Custom Emulation Station Screen Saver Slideshow not loading pictures

A Former User

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Ive gone through the UI settings --> Screensaver Settings --> Slideshow Screen Saver Settings

I checked "Use Custom Images"

Then when I try to change the Custom Image directory path it doesn't seem to change. I type in the custom directory path I want and then back out and the option still displays the default

/home/pie/emulationstation/slideshow/images

Whats more, when I search for this directory It doesn't exist. There is no slideshow/images folder. Very confusing.

So, I made one and then put the images that I wanted to display in the folder but no dice. I tried putting a linked symbolic folder (ln -s) that contained the images I want displayed and also tried copying the image files directly into the folder. ScreenSaver just displays a black screen.

I wondered if perhaps the images were being filtered out. Since they are all .PNG's. So I tried to change the UI settings --> Screensaver Settings --> Slideshow Screen Saver Settings --> Custom Image Filter option but the same thing happens. I back out and it still says the default ".png,.jpg"

Another odd thing.
If I uncheck "Use Custom Images" It happily displays my scraped images. (Which are all .png images)

If I check the "screen saver controls" option in UI settings --> Screensaver Settings then I can even navigate the images by pressing left and right. If I press start it will even launch the game for the box art that is being displayed!

All I want to do is display screenshots I take through the in-game retroarch GUI on my screen saver along with the box art images I have scraped.

A Former User

Is there more information I should include to help find a solution?

mitu

@stuckinthe90s said in Custom Emulation Station Screen Saver Slideshow not loading pictures:

Is there more information I should include to help find a solution?

I would start with https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Make sure the images files have the right extension (i.e. .png, not .PNG). If not image is found by EmulationStation, it will log an error - can you check for errors in the log file - \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\es_log.txt ?

A Former User

@mitu thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction. Wouldn’t have been able to figure this out without you.

Going to es_log.txt showed that ES was still trying to read images from the default directory

home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/image

One key difference that I discovered was that for some reason the ES GUI was displaying this pathway as

home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/images

The extra “s” on the end was responsible for the custom directory that I generated not being read.

(I had to build the pathway because it didn’t already exist.)

cd /home/pi/.emulationstation

Then

mkdir slideshow

cd slideshow

mkdir image

The “s” I had originally put on the “image” folder was why why ES couldn’t find the right directory.

After fixing the spelling, I symbolically linked the image directories that I wanted into the custom directory.

ln -s /some/file/ -t /home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/image

Boom. Fixed.

My slideshows now feature all of the scraped images and screenshots I have from my games.

BuZz

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