@DeSanta said in Is there any way to use the bezels from the Bezel Project in standalone emulators (outside of RetroArch)?:

@mitu Strange that it doesn’t work outside of RetroArch… In Batocera (PC), it is possible to use bezels in standalone emulators.

There may be programs that can do that, but they're not included in RetroPie and may not work on a Pi/SBC.

@Folly understood. I have to enable the runcommand.
I'll give it a try asap. Thanks again.

@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 :)

Hello @Chito , I'm lead project of a small free software that "generate" scanlines effect for pc games. I'm working on a new design and i need to ask you, would you agree that I use your beautiful Game Gear overlay you made please ?

Here is the design :

Here is a link to the software : https://s4windows.itch.io/scanlines-for-windows
Fingers crossed 🤞
i'll be able to credit you in a .txt file inside the software folder, maybe on youtube (description) and maybe on itch..io if i find a good spot ( i'm totally new on this website)

Have a nice day,

Very nice! Thanks!

@mitu Thanks for the help!

You can see a configuration example here for Atari 2600; all games for that system will use the same overlay.

"I just had to keep moving it around till I got it right. Once I got it right, I locked in the numbers in the config file."

@jamrom2 Do you mean for Video Pinball? If so, what are your config-file numbers?

Got it working, if anyone else is interested in using this bezel pack, I combined the bezel and crt overlays for each game into one image using gimp, exported that as mslug.png and then I made a .cfg file and named that mslug.cfg . Put both files in the opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays folder. Make sure you name both the .png and .cfg files the same for each game.

My cfg file looks like

overlays = 1

overlay0_overlay = mslug.png

overlay0_full_screen = true

overlay0_descs = 0

Video of the overlays
Overlays

@Tackskull go here - https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject - simple to follow and once done you will have menu option in Retropie.

another place... https://www.arcadepunks.com/the-bezel-project-whats-making-your-retro-gaming-images-even-nicer/

From what I've seen, for individual game, the Bezel Project uses the RetroArch's configuration override feature, by creating an overlay config in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/<core_name>/<game_name>.cfg (see an example here).
It doesn't overwrite RetroPie's ROM folder configuration (/opt/retropie/config/arcade/retroarch.cfg) or any of the .cfg file in the ROM folders.
So, referring to the 2 configuration examples above, I don't think they'll be impacted. Anyway, take a backup before adding the bezels, just to be safe. Make sure you have enough free space, since the they take quite some space (just the MAME bezels take more than 1Gb).

@iw2lsi third party images are not supported here. Ask the image creator for help. Or use the official image if you want support here.

If the emulator itself doesn't implement bezels, then there's not much that can be done to externally overlay an image, since most emulators need exclusive/fullscreen access to the video output.

Besides posting them here, I guess for bezels you can try creating a repository similar to @UDb23's one and submit it to @meleu's rpie-art.sh script so it can be installed by users (see https://github.com/meleu/rpie-art).
For boxart, maybe adding them to a scraping site directly (i.e. ScreenScraper.fr or MobyGames) in addition to posting them here.

If you want to use forum, create a topic for your artwork (or 2 for each type of artworks) and update them periodically in case you add new stuff.

@passionforpins I suppose I should post the file and configs :)
turbo-1920.png
turbo.zip.cfg

input_overlay = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/arcade-bezels/turbo.cfg" input_overlay_enable = "true" input_overlay_opacity = "1.000000" input_overlay_scale = "1.000000" aspect_ratio_index = "0"

turbo.cfg

#Turbo (Sega 1981) bezel with working LED scores, tach and gear #Repackaged and totally redesigned for 1920x1080 using LR-MAME2000 by passion4pins 12/2019 #Original artwork credits go to:- #Krakerman, UDB23, Nono6493 and many unknown. #Based on MAME 0.375b overlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = turbo-1920.png overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 0

Here's is a realistic Arcade Bezel for the game Avengers using the MegaBezel Reflective Shader for Retroarch.

Avengers.png

Avengerswh.png