SAROO Backgrounds thread

[SceneCAT]

High there.

Starting this Thread here since I did not find a place where folks can shoehorn their SAROO backgrounds into.

So, recently I also got a SAROO and soon I fiddled around a bit with some animated GIFs found using google searches and Resized [320x240] and/or Optimized them on EZgif.com site and tried to keep them below 380kb.
The audio used was simply converted from FLAC => WAV => FFmpeg => PCM using this commandline:
ffmpeg.exe -i EXAMPLE.wav -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le bgsound_r.pcm

So, here are 8 backgrounds for everyone to use/abuse/share/enJOI. [7 Blade Runner and 1 Snatcher theme]
These are prolly not the best or highest quality backgrounds for the SAROO, but I do like having such style backgrounds with nice audio [matching or not].
Tips, awesome animated GIF sources and ofcourse, more SAROO backgrounds are Welcome!
I think it would be very nice and handy IF the SAROO will get a MainMenu Background manager in the future. Which can let us View and Select Backgrounds. For example: placed in SAROO/Backgrounds/Snatcher folder! \0/
Thank You for reading.

link: https://mega.nz/file/e3oUnSKI#0CmvnrqDn1UJJEhzB_2xsT9a_uMTz7w47IdgB3ioH-U

 

[micjohvan]

This is awesome, I have a Saroo and love it but I was not aware you could do custom themes and/or music?! Thanks for sharing I might see if I can whip something up. Im a massive MegaMan fan and my favorite game to play on Saturn is MM8 so maybe a theme for that.

 

[SceneCAT]

Yeah, I also think it's awesome having custom SAROO mainmenu backgrounds.
This has been added since Firmware update v0.5 iirc.
I think I'll just collect many SAROO backgrounds and share a new link at some point.

Here are some more backgrounds [2 Megaman incl.]:
https://github.com/williamdsw/saroo-backgrounds [aka CHAP3L?]

And just in case, here are some handy guidelines:

1. Adjust the GIF [animated or not] resolution to 320x240, and you can display 12 menu items.
[EZgif.com can be handy]
2. Background image
Put mainmenu_bg.gif in /SAROO/. Animation is also OK. File size is less than 300KB.

3. Background music
Put the PCM audio file in /SAROO/.
Single play: /SAROO/bgsound.pcm
Loop play: /SAROO/bgsound_r.pcm
How to generate PCM:
ffmpeg.exe -i EXAMPLE.wav -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le bgsound_r.pcm

\0/