[Theme] CRT

mattrixk

Another question for whoever want to answer:

What does anyone put in the <marquee> tag? Do you scrape logos? Screenshots? Box art? Or a MIX image of any/all of the above?

The way I have my new theme set up, I have screenshots scraped into the <image> tag so the <video> will use them when <showSnapshotNoVideo> or <showSnapshotDelay> are set to "true", and I have a MIX image with logo, boxart and cartridge scraped into the <marquee> tag to show around the Video.

This looks great with my MIX marquee, but if someone has a different marquee, it might not look that good.

HurricaneFan

@mattrixk In my setup, marquees are the logo and image is the boxart. I've spent the better part of several weeks collecting logos, boxart and videos for every rom I have. Looks awesome once it is done but took me a really long time.

My understanding was the marquee would be like the wheel image in attract mode which was just the game logo.

Nismo

@mattrixk I use them for logos on console and marquees for arcade.

And yes, if no video tags detailed view will be used, but if you have almost only one video tag entry in a gamelist, video view will be used.

mattrixk

@HurricaneFan Hmm... I may have to have 2 chunks of code: One for anyone using my MIX images and one for people who just use the <marquee> tag for logos.

A Former User

Ok, so I'm a little confused on how to add videos to this theme. Do I have to go into the code and change the <video> tag? Or is it different with RetroPie 4.2?

robertybob

@itsnitro
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support

adon767

So I'm having a issue where all my bos art are not the correct size. They are correct in other themes for it this one which I like it is not. Any ideas

HurricaneFan

@adon767 Check the xml file to see if its using maxsize on the box art image tag.

adon767

How do I find that. I'm at the xml file for the es-theme-crt-master theme but don't know where to look and what values it should be.

HurricaneFan

@adon767 What field in your gamelist.xml file is your box art image?

adon767

@HurricaneFan are you talking about the game list.xml that's in the rom directory?

adon767

I'm sorry I'm very new with editing xml files. What should it be? Or what should I be looking for.

HurricaneFan

@adon767 Yes, what is your box art saved as? <image> or <marquee>?

adon767

@HurricaneFan if i look at the gamelist.xml file in the roms folders. i have this

<image>./boxart/2005 Minigame Multicart (USA) (Unl).png</image>
<marquee>./wheel/2005 Minigame Multicart (USA) (Unl).png</marquee>
<video>./snap/2005 Minigame Multicart (USA) (Unl).mp4</video>
<thumbnail/>
<rating>0</rating>
<releasedate>00000000T000000</releasedate>
<developer>AtariAge</developer>
<publisher>AtariAge</publisher>
<genre/>
<players>1</players>
</game>

my artwork is saved in the boxart folder but when using the CRT theme they are stretched out and not the correct size.

HurricaneFan

@adon767 Ok, from what I see in the CRT theme.xml file, the md_image uses MaxSize. So it should keep the right aspect ratio of your images. That's weird that it doesn't.

adon767

@HurricaneFan The values for the Max size should those be changed right now they are set at 0.25 and 0.33

cloudlink

I'm having the same problem with this theme. The md_image is using MaxSize, but it's not keeping my box art aspect ratio.

Nismo

As far I know, that's a bug with the latest build of ES and would be fixed soon. (I'm not totally sure).

Nothing to do with the theme.

alphatoanant

@Nismo that's my understanding as well. I'll double check on an older version of ES to confirm in the next few days just in case.

alphatoanant

@adon767 and @cloudlink I did some digging and it looks like this thread may cover what you are seeing:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9261/bug-box-art-displaying-incorrect-size-the-first-time-i-enter-a-system

Looks like the fix has been submitted to the RetroPie repo here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/commit/c41e0bbbeb1d54c7af5d79128da709816f990a15

If that matches up to what you are seeing it looks like a fix is ready to go - not sure when it will be in the latest build but could be soon.

Please let me know if that doesn't help.