Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation

Finhead

Wanted to put this here since someone else my try and run AdvMAME as well.
"advmame has SDL issues with hardware scaling on x-windows. "
So it's broken and does not work, no point messing with AdvMAME for Attract Mode"

InsecureSpike

ok, i'm starting with a fresh img,

I WANNA START THEMEING!!!!!!

or whatever its called

Finhead

@InsecureSpike said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

ok having some shitty issues with the latest release....
tried to generate a game list for my neo geo stuff, says it finds them all, but shows none??
added some snes roms had the same issue, nw the damn thing won't go any further than the login screen, just goes black screen

running on a pi b+ 2, 8gb kingston class 10 card

Did you setup your display after generating your list? It needs to all be setup after you get your roms list built.

InsecureSpike

@Finhead said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

@InsecureSpike said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

ok having some shitty issues with the latest release....
tried to generate a game list for my neo geo stuff, says it finds them all, but shows none??
added some snes roms had the same issue, nw the damn thing won't go any further than the login screen, just goes black screen

running on a pi b+ 2, 8gb kingston class 10 card

Did you setup your display after generating your list? It needs to all be setup after you get your roms list built.

Ahhh, that may well be it! i'm glad, theres peeps who know about these things! many thanks

AceGrace

I don't suppose anyone has done an img with it all set up including a theme (but no roms obviously) with instructions on where to put each set of roms have they? :-)

Finhead

@AceGrace said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

I don't suppose anyone has done an img with it all set up including a theme (but no roms obviously) with instructions on where to put each set of roms have they? :-)

You put your ROMS in the same place you do RetroPie, in fact it's running ontop of RetroPie.
If you watch the video Floob posted it goes through everything on how to get it all running and setup.

InsecureSpike

ok, is anyone currently theming?
i've currently started, i'm just stuck on one thing....
adding system logos

Finhead

@InsecureSpike said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

ok, is anyone currently theming?
i've currently started, i'm just stuck on one thing....
adding system logos

System logos? Are you thinking about Marquee or the wheel art or flyers? There are no system themes as you see in Retropie, just layouts that display your artwork in various configs.
For MAME you can get all that right here

InsecureSpike

yup, I know that, but what I wanna do is have one layout, then have logo's that are selectable at will, in theory it should be possible. but every way I try to add the code I loose the layout completely, I guess I'll just mess around s lil more

Finhead

@InsecureSpike said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

yup, I know that, but what I wanna do is have one layout, then have logo's that are selectable at will, in theory it should be possible. but every way I try to add the code I loose the layout completely, I guess I'll just mess around s lil more

Not sure I follow "logo's selectable at will" , not sure what you mean by logo's. Are you trying to setup one layout screen to access all the emulators like the Arcade spot in ES?

InsecureSpike

never mind. I'll figure it out myself, I really can't be bothered to try in explain what I'm trying to build into this layout design

Finhead

@InsecureSpike said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

never mind. I'll figure it out myself, I really can't be bothered to try in explain what I'm trying to build into this layout design

Ok no problem, I was interested in where you were going with this but if it's a bother then best of luck to you.

InsecureSpike

sorry, if my response sounded rude, it wasn't my intention.
(I've had my Quetiapine has been upped to 400mg)

Finhead

@InsecureSpike said in Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation:

sorry, if my response sounded rude, it wasn't my intention.
(I've had my Quetiapine has been upped to 400mg)

Lol No, like to see it if you figure it out though sounds interesting.

InsecureSpike

as you can all see i'm unto my old tricks with a very light & clean "layout"
i built this on my mac, but i've not yet tried it on the Pi, theres a few more lil bits id like to add.....

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@Finhead ok, maybe this will help explain a little better, where the snes logo is, i was wondering if there is code so as the user can choose what logo is displayed, is this a "marquee?" or somehow, the layout reads say maybe the rom folder in use as assigns the correct logo-marquee to the right system,
here i am using a wallpaper with the snes logo

edit....
ok this will not work at this moment, as each layout will need the boxart re-set to scale correctly,
this needs to be looked into more...

InsecureSpike

moved clock up to the lil space above attract mode logo
added List Size info to the bottom where the clock was,
thinking of adding play count just under the box art

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robertybob

@InsecureSpike Coming along nicely!

senkun

@InsecureSpike

very nice! i love clean minimalist layouts, would look lovely on my largescreen 4k sony KD ;P

but all my rpis mostly mostly putter around with tft screens ranging from 2.2" to a 7", and this won't work :(

any chance for a matching (in look and feel) smallscreen version as well?

ps; would be better have this in a AM Layouts thread y'think?

InsecureSpike

mmmm, ok, are you running AttractMode at the moment, on any of your pi's?
what layouts have you been using so far?? I'll gladly try n figure something out

btw, thank you

senkun

@InsecureSpike thanks man!

yes, I fell in love with AM and retrofitted it over all my older retropie'd Pis with it, with the latest 3B having AM just freshly compiled for it.

my A+ sports a 2.2", my B+ a 3.2", the 2B has a 5" and the newest 3B flaunts a 7" ;p

for small screens, the layout I found most attractive and useful is the one by Cools. I took his layout.nut as a basis to tweak into a custom one changing the font sizes and assets positioning. my head swims with fe.this and fe.that sometimes, squirrel is fun lol

the only disadvantage (and a major one) is that unless you have a tightly curated list and you know your games, you're gonna have a hard time wading through all the games. so a list view like what you're doing would be ideal.

if I may have a suggestion, it would be perfect for the small screen (and easily adaptable for the large) if a layout can have the following;

full video snap background
game name logo/wheel
system logo
scrolling list of titles

much like this video, except for where the game flyer is positioned, it would be a list of scrolling game titles instead.