not within retropie, but you can do it on the raspberry pi – http://attractmode.org/

i think it would be cool if retropie had the option of the attactmode front end (especially since emulationstation isn’t getting updated right now). in fact, i might do a thread on this in the suggestions forum!

I personally use Attract-Mode as frontend and retropie to manage my roms and emulators, so I get the best for each parts ;)
The snapvideos work great on both SD card or external HD (now I use an external hdd). You can also create a lot of animations in your layouts without any slow down, as long as you don’t use their animation modules which just kill the Pi.

I’ll try to do a little video (probably next week) to show the potential of using Attract-Mode with Retropie, I also have a few things that can be interesting to show ;). My retro-gaming arcade console project is completely in work in progress, I have been working on this since the rpi2 was released and I think I have done only half of what I really want to do… But the main features are already done (system to get RGB leds inside arcade buttons that change depending of the game you pick, OpenBOR system included, elaborate random game selection system, layouts with animations, filters and videosnaps…). Hopefully I will finish this project someday, because it takes a lot of time ;)

This looks amazing!
How difficult is it to set up?

I did a quick video to show Attract-Mode on my Raspberry Pi 2.
I don’t have a video capture card so I had to do it with my DSLR camera and the quality is not as good or course and it’s recored in 24 fps only, so it doesn’t really do justice to how it runs in real.

https://youtu.be/ZNVuFV9mfZA

just to keep everyone updated, there’s a feature request to get this front-end added to retropie – https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1071

if you have any compilation/set up instructions (especially if you’re running it on top of retropie), it’ll probably help them out to add to that issue :)