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    • RiverstormR
      Riverstorm @UDb23
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      @UDb23 said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

      Quite confusing to me. Kernel and boot options update required ??

      NO! It doesn't fix it so don't try it. I already did.

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      • UDb23U
        UDb23 @Riverstorm
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        @Riverstorm said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

        If you heard of Mt. Rushmore I am close to that National Monument.
        Not only I heard of but visited south dakota in summer 2005, driving from Yellowstone ;-)

        Landscapes in your area are marvellous, we stayed just a couple of days but were able to see Rushmore, Crazy horse memorial and Rapid city.
        We've been also to Little Big Horn, Pine Ridge and Wounded knee. It's history that's generally little known in Europe.

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        • RiverstormR
          Riverstorm
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          @UDb23 - What a small world you've been to my home state. I head out to that area often as it's close. It's hard to take it all in during one visit. Some of my favorites are the Badlands. The lighting of Mt. Rushmore at night. Gold panning I am really proficient at doing. Deadwood has an interesting culture too. They had a series based on it named Deadwood. Sylvan Lake is incredible like shown in the movies National Treasure. I like Custer State Lodge as many president's have stayed there and if you can get roadside next to a buffalo do it. They get so big your car door doesn't feel thick enough. Pretty amazing area and breath taking scenery.

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          • UDb23U
            UDb23 @Riverstorm
            last edited by UDb23

            @Riverstorm Your description make me wanting to plan another holiday in your region :-)
            Buffalos btw do are really impressive; had one really big just passing nearby my car in Yellowstone.

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            • RiverstormR
              Riverstorm
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              @UDb23 - Yeah they are very majestic up close and some are huge. A neat animal for sure. Another old movie filmed here was Dances With Wolves. If you're ever in the area again just let me know. They have some incredible wild life you can view from your car in the state park. They wander across the roads and you just stop and watch right where you're driving. Another really scenic drive is named the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway that covers all the good stuff nicely. It's a nice scenic drive if you love nature. Some of the less aggressive animals you can get out and feed by hand but that's not many.

              I think I might have a solution to fix our issue. Check out the thread as the option that was causing me lockups is listed their. I had to manually edit the core options config file.

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              • UDb23U
                UDb23
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                @Riverstorm said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

                Another old movie filmed here was Dances With Wolves. If you're ever in the area again just let me know.

                Will surely do, thanks; and if you happen to travel to northern Italy let me know too :-)

                Btw loved that movie.

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                • UDb23U
                  UDb23
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                  Artwork completed for another vector game: Solar Quest
                  Backdrop+RA overlay + launching image.

                  Original Backdrop is from MrDo; adapted to 1440x1080 game area (1080p) and tweaked colors for max visibility (you still can play with brightness in the .ART file).
                  Also removed the bezel that was included; nice full original bezel but it made the game area way to small !

                  Instead I created an overlay that fits max game area in 1080p (1440x1080). Recreated the Bezel in vectors and used that art for the overlay. Score text was moved to right and left (again to avoid reducing game area on top).

                  alt text

                  Launching image is a vectorized version of the original marquee:
                  alt text

                  Available now in the Repo.
                  Have fun !

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                  • UDb23U
                    UDb23
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                    IMG_1162.jpg
                    (sorry for low res pic)

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                    • UDb23U
                      UDb23
                      last edited by

                      Best vector settings (to me):
                      Vector multiplier: 3
                      Antialias: enabled
                      Beam width: 2
                      Flicker:20
                      Intensity: 2.5

                      Bilinear filtering: on

                      The game requires sound samples.

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                      • RiverstormR
                        Riverstorm
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                        Looking forward to trying Solar Quest BD. That is one game where the busy BD and blue vector lines made the game visibility low so in AdvMAME I set the BD brightness really low.

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                        • RiverstormR
                          Riverstorm
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                          @Udb23 - I'll give your vector settings a try too. I am finding monitor vs TV are completely different settings to look optimal so I've been experimenting.

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                          • ClydeC
                            Clyde @UDb23
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                            @UDb23 said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

                            Artwork completed for another vector game: Solar Quest
                            Backdrop+RA overlay + launching image.
                            [...]
                            Available now in the Repo.

                            I don't see the backdrop in https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/tree/master/arcade/Solar Quest. Do I look in the wrong location?

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                            • UDb23U
                              UDb23 @Clyde
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                              @Clyde backdrop pull request done & accepted.
                              File is part of mame2003plus repository; check here.

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                              • UDb23U
                                UDb23 @Riverstorm
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                                @Riverstorm Yes, that's why I tweaked a while ;-)

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                                • ClydeC
                                  Clyde @Riverstorm
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                                  Sorry for the late response, but I don't have much time for this at the moment.

                                  @Riverstorm said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

                                  Just download any pre-0.106 artwork (there's a dedicated section) from Mr. Do's website and copy it into your /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2003-plus/artwork folder and run the game. No configuration required!

                                  Thanks for the tip, the files work ootb. But if one uses crt shaders (like I do), the bezels are crt shaded, too. Is there any (easy) way to exclude the bezels from being shaded?

                                  @UDb23 said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

                                  @Clyde backdrop pull request done & accepted.
                                  File is part of mame2003plus repository; check here.

                                  Great, how do I update the files in that directory on my Retropie?

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                                  • RiverstormR
                                    Riverstorm @Clyde
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks for the tip, the files work ootb. But if one uses crt shaders (like I do), the bezels are crt shaded, too. Is there any (easy) way to exclude the bezels from being shaded?

                                    @Clyde - I run a shader too and asked the same question. I didn't get a definite answer so I don't for sure but I didn't find a way. I do not like BD's with a shader either. =\

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                                    • markwkiddM
                                      markwkidd
                                      last edited by markwkidd

                                      There is no way to avoid frontend shaders from affecting the core's built-in artwork display. To the frontend it is all essentially one image coming from the core with no distinction between layers or bezels.

                                      This is one of the reasons it will be good to have backdrop support in RetroArch.

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                                      • UDb23U
                                        UDb23 @Clyde
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                                        @Clyde just update mame2003 plus from source and it will install the latest backdrops.
                                        or just copy the zip files to your Pi into the bios\mame2003plus\artwork folder.

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                                        • ClydeC
                                          Clyde @UDb23
                                          last edited by Clyde

                                          @UDb23 said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

                                          @Clyde said in Backdrops in mame2003-plus:

                                          how I could share my omegrace.zip with others here?

                                          Do you have a github account ? if so you could add it to my Repo (e.g. 1600 subfolder of Omega Race cockpit).

                                          Finally, I'm getting around doing this, but I can't make a subdirectory in https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/tree/master/arcade/Omega Race, because I don't have push access to it, as Github tellls me. Furthermore, I somehow seem to have created a fork of your repo by accident: https://github.com/Taranchul/rpie-ovl 😆

                                          Can you give me access? And how do I delete my fork? Thanks!

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                                          • UDb23U
                                            UDb23 @Clyde
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                                            @Clyde Don't worry. The way github works, if you want to contribute to someone else's project actually you DO create a fork; then add files to your fork (with folders like in this case). You can then make a "pull" request to the original repo; I will receive the request and approve it: the files will be added to my repo.

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