[Xbox Series X|S] How To Setup Retroarch Playlist Thumbnails Ver 2.0 - Dev Mode

in this video i'm going to show you how to update your playlists and add thumbnails to them within the xbox series x and s version of retroarch one of retroarch's many benefits is the ability to make playlists for you to easily access your content that being said you can do a lot to make your playlist look a lot prettier if you so choose and in this video i'm going to show you that process so let's dive in alright so if you've been following along with my retroarch setup guides up to this point chances are you have a good amount of systems set up and you've made playlists for them now these default playlists aren't anything special to look at they just got your game files in them and they might not even be named correctly it's all dependent on what your file names were but if we wanted to pretty these up there's a number of ways we could really do so and it just depends on the format that your games were in when you made the playlist on how easy or complicated this process is gonna be so for example my atari 2600 playlist here is going to be an absolute nightmare for me to fix up and add thumbnails to whereas my sega 32x folder here is going to find stuff automatically for me like it's going to be great so i'm going to take you through a couple of different ways to get thumbnails added to your playlists the first one being going into a playlist entry press a on the game and tell it to download the thumbnail and if the game is named correctly it will pop right up but it doesn't like my knuckles chaotix but there we go i got two out of my three sega 32x games with a thumbnail now but i'll show how to work on games that don't pop up automatically like knuckles chaotix here in a second all right but what about a playlist that you feel is properly named that should be able to download all the thumbnails automatically we don't want to go through and just manually click download on each and every one of them that's a waste of time so what we're going to do in this case is head up to the main menu and go to the online updater and click on playlist thumbnails updater and then you can just go through and select all of your playlists i mean you could do this on even ones you don't think are named right and maybe it'll find some saves you some work in the long run but i'm just going to go ahead and skip ahead until after i've done all of these scans for all my systems alright so i just finished running all the playlist thumbnails updaters and let's see what results that had on my playlist but there we go using that method if your games were named correctly when you originally made the playlists it will find a good majority of them that way now let me show you some examples of things you could do to try to get them to find the names correctly if they didn't so for example my n64 playlist i have a lot of them that are labeled revision b or a like castlevania here if i click on this and go to rename we could type in castle vania space and then region code of usa you'll do this with the region of your game and now when we back out it's renamed just castlevania and i could tell it to download the thumbnail and this time it was able to find it because i got rid of that revision a or revision b so if you wanted to do this you could manually do that on all of your playlists but it's not exactly the most intuitive of processes especially since a physical keyboard doesn't let you rename it for example here's resident evil 2 i'm i'm navigating retroarch with my keyboard hooked up to the console now i'm gonna go into rename and now nothing works i can't i can't type it in so unfortunately you would need to manually do this with an xbox controller and that can be kind of a pain so one thing i like to do to make this process a little bit easier for me is to utilize the pc version of retroarch to rename all of these playlists that aren't correctly named so back over on a pc you can get a temporary version of retroarch and then we just need to access our development files folder so again if you followed my initial retroarch install guides as i'm hoping you have up to this point you can access your development files file share if you made one or just navigate to the directory open up windows apps your retroarch folder and my guide had you make a thumbnails folder and a playlist folder within this folder and direct your retroarch installation to look for them here because now when we open this folder hey there's all of our playlist files so i'm going to open up this temporary retroarch install on my pc and then i'm just going to run it and then close it real quick just needed it to make some folders for us but i'm going to grab all these playlist files and drag them over into the playlists folder on my pc and then the same thing with the thumbnails folder i'm just gonna grab everything here and move it into the thumbnails folder on the pc just so i can see more easily which games i already had thumbnails for that way i'm not having to like try to remember or anything because now when i open up that pc version of retroarch it's able to see all of my retroarch playlists from the xbox version and then we can see which thumbnails we had as well and we're going to use this to edit our stuff from here on out so on the pc version of retroarch you can press the f5 key and that brings up the retroarch desktop menu so just click ok here real quick but with the retro desktop menu we can easily navigate through all of our playlists and see which ones had thumbnails so now i can just right click on a game edit it and these real sports games i believe needed no spaces here and there we go i was able to find the thumbnail and then we could just tell it to download the thumbnails for all of them after we rename them and hopefully it finds them but then you could also do the same thing for games that had that rev a rev b stuff going on so for example doom edit this get rid of rev a and now you can tell it to download and it was able to find it and then even for game systems that have the names just completely screwed up like my gamecube playlist you can try to fix these manually if you so choose you could go in and just put in a region code behind the main game name and then you could try to download the thumbnail for it after that point might find it might not and even after this process it didn't quite find all of the thumbnails for my games but it did find a good majority of them and for games that i still have a disc 2 for i'm not that surprised that it didn't find them because i mean it's not looking for the disc too but i can't have it be the same but these this two games are actually pretty beneficial because we could just go into our retroarch folder on pc go into that thumbs nails folder that's going to be for gamecube named box arts but i could just make a copy of this resident evil 4 screenshot here paste it in and then just add that d2 to it manually just like that now when i go back into my playlist hey there it is it