Using MAME Overlays/Bezels and shaders with RetroArch in RetroPie

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?

Floob

@GreenHawk84 Which system is the overlay for?

You can test this by editing your system specific retroarch.cfg, a bit like this

input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezel-overlays/astdelux.cfg
input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay_opacity = 0.700000
input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

custom_viewport_width = "1000"
custom_viewport_height = "720"
custom_viewport_x = "460"
custom_viewport_y = "55"

aspect_ratio_index = "22"

video_scale_integer = false

An example of the .cfg referenced above is

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

Higgy

I have the bar top all built and the 1440x900 bezels and initial configs done. I even went through and did your 'Not Done' ones which had bezel .png's (although thinking about it the other ones may use some of the generic bezels?).

I just need to sit through and load each one to check it looks right.

I tried registering on the Libroarch(?) forums to say I was working on 1440x900 files (modifying from other peoples hard work) but reg email is not coming through to my Hotmail address?
It looks like people there would benefit from thoses files, or the knowledge that they are being created.

I will try and grab some pics over the weekend to post. The really sharp bezel images contrast nicely with the low rez and scanlines of the games to give an effect that the bezels are actual stickers and not images on the LCD. Only the arcade background left/right of the bezel give the game away ;)

Zigurana

@Higgy, @Floob : I am going through the same process, but for my 1024x768 display. I've resized and cropped all the images, and re-crunched the numbers that go into the /RetroPie/roms/arcade/ folder.
I cant get it to display the overlays though.
I think the .cfg files mentioned above seem to parse ok, as the shader is being applied.
The .cfg files in /opt/retropie/emulator/retroarch/overlays/ are basically just pointers to the .png files, right? I havnt touched those. Those images are all in place. What am I missing?

Floob

@Zigurana So you have the rom specific .cfg in the rom directory, using an lr-mame variant, have the rom specific cfg referring to an overlay .cfg, and in that overlay .cfg it specifies the .png (I put in the same dir, so no path needed)?
And all your paths in the above are correct?