Grid tile content (image, text, or more ...)

EctoOne

@a12c4 Yeah, I always thought at first that md_title was something related to the tiles when it was mentioned. md_name makes more sense to me.

Btw, can you tell me which one is your main branch for all of the new stuff? Last night I've downloaded a Rasbian VirtualBox image and installed Retropie on it and with the es-tester scripts from @meleu it looks like a good way to test things directly on my Windows PC.

A12C4

@ectoone I don't have one, I used to have one but it was way too much effort to constantly keep it updated due to the numerous PR I did for the grid view.

You can find my latest changes on RetroPie's EmulationStation's master branch, minus the ongoing PR and some experiments.

You can install EmulationStation-dev on your pie or clone the git repository.

Note that you need to enable the grid view manually : how to enable the grid view

EctoOne

@a12c4 Ah okay, I've already installed the dev version but I wasn't sure if grid view was already part of it. I will take a look at it later, thanks.

A12C4

@ectoone Yes it is part of it but hidden to final users for now. We consider that it isn't stable enough to be published publicly (its only missing the dynamic image loader for public release atm). So only those who are trully willing to try it out and know the risks, can enable it.

EctoOne

@a12c4 Yeah, I got this before but I'm still a little bit confused how github works and when something is available or not and in which branch etc.

A12C4

@ectoone said in Grid tile content (image, text, or more ...):

I used Universal XML Scraper, with a modified profile to scrape all media files i wanted (boxart, screenshot, marquee and video) on my PC. [...]

I'm trying this atm but it's not working out as expected.

In the options I selected :

Visual type = simple
Default image = 2D boxart
Alternative image = Screenshot
Marquee = marquee
Video = Yes

The thing is it download only images and videos, not the marquee, and the image is always a screenshot ... damn I'm so close but yet so far.

EctoOne

@a12c4 I actually never messed around much with the options, I directly edited the Retropie profile xml to grab all media I want to my Pc (not my Pie, just to make it easier to edit the files afterwards). I can upload my file later if you want.

A12C4

@ectoone Thanks I will give it another try then.

I also tried Steven selph's scraper but it fail at retriving marquee for all systems but megadrive. Also it completly skipped my psx collection.

I think I'm going to end up manually downloading all the missing medias and also manually edit the gamelist.xml, jesus christ this will be such a pain.

A12C4

I created a topic in "help and support" section.

asmithau

Hi @A12C4, I been following this thread and really love the work you're doing here, can't wait to see the results. It will give the theme makers some awesome flexibility!