[Request] Fan Art or Screenshots for Loading splash screen

[Alfredo Olvera]

Hi team,

I would like to suggest an option for BigBox to replace the current "Now Loading" box with random Fan Art or Screenshot from the game.

The behaviour would be similar to the way Xbox One or PS4 loads a game, once selected and as it loads, it shows some artwork.

Examples:

• PS4: https://youtu.be/-u7qoBlac-o?t=20s
• XB1: https://youtu.be/0uelRQM0_bI?t=2m13s

With Launchbox's and EmuMovies DB's containing lots of great background art pieces, this would be another avenue to display them, giving more eye candy to the now "boring" now loading box.

If the game doesn't have artwork or screenshots defined, then you could fallback to the Now Loading regular box.

Cheers!

[Dave Nelson]

I think this could address a lot of previously mentioned feature requests, two of them being Issue 2351 and the “Notes Box” forum post. There’s a lot of emulators out there and they’re only getting more complicated e.g. Teknoparrot and Xenia; there’s per-game quirks to get them to load (“press “Change View” button to skip past bogus error), there’s weird controller setups… If you could provide some way to inform players it’d be a massive help.

[Christian]

The Startup screen is theme-able so this can already be done via themes