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

Superman550

hey im unable to install launching images for arcade games it always says no rom found when i do have the rom in the folder i am trying to install the image to does anyone know of a fix for this

UDb23

@Superman550 where do you place the images ?
what exact message are you getting ?

The image must be placed at $HOME/RetroPie/roms/SYSTEM_NAME/images/ and named as RomName-launching.png (or .jpg), where RomName must be the exact name of the ROM minus the trailing extension.

Superman550

@UDb23 i can install the images manually just not through the rpie-art script as for the exact error message with the script its "rom for "game name" not found no art installed"

UDb23

@Superman550 What core are you using ?
Script has been written by @meleu, maybe he can help you.

Superman550

@UDb23 thanks for your help i should have followed the first rule of trouble shooting do the simplest thing first it was as simple as renaming the roms to the correct names

aaciii

How do I remove ripe-art from my system?

It is installed to my RetroPie menu - I would like to completely remove it and anything it installed

meleu

@aaciii My suggestion:

Run the rpie-art script, choose the last option Uninstall art and then uninstall the files you have installed.
After that, you can probably achieve something near to what you want with the commands below. But first that good'old warning PERFORM THESE COMMANDS AT YOUR OWN RISK:

# go to the RetroPie files directory
cd ~/RetroPie/

# deletie the files from the art repositories
rm -rf art-repositories

# remove rpie-art from your RetroPie menu
xmlstarlet ed -L -d '/gameList/game[path="./rpie-art.sh"]' retropiemenu/gamelist.xml

# delete the script and the art-repo list
rm retropiemenu/rpie-art*

Zericote

@meleu I ran the script today for the first time and installed an overlay for elevator.zip. It placed everything in the correct spots but no overlay appeared in game. It did say that the elevator preset was active. I also noticed that the elevator preset became active on all mame roms after running.

I'm on a pi4, newest build. I removed the elevator.zip.cfg file in the ROM directory and was able to get the overlay working. Just wanted to post what happened to me since I'm on pi4 and there hasn't been much feedback.

Jabulator

Long time lurker and seldom poster here. I wanted to say I used this great script from @meleu for the first time last night and it blew my mind! My kids and I enjoy our arcade classics so much more with the great art on the sides of our widescreen display :) :)

THANK YOU for this hard work. it's great!

meleu

@jabulator thanks man!

I'd like to highlight that kind messages like this injects enthusiasm in any project.

After 5 years contributing with open source projects related to retrogaming I saw that contributors in general are exposed to a lot of (undeserved) negativity. And messages like this make the difference. ;)