AdvanceMAME Bezels

Meneer Jansen · 8 Jun 2016, 20:12

@Water-White said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

I don't think the Sega and Snes emulators support bezels. Only Mame I think.

dankcushions · 8 Jun 2016, 20:17

@Meneer-Jansen said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Water-White said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

I don't think the Sega and Snes emulators support bezels. Only Mame I think.

all libretro emulators support overlays (bezels, or anything else you want), so that's pretty much every system. whether anyone has made the bezel is another matter...

Floob · 8 Jun 2016, 20:22

@Water-White You can see generic overlays/bezels in use here that also incorporate scanlines.

I'll start some work on incorporating mame bezels with shaders as well.

Meneer Jansen · 9 Jun 2016, 12:21

@dankcushions said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Meneer-Jansen said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Water-White said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

I don't think the Sega and Snes emulators support bezels. Only Mame I think.

all libretro emulators support overlays (bezels, or anything else you want), so that's pretty much every system. whether anyone has made the bezel is another matter...

I stand corrected! :-)

Floob · 6 Dec 2016, 00:58

Here is an example of RetroPie with mame-2003 using overlays and shaders.
Using @davej shaders. and John.Merrit overlays.

theroamer · 2 Aug 2016, 14:24

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ryguyrocks · 17 Feb 2017, 22:48

@Finhead Does this still work? I've modified the config file and uploaded some artwork and can't get anything to show up. I'm able to get the bezels to work in mame 2003 but not advanceMAME, I'm trying to set it up for tapper since that game doesn't work in mame2003.

backstander · 17 Feb 2017, 22:56

UDb23 has been working on some arcade bezels and he did a version of Tapper for mame2010 here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7059/top-10-requested-arcade-games-for-overlays/45
https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/tree/master/Tapper

caver01 · 8 Jan 2018, 13:45

@ryguyrocks said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Finhead Does this still work? I've modified the config file and uploaded some artwork and can't get anything to show up. I'm able to get the bezels to work in mame 2003 but not advanceMAME, I'm trying to set it up for tapper since that game doesn't work in mame2003.

Assuming you understand AdvanceMAME is not a libretro core So, if you are trying to use the same technique as in mame2003, none of that applies to AdvanceMAME. You should be able to use the steps @Finhead noted above. You have to use different artwork files (they are the old artwork zip files for pre .107 mame). The artwork zip goes here /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame/artworkor wherever you .rc file is pointing for artwork.

If the old artwork isn't available for the game you want, you could take a crack at making your own. Inside the zip file are images, masks, and the important .art text file which tells Advmame how to setup backgrounds, bezels etc. I understand it is a hassle to get the position correct, but it can be done. Here's another discussion about it.

MikOzzZ · 8 Jan 2018, 13:45

@caver01

Hello everyone,

can you add overlay to systems advance - mame or Pi FBA ?

because I tried this method but without success.

thank you for your answers

caver01 · 8 Jan 2018, 17:28

@mikozzz You can add overlays to AdvanceMAME. You have to use the MAME artwork format from MAME .106 and earlier. This is not well documented, but basically, MAME expects a .art file with the same name as the ROM in the artwork folder . This file is actually a zip archive of the overlay, background, bezel images as needed plus a text file to control how everything gets used. One example is described here under the Other Tricks section, but I don't really know how to build artwork from scratch. I understand the latest version of AdvanceMAME (3.6) does a better job of handling artwork size and position computation.

As for Pi FBA, I have no idea. I don't use it. However, libretro cores (lr-fbalpha) can leverage overlays quite easily. There are MANY threads on the topic as well as utilities for adding them.

MikOzzZ · 8 Jan 2018, 18:42

@caver01 thanks

illando · 30 Jan 2018, 01:46

@caver01
at this link: http://mrdo.mameworld.info/old_artwork.php
There is a collection of overlays in the old format ( MAME 0.106 or earlier ). It's a series of .zip files containing the .art file as you said. I'm trying to put some of them in the artwork folder but nothing seems to happen.

Also, there are 2 artwork folders:
roms/mame-advmame/artwork
configs/mame-advmame/artwork

What's the right one?

caver01 · 3 Feb 2018, 01:14

@illando those got created during the install or first run of advmame probably as a result of what directories are defined in the advmame.rc file. Check your .rc file and you will know where MAME is looking for artwork. While you are in that file, enable artwork overlays.

illando · 3 Feb 2018, 01:14

@caver01
I did it but I cant't make it work.
I'm using AdvanceMAME 3.
Inside the file "advmame.rc" is written:

dir_artwork /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame/artwork
display_artwork_backdrop yes
display_artwork_bezel yes
display_artwork_crop yes
display_artwork_overlay yes

Inside the correct directory there's a zip file with same name of my rom (sharrier.zip) and inside of that file there are the "sharrier.art" and "sharrier.png" files.

What's wrong in this process???

caver01 · 3 Feb 2018, 09:25

@illando did you make this file file or download it? Have you tried editing the .art file?

Meneer Jansen · 3 Feb 2018, 14:48

I can't remember anymore how one had to enable the artwork, but doesn't one have to unpack the Zip file of the artwork? (that is: not the zip file of the ROM)

caver01 · 2 May 2018, 17:08

@meneer-jansen no, the artwork stays zipped. It just has to be in the correct folder, the settings in the .rc file have to enable it, and the .art file inside the artwork zip has to be written correctly. I have not tried making my own, only modifying existing (like dimming the background or disabling an overlay, etc.).

illando · 4 Feb 2018, 12:51

@caver01
I did as you did.
I downloaded a preexisting file, and edited the name of the zip, the name of the.art file and the name of the .png.
I also replaced every name inside the text of the .art file.
All zipped and placed in the correct folder.

Could I ask you to share one of the artwork file you modifying, and you are 100% sure it's working on AdvanceMAME 3? I'll manage how to find the correct rom to test it.

Meneer Jansen · 4 Feb 2018, 14:54

My Raspberry Pi 1B burned down so until today I did not have a Pi any more to test. Bought me a 2nd hand Pi 1B+ and my old SD card still works with it. It's been ages since I fiddled w/ Retropie and my SD card became corrupted a while ago so I copied its contents w/ the dd command (Linux) to a new one. However, this left me w/ a crippled Retropie installation. All my games stull run fine, but the setup script doesn't run anymore, etc. So I cannot check everything. I don't even know, or care for that matter, which version of Retropie I'm running.

Anyway, the links in this thread provide a link for bezels for AdvanceMame version 0.94, which is what I'm running. You, on the other hand, are using Advancemame version 3. That probably uses bezels/artwork in a different format. In my notes I found this about artwork and AdvMame:

For the old artwork that works w/ old Mame versions (i.e. Raspberry Pi, maybe Android etc.):
http://mrdo.mameworld.info/old_artwork.php
For new Mame versions:
http://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_ingame.php?p=12#here

So you probably have to download your artwork from: http://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_ingame.php?p=12#here

Good luck! :-)