Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation

senkun

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.

InsecureSpike

ok, I'm very much still learning myself, so I maybe not the right person to take aboard the ideas you'd like. I got to this stage within one day of playing around
if more based upon my layout, I may have been able to help a little more, one thing I really hate and will probably will never use the wheel, as I've yet to come across a nearly full pack,
my themes/layouts are going to be very stripped back & simple, this one will have a weathered look I think.
and as I like s very uniformed look to my themes I'm making a layout for nearly every system like a theme for ES

senkun

@InsecureSpike hhaha no worries mate. i had further thoughts and realized what I had in mind would be specifically for small screen use only, because AM/sfml would bog if the video bg snaps were big hd quality for big screens. and using sd quality vids would look horrendous. so this would be unfeasible for now.

just digging into it myself trying to patch together the scrolling list of titles onto my current layout. and yea I don't like the wheel of logos too, leave that for the hyperspin people.

InsecureSpike

does anyone know is there a private message option in the new forum?

@senkun, if you know, drop me a pm

Floob

New Version:
http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8277&p=8607

2nd May 2016 - v0.3

Recompiled AM with new SFML so X is no longer needed (https://github.com/mickelson/sfml-pi)
This means runcommand now works under Attract Mode
Updated configs to no longer start X
Updated Emulators to use runcommand (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand)

dankcushions

wow! i'd sort of assumed it would always need X. that's great news!

InsecureSpike

oh, this is sweet!!
well done guys!!!!!

InsecureSpike

guys, do any of you know about making layouts for AM?
I'm stuck and need a lil guidance
thanks

Floob

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

guys, do any of you know about making layouts for AM?
I'm stuck and need a lil guidance
thanks

Would be best to ask here I think:
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?board=6.0

InsecureSpike

yeah I have, no replies tho

Rion

@Floob

Great job man!
All we need now is mehstation and where all set. Two new great frontend's.

Remeh mentions Here that he is willing to support Retropie and that mehstation can compile and run without x11.

Floob

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

@Floob

Great job man!
All we need now is mehstation and where all set. Two new great frontend's.

Remeh mentions Here that he is willing to support Retropie and that mehstation can compile and run without x11.

I was struggling to get controller input set on mehstation, and I think its saved in a db, so its harder to manually edit.

Rion

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

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

@Floob

Great job man!
All we need now is mehstation and where all set. Two new great frontend's.

Remeh mentions Here that he is willing to support Retropie and that mehstation can compile and run without x11.

I was struggling to get controller input set on mehstation, and I think its saved in a db, so its harder to manually edit.

All I'm doing now is dreaming a little but if Remeh talks about supporting RetroPie all these things should probably be able to be solved some time in the future. Or it will take month's ho knows?

Finhead

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

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

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

@Floob

Great job man!
All we need now is mehstation and where all set. Two new great frontend's.

Remeh mentions Here that he is willing to support Retropie and that mehstation can compile and run without x11.

I was struggling to get controller input set on mehstation, and I think its saved in a db, so its harder to manually edit.

All I'm doing now is dreaming a little but if Remeh talks about supporting RetroPie all these things should probably be able to be solved some time in the future. Or it will take month's ho knows?

I tried mehstation out as well compiles fine but dead stop and controller config same as Floob.

Rion

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

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

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

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

@Floob

Great job man!
All we need now is mehstation and where all set. Two new great frontend's.

Remeh mentions Here that he is willing to support Retropie and that mehstation can compile and run without x11.

I was struggling to get controller input set on mehstation, and I think its saved in a db, so its harder to manually edit.

All I'm doing now is dreaming a little but if Remeh talks about supporting RetroPie all these things should probably be able to be solved some time in the future. Or it will take month's ho knows?

I tried mehstation out as well compiles fine but dead stop and controller config same as Floob.

@remeh probably could shed some light on that. This is way of my league.

InsecureSpike

new boot screen for theme set "phase-one" made it look a lil battered,
and, yes I've battered up all the logos too...... since these systems have a good few years on them

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