@sleve_mcdichael thanks mate. Got it now. Just needed to get the path fixed. Armor Attack has terrible screeching audio. Other than that all working great.

@duglor non SA Bezels please :) request please :)

@duglor 20221027_163544.png

@kiro said in Bezel Project: I have my mame roms divided in my arcade folder by subdir letter tiles A-Z. What do I do?:

and it seems it just sets the 'system' bezels and not the bezels rom by rom. Am I wrong?

The config and overlay directories of the bezelproject are place in :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/

I just checked.
These bezels are basically rom bezels.
For arcade only it's doesn't matter because the mame driver can run only 1 rom.
So the rom and the system are the same.

I ran a Philips CDI game, which can obviously run more games, just like GameCube.
Looking in the /dev/shm/runcommand.log you can see which config-file RetroArch is looking for :

[INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/SAME_CDI/arcade classics (1996)(namco - philips)(eu)[compilation].cfg".

Above is the error when a config isn't found, so now you know what you have to name your config-file.

@busywait said in thebezelproject script doesn’t work:

@pscotto1234 I don't know, I used 'rm' from the command line, and ended up just downloading the few bezels I wanted "by hand" from the bezel project github and other places mentioned in this forum.

However, this got very tedious, so if you don't need the GB of space, just leave it there? The problem for me was that my card got totally filled and things like updates started to fail in way that I didn't notice :(

I think to do this:

from terminal ls > system_name.txt in each system folder to obtain a file containing roms name; rename the listed file extension in .png ; from terminal ls > system_image.txt in each bezel folder to obtain image list; compare files for the same system to mantain only image name for roms not present in my collection; with command cat system_name.txt | xargs rm I can remove not useful image;

I hope you understand my method :)

@jamrom2 Thanks for confirming mate

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

@PhoenixFlood said in Bezel Project gone from menu:

How can I get it back?

Probably by re-installing it - https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject.

@duglor

This isn't something i've automated to run within retropie.

@Metatron When you run the rom go into retro arch menu/ options/overlays then manually select the game bezel folder/relevant system for rom and select the bezel for the game you are running. This is caused by not having the rom names saved in a conformed way. I had this problem with my psx ROMs the other day.

Forgot to mention make sure save configuration on exit is on.

i don't think there's a good way to do this. if you do a custom resolution in retroarch that includes some padding it
a) won't solve the issue in non-libretro games/emulationstation, etc.
b) will need to be done for each arcade game as they have many different resolutions.

the only way i can see is using the overscan settings to add some overscan to give you a vertical border. eg: https://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Big_black_borders_around_small_image_on_HD_monitors
you'd want something like

disable_overscan=0 overscan_top=20 overscan_bottom=20 overscan_scale=1

increase the 20 for _top and _bottom until you get the right amount of border.

however that will
a) mess up the aspect ratio of the games, making them look fatter. i guess you could add

overscan_left=X overscan_right=X

where X is the same as the number you're using above.
b) give you some pretty brutal scaling artefacts, since you're fairly low resolution to begin with.

maybe there's another way...

A thousand thank yous! I'm glad I only finished 2 yesterday!

Also - I found where to set the bezel opacity:

~\retropie\configs\arcade\retroarch.cfg

Changed the line

input_overlay_opacity = "0.700000"

to

input_overlay_opacity = "0.400000"

Now I just need to get my spinner working.

well, for some reason, about ten minutes later I do another reboot and this time it shows up, however although I can go into it, and supposedly download the packs, no bezels show up at all....

Okay, for some reason, the screen command needs an sh after the -L on a Raspbian-based Retropie. sh starts a new shell with the script in it. On my Desktop PC running Kubuntu Linux 18.04, the command works without the sh, but on my Raspberry Pi running Retropie, it needs the sh to work as intended.

Whatever, please try this with an sh behind -L:

screen -S bezelproject -L sh /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/bezelproject.sh

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

Changing the name of the folder as suggested in https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject/issues/30 worked just fine. The bezels are now showing. Remember, only the (USA) bezels are available. I thought that maybe for the (Japan) games, the generic TG16 bezel would show up but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.