Launch custom images on boot of games

Krakatoa

@johnodon Thanks for the detailed info. I will do some debugging when I get home from work tonight.

Actually the more I think about it, that's the issue. If I place the variable in braces it should work. Basically escaping it.

LAUNCHIMAGE="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$1/downloaded_images/${ROM_BN}_screenscraper_boxart_arrm.png"

Clyde

@Krakatoa Just to throw another possible solution on the table, I recently wrote a little script to link Skyscraper's cover artwork to the corresponding launching images. Maybe with a little rewrite, you could use that for your undertaking.

See https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/223113 for the script.

Krakatoa

@Clyde Thanks, I'll take look.

Krakatoa

Ok, Adding the curly braces works, but its very buggy. It loads the screens when exiting games, also loads it when going into config menus. So it must be caching it somewhere.

Does anyone know the directories/files it looks for when setting this up from the run command?

IanDaemon

@Krakatoa Can't you use -onstart.sh and -onend.sh?

Krakatoa

@IanDaemon Maybe. though that's probably beyond my skills. Does anyone know what folders the runcommand looks for when it runs lunch menu art?

"Launch Menu Art: If enabled, any scraped box art you have for a game will show up as a splashscreen while your game loads up."

IanDaemon

@Krakatoa Depending on where you have the system save it could be \\THINCOCKTAIL\roms\arcade\media\screenshots where the machine is named "THINCOCKTAIL" and the system is "arcade".

Krakatoa

@IanDaemon Is that path hardcoded? My path to the images are

\\retropie\roms\atomiswave\media\images\game.png

IanDaemon

@Krakatoa Hmm,
I create custom loading images in Photoshop and put them in
\\[machine]\roms\\[system]\images\\[game]-launching.png.

I find scraped images (from Skyscraper) in
\\[machine]\roms\\[system]\media\screenshots\\[game].png
and
\\[machine]\roms\\[system]\media\marquees\\[game].png.

Krakatoa

@IanDaemon that’s why I am looking for the path as each scraper uses different folders. I use both AARM and Skraper https://www.skraper.net/ For scraping. I’m planning on going fully to Skraper if I can get these images loading on boot.

IanDaemon

On my system Skraper and Skyscraper both save in the same folder.
(However I did select "use rom folder for scraped images" somewhere so that may be having an effect.)

WeirdH

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Krakatoa

@IanDaemon thanks. I’ll try that.

Krakatoa

@WeirdH I fixed that issue by using brackets around the code.