Animated Screensavers

Malixx

Animated Screensavers

I have made a few animated screensavers in the Netflix style based on the original artworks of the games.
Hope you will like it!

Goes well with those themes:

Download all screensavers

Individual downlaods

Installation Instructions

(For this you will need a SSH like WinSCP and then go to Preferences > Panels > Show hidden files)

Download a video, for example:
Super Metroid.mp4
Create a new folder named screensavers in here:
/home/pi/RetroPie
Put the video file into your new folder:
/home/pi/RetroPie/screensavers/Super Metroid.mp4
Now go to the folder system of the game you want to add:
/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml
(for this exemple it's Super Metroid so I went to the snes folder)
Open the gamelist.xml file, you should have something like this:

<gameList>
    <game>
        <path>./Super Metroid (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).zip</path>
        <name>Super Metroid</name>
        <desc>Super Metroid is a follow-up to Metroid II, and once again features bounty hunter Samus Aran.</desc>
        <image>~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/Super Metroid (Japan, USA) (En,Ja)-image.jpg</image>
        </game>
</gameList>

Add the the line with the path of the video like so:
<video>/home/pi/RetroPie/screensavers/Super Metroid.mp4</video>

<gameList>
    <game>
        <path>./Super Metroid (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).zip</path>
        <name>Super Metroid</name>
        <desc>Super Metroid is a follow-up to Metroid II, and once again features bounty hunter Samus Aran.</desc>
        <image>~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/Super Metroid (Japan, USA) (En,Ja)-image.jpg</image>
        <video>/home/pi/RetroPie/screensavers/Super Metroid.mp4</video>
        </game>
</gameList>

Save and close the gamelist.xml file.
Restart System and voilà!

Additional Information

For an improved user experience, adjust the following options within EmulationStation:

Mains Menu > UI Settings > Screensaver Settings:
Screensaver After: 1m
Screensaver Behavior: Random Video

Main Menu > UI Settings > Video Screensaver Settings:
Swap Video After: 31s
Use OMX Player For Screensaver: ON
Screensaver Controls: ON
Show Game Info On Screensaver: NEVER
Stretch Video On Screensaver: OFF

Main Menu > Other Settings:
VRAM Limit: 80Mb

Screensaver Controls:

Select: Start screensaver
Start: Start the game on the screensaver
Right/Select: Random swap screensaver
Left/Up/Down: Leave screensaver

lilbud

These are frickin awesome! Nice work.

Sashby

Wow! These are great! Wonder if it's possible to only show these in screensaver mode instead of rom video previews.

Malixx

@lilbud Aw thanks, they are not flawless though, I made them in a hurry because I wanted to gift them to a friend of mine.

lilbud

@malixx said in [Screensaver] Animated Screensavers:

they are not flawless though

Well they are about 10x better than something I could have done

Malixx

@sashby said in [Screensaver] Animated Screensavers:

Wow! These are great! Wonder if it's possible to only show these in screensaver mode instead of rom video previews.

Thank you! Well it is possible if you put them as your regular rom video previews, but if you have an other video linked to another rom you will have to delete it, at least that's the way I do it.

A Former User

Great job on these!

Cybermen

wow the screensaver are great. Many thanks for your work. How can I integrate this into the latest version of retropie?

Malixx

@cybermen Thanks a lot, I will edit my post and add a "How to" I am taking the Castlevania Screensaver for exemple:

Download the video with any "YouTube Downloader" in .mp4 format
Put the video into your roms folder: \retropie\roms\nes\Castlevania (NES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4
The video file must have exactly the same name as his rom conterpart, for me it's Castlevania (USA).zip so the video file is renamed Castlevania (USA).mp4
Go to your RetroPie >> Select the game Castlevania, for the exemple >> Press Select >> Go to Edit this game's metadata
Select the Video option and enter the path of the video with your keyboard, it's case sensitive so it must be exactly the same: \home\pi\RetroPie\roms\nes\Castlevania (USA).mp4
Press OK, Save and restart Emulationstation

Cybermen

@Malixx Thank you for the super description and guidance. TOP.

AndersHP

Looks good!
Why does it have to have a specific name, isn't it just a screensaver for ES?

Malixx

@andershp I don't know for sure, it's the way I found to do it and it works, if you have an easier way to do it please do share it

cyperghost

autohot ;)

UPDATE:The last version of ES can handle the video with this little hack is version 2.6.2

For fixing see --> THREAD

@Malixx can you please "translate" Tetris to Тетрис ;)

@andershp I don't know for sure, it's the way I found to do it and it works, if you have an easier way to do it please do share it

Yes that's interesting.... It can be easily done that way, thanks @SuperCatFooz and this thread. I copied all your 14 videos to /home/pi/RetroPie/screensaver and added them to retropie gamelist.xml (Path is showen in code block). This will randomly loop-play all these magnificant videos ;)

<!-- This is for Screensavers from Metadata without having video metadata available, so copy the whole block to
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml and enable Video Screensaver / SuperCatFooz and cyperghost -->

<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #1 - Castlevania (NES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #2 - Crash Bandicoot (PS1) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #3 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) Screensaver for Retropie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #4 - Kirby's Adventure (NES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #5 - Metal Slug (NeoGeo) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #6 - Pac-Man (NES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #7 - Pokemon (GB) Screensaver for Retropie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #8 - Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Megadrive) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #9 - Super Bomberman (SNES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #10 - Super Mario World (SNES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #11 - Tetris (NES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #12 - The Legend of Zelda (SNES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #13 - Yoshi's Island (SNES) Screensaver for RetroPie.mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #14 - Chrono Trigger (SNES).mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #17 - Breath of Fire III (PS1).mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #18 - Super Metroid (SNES).mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #19 - Megaman X (SNES).mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #20 - Donkey Kong Country (SNES).mp4</video></game>
<game><path /><video>~/RetroPie/screensavers/RetroPie Screensaver #21 - XCOM Enemy Unknown (PC).mp4</video></game>

<!-- This is for Screensavers from Metadata without having video metadata available, so copy the whole block to
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml and enable Video Screensaver / SuperCatFooz and cyperghost -->
<!-- #15 and #16 are 60seconds clips of NES mini and don't fit in this collection -->

Malixx

@cyperghost Oh yeah this is nice! I will stick with my method for now but I guess this one is better if you have many videos to add at once.
Here you go, I think this is what you wanted:

afiction

Wow. This is fantastic. If you are taking requests I would LOVE to see Final Fantasy 6, Super Metroid, Mega Man and Chrono Trigger. :) Great job!

meleu

@afiction said in Animated Screensavers:

Mega Man

I second this!! :-)

SuperFromND

I just saw this thread, and these look so clean. Nice work. (There's supposed to be an image of a thumbs up here. It should show up for you, unless you're running a super-old browser or something.)

meleu

@supercatfooz I've added a link to this thread and yours in the Useful topics index.

SuperFromND

@meleu Alright, wonderful! I hope we see more people jump on this animated-screensaver bandwagon.
(I might actually make a couple myself and post them in this thread, just for fun)

AndersHP

@malixx I don't, and I wasn't trying to be a smartass, I just thought that ES had a "screensaver" folder one could put these into?

Animated Screensavers