Launches each time a system/console/collection is selected. This script make this API call to display the system/console marquee:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/console/stream/[console-name]

Launches each time a game is selected like for example while scrolling through games. This script makes this API call to display the game marquee:

http://localhost:8080/arcade/stream/[console name]/[rom name]

Launches each time a game is launched. This script will check if the game has high scores and display high scores in cycle mode if yes. Cycle mode means cycling between the game marquee and the high score scrolling. If the game does not have or does not support high scores, then the text “Now Playing will scroll and then the game marquee will be displayed. 

You can customize these settings in this script:

DISPLAYHIGHSCORES=yes

If set to no, high scores will not scroll and the “Now Playing will scroll and then the game marquee will be displayed.

NUMBERHIGHSCORES=3

The number of high scores to scroll, choose 1 for example to only show the top score.

CYCLEMODE=yes

Cycle mode continually cycles between the game marquee and scrolling high scores while a game is active. If set to no, then high scores will scroll only once on game launch and then display the game marquee.

NUMBER_MARQUEE_LOOPS=1

For cycle mode, the number of times the animated marquee will loop before scrolling the high score text, this has no effect if it’s a still image game marquee.

 Launches when the EmulationStation front end is restarted or shutdown. This script will display the text “Bye” using this API call:

http://localhost:8080/text?t=<Your%20Scrolling%20Text%20Here>