MiSTer Wallpapers

[charmless]

To add a background image
Find a suitable png or jpg file that you like

Copy your desired image to /media/fat/menu.jpg or /media/fat/menu.png (as appropriate)

reboot

Press F1 once rebooted into MiSTer to select your background

Thanks! But I can't get the MiSTer to load a random image on startup. And for me the menu.jpg or menu.png has to be in the root for some reason to work at all. So I can get a custom image to work. Just not the random images on start-up part.

[Cebion]

Right haven't testet that yet myself.
I'll check it out later =)

[Juri]

Hello here my Cadash wallpaper for mister

[Zawa]

So todays main mister update brought wallpapers tied to alternate ini files.

Folder named wallpapers with images will now cycle when MiSTer.ini is active. folder named wallpapers_alt_1 with images in it will cycle when MiSTer_alt_1.ini is active.
Same for *_alt_2 and *_alt_3 aswell. Remove menu.png from root after making these changes.

[Sigismond0]

Looks like they added alt wallpaper support to go along with alt ini support. Will be nice to be able to have a 4:3 wallpaper on CRT, and automatically switch to 16:9 when flipping to the HDMI ini.

[Xzarian]

I’ve got this in my bookmarks to download and put a few in a folder to get random wallpapers.

https://wallpaperaccess.com/8-bit

Very nice collection

[wreckk]

Him... I recently connected my MiSTer to a PVM and the F1 functionality doesn't work, nor does placing an image titled menu.jpg/png in media/fat anyone else having this issue?

[Zawa]

Him... I recently connected my MiSTer to a PVM and the F1 functionality doesn't work, nor does placing an image titled menu.jpg/png in media/fat anyone else having this issue?

You need to change your MiSTer.ini and enable a couple of things for backgrounds to work over analog video.

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[menu]
vga_scaler=1
fb_terminal=1
video_mode=512,38,66,64,224,12,20,6,10689

This is the video_mode that I use to make the menu look proportional on my PVM.

[Fallon]

Hello here my Cadash wallpaper for mister

Love this - has the MAME bezel artwork vibe!

[Sorgelig]

For wallpapers on VGA output you need to set:
direct_video=1

[wreckk]

For wallpapers on VGA output you need to set:
direct_video=1

Discovered this after much trail and error!

[goosewerks]

Thank you for this thread! Gave my setup the spice it was missing.

[ChrisUnionNJ]

Being new to all this how do I go about setting up a wallpaper ?

Just copy to SD path /media/fat/ with the name "back.jpg" (or png). Reboot and press F1.

Nope I tried renaming it to back.jpg no go there then I tried menu.jpg that works

[Rocky2040]

mmmonkey wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 6:52 am
I’ve got this in my bookmarks to download and put a few in a folder to get random wallpapers.

https://wallpaperaccess.com/8-bit
Very nice collection

Very cool, thanks for thr headsup

[AmigoMexicano]

Being new to all this how do I go about setting up a wallpaper ?

Just copy to SD path /media/fat/ with the name "back.jpg" (or png). Reboot and press F1.

Nope I tried renaming it to back.jpg no go there then I tried menu.jpg that works

You're absolutely right. My mistake. The correct name for the wallpaper file is "menu.jpg" or png.

[Rocky2040]

Just used the new retrodriven wallpaper script give you a random wallpaper after each cold boot

[Reverend Crush]

I used to have one of the default backgrounds, but after an update a few months back, it vanished.

I created a custom background, named it menu.jpg, copied it to the root folder, but I still get static even after spamming the F1 button. Is there anything that could be interfering with this? I mostly use my MiSTer on a CRT, but I'm testing on a modern TV to make sure.

Not sure if it's because of some color limitation, but this is the background I'm trying to load. (Feel free to use it, hopefully I'll be able to soon.)

menu.png (3.93 MiB) Viewed 59129 times

[DiacloneFX]

I used to have one of the default backgrounds, but after an update a few months back, it vanished.
[...]

I had exactly the same issue.
For me the problem was that I had this settings in my MiSter.ini:

fb_terminal=0

Setting it back to the default value

fb_terminal=1

fixed the background issue and now pressing F1 correctly cycles through the images in the wallpapers folder.

[Reverend Crush]

I had exactly the same issue.
For me the problem was that I had this settings in my MiSter.ini:

This fixed my issue! Thanks Diaclone!

Now to get this to show on my CRT, which is another thread.

[seastalker]

I'm glad this thread addressed WHY I can toggle via menu (F1) to cycle through all the terrific backgrounds. I do hope this feature is implemented soon.

[Atohmdiy]

I try to put a wallpaper without success, i rename my file menu.jpg, i tried to put in the root of sd and in a wallpapers dir. I can press F1 as much as i want and reboot it doesn't do anything. I check my config file and it's nothing fancy, 1920x1080 and fb_terminal=1
I think i remap the F1 button. How to delete the keyboard mapping ? I delete the config folder but it doesn't seems to work with keyboard mapping.

[retrorepair]

A core specific wallpaper would be fantastic

[Sigismond0]

What would that even do? Show when you load the core, until you load your ROM?

I've kind of done similar by picking games that have nice/iconic attract modes set as boot.rom for most cores. SMB3 for NES, SMW for SNES, Pokemon Yellow for GB, etc.

[Atohmdiy]

Well it's not the F1 mapping, after remove the config files F1 just give the configuration menu, exactly like F2, but still no way to change the background. I guess i must miss something. Am i crazy ?

[Gymcrash]

You can only have a custom wallpaper on the mister main menu. Core menus don't have wallpapers.

You know you're doing the right thing with F1 on the main menu if it cycles through the built in backgrounds before getting to your menu.jpg, which should be located on (windows - root of the sdcard, Linux/Mac - /media/fat/menu.png)

[retrorepair]

What would that even do? Show when you load the core, until you load your ROM?

Yeah pretty much. Would be nice to be able to create box art wallpaper for each system.

[Atohmdiy]

You can only have a custom wallpaper on the mister main menu. Core menus don't have wallpapers.

You know you're doing the right thing with F1 on the main menu if it cycles through the built in backgrounds before getting to your menu.jpg, which should be located on (windows - root of the sdcard, Linux/Mac - /media/fat/menu.png)

Yes i know that i cannot have it with core, thing is i if i press F1 i just have the main menu that appear, same if i press F2, and i don't see any wallpaper appearing, even if i reboot. I have a menu.jpg on the root of the sd card at the good resolution. I just don't understand why it's not working.

[Gymcrash]

And you have the latest menu core and MAIN?

[Atohmdiy]

Yes latest menu core, main, i even update the linux boot.

[Atohmdiy]

So i finally understand where the problem come from, i think it's a bug of Mister. I change my sd card for something bigger so i made a clean new install. Problem was the same, with F1 i just got the menu and it changed no wallpaper.
I use a logictech keyboard + touchpad bluetooth combo, si i tried with a usb keyboard and it finally worked, F1 change the wallpaper.