Top requested arcade games for overlays

mviars

@UDb23 Pac Man Looks great!!!!

UDb23

Here's the overlay for nr. 2:

Again it was composed only with arcade cabinet art.

Required files here.

Got no time to make and post a screenshot right now... so volunteers welcome ;-)

Ronoh55

I have no screenshot either (don't know/forgot how on the pi) But I can confirm dk looks amazing!

UDb23

@Ronoh55 just use your smartphone to take a pic ;-)

Ronoh55

backstander

Thank you @UDb23 for these awesome overlays! I haven't tired the Donkey Kong one yet but the Pac-Man has got to be my favorite so far on this thread!

UDb23

@backstander more overlays coming today...

UDb23

And here comes title ranking nr. 6 : SPACE INVADERS (Taito)

It's an adaptation of the image made by Metalzoic/Alexminasepm (Metalzoic's MAME Mega-Bezel Pack on Rlauncher forum).

Overlay and usual cfgs: here

UDb23

And nr.3: Galaga !

Download it here.

jdrassa

@UDb23 Great job as usual! You should create a project on GitHub for all of these overlays.

UDb23

@jdrassa Thanks.
And your're right about Github; that will be the next step once I reach a significant number of overlays.

jozzy1

Awesome overlays dude. Got my cab pretty much set up now and these look fantastic. Thanks!

UDb23

@jozzy1 thanks. Don't forget sharing some pics of your cab!

swaggers

@UDb23 Do you have a page where all of your overlays are?

UDb23

@swaggers Not so far. You can search this forum for "overlays" or check my posts.
I'll create a specifc thread with all of them as soon as I finish these top10.

meleu

The "overlay" tag brings useful links :-)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/tags/overlay

UDb23

@meleu I'm thinking of defining some standards to create a common retropie overlay repository on github as you suggested. Idea could be having a global "index" file with relevant info about each available overlay. In this way a script or application could automatically detect/update and filter current available overlay list and select them for install.
Each time a new overlay is added this global idx file must be updated accordingly.
Another way could be having info/index file for each overlay providing the same info; in this case the app/script should go thru each overlay (one folder for each?) And compose dynamically the global list.
I don't know much about how Github works; what do you think?
In any case info contained in the index file should include ( for each overlay):
ROM name,game name, platform, supported cores, screen resolution, fullscreen/integer. A thumbnail could also be useful.
Could the folders you created for the overlays on github be a starting point ?
Second step could then be sharing not only overlays but full artwork pack for each game: splashscreen, overlay, image for ES gamelist XML..... And, why not, video preview ;-)

meleu

@UDb23 You are an artist. You can focus on the art. :-)
If you do exactly what you are doing but instead of uploading to mega.nz, upload to a folder in a github repository, it's enough. No need to create and manage an index file.

meleu

@UDb23 answering your question better

Could the folders you created for the overlays on github be a starting point ?

yes.

we can discuss about the standards (maybe create another thread to avoid polluting this one), but the files we need are

The folder in the github repository should have a "human friendly" game name. Example: Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
ROM_NAME.zip.cfg: the file that will be at roms/mame-libretro folder (maybe other arcade core directory too). This file must have the input_overlay line, where the script get the full path to the overlay config file.
ROM_NAME.cfg: the file that will be at /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezels/ (since the script will get this file name directly from the file described above, the name doesn't matter, but having a standard is a good practice). This file must have the overlay0_overlay, where the script get the image file name from.
the overlay image file itself: since the script will get this file name directly from the file described above, the name doesn't matter, but having a standard is a good practice. I like the RomName_ArtistName.png standard that you are using.

We can talk about the second step (launching images, images for ES gamelist XML, video preview) after... :-)

Cheers! And thanks for sharing your artwork with us!

UDb23

@meleu sounds good. Basically just keeping the current standard.
What about games (roms) having multiple overlays: from different artists or just different overlay options for the same game?

One more question: I now got a github account, can I create new folders for overlays in your existing github repository or do you need to grant me permissions?

Btw I'm not an artist at all ;-)
But having fun doing these.