rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie

meleu

@lilbud A nice lad named @lilbud made them. Those files are at contrib/meleu just as a proof-of-concept that my script works with an URL. My files are just pointing to those images at retropie-splashscreens-extra repositories. Look at my files:

https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/blob/master/contrib/meleu/Contra/info.txt
https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/blob/master/contrib/meleu/DuckTales/info.txt

edit:
if you don't mind in leaving this as is, I can add the creator field giving the credit to that nice lad.

lilbud

@meleu Oh, I forgot I made these. I thought you made Contra and Ducktales Overlays.

meleu

@lilbud said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

I thought you made Contra and Ducktales Overlays.

This tool is useful to install launching images too. I mean, launching images for a specific game.

By the way, I'll add an info.txt file for that splashscreen you've made for Shadow Dancer :)

AndersHP

This is cool. Are there hopes of adding a 4:3 option for those of us that doesn't have a widescreen, and still wants to use these?

meleu

@andershp The script just installs the overlay/configs as the creator created it. The script don't know about aspect ratio :-)
To make those 4:3 overlays installable they must be on github (first step) and have proper info.txt files (we can help with this once the images are on a github repo).

Cheers!

meleu

Hello friends.

The rpie-art is now able to install the cool nes-mini theme launching images from @ruckage .

Update your rpie-art and you'll see a new repository named https://github.com/meleu/rpie-launching-images

I hope you enjoy.

MrJordaaany

@meleu Hey Meleu, had a chance to use rpie-art over the weekend and it works great! Been having a blast installing and testing overlays for arcade games. The script works great. Will update and try out when home for the new launching images.

AndersHP

Is it possible to see the art before installing? I cannot really find it on the repo.

meleu

@andershp said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

Is it possible to see the art before installing?

No. I'll try to implement this when I have a chance.

But regarding the theme based launching images, they fit better when using the respective theme. ;-)

Lord-Raziel

@meleu said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

UPDATE

Now you can install the script on RetroPie Menu and then navigate through menus using a joystick. Just run the script with --install argument:
./rpie-art.sh --install
If emulationstation is running, you'll need to restart it.

While in the menus like the one below, press B button to check the items you want to install, and press A to "Continue".

Hi Meleu, I detected an error in the rpie-art script when trying to launching it from the Retropie Menu, you receive 4 errors like : "ls: cannot access /root/Retropie/roms ... No such file or directory" preventing the launch of the script, since the RetropieMenu is been launched by the Root user the following line in the script must be modified:

readonly RP_DIR "$HOME/RetroPie"

To
readonly RP_DIR "/home/pi/Retropie"

That will fix the error while executing the script as Root and you will be able to launch the script from the RetropieMenu.

Thanks for the script!

meleu

@lord-raziel thanks for the report.

Could you confirm your RetroPie-Setup version?

You can see the version on the top left dialog box of retropie_setup.sh, like 4.0 in the image below:
rpsetup

Lord-Raziel

@meleu said in rpie-art: easy way to install art on your RetroPie:

@lord-raziel thanks for the report.

Could you confirm your RetroPie-Setup version?

@meleu, my RetroPie-Setup version is 4.2.3

meleu

@lord-raziel please, can you update your RetroPie-Setup and try again with my original script?

The problem you reported were "fixed" in version 4.2.8. I should mention it in the OP. Will do it if you confirm that it's working fine for you.

Lord-Raziel

@meleu as per your request I have upgraded to 4.2.10 and using your unmodified script now works, so you can include in the instructions to upgrade the Retropie Setup to the latest version ;)

meleu

@lord-raziel Thanks bro! :)

ohmycommodore

@meleu

(here you go. repeat-posted from the Retrorama thread.)

I played around with this a bit over the last hour, grabbing some selected images for BOTH Retrorama and Comic Book. I of course grabbed images that matched my installed systems (ie. I may have a C64 image for each theme, etc). Two questions:

(1) I end up with a mix of launch images across my systems. For example, I might get a Retrorama launch image for one system, and a Comic Book image for another system... and yes this is regardless of which of the two themes I have set in retropie. Is the correct way to work with this to only download and have "active" launch images to match one theme at a time?

(2) Related to this, I can't seem to delete images and tidy this up. I see options to "delete local repository files" as well as "uninstall art", but in my first couple of attempts neither avenue seems to remove the installed images (even after a reboot). Am I missing something here in terms of the process to delete / tidy up / manage images?

Running retropie 4.2 with just-updated retropie setup script 4.2.12. Latest theme updates today as well. Hardware is a Pi3 B with a good power supply. Keyboard and PS4 controller attached via USB.

meleu

@ohmycommodore

Is the correct way to work with this to only download and have "active" launch images to match one theme at a time?

No. The script doesn't care about your active/installed themes. Even if you have only the default theme on your system, you can install the launching images available in rpie-art.

Note: the only (intentional) limitation is that rpie-art does NOT show the launching images for a system you don't have installed. Example: if you don't have an emulator for N64, the rpie-art won't show the available N64 launching images in that dialog check box. It was made this way intentionally.

I see options to "delete local repository files" as well as "uninstall art", but in my first couple of attempts neither avenue seems to remove the installed images (even after a reboot). Am I missing something here in terms of the process to delete / tidy up / manage images?

I coded that part thinking in launching images in a per game basis and forgot the system launching images. Will look into it soon.

Thanks for your report! ;-)

Cheers!

ohmycommodore

Thanks, yes, system launch images are the interesting thing for me. The main screen of a game will come up soon enough, along with whatever art or style goes with it. System launch images aren't up for long either... but I think it's a nice upgrade over the text default.

Let me know here if you make any changes and how I can try them out. For now, I'll leave what I had installed alone.

meleu

@ohmycommodore

could you update the rpie-art and try it again? I think it's done!

ohmycommodore

@meleu

I can definitely progress now with the "uninstall art" dialogs, and have success deleting images one by one.

I didn't get any new behaviour in "delete local repository files" though.

As well, note that I still had Retrorama images taking precedence over Comic Book images, while I was using Comic Book theme. If I remember correctly, I think I installed these all in one go when I first tried pie-art.

If these files are all called "launching.png" is that somehow still getting in the way? And is Retrorama taking precedence because "r" images were downloaded later than "c" for Comic Book?