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Users have been creating some excellent custom wallpapers specifically for MiSTer, designed to accommodate the OSD menu and fit with the whole “retro gaming/computing” concept. Let’s use this topic thread to share them.

To set up MiSTer to pick a different random wallpaper at startup, first remove any /media/fat/menu.png or /media/fat/menu.jpg. Then instead, create the folder /media/fat/wallpapers, and drop all your wallpapers (jpg or png) in there and reboot. If your MiSTer still isn’t showing any wallpaper after booting, attach a keyboard to it and press F1 to cycle through background modes until you see your wallpaper.

I’m attaching a few recently-created wallpapers to kick things off.

SEGA Genesis (by me) Commodore Amiga (by me) SNK NeoGeo AES (by Ranny Sharon) SNK NeoGeo MVS (by Ranny Sharon)

This is what I have been using, the same thing I use for my main PC

These are great, many thanks for posting!

I have made this some months ago, so some of the latest added cores/machines might be missing.

Thank you for making this section! I am posting a link to one folder that contains all of the wallpapers I have designed thus far!
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold ... pkbg59JyTi

I wish I could get these to display on my CRT monitor.

OneEightZero wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 5:11 pm I wish I could get these to display on my CRT monitor.

You can. Do it this way:

1. Cut/Crop the image to 4:3
2. Add this to the end of your INI: Done!

Ranny Snice link : https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold ... pkbg59JyTi

Synthwave Pack

https://mega.nz/folder/AbAyTK7C#sKbMDflscavz3VS-SWcL_w

I really wish wallpapers played nicer if you deal with both 4:3 and 16:9 resolutions using alt settings. If I go from my 1080p 16:9 setting with a matching wallpaper and switch to my 1440p 4:3 setting, it squishes the wallpaper, and if I had 1440p 4:3 as my main with a wallpaper to match, my 1080p 16:9 setting stretches the wallpaper.

It'd be cool if you could have a menu image specific for each alt setting (people could even add some text to their custom wallpapers explaining what alt they're on if they wanted to), or maybe taking the menu image and cropping it to fit in the matching aspect ratio when scaled would be nice as well. I understand that 1440p isn't technically supported but I'm sure that there's other use cases that this could apply to.

As of right now I'm just using the MiSTer demoscene logo wallpaper edited to 1920x1440 for my 1440p config, and I'm just dealing with the stretching whenever I'm using 1080p.

So this image is not made by me, or anything. But it's what I currently use as my MiSTer Wallpaper

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

Mine's not MiSTer specific (nor did I make it), but I've been enjoying it:

Is there a way to make the wallpapers cycle from inside the core?
Kind of like F1 but for what's inside /wallpapers/?

Newsdee wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 3:04 pm Is there a way to make the wallpapers cycle from inside the core?
Kind of like F1 but for what's inside /wallpapers/?

I remember this was discussed on Atari-Forum and there is no native feature like that, but I think somebody made a script for cron.

Adding my minimalist wallpapers to the mix. Enjoy!

https://github.com/Balakov/MiSTer-Wallpapers

Balakov wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 8:03 pm Adding my minimalist wallpapers to the mix. Enjoy!

https://github.com/Balakov/MiSTer-Wallpapers

There are super slick. Thanks for sharing.

This is what I'm currently using. I cropped it to a 14:9 aspect ratio so it doesn't look super distorted in either 4:3 or 16:9


...still looks better to me on a 4:3 CRT, but then again most things do

Thanks all for sharing these fantastic wallpapers!

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

Here are a few I have collected. None are my actual work.

https://www.therockmanexezone.com/downloads/wallpapers/

For the Megaman Battle Network and Megaman Star Force fans out there, this site has some really cool ones that coincidentally go really well with the setup I feel!

This is the one I'm using personally! ^w^

Washac wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 11:05 am 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.

AmigoMexicano wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 11:42 pm

Washac wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 11:05 am 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.

Thank you

Newsdee wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 3:04 pm Is there a way to make the wallpapers cycle from inside the core?
Kind of like F1 but for what's inside /wallpapers/?

Normally, you must have a menu.png or menu.jpg at the root of the sd card and put all the other images in a "backgrounds" directory (also in the root of the sd). But, this feature recently stop working for me and i focus on playing the pcengine cd core instead of searching the cause of it

It's awesome to see so many great wallpapers! Nice work, everybody!

hello, may someone share the cps-1 wallpaper that was published on facebook page please?
thanks

Sorry about the noob question. But I've created the media/fat/wallpapers directory and I've put some of the excellent images posted above in there and I have deleted the menu.jpg that was in the root of my SD Card. I'm cycling through with F1 but I'm only seeing the "default" backgrounds. It seems so straight forward. What obvious thing am I missing?

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