Athena: new lr-mame overlay

UDb23

Athena is another of those really classic arcade games.
Here's a new dedicated overlay.

It is different from other existing bezels as those use the original flyer artwork; that I don't really like.

Mine is based on images I was able to find on the web that are part of an old official comic book (left side of the screen) plus another nice image (on the right) that I presume is fan art.
All images were "restored" (scan quality was quite bad with very visible halftoning from original paper) and adapted for the overlay layout.

Overlay + cfg's + setup info is available in the Ovl Repo.
(edit:updated link)

sonicsheppard

Love your overlays! Thanks for another one!

Brigane

Once again a true masterpiece. Thank you very much.

UDb23

Launching and Scrape images added.

Restored arcade Flyer front page.

You can find this and more hand crafted quality overlays in the rpie-ovl repository.
And if you want an easy way to install them, @meleu created a great dedicated script.
Perform these commands on your RetroPie:

cd
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/meleu/rpie-art
cd rpie-art
./rpie-art.sh

After launching rpie-art.sh script you just have to follow the instructions in the dialog boxes. Once you have the rpi-art.shscript, choose the Update option to get all the latest art in the repository.

UDb23

According to the flyer image Greek goddesses were having a good time eating (too) ;-D
Usually Greek statues are known to show top fit athletic bodies; it seems SNK people had a different opinion.

rurounikenshin

@udb23 Hi, your work is great, I really like to ask you how to make such a layout?

UDb23

@rurounikenshin Sure, what do you mean with "how" exactly ?
What software I use ? Mainly Inkscape (freeware) and Adobe Photoshop Elements (but any free photo editor should be ok; e.g. Gimp).

How to implement in Retroarch/Retropie ?
Check here.

How to creare vector images from bitmap ?
Check video here.

UDb23

BTW Working on an updated overlay that uses cool SNK 40s anniversary Athena artwork ;-)

rurounikenshin

@udb23 Thank you very much for taking the time to teach, I will try to learn