Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation

[strangeruk]

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

@strangeruk If you use the command line scraper, sselph it does allow you to remove the suffix -video, -image, etc.

But doing that would require a rescrape of all your stuff.

@HurricaneFan That's handy to know, thanks! Does AM require the specific scraped data to be in separate folders, though (marquees, snaps, for example) as sselph dumps it all into one images folder for use within ES?

[HurricaneFan]

@strangeruk You can specify different folders if you want with sselph scraper.

Example settings:
-image_dir=boxart -image_path=boxart -video_dir=videos -video_path=videos -image_suffix= -video_suffix=

This would make an image folder called Boxart and no suffix for the images. It would also make a videos folder with no suffix.

[strangeruk]

@hurricanefan Excellent, I didn't know you could have so much control over sselph (which is an amazing tool, by the way).

I seem to have got it doing as I need by using this, should anybody else have the same requirements.

scraper -add_not_found -download_images -download_marquees -download_videos -console_src ss,gdb -console_img b,3b,s,f -image_dir=boxart -image_path=boxart -video_dir=snaps -video_path=snaps -marquee_dir=wheel -marquee_path=wheel -marquee_format png -image_suffix="" -video_suffix="" -marquee_suffix=""

Thanks again, what an awesome community here!

[HurricaneFan]

@strangeruk Glad to hear it.

If you want to see all settings for the scraper. You can use the below command:

scraper -help

[tobas]

@Floob Hi there, I am desperately looking for an answer to my attract mode problem. I have upgraded my image from jessie to stretch. I managed to get emulation station working again fine, but I cannot figure out how to get attract mode to boot again. do you know any solutions?

[Floob]

Now updated for the Pi4. See first post for details.