@dankcushions Holy crap! I just figured it out.

In lr-mame2016, I turned on this setting:
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"Alternate Render Setting = ON" and look at the results:

BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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And then in mame-2003-plus I found this setting:
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"Artwork Resolution Multiplier" and I set it to 2. Here's the results:

BEFORE:
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AFTER:
gorf_better.jpg

Now I just need to go through these games and see if there are any knock-on effects to these settings.

Hopefully this may help someone else who is in the same situation!

Added pause overlays for Neo Turf Masters. and Windjammers

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You appear to be correct! :)

When I did a BezelProject install, I got a different set... I think I'm good now but can someone make a quick comment on the 2x sets that BezelProject offers. How did I unintentionally grab one set versus the other?

I obviously managed to select the other set on my previous attempt! :)

Cheers!

Ahh, OK thanks for that. i didn't know that was the case. Not too much I can do then. Well thanks for replying anyway.

It is Ok.

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

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Input Overlays as I understand them are not ideal for this. I can see in the examples that static images are manipulated across the display, but they are still static images. Say I wanted to implement a timer that hangs out in the corner during gameplay - I would have to configure logic to swap out images for each digit of the timer every time increment. That's a bit much! I'm just looking for some way to add my own system text, similar to how the frame counter, fps, or memory utilization can be optionally displayed on the OSD.

As for the latter point, it seems like reaching out to the memory domains is something you can do in libretro according to the API, but I'm not sure how to set up a script that would assess memory state as it is executed - is there any kind of next_frame event or otherwise that could be used to fire off a script to check? There are numerous layers in the system, each with their own sets of capabilities, scripts, and events, so I'm not sure which layer I want to be targeting to get this kind of functionality.

@passionforpins I suppose I should post the file and configs :)
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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

@derpyder it's been a long time... but i try to remember what you could possibly have missed...

trygoing to video settings - check "aspect ratio"
set it to "custom" then save as a core override.
back out of everything, reload the game / the core
and i think....

retroarch will then load the core wth the core specific settings (custom aspect ratio: on)
and then look for game specific settings and will find the x and y positions and width and height of the window.

could be, that i'm wrong. cannot check now.

Finally I removed everything and reinstalled retroarch and I will take a pack made for retropie, much simpler

Works!!! Thanks!!!

@lootchamoneytho Please don't bump old topics.
The default retroarch.cfg created by RetroPie can be found int the same folder (/opt/retropie/configs/all), it's named retroarch.cfg.rp-dist.

The Super Famicom shows up as a separate system in the carousel but the ROMs are actually stored within a subdirectory of the SNES ROMs...

@mitu OK thanks

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

Many thanks for your help.

@mitu ok

i dont have anything different with the neogeo core other then the overlay. so adding the line to disable override is going to work for me.

but still knowing a different way is good to know just in case

@mitu My mistake! You were right! The config was set to true in the retroarch.cfg file in the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade directory.

Can you get a verbose logging from running the ROM with lr-fbalpha and post the output to pastebin.com ? Does it work with lr MAME emulator ?

You can see how the overlay is configured for a game by looking at one of the overlay repositories used by the script - for instance https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/tree/master/arcade/1944 shows what configurations are necessary to add overlays for the1944.zip rom file.