Once 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!