@caver01 Yeah in my reference pic here, it's supposed to look like this: That's U.N. Squadron / Area 88 on SNES. The Widescreen overlay is supposed to have pillarbox like what is shown in the pic. It uses the same video settings as the other CRT's. 960 x 720

hey @dask, i spent a little time with this and managed to figure out a few things.. expanding on your idea of using the overlay/bezel system, it's possible to (using a hotkey combo) swap a transparent overlay with a control image overlay. this can be done on a per-system basis using the retroarch.cfg files located in /opt/retropie/configs/<system> retroarch.cfg: overlay_directory = "/your/path/to/overlays" input_overlay_enable = true input_overlay_hide_in_menu = true input_overlay = "/your/path/to/overlays/mame-controls.cfg" input_overlay_opacity = 0.9 input_overlay_scale = 1.0 input_overlay_next_btn = "6" i think you can substitute the last line with input_overlay_next = "<keyboard key>" and input_overlay_next_axis = "<joystick axis>" to adapt this to your hardware scheme. next, create the two images needed: transparent.png, and mame-controls.png and here are the contents of mame-controls.cfg: overlays = 2 overlay0_overlay = transparent.png overlay1_overlay = mame-controls.png overlay1_name = "mame-controls" overlay0_full_screen = true overlay1_full_screen = true overlay0_descs = 1 overlay0_desc0 = "overlay_next,400,460,rect,40,20" overlay0_desc0_next_target = "mame-controls" overlay1_descs = 0 there probably already exists a much better way of doing it, so this is just a proof of concept. either way, hope it's enough to help you get started.

Fixed :)

@UDb23 looks really good buddy... you've just made me want to play asteroids :D

If it may be of help for anyone else i found a solution, even though it's not optimal. If i edit the game override file that was created and add: input_overlay_enable = "true" then the overlay is displayed. So, now i need to manually edit all the config files that should have an overlay which is not optimal but atleast it works. What i don't understand is why RetroArch don't add this line by itself when i save a game override with the overlay option turned on. You can find more information about this at: https://docs.libretro.com/guides/libretro-overlays/ When everybody else activate overlays and save, do you get the input_overlay_enabled added automatically?

@udb23 nice overlay buddy. Will try this weekend. I haven't updated in ages... thanks ☺

I would like to know how to create this. I'm pretty savy but just got interested in overlays because I thought it would be too much trouble for my rotated cocktail arcade.

I don't use bezels, but I just wanted to say that it's worth it to emulate the Williams clone of 1942 (lr-fba works well). Unlike the Capcom/Romstar version, the Williams version correctly refers to the 2nd button evasion maneuver as a Loop, not Roll, and consequently has Ls in the lower right corner instead of Rs. Also, the stage names are better (clearer).

@pootis-spencer If you switch the paths between the two, does the NES overlay show for SNES games?

@mitu that did it, thanks!

@clyde Thanks alot for the help, I'll read up on it :)

These artworks are truly amazing. Will they be added to the artwork repo anytime soon?

@udb23 Argh, thanks for reminding me. I wanted to copy the samples to the 4.4 sd card, but had to expand its partition first, and then I forgot to copy the samples … :P

The usual location for overlays is "/opt/retropie/configs/all/ retroarch/overlay". Maybe there is something there that is overriding your settings.

@roostaar Thanks ! I'll check them out. ArcadeItalia's CSV have a bug where the columns headers and the data do not match towards the end. If you just remove the last few columns it works. The CSV included in the app often come from ArcadeItalia, usually I made sure to fix them, but I probably missed a few. Anyway, I'm glad that my app is useful in the way I hoped :)