Run a Coleco game with verbose logging enable, then check /dev/shm/runcommand.log to see where RetroArch looks for each game's .cfg.

@CapNinja said in 3 Questions, 1 Noob:

But I want to save the image scaling to all games in that system. Is that not possible?

It is, the same Overrides menu has a Save Content Directory override, which saves the settings for the entire folder.

@etheling excellent work. Looks really slick on the side-bars there.

@Clyde That would be awesome. I've written a script that will take a folder of videos and, using FFmpeg, overlay images on top of them like scan lines and a bezel and spit out a new video. It would be so nice to be able to do this as an image instead like retroarch does.

Try the Bezel project - https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject

@GreenHawk84 try Gimp. Free, updated often and works just the same.

Here's a Contra III bezel that works with HyperspaceMadness's reflection shader.

Contra III.jpg

Here are some quick background overlays I assembled for Tatsuya79’s amazingly accurate preset screen shader for Gameboy games on Retroarch.

gameboy.jpg

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Sorry for late reply. Yes that kinda looks like it, but not transparent and for all systems. I suppose it could be worth asking over on the Retroarch forum you think? Thanks again Mitu.

Fixed it, I simply updated lr-mame2003 in retropie setup.

Many thanks for your help.

@quicksilver my prayers have been answered. They added an uninstall function today!

FIXED: Change 'common.cfg' aspect ratio index to 23.

@UDb23 I appreciate your help. I have never played this game before I saw your overlay. But something about using your overlays makes me feel like I'm a kid at the arcade again :D

@zfa said in Retropie Bezel Project & lr-mame2003 cfg does not persist after update?:

I guess the real fix is to get The Bezel Project guys to use the names as per the Retroarch guys, or make sure they include symlinks where there are name changes across versions of a core. If this doesn't work then update your emus again in case you have a version reporting itself as being mame2003 as per @Virtualman post.

This name change/folder change came from RetroArch leadership rather than the mame2003 core. The code logic for this is kind of obscure but it has to do with enabling netplay between a broader range of different systems.

Based on the RA rationale for making the change I expect it will be permanent.

@udb23 Thanks for sharing the original cardboard bezel scan and the bezels that you created based on it. I wanted something slightly different to the bezel that you shared already, and came up with this:
asteroid-w-overhang-example.jpg

I'm using lr-mame2003-plus, and wanted an "integer resolution" bezel to support this.

I found that lr-mame2003-plus has better resolution core options than fbneo in my quick comparison. Two resolutions that the core offers that work well for me are 640x480 (with 2x integer scaling in retroarch) and 1280x960 (with the beam width = 2 set as a core option).

If anyone is interested I've put my bezel attempts here: https://github.com/busywait/retroboxes/tree/main/overlay/Asteroids

There does seem to be a little problem with letterboxing (black bars) at the top and bottom. Does anyone have any idea why lr-mame2003-plus doesn't fill the whole 960 height with the game? I ended up setting a custom resolution of 1280x1060 in the game.zip.cfg that does fill the space.