[Feature request] Having the possibility to show an image behind game screen.

[bslenul]

Hey, I was wondering if it would be hard to make an image to appear "behind" the game screen?

I have 2 ways in mind for this, but I'm no dev and not sure how hard it is to implement:

• In Quick Menu > Onscreen Overlay, make it possible to load a .png directly, which would create a default .cfg

  overlays = 1
  overlay0_overlay = FILE_NAME.png
  overlay0_full_screen = true
  overlay0_descs = 0

  and add an option like "Set overlay in background" in the same menu.

OR

• In Settings > User Interface > Appearence, add a "Display background while in-game" option just under "Background". But maybe harder to manage due to possible conflict with overlay?

 

Why? Because that would be an extremely quick and easy way to have borders ingame instead of black bars, you wouldn't have to create a .cfg manually and it wouldn't matter which aspect ratio you are using.

For example, let say I'm using this image:

Starting Super Mario Kart on SNES would give this:

And changing video settings with Integer Scale and 3x would give this:

No need to adjust anything, no .cfg to create manually, no transparency to set on the image, nothing, the game screen is directly on top of it! So you could use your image with any game, any core and any aspect ratio :)

I think it would be a great feature to have, but again I have no idea how feasible this is :x

[HarryTheTurtle]

I think this would be a great feature to add if the devs are able!

[mwilsonoliveira]

Any news about this? I need it so hard