[THEME HELP] How to show boxart first and then video in retropie theme?

[nj180grados]

Hello friends, I have a doubt with the themes of retropie...
I have seen that in some retropie theme like in the snes mini of ruckage the boxart of the game is shown first in the box and then the video. I have seen that within the .xml that you can change the delay of the video so that it comes out earlier.

In my case I have a theme that does not show the boxart, it only shows the video.

How do I get the boxart out first and then the video? What do I have to change? I would appreciate a little help.

I would also like to comment... how do I show the marquee in a theme where it is not defined? I would like to place it in the upper left corner of the video as well as crossed.

I hope you understand me I am Spanish and I do not control the whole language. Thank you people and greetings.

[Valhalla_Pi]

I was about to ask the same question, I saw a theme on youtube where it showed the box art than faded to video and would love to do this with Retrorama theme

[ezra84]

Indeed good question.

I found that the Pixel theme does exactly that. Showing boxart first and then fades into video. Only downside is that the marquee image stands in the way of both boxart and video. Of course removing all marquees solves the problem.

Would be nice if somebody could explain how to make this functionality work in the standard Carbon theme!

[cruizerdog]

👀. Think I'll chill here to see if there is an answer

[jonnykesh]

Why doesn't everyone look at how it is achieved in a theme that does it and "borrow" the code?

[papinist]

I'll follow this thread for the same reason :)

[Tomaz]

	<video name="md_video">
		<showSnapshotNoVideo>true</showSnapshotNoVideo>
		<showSnapshotDelay>true</showSnapshotDelay>
		<delay>2</delay>			
	</video>

Here you go :)

showSnapshotDelay set to true together with the delay is what enables the art, then fade to video

[Valhalla_Pi]

@Tomaz amazing worked like a charm, thanks for your help

[ezra84]

@Tomaz Thank you for this. I do understand the concept of the functionality, but unfortunately my knowledge is not that great yet.. I don't know where I should add/change these lines. Can you perhaps show me in which file I can do this?

Thanks a lot!

[jthemad]

Killer mod!! Added to Comic book theme (my fav), now it is perfect... I prefer 1 sec. delay, scrolling now is faster and see the covers before the videos is amazing! Thank you!

[Valhalla_Pi]

@ezra84 in the theme.xml file you see script similar to his post , but the showsnap line is likely set to false if the theme doesn’t do it

Change that to true and add the delay line use 2 seconds or whatever number you want, I prefer 1

[HemiJJ]

I was actually looking to find a way to do the opposite, but only on systems that I didn't have complete boxart collections for. Luckily the themes were written in a way that the main theme.xml was called from an small theme.xml located in each theme folder. I simply made a copy of the main theme.xml (one in the root of the theme) called theme_nobox.xml and modified that one to not do the boxart fade. I did this by setting the fade to 0, but probably could do the same by setting the showSnapshotDelay to false. In the theme.xml located in each system theme folder, just modify that theme.xml to call theme_nobox.xml instead of the main theme.xml. Hope this helps someone out.

[ezra84]

@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.