Arcade overlays 4:3, 1600x1200

iainjh

WierdH, Clyde, thank you!

Ashpool

@svera As I started to bring life to my wall mounted retropie project (coincidentally I am using a 1600x1200 monitor), I appreciate this easy way of overlays for vertical arcades (avoiding the need of defining viewports by just "bezeling" the black border of the 3:4 frame). And so, the work of you and @Clyde inspired me to try it on my own.

May I present: Mappy

P.S.: Is there some styleguide or such on properly citing/crediting the source(s) used? In this case I've used the mame overlay downloaded during mame .170 times as a base, and here is the information from its .lay.

<!--
- Artwork type: Bezel
- Scanned bezel provided by Aaron Giles
- Vectorized by Ad_Enuff
- Converted for MAME by Ad_Enuff
- Lay file by Mr. Do
-->

[p.p.s.: is it possible to collapse/fold/spoiler paragraphs/blocks as the one above with markdown?]

[Edit: Because of the git-repo I totally forgot that the OP was @Mayki -> so my initial words are also meant to honor your work]

svera

@Ashpool Great work! regarding credit, you can put it in the .cfg files as you can see in all other bezels already existing in the repository, no special format is required.

Ashpool

@svera thanks for the reply, as soon as I edited the cfg, you can expect a PR from me ;)

Edit: Done and hope everything is fine, as for me such a pull request is a 1st. time event...

P.S.: the 1024 images, are those mandatory, or optional to be provided? As in my pull-request I only included my 1600x1200 Bezel...

svera

@Ashpool I'm afraid the 1024 files are mandatory to accept the Pull Request. You just need to resize from the 1600 one and you're done, though. Thank you!

Ashpool

@svera Done... though I am unsure if simply adding the file was enough, or if there is anything I'll should do in addition to it (something alike to to "pushing"/"updating" the request or such)

svera

@Ashpool It was, I've already merged your pull request so your files are already available to everyone. Thank you very much for your contribution and keep it coming!

Ashpool

@svera Ok, will do.... step by step as my setup got configured/populated and I may have the desire for one ;)

At the moment my doings for overlays and populating my DIY-Cade Project got a little drawback: Because and just out of curiousity how the source XY of a given rom and its targeted DAR would fit a targeted max resolution, I've wrestled with my python-fu (barely existend) and UIs in Python (no former experience, always worked with it in a CLI only or (IDE based) Matlab Style of usecase before) and so, as the result of a long story, left to be untold here, this here came to be:

At least for me it has a working stage that will do, everything else I would expect that baby to do (or free it from further bugs I may encounter whilst using it) may remain in a >>will never be done, unless i really have the need (or spare time) for it<< state...

[EDIT:]
In the meantime, here is my overlay for burgertime (as the repo already has the primary rom title, I opted for the filenames to be a clone thereof: btimem)

[Don't want to start a alternate versions war here (IMHO-it is not a competition, but collaborated work), but that was one overlay where I wanted to have another (and more simple) variant for on my setup]...

Ashpool

And three more...

kangaroo:

I am inclined to remove the "berries'n'bell" accessoires and to go with apes'n'apples+roos alone... but as i haven't decided yet, the early version is presented here ;)

phoenix:

and ... vanguard:

Clyde

@Ashpool Wow, great work output. It shames me insofar that I didn't do any more overlays since May. I certainly plan to do so in the dark half of the year, although Minecraft has caught me in its grip once again at the moment. 😔 😇

svera

@Ashpool lovely, bezels merged. Don't stop! 😉

svera

Added Cosmo Gang overlay to the repo.

Ashpool

@svera brilliant, haven't known about that one... and i really enjoy/adore that gorf/phoenix/galaxian/etc. kind of gameplay ;)

In addition, i worked on a childhood memories I wanted to have done, before going on with the general configuration and specific system/game settings for my "DIY Arcade" (Ok, there are still a few games left, I may do inbetween):

:Karate Champ:

Just going with the original Bezel, would have been nice and easy, but I wanted to have the "RTFM" for the Joysticks on Screen... and so, to get a somewhat symmetric overlay, I also includes the general instructions. ... Though I downsized the critical elements for the 1600x1200 and 1024x768 overlays from "source" (and not Source->1600->1024), I fear that the instructions for the moves ain't readable in the 1024 Variant :/

Edit:
P.S.: Seeing the Moiré pattern in the screenshot - well, there is some config work to be done ;^>

svera

Added Arkanoid 2 bezel to the repo.
@Ashpool regarding your moiré pattern problem, have you tried zfast vertical shader? I haven't had any moiré issues with that shader.

Ashpool

@svera Thanks! For fast access & screenshots(most of the times) I was using the first crt-shader from the presets, the zfast ones (so far) eliminated the moiré :up:

And though I wanted to have another set of bezels to upload, thanks to circumstances and the "I am not a beer"-Virus at hand, and whatsnotandsoforth, etc. ... I am at the moment bussy in setting up a PC with an (formerly win7 offline gaming)/(now to be added)ubuntu(20LTS) dual-boot for my daugther to be prepared for "home-schooling" times (and I bet that they will come!)... whence I am done with that, I may be able to supply further overlays ;)

Clyde

@Ashpool I can also recommend the zfast shaders for their speed. They seem to be significantly faster than the crt-pi-* ones.

Ashpool

Added Bagman (From Sideart/Marque - the real Arcade Bezel was just a black/blank overlay)

After I've spend some time on Popeye, just to realize later that it is a 4:3 game... sigh... (and that where I am now parsing/merging Catlist&Mame.xml infos for my little python app, and should have known better if I would actually use it, instead of just scripting it&its companions).... so here is my 1600x1200 bezel for popeye... I'll be keeping that in my archives, because it may be a good base to get a 1080/16:9 overlay alternative for the present ones :/ (still wasted hours :p) :

Clyde

Finally, I got around to make another overlay! 😄

Lady Bug

Lady Bug

Update: Moved the flower more into view.

Clyde

Next: Circus Charly

Circus Charlie

This took approx. 2-3 times the time to make as Lady Bug, since I had to reconstruct it from scratch using the individual parts from @nono6493's 16:9 overlay except for the monkey which I took from arcadeartwork.org.

Update: Added half a monkey on each side. 😉

Clyde

@svera Inspired by your review of my pull requests, I checked all of the other cfg files for 0.90000 opacity. Seems like many still have this value:

$ grep 0.9 cfg/*
1941.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
1942.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
1943.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
19xx.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
aerofgt.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
arkanoid.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
arknoid2.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
batrideru.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
btime.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
btimem.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
centiped.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
commando.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
congo.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000
contra.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
cosmogng.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
ddonpach.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
dimahoo.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
dkong3.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
dkong.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
dkongjr.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
esprade.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
firetrap.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
frogger.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
guwange.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
ikari.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
kchamp.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
mappy.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
mercs.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
mrdo.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
mspacman.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
pacman.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
pengo.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
qix.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
timeplt.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
tp84.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
varth.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = "0.900000"
zaxxon.cfg:input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000

I could fix them with a quick sed one-liner. Shall I?