MiSTer Wallpapers

[midline_slippy]

Question about when / how the MiSTer cycles wallpapers..

Is it a set time? IE: 30 seconds?
Is it based on selecting menu items?
Does it reload a different one when the menu reloads? (This seems like the case with my MiSTer setup)

Does it cycle abc? by date? by hdd order? (Have not been able to figure this out, as it seems to repeat some items more than others)

Is it possible to set a wallpaper/background based on what is selected on the menu? Select NES, get a NES background. Select a game in @Favorites and get a background for that specific game.

If menu selection is not possible, at least by menu location (in the main menu cycle thru 4 wallpapers, of the 4 main menu items, then in Console menu, cycle thru wallpapers of consoles - Of course taking the time to create /wallpaper/menu and /wallpaper/console, etc).

I have already created custom wallpapers per each game, right now I have all of them sitting in the wallpapers dir letting MiSTer cycle thru them. While I like the idea of SAM, I find this approach easier to manage.

The idea is making a faux GUI (the one major complaint i get from non-techy people that see the MiSter and a BIG reason they are not interested in getting one for themselves).

[hitm4n]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Y4Qla5ZLI
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/pull/774

Not tested, but i'm about to!

edit// Warning - So the mister file on the above github page is 1 year old. I'm not going to test this as the code will be in an old binary, but i love the idea of it. Can we please have our background change every x (definable) few minutes?

40 backgrounds and i only get to see one on each Mister use.

[koldtoft]

My first contribution.

If anyone likes it, I will add a version later with the unsupported consoles, replaced with supported once (still waiting to get my Mister so I can check what kind of stuff works on it)

Mister-Background_original.jpg (558.48 KiB) Viewed 551 times

Update. Apparently this version is slightly missed aligned with the centre squares. I will upload a fixed version once I got my Mister and corrected it.

[niallquinn]

So, for the think, ie me. I've hundreds of wallpapers in the appropriate folder, but pressing F1 only show the 5 or 6 default ones, and 1 of the others. Is that the way it has to be, the one you pic called menu,jpg?

Or can you cycle through them all?

Thanks,