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    Attract Mode with RetroPie - Alternative to EmulationStation

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    • strangerukS
      strangeruk @HurricaneFan
      last edited by

      @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?

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      • HurricaneFanH
        HurricaneFan @strangeruk
        last edited by

        @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.

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        • strangerukS
          strangeruk @HurricaneFan
          last edited by

          @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!

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          • HurricaneFanH
            HurricaneFan @strangeruk
            last edited by

            @strangeruk Glad to hear it.

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

            scraper -help

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            • T
              tobas @Floob
              last edited by

              @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?

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              • FloobF
                Floob
                last edited by

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

                Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
                RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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