Top requested arcade games for overlays

UDb23

@simbz23 Take care: making overlays can be addictive :-)

simbz23

@UDb23 Likewise brother! You are so right about that lol. Especially when you see there aren't any quality overlays for certain games! I am also future proofing and making 4k overlays. That transition wont be too far away ;-)

simbz23

@UDb23 Edited the Moonwalker overlay with your suggestion, hope it came out alright!

simbz23

Spider-Man overlay complete

meleu

@simbz23 There's an issue with the Spider Man overlay files on your repository. ;-)

simbz23

@meleu said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

@simbz23 There's an issue with the Spider Man overlay files on your repository. ;-)

So weird, I thought I uploaded and saved the changes. Files should be there now!

UDb23

@simbz23 overlay image filenames should include artist name: gamename_simbz-ovl.png
Script works fine even without it ... but people should know you made that overlay ;-)

meleu

@UDb23 I was thinking about it. We can create an optional field in the info.txt. I'm not sure about the best name: artist or maintainer? Maybe both :).

They will be completely optional. My intention is to give some credits in the dialogs while installing the files...

Suggestions?

UDb23

@meleu What about creator, author(more for books...), producer.
Or even simpler: Made_by

meleu

@UDb23 let's stick with creator. You can use it in your files if you want from now on. I'll make the new script show this info in the dialogs.

It's completely optional, so you don't need to update all the info.txt files in your repo.

UDb23

@backstander said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

do you think you could make an overlay for River City Ransom

Available now here: 2 versions and launching image.

backstander

Thank you @UDb23!

meleu

@UDb23 said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

@meleu said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

I think it might be best if @simbz23 makes his own repo

Right. Makes sense.

I changed my mind about it. If the overlay creator is just a casual creator, maybe it's better to contribute to @UDb23 's repo.

The @UDb23 's repo is more active, and we can fix eventual problems in the info.txt and/or config files more quickly.

@UDb23 maybe you should create a contrib folder on the repo to put files sent by others.

UDb23

@meleu OK.
Only good quality overlays (talking about image quality, not personal taste) and supplied with cfgs and info.txt can be accepted for inclusion in the "official" Repo.

simbz23

@meleu @UDb23 this sounds like a good idea. How should I transfer over my existing and new stuff down the road to you @UDb23 ?

meleu

@simbz23 I'm gonna submit some files to his repo tonight, and I can send yours too. ;-)

Cheers!

meleu

@UDb23 could you check the PR 32?
Wow! Your repo is becoming very rich! :)

UDb23

@meleu said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

could you check the PR 32?

Merged.

Wow! Your repo is becoming very rich! :)

It's a joint project so not really mine... our :-))

UDb23

@meleu:
edited info.txt file specification to include creator item.

btw when specifying clones (or in general when having multiple values of an item) should there be a space after the semicolon or just the semicolon as separator?

meleu

@UDb23 said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:

when specifying clones (or in general when having multiple values of an item) should there be a space after the semicolon or just the semicolon as separator?

Do as you wish. The script is smart enough to deal with it. :-)

Every space between the semicolon and the next non-space character is ignored. Same thing in the end, every space between the last non-space char and the closing quote is ignored.

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Example of valid entry:

rom_clones = "     clone1      ;    clone2;clone3; clone4          "