Video Boxart for Video folder

[shumardw]

In a previous version of GameEx I was able to get a box artwork picture to show for the movies I have in my video directory as I scrolled through the list using boxart_name in the GameEx directory in videos folder. I have bought a larger drive and decided to do a fresh reinstall of everything. I am now using GameEx vers. 9.58. I can no longer seem to get the box art for each video to show. If I select the movie in the list and then click on box it will show the pic in full screen. That's great, but I liked it better when I could see each box art as I scrolled through the list, the same as in Mame, and other emus where there is snaps, etc. Thanks for any help, advice.

[shumardw]

Anybody have any ideas? Or is there just something real simple I am missing?

[Belinda]

Are you using a different theme? If you are, the one you are now using may not be set to show the boxart on that particular page.

[shumardw]

I am using the same theme as before the clean install of the new hard drive. As far as I can tell everything is set the same as before. Tom, is this something related to the newer updates for GameEx?

[yves31]

Hi,

I had this problem too myself. The only thing I could find is I think the filename of the picture has to be exactly the same has the rom name.

Before, only the first part of the filename had to be the same.

Yves

[Tom Speirs]

GameEx has never been supposed to allow viewing of box art when scrolling the video list. If it did it must have been a side effect. DVDs do show box art in the list. For videos you can either show the preview of the video playing or use the create snaps option. As far as I know its never shown box art in the actual list. At least Ive never seen it do that, and I never intentionaly programmed it to do so.

As Yves said you can put the files there yourself though.

[Tom Speirs]

Ive looked at the code. It is in fact supposed to show the boxart as the second image in version 3 or version 4 themes. Is that what your talking about? Thats working for me fine.

[shumardw]

Ive looked at the code. It is in fact supposed to show the boxart as the second image in version 3 or version 4 themes. Is that what your talking about? Thats working for me fine.

Yes Tom I only noticed this working in version 3 or 4 of GameEx. If I put a pic with the same name as the video with boxart_ in front of the name the pic will be displayed along with the video snip that GameEx shows. Like "boxart_300.jpg" will show that pic when I roll over that video in the selection screen. There was a time I was able to get this pic to show without the video snip showing, just the pic. For the life of me I can't duplicate it. I liked that option though.