stuff like SNES, NES, and similar 2D platforms, but as i mentioned before using a custom aspect ratio with 1 less pixel on Y & X axis than core config seemed to fix it. Bilinear Filtering, and Interger-scale also fix the tearing aswell not sure if there are other fixes though. V sync is on any everything.

I was not able to figure this out. For my purposes, I wanted to restrict access to the other lists anyway as this machine is for a workplace arcade setup so I wanted a very straightforward setup, so I updated the ES config to not allow the B button to work. It loads All Games by default, and I turned off the ability to go from system to system, so for now it's working for me. Thanks for the input that was received.

@ReadyPlayaWon I'll keep that in mind in future situations, but I've had a chance to confirm and the video volume isn't an issue when in HDMI mode. The issue is only with the headphone jack. I'll continue looking for a programming solution.

@mitu
Thanks for the reply!
I do have a normal TV, the problem is that the HDMI cables I've ordered along with the pi 4 don't work. I'll have to order new ones to test at a later date.
The reason I just kept working on with this screen was that I wanted to build a small (4:3) bar top arcade with it.
Now, knowing that this screen won't work for this, I'll have to research for a suitable replacement as well.
Thanks for the help :)

This confusion happened over the course of weeks after I disabled the onscreen help. Forgive me. I've got some grey hair in my late 30s. :D

@mitu Awesome thank you, apologies for that oversight. Was able to get it going. You have a good weekend!

@TheRog third party images are not supported here (as outlined in this post), particularly those sold with games already installed. You'll have to contact the seller for support or you can create your own image as outlined here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/.

@mitu I see... thanks for the info!

Truth be told, I prefer the old text notifications anyway, so I'll be turning off the widgets posthaste.

@alt126 said in Arcade & Mame resolution:

What I have to modify to have a better resolution?

Resolution is fixed, you can't change it. The only thing you can do is apply filters, which is exactly what your first screenshot is about : there is a blurry effect on it. It's probably retroarch's bilinear filtering, you can find it in retroarch menu : Setting > Video > Bilinear Filtering. Well, i think that blurry effect is horrible tbh, it feels like i need glasses, but i guess everyone has their own tastes.

@Clyde That would be awesome. I've written a script that will take a folder of videos and, using FFmpeg, overlay images on top of them like scan lines and a bezel and spit out a new video. It would be so nice to be able to do this as an image instead like retroarch does.