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remeh / mehstation

Opensource front-end for emulation / retro / TV box.
https://remy.io/mehstation
MIT License
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Retropie/raspberry No OS, how to add art/snaps? #9

Open mxstar1 opened 7 years ago

mxstar1 commented 7 years ago

I have all my own art/snaps, in folders in my rom folders that all match my rom names, how do i get them to show up in mehstation? Installed mehstation from Retropie packages. Is there a file I can edit the paths to these?

remeh commented 7 years ago

Hello mxstar1, Today, mehstation is able to automatically find games in a directory but is not able to automatically look for their art/snaps. I think I could be able to add this feature soon. Would this use-case OK for you:

"If I have a directory containing "MyGame.zip", "MyGame_cover.jpg" and "MyGame_snapshot1.jpg", I want "MyGame" in mehstation to automatically have "MyGame_cover.jpg" as a cover and "MyGame_snapshot1.jpg" as a screenshot."

mxstar1 commented 7 years ago

I am part of a group of people who are building a massive raspberry pi image that includes a very customized Emulationstation and Attract mode Both complete with art and videos, and we wanted to include a full working mehstation as well for people to play with. We DO NOT INCLUDE ROMS, but we have been given permission to include art/snaps from Emumovies. All of our art/snaps follow the hyperspin/hyperlist naming convention so adding the "_cover" or "_snapshot1" etc wont work for us. Inside the system specific rom folders of retropie, we have added a few sub folders; boxart, snap, cartart, wheel. So if we had "Game Name.zip" inside the rom folder, there will be a corresponding file in each folder. The boxart folder has "Game Name.png", The snap folder has "Game Name.mp4" The cartart has "Game Name.png", and wheel has "Game Name.png". Now all the png's are different png's but named the same, and placed in seperate folders because they are different images. Obviosly the boxart folder holds box art png's, The wheel folder holds the game title png's, and the cartart folder holds png's of the cartridges, and the snap folder holds the video previews.

So if mehstation could find those files in their specific folders, they all match the name of the rom

we have created emulationstation xml's that point to each piece of art/snap if that helps at all.

If you could help achieve this, i think this is going to be a big hit, many people dont like the cazy layouts of attract mode, but crave something better than Emulationstation, and i think mehstation fits that.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Rémy Mathieu notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello mxstar1, Today, mehstation is able to automatically find games in a directory but is not able to automatically look for their art/snaps. I think I could be able to add this feature soon. Would this use-case OK for you:

"If I have a directory containing "MyGame.zip", "MyGame_cover.jpg" and "MyGame_snapshot1.jpg", I want "MyGame" in mehstation to automatically have "MyGame_cover.jpg" as a cover and "MyGame_snapshot1.jpg" as a screenshot."

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remeh commented 7 years ago

Ok, that's something I can probably go with. Actually, the directory could a be better solution than directly the filename. Did you created a folder per system or one global folder ? Do you have any website or source repo I can check by curiosity ?

mxstar1 commented 7 years ago

The folders are created "per system." Inside each "system" rom folder we have placed "boxart", "snap", "wheel", and "cartart" folders. We dont have a source repo, Our image is mainly a modification of "Retropie" I could get you some screenshots of our filepaths for these artwork/video folders if that would help.

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Ok, that's something I can probably go with. Actually, the directory could be better solution than directly the filename. Did you created a folder per system or one global folder ? Do you have any website or source repo I can check by curiosity ?

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