Using MAME Overlays/Bezels and shaders with RetroArch in RetroPie

[Higgy]

@Floob - things have been progressing well. I have it all working in principle. A few tweeks needed here and there on the configs.

Once finished would you like the files for 1440x900 ? They would be best with you to advertise so to speak. As I said i am sure lots of people are using PC monitors with this resolution.

I am now concentrating on the hardware build - a 2-player bartop.
Sounds in RetroPie menu had noise via 3.5mm jack so I am using USB soundcard.
For controls I am using 2x Minimus32 boards (aka KADE) which will be setup as keyboard button presses.

The overlays look so good. And having a widescreen monitor it is a great way of feeling immersed without those darn black side boarders ;)

[Floob]

@Higgy Glad to hear things are working well.
It would be good to add the 1440x900 images and configs to the video tool, but I'm thinking that they would be fairly large?
The download is already 500MB and I really need to update the tool to call down the images if needed, so I'll need to find suitable hosting for that as well.
It would be good to eventually add a complete MAME bezel set, but I think its all about finding the time.

[ruxton_bruce]

@Floob I'm trying this with retropie 4 and i'm experiencing a strange behavior. When i open a game without bezel, it opens the settings of the last game with bezel. For instance if I open Asteroids and then Street Fighter II, i get the bezel from Asteroids on Street Fighter. I have seen others having the same problems. Is there a fix for this with Retropie 4. I have tried updating retropie just today and the problem still exists. The above worked fine for me on Retropie 3 it just started happening when I updated to Retropie 4.

Any help much appreciated

[Floob]

@ruxton_bruce
Can you paste you /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg file into pastebin?

[Higgy]

@Floob Sizes of new files is 330mb.

I am using Retropie v4.0, but I have transferred the files manually. As I am only testing I don't think I have opened a ROM which does not have a bezel, so I can't comment on @ruxton_bruce issue.

I have the bartop all painted, so hopefully soon I can crack on with the fun part of assembling it all together and wiring in the buttons :)

[GreenHawk84]

Hello,
I started a topic but nobody seems to know - is there a way to do system specific bezels like Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo? This way whenever I run a console core I can just have the Sega bezel or Nintendo bezel? I run on a 16:9 monitor with 4:3 aspect on most games, so the sides would look nice with something there.

For Arcade, I can set the bezels as game-specific?

[Floob]

@GreenHawk84 Sure, you just specify the overlay in the system specific retroarch.cfg file.
Like this:

[GreenHawk84]

@Floob , thank you. Do you happen to know of any good SNES, NES, Genesis, NEO-GEO, ETC, bezels to apply to a system?

[Floob]

I use the packaged ones here:
https://github.com/biscuits99/rp-video-manager

[GreenHawk84]

@Floob that's strange, a lot of them are labeled as different ones but are actually the same old TV image.

Even better, how can I make my own bezels? I would definitely crank some out with photoshop if I had a template/guidance.

[tien_huu_1408]

@Floob Have you released any new update on rp-video-manager?

[GreenHawk84]

This one is pretty cool, great example:
http://www.gameex.info/forums/uploads/monthly_06_2015/post-680-14345093699168.jpg

[Floob]

@GreenHawk84 Check out the posts here:
http://libretro.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[Zigurana]

(Spammer is gone, thanks!)

[GreenHawk84]

These bezels in the video are pretty much exactly what I want:

They look like they are a part of the screen you are using instead of a photo of another screen.

[ruxton_bruce]

@Floob Hi Floob

I have setup Attract mode and it looks great. My only problem is that the Bezels/Overlays don't work in Attract Mode. They work fine when run from Emulation Station just not from Attract Mode. Is there something else I need to set in Attract Mode for the Bezels/Overlays to work?

Cheers Floob

[Floob]

@ruxton_bruce Its most likely the config of your emulator setup in AM.
Post one on pastebin, and I'll check it.

An example is
http://pastebin.com/raw/GcrQGLcP

[ruxton_bruce]

@Floob Hey there Floob. Thanks for the reply.

Here is the mame.cfg from Attract Mode

http://pastebin.com/j6jNaBFE

Cheers again for all your help Floob

[Floob]

@ruxton_bruce Try something like this
http://pastebin.com/raw/62cYKhFP

[GreenHawk84]

@Floob, if I sent you an overlay file that I made, would you try it out for me and see if I made it correctly? Would you share with me the parameters of the screen position, so when I make more of them, I will just follow the "formula" to make them all the same?