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    • GreenHawk84G
      GreenHawk84
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      Anyone know how to get these to work with the scanlines and everything, they seem to be popular on PC-Mame (I think Pi3 would choke though):
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      • MrJordaaanyM
        MrJordaaany @UDb23
        last edited by

        @udb23 Love your work and this thread. I want to start making some overlays myself. For 1080p overlays is there any base template you use?

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        • UDb23U
          UDb23
          last edited by

          @mrjordaaany With lr-mame and lr-fba most games have the same specific standard game area resolution @ 1080p. Of course it also depends if you want the game area to stretch to the 1080 height or "integer scale" the original game resolution.
          What program would you use ?
          I use basic templates for horizontal and vertical games in made, in SVG format.

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          • GreenHawk84G
            GreenHawk84 @UDb23
            last edited by

            Anyone want to try out Final Fight (preferably with integer scaling to fit more art)?
            alt text

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            • UDb23U
              UDb23 @GreenHawk84
              last edited by

              @greenhawk84 nice overlay!
              Unfortunately no time this week to test on Pi.

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              • GreenHawk84G
                GreenHawk84 @UDb23
                last edited by

                @udb23 No this is a scan of the original that would fit in an original cabinet. This would not work with a Pi. I would use this for sampling and creating a 16:9 bezel.

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                • MrJordaaanyM
                  MrJordaaany @UDb23
                  last edited by

                  @udb23 I use whatever I need to use. GIMP, photoshop, paint.net, etc. I would really appreciate if you can share the templates with me :)

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                  • UDb23U
                    UDb23 @MrJordaaany
                    last edited by

                    @mrjordaaany sure I can. Will upload them on github both as svg and PSD next weekend. Will provide link here.

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                    • MrJordaaanyM
                      MrJordaaany @UDb23
                      last edited by

                      @udb23 Thank you :)

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                      • N
                        nasp2000
                        last edited by

                        Arcade Generic overlays for Vertical oriented screen... ;)

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                        • GreenHawk84G
                          GreenHawk84
                          last edited by GreenHawk84

                          Finished Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior (original SF2)
                          alt text

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                          • UDb23U
                            UDb23 @MrJordaaany
                            last edited by

                            @mrjordaaany said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

                            I would really appreciate if you can share the templates with me :)

                            Templates now available here as vector (svg) and bitmap (png) for libretro @1080p, standard options, scale integer off (lr-mame2003, lr-fba).
                            PNGs include transparent game area. Side bars in solid color so they are easy to select and replace. Small borders included.

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                            • MrJordaaanyM
                              MrJordaaany @UDb23
                              last edited by

                              @udb23 Legend. Thank you.

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                              • UDb23U
                                UDb23
                                last edited by

                                And here's another new overlay ready for a great Classic: AMIDAR.

                                amidar

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                                • RiverstormR
                                  Riverstorm
                                  last edited by

                                  @UDb23 I see this thread hasn't been posted in for a few months. Are you using a different thread when discussing Overlays?

                                  I've been adding overlays and noticed mspacman.cfg had an incorrect name to the png.

                                  Also simbz23 had a few errors I think it was dkong3 and dkongjr. They had -edit in the .cfg file or the png name. They were both part of the Donkey Kong ROMS but I believe it was those two.

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                                  • RiverstormR
                                    Riverstorm
                                    last edited by

                                    More details on errors. They prevent the overlays from loading.

                                    mspacman.cfg (This might be an old entry I have)
                                    overlay0_overlay = "mspac_udb-ovl.png"
                                    png:
                                    mspacman_udb-ovl.png

                                    dkong3.cfg:
                                    overlay0_overlay = "dkong3_simbz23_edit-ovl.png"
                                    png:
                                    dkong3_simbz23-ovl.png

                                    dkongjr:
                                    overlay0_overlay = "dkongjr_simbz23_edit-ovl.png"
                                    png:
                                    dkongjr_simbz23-ovl.png

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                                    • UDb23U
                                      UDb23 @Riverstorm
                                      last edited by

                                      @riverstorm said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

                                      I've been adding overlays and noticed mspacman.cfg had an incorrect name to the png.

                                      Thanks for le ttimg me know.
                                      Now fixed.

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                                      • UDb23U
                                        UDb23 @Riverstorm
                                        last edited by

                                        @riverstorm said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

                                        I see this thread hasn't been posted in for a few months. Are you using a different thread when discussing Overlays?

                                        In this thread I include only those overlays that are (or can) be considered real classic arcade games.
                                        There are of course other new overlays I made meanwhile. Usually post them in separate threads for each one.
                                        You can do a search for "New Overlay"; some results here.

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                                        • RiverstormR
                                          Riverstorm @UDb23
                                          last edited by Riverstorm

                                          @udb23 said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

                                          Usually post them in separate threads for each one.

                                          Ok, so I will try and locate the overlay thread if I run across an issue with a specific overlay?

                                          A quick question for you. I saw in astrob.zip.cfg you had the vertical shader setup but commented out. Is that tough to do? I mean adding it to the configs.

                                          I have all the overlays in use for games I play (which is most of them). Basically what I do is if you create an overlay for a game in my library I add it. Then I go to Dank's vertical shaders and check to see if it's vertical. If it's vertical I add the lines into the game.zip.cfg (I have the regular shader set for global). Lastly I move Dank's vertical shader config to a temp directory so the overlay works properly and just in case I am playing on a TV that's not 1080 I can move it back and disable the overlay. I wish they were dynamic! ;)

                                          Also do Burning Force and Darkstalkers work with the optional overlays that requires video_scale_integer? I like the "boxed" in overlays that surround the screen
                                          they look very sharp.

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                                          • UDb23U
                                            UDb23 @Riverstorm
                                            last edited by

                                            @riverstorm said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

                                            Ok, so I will try and locate the overlay thread if I run across an issue with a specific overlay?

                                            If you have a github account you can also post issues in the Repo.

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