How to Show Retroarch Snapshots instead of Boxarts?
1 min readOnce you have downloaded Thumbnails and Boxarts for MAME in Retroarch, you will notice that only the Boxarts are displayed. This guide will show you how to display the in-game Retroarch Snapshots instead of the boxarts.
Personally, I don’t care about the Title screen or the Boxart.
When I want to play Arcade games, I want to see what the game actually will look like, right away:
When you download the thumbnails within Retroarch, it will download only the necessary for the games that you have, under:
- RetroArch-Win64\
- thumbnails\
- <SYSTEM>\
- Named_Boxarts
- Named_Snaps
- Named_Titles
- <SYSTEM>\
- thumbnails\
Retroarch will show the Boxarts only, no way to change that.
How to show Snapshots instead of Boxarts in Retroarch
Very simple:
- under
RetroArch-Win64\thumbnails\<SYSTEM>\
: swap Boxarts with Snaps or Titles if you prefer:- rename Named_Boxarts to Named_Snaps
- rename Named_Snaps to Named_Boxarts
- restart Retroarch
And voila!