Add Game Close information and game save information to play screen

[dfelice81]

Hi is there any way of putting the game close keys and game save keys to the screen while you play?

I have NES and SNES emulator (from Nintendo Store) on switch and it always shows that information as it makes it easier to explain to new users who play how to save and go back to the game selection screen?

[mitu]

You could add a game bezel/overlay with this information.

[dfelice81]

oh yea that sounds good... how would one do that?

[mitu]

First you need to create an .png file for your overlay, containing the instructions you want displayed.
Then you need to create a .cfg file (overlay preset) to configure your overlay, which includes the path to your .png file and enables it.

overlays = 1
overlay0_overlay = /path/to/png_file
overlay0_rect = "0.0,0.0,1.0,1.0"
overlay0_full_screen = true
overlay0_descs = 0 

Then you can load your overlay from RetroArch's RGUI to see how it looks with the game/system you're playing. Once you're happy with the result, save an override for the system you're playing so the overlay is loaded each time when you start a game in that system.

Here's a video showing how it's done

And the official RetroArch's overlay repository - which you can use as a guide to design your own - is here

[dfelice81]

great thanks for that!

will this make the same overlay for every console or will i have to make 1 for each console?

[mitu]

@dfelice81 Usually they're created per system, since each system has it's own native resolution and you need to make sure the overlay doesn't obscure the game's video output.