New NES overlays

meleu

River City Ransom seems to be one of the best Nes games.

It surely is! :-)

And if you want an easy way to install them, @meleu created a great dedicated script.

Actually the script is currently not able to install overlays to "home console" systems (arcade only). But this will change soon... ;-)

UPDATE: Now it can!

backstander

Thank you @UDb23! This looks great!

One questions! How do I get the launching image to work? I think I place it in /opt/retropie/configs/nes/? And what should it be named?

meleu

@backstander said in New NES overlays:

One questions! How do I get the launching image to work? I think I place it in /opt/retropie/configs/nes/? And what should it be named?

The game specific launching images should be named RetroPie/roms/SYSTEM/images/RomName-lanching.png (or .jpg).

I'll try to update the wiki when I have time.

backstander

Thanks @meleu it's working now!

backstander

@UDb23
Oh yeah, remember how we were talking about quotes? Well I had to add ASCII quotes around input_overlay = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezels/River City Ransom (USA).cfg" in the file River City Ransom (USA).zip.cfg for the overlay to work.

UDb23

@backstander Duly noted for the future. That's because of the spaces in the rom filename.

UDb23

@backstander cfg's in the Repo updated (quotes added).

UDb23

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

Actually the script is currently not able to install overlays to "home console" systems (arcade only). But this will change soon... ;-)

First post edited ;-)
And if you want an easy way to install Arcade overlays (Console support coming soon),
@meleu created a great dedicated script.

UDb23

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

The game specific launching images should be named RetroPie/roms/SYSTEM/images/RomName-lanching.png (or .jpg).
I'll try to update the wiki when I have time.

Just updated the README.md in the Repo:

Arcade vs Console
launching images install

UDb23

And here's a brand new generic NES overlay (includes also NES Classic).

backstander

@UDb23

UDb23

@backstander looks quite nice :-)
Of course suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
Thanks for making the screenshot.

backstander

@UDb23

Of course suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

You might try swapping the bezel overlay images like this:
0_1491763759693_NewGhostbusters2UDb23NESOvl-reverse2s.png

UDb23

@backstander Ok, that's easy ! And you already did it it seems ;-)

meleu

@backstander @UDb23 I can't explain why, but I think the swapped version looks better (joystick on the left). :-)

UDb23

@meleu Will change then. Tomorrow. ;-)
Cheers.

meleu

@backstander @UDb23 Did you try this overlay with the game?
overlay_with_scale_integer

It didn't look good here. But I'm using a raspi1 and not sure if it's a resolution issue.

The overlay with sidebars only worked flawlessly!

@UDb23 I'm not sure but maybe it would be a good practice to release the sidebars-only overlays as default, and those that needs the video_scale_integer being the optional.

backstander

@meleu

Did you try this overlay with the game?

No, I haven't tried it. I used the "sidebars-only" overlay because I knew it would be easier to setup and I don't want to shrink the game play area.

maybe it would be a good practice to release the sidebars-only overlays as default

I agree.

backstander

So just for fun and because I'm not an artist but I can do a simple picture crop and edit a couple text files...

I put together a generic "The Terminator" overlay for the NES (this could work with any of the Terminator games for the NES):
https://github.com/backstander/retropie-ovl/tree/master/nes/The Terminator

The image is from Ivan-NES and it is called "terminator-Robocop KillHuman1"
http://ivan-nes.deviantart.com/art/terminator-Robocop-KillHuman1-244529827

I should also give @UDb23 credit because I just used his hard work as a template.

I might move the left bezel picture over a little bit but this was my first attempt.

UDb23

@backstander Well done !!