launchingimage adding a white background to png files

[Steams71]

I use the marques from my arcade roms as the their launching images. All the files are .png, and I've confirmed they have no background.

The problem im getting, is that when the game loads the launching image has a white filled background surrounded by black. It should just be the image on a black background.

I can't figure out how this is happening. I've updated all main programs but it's still doing it.

[simpleethat]

@steams71 I noticed the same behavior with my launching images. Whatever is being used to display the image file displays the transparency as white space. I didn't concern myself with it too much because I use cartridge pictures as launching images and there are a lot that are black (Genesis is the big one) and it makes them stand out instead of being lost in the void.

Ideally I would like to take the images and add a border of a couple pixels and fill in the rest, or (even more ideally) create launching images that would display the control scheme for every game (but that's way more effort than I really feel like going through).

[IanDaemon]

@simpleethat said in launchingimage adding a white background to png files:

...create launching images that would display the control scheme for every game (but that's way more effort than I really feel like going through).

That's exactly what I did for Arcade titles (with a copy of PhotoShop and a PC), but it's a big time investment. I did about ten/fifteen "major" games and then figured I'd get to the rest eventually.

I'm able to "re-use" some work for games that have the same controls. (e.g. Pac-Man and Ms.Pac-Man both use the "no buttons required" image) I also tried to make the button naming generic so that I can re-use images. If the buttons for "shoot" and "jump" are in the same place then I re-use the image. So far I've done early arcade titles which simpler control schemes.