Nintendo Playchoice-10 Overlays Interest Check

edmaul69

@jozzy1 i have them finished. I need to send the finished version to my two involuntary testers :) with the mame configs included. Then hopefully i can figure out how to get it correctly listed on github, then you should hopefully be able to get it through retropie somehow.

meleu

@edmaul69 hey bro, I got the email. They are supposed to be used with actual NES roms/emulator, right?

meleu

@edmaul69 They don't look fine on my test screen (1366x768):

It's obviously caused by the lines

custom_viewport_width = "1411"
custom_viewport_height = "1080"

in the config file.

Maybe @UDb23 could help here: how can I put the game screen on the left without hardcoding the viewport width/height?

@edmaul69 after solving this issue about resolutions, etc. all you need to do to make your overlays installable via rpie-art is described here:
https://github.com/meleu/rpie-art#how-can-i-make-the-script-able-to-install-my-custom-art

edmaul69

@meleu i had been designing them based on a 1080 resolution. have you had any issues using overlays made for 1080 before? I actually couldnt get the game image to appear without setting the custom viewport x & y due to the need to moving the image to the left. If i can figure out how to do that then it might work with other resolutions.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

It would definitely be ideal if they could be used at any resolution. I'm running at 1080 here. I'll test some this evening for comparison.

edmaul69

@mediamogul if someone knows how to position the game images position x to 0 or 1 without custom viewport then it should work on something other than 1080

edmaul69

@meleu how is the quality of the overlay on your resolution. With each pixel in my overlay being a 2x2 i cant picture it looking good on anything other than 1080.

edmaul69

@mediamogul i sent you a much updated set.

i changed the blue fonts to a brighter blue since the original is impossible to read.

edmaul69

mediamogul

@edmaul69

Looks nice.

edmaul69

@meleu Can you change your custom viewport to this and let me know how it looks?

custom_viewport_width = "1003"
custom_viewport_height = "768"

Or open up the rgui and see what your nes resolution really is.

UDb23

@meleu said in Nintendo Playchoice-10 Overlays Interest Check:

how can I put the game screen on the left without hardcoding the viewport width/height?

Below is a complete example of sizing and positioning the viewport.
It's the cfg file I made for Atari's Seaquest.

video_scale_integer = false
aspect_ratio_index = 22

use custom screen format ratio

input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezels/seaquest_a26.cfg
input_overlay_enable = true

enable overlay and link the cfg file pointing to the actual image

video_fullscreen_x = 1920
video_fullscreen_y = 1080

define actual (real) resolution of the display/monitor used

custom_viewport_width = 1440
custom_viewport_height = 1080

Custom viewport means the portion of the real display you want to be used as "game area"
Here we define the wanted size.

custom_viewport_x = 240
custom_viewport_y = 0

defines the position of the top left corner of the game area (custom viewport).
Coordinate system considers as origin the top left of your display ( 0,0 ).
So in this example it means position the custom viewport 240 to the right of origin.

UDb23

For these Playchoice overlays you need to create a 1920x1080 image with transparent background (alpha channel) and have the "channel select menu" overlay graphics (not sure if it is called that way.. I mean the green boxes you created) on the right side.

If w is the width in pixels of the "menu" then custom viewport width = 1920-w
Height should be calculated according to the desired screen ratio (or just kept @1080 but that would cause a distortion of the game area).
With the correct ratio for the custom viewport dimension, I'd suggest to position it in the middle vertically.

edmaul69

@UDb23 these are 1920x1080 with everything on the left side transparent. I have everything working for 1080. Is there a way to make the game display to the left without the custom viewport? Because i need it to be moved over to the left is why i have to use custom viewport. Otherwise i am going to have to have to leave a bunch of hashtagged custom viewports and people will have to choose their resolution manually. That or label it as 1080 only.

edmaul69

i updated the first post with a link to download the 1920x1080 only overlays. I hope people can enjoy them.

edmaul69

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edmaul69

@mediamogul unfortunately because i have to shift the game screen to the left, i probably will have to make an overlay config for every wide screen resolution there might be.

edmaul69

@meleu i signed up to github, but i have no clue where to go to upload my overlays.

mediamogul

@edmaul69

@mediamogul unfortunately because i have to shift the game screen to the left, i probably will have to make an overlay config for every wide screen resolution there might be.

Ouch! I can see how that's less than ideal.

UDb23

@edmaul69 said in Nintendo Playchoice-10 Overlays Interest Check:

Is there a way to make the game display to the left without the custom viewport?

Unfortunately I'm not aware of a way to define "relative" or parametric coordinates for the viewport. There's a scale option (multiplier for the original game resolution) but, afaik, that would center position the game area and still not parametric.