Help with Bezelproject on Arcade?
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So I have bezel project installed. I've noticed the borders show up automatically for NES,SNES and other systems. But on Arcade like emulation, I have to apply it myself through Retroarch.
I'm using a Pi 3B+.
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You didn't actually ask any question. The facts you listed are just facts.
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Ok ,so can anybody help me with this? Is there a way to have the bezels show up automatically for the arcade or MAME roms?
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Did you actually install the corresponding bezels from the install script ? What MAME/Arcade emulator are you using ?
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@mitu I have the romsets for each emulator according to
a rom site. I've gone through the games in the arcade folder,MAME and the final burn arcade folder. I've clicked the install script (the top option) in the bezel project menu -
@Dcm210 One of the rules of the forum is to not post links to ROM sites. Please don't.
'each emulator' - can you please be more specific ? Also, add a few info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. FinalBurn Alpha is no more, it's been replaced in RetroPie by FB Neo - some paths have changed, so if you're using an older RetroPie release, a more recent Bezel Project install might not work.Give us a concrete example - ROM name, emulator - that's not showing the bezel and we can check if it's supported.
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Ok so I just was experimenting with various roms . The bezels seem to show up properly for MAME 2003, But not much luck for MAME 2010. Advance MAME dones't even launch games. The correct bezels did show up for some of the X-Men Games and 88Games in MAME 2003.
Edit 1: Also gmaes under MAME which include MAME4ALL or MAME2000 doesn't show bezels at all. FBNeo just seem to have the default "Arcade" bezels on the sides. So it looks like it just works with MAME 2003 and maybe MAME 2003 Plus, but not 2010.
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You should check out the supported emulators of the BezelProject: Mame2003 and FBNeo are supported, MAME 2010 is not. Advmame or Mame4All are not RetroArch based emulators, so they're not supported.
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Hmm ok so pretty much just stick to those two emulators. Thank you very much. You've been very helpful.
However I did laucnh 88Games in FBneo and it had the correct bezels. So I guess it also varies by game. Again thank you so much for the help.
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I had the same problem. I checked the contents of the pi and the overlays were downloaded OK and were in the right place. And the individual game config files were also correct. But the MAME bezels were not displaying automatically (I use the MAME 2003 core). When playing a game I would have to go to the overlay option in the settings menu and switch overlays to ON. The correct overlay would then be displayed. It was a real pain manually switching on the overlays in every game.
So I created a core level config file called MAME 2003 (0.78).cfg containing the line
overlays = 1
I placed this in the directory /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/MAME 2003 (0.78)/
This made all the arcade bezels appear
However after all this, the bezels were no use to me! The bezel config files do not have any settings for the game video screen size. So in horizontal games the game screen is smaller than the bezel expects. And in vertical games the game screen is bigger than expected, so the bezel truncates what you can see making the game impossible to play. Other arcade bezel packs have config files that specify the game screen size and these ensure that the game perfectly fits inside the bezel for a really good effect. But these bezel packs have to be manually downloaded and manually installed on your pi.
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