has the box art but as you can see you can really adjust the playlist to make them look a lot better than they might have been before because again my gamecube games role in nkit naming conventions so they looked absolutely terrible but using the desktop menu i was able to really clean them up but let me show you one more method of getting thumbnails onto your playlist entries for retroarch so for games where it wasn't able to find my thumbnails automatically and i don't really want to take the time to manually name them or try to figure out what their naming convention should be i like to just manually look up a box art for it so using something like game facts is really beneficial here so 007 nightfire i can now go to that entry here on something like game fax go to the gamecube section they have a media section here full of images like box arts so then i can just grab one right click save the image as and it will save it to my desktop now we used to be able to just drag this right on in and it would apply it but unfortunately these do have to be in png format now so on windows you can easily change this just by going to edit save as and just save it as a png format and now i can just drag that png formatted file well let's make sure we have knight fire selected first yeah so make sure you have the game you want to have selected and then you can just drag it on in and it applies it to that playlist entry and there you go you can see it copied it into my name box heart folder for gamecube and there we go with that method i was able to manually add in all the box arts for all of my gamecube games without having to worry about having them named a specific way or anything like that just go ahead and grab them adamant and you can do this with basically the rest of your systems if you so choose and with this method you can even add in custom box arts or just random things if you'd like to as well but then there's also the option to add in title screens and screenshots if you so choose i didn't bother with that in this but you can but basically that is the process you will continue on with the rest of your systems that weren't able to automatically download thumbnails so i mean if you really wanted to you could go through and try to figure out the naming conventions download the thumbnails might work might not but after you've gone through all your playlists and done the necessary changes you need to on the pc side of things you can go ahead and close out of this temporary install of retroarch and inside that retroarch folder we still have that thumbnails folder in the playlist folder and we need to copy these back over to our xbox i'm going to start with thumbnails i still had my development files file share open and it's set to the thumbnails folder so i'm just going to copy these back over and we don't need to replace the files that it's already found so we could just skip those because those were already named correctly and applied to our playlists so there we go all of our new thumbnails that we just added in using this pc method are now on the xbox and now we just need to go back into the playlists and on the pc retroarch folder open up the playlist folder and then copy the playlist back over and this time we are going to replace them because we made changes to these playlist files so we're going to save those changes by overriding them and there we go and now back over on the xbox we can enjoy all of our new box arts that we just added in so for example there's my ocarina of time box art and just i was able to get all these rev a ones fixed up using the pc and they're all showing up here and then gamecube all of my games now have those box arts applied to them and they just are a lot nicer to look at naming wise so again these are the steps you will apply to get thumbnails added to your playlists hopefully your games are a lot nicer name than mine were i mean a lot of mine were perfectly named and were able to show up just fine but again a lot of my stuff is just randomly named and just it didn't like it but there's more we could do for playlists to make them look just a little bit more presentable say you don't like having these region codes displaying after your games well in that case you could just back out of your playlist entries go up to settings go over press up and go up to playlists and then you could go into manage playlists so i'm going to go into my n64 playlist folder here and now we can change the label display mode so it says show full labels by default but you can get rid of anything that is within parentheses or brackets so i like to do that i don't like having those show up so now i can just back out and when i go down to my n64 games look it's just the game titles there's no more region code showing up here so it just looks a lot cleaner to my to me i like this so much more than having region codes behind everything i can go through and do this for all of my games i can get rid of anything that is in these brackets and stuff in parentheses and one more thing if you so choose if you want to have different thumbnails show up for your games for example my arcade games are showing up with advertisement banners i don't think that looks that good so i'm gonna go up to my arcade games playlist entry and i'm going to change the thumbnail over to the screenshot the title screen actually and then if you want to you can also turn on the second thumbnail so now when i go back over to my arcade games playlist i've got the title screen and a in-game screenshot showing up it looks really cool now again these title screenshots and in-game screenshots will automatically be downloaded if your games are in the correct format if it's finding what it's looking for otherwise you will need to manually add them in like i showed with the gamecube box art example but you could really do a lot to customize your playlist entries and really make them your own like it's freaking awesome how much better it all looks when it doesn't have region codes and all kinds of brackets and stuff behind it and it's fun to just go in and like see full-size box arts like it's cool it's cool cool setting cool feature but that's where i'm gonna call it with this video these steps should help you get your playlist set up to look really nice and clean within your xbox series x and s version of retroarch as always if you happen to have any questions about getting this set up feel free to ask me down in the comments section below and i will do my best to try to help you out but now if you could all do me a huge favor please be sure to hit that like or dislike button just depending on how much you like today's tutorial and if you haven't done so already hit that sub button so you can see when new videos go live on the channel lots of content still to come and we'd love to have you along for the ride now if you'd like to further help support the channel you 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Length: 18min 5sec (1085 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 23 2021