Adding Additional Overlays?

[krull]

I have installed the excellent video manager by floob, and would like to add some additional overlays for console roms and systems. Is there a step-by-step guide on transferring the images from my pc to the pi?

Pi 3B
Canakit 2.5amp
Retropie 4.1
Pie install on fresh sd
keyboard, logitech 310, dualshock 4

[krull]

I tried putting them on a USB drive, but obviously can't pick where to put them. I also tried WinSCD, but couldn't get it to connect.

Any help?

[UDb23]

@krull
You may need specific overlay images and configuration files depending on the emulator (not all support overlays).
For Retroarch Lr-mame2003, typical overlay folder is:
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/
if using a different folder-> edit cfg files accordingly

• ssh or ftp into Pi
• copy romname.zip.cfg into your mame-libretro (lr-mame2003) ROMS folder
• copy png file and romname.cfg into overlay folder

[krull]

Thx UDb23!

This is still a little over my head. I have the overlay PNG and CFG files ready to go, and I understand putting them in the overlay folder. I'm not following what to do in the roms folder.

[krull]

So i got WinSCP to work, and added all the console specific overlays to the.... "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay" folder, hoping that i could just add use the retroarch menu to add each overlay manually. The are there (with the configs), but are not working.

[krull]

The config looks like this........

overlays = 1

overlay0_overlay = Nintendo-Entertainment-System-Bezel-16x9-2560x1440.png

overlay0_full_screen = true

overlay0_descs = 0

[UDb23]

@krull
I think an example can be helpful: download and take a look at this Overlay and included cfgs.

For each game (rom) you need 2 cfg files: 1 (named yourgame.zip.cfg) needs to be placed in the same folder where the rom (yourgame.zip) is. "yourgame" is the original rom name.
The second cfg file goes into the overlay folder, together with the actual overlay image file (that's the part that it seems you already did).
You can take the scion.zip.cfg file from the example mentioned above, edit it and rename it to fit the game (and link to the overlay) you need.
Structure is quite simple (once you know it):

input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezels/scion.cfg
input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000
input_overlay_scale = 1.000000```

[krull]

@UDb23

I feel like an idiot. I'm still not getting this.

So, if I have a collection of console specific overlays that i want every game of the console to use......(Nes, Snes, T-16), I put
them in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay correctely?

Next i put your example CFG (with the name changed?) in the coresponding roms folder (NesPNG and CFG in the Nes folder)???

Sorry for my newbness.

[krull]

I launched retropie and loaded up a Nes game to check. I then opened up the RetroArch Gui within a random game.
The overlays that I put in the folder through WinSCP do show up, and are selectable. Unfortunately, no overlay shows up
when i save within RetroArch.

[UDb23]

@krull My tips are to create game specific overlays. It seems you want to have console specific overlays (one overlay for all games for that specific console).
In this case you don't need to create .zip.cfg files in the rom folders for each game but you just edit the global cfg for each emulator.
Check this page.