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RooEmmulationStation has two modes for displaying game lists, basic and detailed.
If there are no images defined in a given system’s gamelist (for example /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml) then it displays basic mode. If even one image is defined, it uses detailed mode.
Once ES decides to use detailed mode, it displays box art and other metadata (rating, release date, developer, players, etc.). I’m pretty sure this is hard coded into ES and not configurable. You can’t get box art without all the other metadata.
I would love for this to change – I too want box art without the other metadata.
I suppose you might be able to trick ES into drawing the other stuff off screen by messing with size and position parameters… Or maybe change the color to match the background…