Bezel support on mame and other emu

BuZz

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Floob

@trekdrop Unless you are comfortable changing permission and creating directories you are better off waiting until I update the tool to behave better when trying to install itself. Check the YouTube video for comments of other users manually editing the folder creation to allow the install to complete.
Have you tried selecting the install option again now you have created those directories?

trekdrop

@Floob

Yeah, i tried do it manually with filezilla and winscp both give me the permission denied.

Can I somehow give/need to get permission to copy and wright in the root folder.

I have a feeling I just do something wrong.

chigundo

@Floob Awesome video... here's a question: Because I can't live with 4,000 arcade roms, I'd like to just put only the ones with overlays on the pi. So is there a way to either see a full list of the games (you mentioned around 220) so that I can filter them all out or is there an even more automated way to only select those roms in a folder of 4,000?

chigundo

nevermind I took an hour and figured it out

turnerl

Anyone having permission issues can run the following.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/retropie

trekdrop

Thanks, that did it. Last question, I have a bunch (1000+) bezels from hyperspin how can I add these to my mame games.

Where do I put the files?
What kind of format do they need to be?

trekdrop

There is now one that can explain how to add my own overlays?

Floob

@trekdrop There is an example of the config you put into a retroarch.cfg here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2960/bezel-support-on-mame-and-other-emu/2

In the .cfg it refers to would just have something like this in it.

overlays = 1
overlay0_overlay = abcop.png
overlay0_full_screen = true
overlay0_descs = 0

trekdrop

@Floob

So if I understand it correctly, I need to do this manually. There is no way I it can find the same name png and the rom so it will be put together?

Floob

A config file/entry must exist.

trekdrop

@Floob

Nice thanks, I made 10 bezels now and it works. It's one hell of a job because you need to manually put the right name of the game in each folder.

So one last question, the TV border where is the cfg that links it to the console.

Neogeo has a TV overlay I want to make all neogeo games with a arcade cab overlay. So where do I need to change that.

Floob

@trekdrop Tell me about it, I've gone through about 250 configs in the tool here:
https://github.com/biscuits99/rp-video-manager

At least you only have to do it once, so its worth the effort.

If you need a bezel for just one system, Neo Geo, you could apply it to that systems retroarch.cfg
As the Neo Geo is effectively an arcade machine you need to decide whioch emulator you will be using.

The system based retroarch.cfg files are in
/opt/retropie/configs/{system-name}/retroarch.cfg

So really you need to use a different emulator to that of the rest of your arcade roms.
Or I guess you could just tweak the emulator.cfg to run the same emulator against roms in a different folder.

caver01

@Floob This may be another use for the recent updates to the runcommand.

Using the new runcommand user scripts for launch and for end, you could setup your config to reference a generic overlay, then, using $configdir/all/runcommand-onstart.sh you could write a command to copy the appropriate overlay into place using the $rom parameter from a folder full of the ones you have. Or I suppose you could re-write the config to point to the appropriate overlay if one exists. Then, you could set it back to default using runcommand-onned.sh.

Floob

@caver01 So many options, so little time :)

chigundo

@Floob just wanted to let you know I installed the arcade bezels based off your github video manager last night and it worked flawlessly. Thanks for all your work on this and your videos. I noticed some other menu options for console bezels but haven't tried those yet.