'Image' building tips?
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Hi there!
Everyone has there own ideas and wants and usually each 'image' doesn't completely have what I'm after or how I would like it.
I'm looking to have for each system:
- Bezel/overlay artwork (love the Arcade work by John Merritt but cannot for the life of me add or apply it to the roms I have)
- Game videos/snaps
- Game Logos
Perhaps?
- Box covers
- each system properly set up and input working
(for instance I'd love to have Amiga and C64 type games looking quickly) and configured correctly.
I was thinking of looking for existing images that seem to contain a fabulous starts at a system, like MadLittlePixel's Mame/Arcade images and pulling the relevant files from them to build on my own version. Anyone know any examples to help?
Is this how everyone else works on their 'images' and does anyone one have any advice themselves on best practices? (thanks in advance)
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does anyone one have any advice themselves on best practices?
Start with a fresh and official image from this site, decide what features are most important to you and follow the official documentation until those features are operating to your satisfaction. That's what anyone truly happy with their installation has done.
3rd party images should always be avoided, as they're loaded with configuration errors that can't be easily corrected because there's no working knowledge of how everything was set up. Not to mention the fact that the images containing game ROMs are highly illegal and only serve to damage the reputation and risk the very existence of this project.
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