Trying to get the game specific launching images working for Mame

MrRalphMan

Hi,

I've been playing with launch screens to be able to tell people what the buttons do on my joystick and am having mixed results.

Using the example I can set the launch screen for all, but not for individual roms.

So placing a launching.png file in '/opt/retropie/configs/arcade' does show the screen when I launch a game, but it fails to load the following if I place a names file.

I'm trying for Choplifter here, so I created a chplft-launching.png file and placed that in <home>/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images but this did not override the default one.
I've my emulator set to mame4all, so changed the file location to be <home>/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/images.

I also deleted the default image to see if the image for the game would pop up, but I just got the standard menu instead.

I am taking this from the example on the Wiki:

**Example: if you have a cool NES related image and want to show it right before launching a NES game, you have to name the image file as /opt/retropie/configs/nes/launching.jpg.

A more general launching image (not related to a specific system) can be named as /opt/retropie/configs/all/launching.jpg.

Since 4.1.5 runcommand is able to show specific game launching art. 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.**

What am I doing wrong?

Paul

backstander

@MrRalphMan

I'm trying for Choplifter here, so I created a chplft-launching.png file and placed that in <home>/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images but this did not override the default one.
I've my emulator set to mame4all, so changed the file location to be <home>/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/images.

I'm not sure if yours is different but my Choplifter ROM is named "choplift.zip" (and not "chplft.zip") so the launching image should be /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all/images/choplift-launching.png or /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images/choplift-launching.png

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand#adding-custom-launching-images

MrRalphMan

Hi,

Mine are named chplft.zip, chplftb.zip and chllftba.zip (I'm guessing on the last) and have tried all..
I had to create the images directory under the Rom directory, did you have to do the same?

Paul

backstander

@MrRalphMan

I had to create the images directory under the Rom directory, did you have to do the same?

I put all of my MAME launching images in this folder:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/images/

MrRalphMan

Hi,

I've got this working now. I took the drastic action of uninstalling everything and starting again. I think I had some permission issues and the restart sorted it out for me.

Only tried with a couple of games with the same image, but it's working.

Thanks for the Advice. :)

Paul

Y3AG3R

I love this idea, do you have a few example of the images you are planning you use or do you know of any readily available? I haven't found anything other than this article with my google-fu. Thanks.