NES box/cart art not showing up in wheel.

[Norkusa]

Can't get any game box/cart art to show up in my NES wheel. Wheel title artwork shows up fine though. I thought the system settings .ini allowed artwork media to be displayed but could it be in the database .XML instead? Here's my NES settings:

[exe info]
path=H:\hyperspin\Emulators\Nintendo Entertainment System\
rompath=Emulators/Nintendo Entertainment System/roms/
userompath=true
exe=com.retroarch/com.retroarch.browser.retroactivity.RetroActivityFuture
romextension=zip,nes
parameters=cores/nestopia_libretro_android.so
searchsubfolders=true
pcgame=false
winstate=HIDDEN
hyperlaunch=true
Per_Game_Modules=false
Skipchecks=false
Hide_Cursor=use_global
Hide_Desktop=use_global
Hide_Taskbar=use_global
CPWizard_Enabled=use_global
CPWizard_Delay=use_global
CPWizard_Params=use_global
Fade_In=use_global
Fade_Out=use_global
Fade_Color=use_global
Fade_In_Duration=use_global
Fade_Out_Duration=use_global
Fade_In_Delay=use_global
7z_Enabled=use_global
7z_Extract_Dir=use_global
7z_Delete_Temp=use_global
Keymapper_Enabled=use_global
Keymapper=use_global
MultiGame_Enabled=use_global
MultiGame_Background_Color=use_global
MultiGame_Side_Padding=use_global
MultiGame_Y_Offset=use_global
MultiGame_Image_Adjust=use_global
MultiGame_Font=use_global
MultiGame_Text_1_Options=use_global
MultiGame_Text_1_Text=use_global
MultiGame_Text_2_Options=use_global
MultiGame_Text_2_Offset=use_global
MultiGame_Use_Sound=use_global
MultiGame_Sound_Frequency=use_global
MultiGame_Exit_Effect=use_global
MultiGame_Selected_Effect=use_global
MultiGame_Use_Game_Art=use_global
MultiGame_Art_Folder=use_global
 
[filters]
parents_only=false
themes_only=false
wheels_only=false
roms_only=false
 
[themes]
use_parent_vids=false
use_parent_themes=false
animate_out_default=false
reload_backgrounds=true
 
[wheel]
alpha=0.15
small_alpha = 1
style=normal
speed=high
pin_center_width=500
horz_wheel_y=512
vert_wheel_position=right
y_rotation=center
norm_large=360
norm_small=230
vert_large=400
vert_small=300
pin_large=500
pin_small=200
horz_large=240
horz_small=150
letter_wheel_x=800
letter_wheel_y=384
text_width=700
text_font=Style4
small_text_width=260
large_text_width=400
text_stroke_size=6
text_stroke_color=0x000000
text_color1=0x00BFFD
text_color2=0xFFFFFF
text_color3=0x00BFFD
color_ratio=139
shadow_distance=0
shadow_angle=45
shadow_color=0x000000
shadow_alpha=1
shadow_blur=0
 
[pointer]
animated=true
x=975
y=384
 
[video defaults]
path=H:\hyperspin\Media\Nintendo Entertainment System\Video\
 
[sounds]
game_sounds=true
wheel_click=true
 
[navigation]
game_jump=50
use_indexes=false
jump_timer=400
remove_info_wheel=true
remove_info_text=true
use_last_game=false
last_game=Mario's Time Machine! (USA)
random_game=false
 
start_on_favorites=false
[Special Art A]
default=true
active=true
x=512
y=720
in=0.4
out=0.4
length=3
delay=0
type=normal
start=bottom
 
[Special Art B]
default=true
active=true
x=512
y=740
in=0.4
out=0.4
length=3
delay=0
type=fade
start=none
 
[Special Art C]
active=true
y=384
in=0
out=0
length=3
delay=10
type=fade
start=none
 
[Game Text]
game_text_active    = true
show_year           = true
show_manf           = true
show_description    = true
text_color1         = 0xFFFFFF
text_color2         = 0xFFFFFF
stroke_color        = 0xE80000
text_font           = Style3
text1_textsize=26
text1_strokesize=7
text1_x=32
text1_y=610
text2_textsize=36
text2_strokesize=8
text2_x=30
text2_y=640

[Avar]

Just to get the obvious stuff out of the way, have you tried all of the Artwork folders (ie. Artwork1 - Artwork4) and none of them worked? Which theme are you using and which artwork options does the theme.xml have listed? Lastly, just to confirm, all of your art is in PNG/SWF format?

[Norkusa]

Thanks for the response, Avar. All my artwork is in .png format. Tried all the images I had in all of the Artwork folders (Artwork1-4) and nothing worked. I'm guessing it's the theme that's causing this since it is the only one I've been using. Not sure of the name of the theme but this is the XML that's inside. I'll try another and see what happens:

<Theme>
    <video w="475" h="500" x="330" y="445" r="0" time="1" bcolor="0xffffff" bsize="0" type="fade" start="left"  />
    <artwork1 x="512" y="130" r="0" delay="1" time=".5" type="grow y" start="none"  />
    <artwork2 x="770" y="500" r="0" delay="1.5" time="1.5" type="elastic bounce" start="bottom"  />
    <artwork3 x="100" y="650" r="0" delay="1" time="0" type="none" start="none"  />
</Theme>

[JoyStickKilla]

what artwork images are inside the theme?

[Norkusa]

Replaced with a new theme and its working now. Thanks for the help!

[Avar]

Glad it's working for you. If you ever have a theme you really like but that doesn't give you the artwork options you want, you can always adjust it in HyperTheme by adding/manipulating an Artwork layer so it's where/how you want it then toggling "Do not include in Output." Just remember that if you want the video setup to be included in the output file you need to use any video in the FLV format when working in HyperTheme. This is a topic I'll elaborate more on in the tut series .