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I'm building a bartop arcade machine based on Recalbox and I wanted to have a dynamic marquee which can change depending on which game system is selected and which game is being played.

As my Pi4 has dual HDMI outputs I wanted to drive the marquee from the second HDMI output.

dynquee (say "dinky") is the program I wrote to do that. It's a bit over-engineered for what it does, but it seems to be stable now so I've decided to release it in case others find it useful (it has been asked for a few times before; see e.g. 1 2 3 4).

For more info see the project page on github.

All comments / questions / criticism welcome.

A few more recent photos of dynquee running on my bartop now that I've nearly finished building it.

@faided The included games are located in /recalbox/share_init/roms

They don't usually disappear when you add your own ROMs, unless you change the option: Main Menu -> UI Settings -> Game Filters -> Hide Preinstalled Games.

@toniosj said in [SOFT] dynquee: dynamic marquee for Recalbox:

1. Where did you buy that LCD?

I ordered it from Caison LCD in China - the model is DV190FBM; was not cheap though

If you can put up with a TN panel there are some less expensive options around e.g. here or here.

2. Does it work on Recalbox PC?

I've only tested it on Raspberry Pi so far, but I think it can be made to work. If you've already got Recalbox running on PC, I'd be interested in the output of the command ls -al /dev/fb*

Does it work in Pi4 if I am using RGBDUAL ?

Again, not tested but I don't see why not. Let's give it a try.

@jorgemagana I think it's because it's trying to save the settings to a read-only partition.

The workaround I use is to create the file roms/ports/Out Run/.core.cfg
with my preferred settings e.g.

cannonball_video_hires = "ON"
cannonball_freeplay = "ON"
cannonball_fix_bugs = "ON"
cannonball_fix_timer = "ON"
cannonball_jap = "OFF"

See the Libretro Cannonball wiki page for a full list of available options.

I have managed to get it working on Recalbox PC

Because EmulationStation runs under X with Openbox it needs a few tweaks. Please see the first draft of the instructions here.

Version 0.9.6 released featuring much improved support for Recalbox on PC

Version 0.9.7 released: adds support for showing images/videos when the Recalbox screensaver is active.

@toniosj On Raspberry Pi, no because the splash video is using the same framebuffer as the marquee.

On PC dynquee is started from the xinitrc when X (the graphical user interface) starts and I can't think of any way that it could start earlier.

The one way it could work is if you run dynquee on a different device to recalbox (e.g. a Pi Zero 2W), but even then you couldn't be certain that dynquee would start up faster than recalbox.