Custom emu backgrounds

[rabidpuppy]

Hi,

Having a bit of trouble trying to implement custom backgrounds for emulators. I've got the backgrounds all ready and named appropriately. First I tried the setup wizard and using the custom background option. Then I edited the gameex.ini file. Then I made a copy of my current theme (deep purple I think) and enabled the separate backgrounds for emulators option and added them into the "mod..." entries.

None of that seemed to do anything, so I tried a different theme that already had emu backgrounds (Vahalla?) and it didn't actually show any - it just used the standard "start" page background for all page backgrounds.

Help! What can I do to reset the whole thing and start over.

[bkenobi]

Basically all you need to do is turn on custom backgrounds and put the appropriate background name in AFAIK. Just make sure they backgrounds exist in the theme you are trying to use.

[rabidpuppy]

I played around a bit more and I cannot get any custom emu backgrounds working. I installed the 9.93 version hoping perhaps that would reset whatever is wrong.

I can see in my GameEx.ini file both of these two entries:

[Emulator_5]
CustomBackground=a2600.png

EMU_5_custombackground=a2600.png

a2600.png exists in the MEDIA directory of the theme. I've tried switching themes around (putting a2600.png in each ones MEDIA dir) but every theme just shows the standard "start" background on every page.

Basically I have made a number of custom 1920x1080 widescreen backgrounds for my widescreen display for every page that I am trying to implement. I would use the theme editor but being new to these, without docs have no idea how it works unfortunately.

Anymore pointers would be appreciated.

[bkenobi]

There is another setting that you have to change. My cab isn't on ATM so I don't remember where it is. The choices are the default setting, full screen preview image/video, and custom background. You want to select custom background.

[rabidpuppy]

  bkenobi said:

There is another setting that you have to change. My cab isn't on ATM so I don't remember where it is. The choices are the default setting, full screen preview image/video, and custom background. You want to select custom background.

Is it "Background mode"? The options from the setup wizard / advanced config are

Display Background images

Display Black Backround [sic]

Use Game/Item Images as Background

UPDATE: I believe I found it. "Advanced Graphics".

AdvancedGFX=True

I must have disabled this when installing initially on a slow test machine that only had onboard video. Didn't know it was related to custom backgrounds.

This pleases me greatly! Cheers!