AdvanceMAME Bezels

Meneer Jansen

Google "old mame artwork" it'll be your very first link. (not sure I'm allowed to post a link or not) download the files you want that match your rom names.

Holy mackerel Batman! That was the Hat Trick! That Google search led me to 'ye olde Mr. Do Artwork site, but to a page that I can't get to from it's website menu on the left. I don't think it's illegal to link to Mr. Do's site because it does not contain any ROMs. It's site w/ OLD artwork that works w/ the Pi's old Mame versions is: http://mrdo.mameworld.info/old_artwork.php

Moderators: I apologize if this is inappropriate. But I really do not see any harm in this.

Anyway, I've been puzzling on this for ages. Didn't realize that apart from the ROMs themselves the artwork format changed through the years too. Thanks for the tip! I now finally have me artwork back. :-)

Finhead

@Meneer-Jansen

Your welcome. ;) And yeah if it's ok to post the link that's great, that's the one I was talking about.

Water White

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

Meneer Jansen

@Water-White said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

I don't think the Sega and Snes emulators support bezels. Only Mame I think.

dankcushions

@Meneer-Jansen said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Water-White said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

I don't think the Sega and Snes emulators support bezels. Only Mame I think.

all libretro emulators support overlays (bezels, or anything else you want), so that's pretty much every system. whether anyone has made the bezel is another matter...

Floob

@Water-White You can see generic overlays/bezels in use here that also incorporate scanlines.

I'll start some work on incorporating mame bezels with shaders as well.

Meneer Jansen

@dankcushions said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Meneer-Jansen said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Water-White said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

I love those arcade bezels. Does anyone know some more sources for bezels/overlays for retropie? I am also searching for some nice console bezels (e.g. sega genesis, snes...).

I don't think the Sega and Snes emulators support bezels. Only Mame I think.

all libretro emulators support overlays (bezels, or anything else you want), so that's pretty much every system. whether anyone has made the bezel is another matter...

I stand corrected! :-)

Floob

Here is an example of RetroPie with mame-2003 using overlays and shaders.
Using @davej shaders. and John.Merrit overlays.

theroamer

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ryguyrocks

@Finhead Does this still work? I've modified the config file and uploaded some artwork and can't get anything to show up. I'm able to get the bezels to work in mame 2003 but not advanceMAME, I'm trying to set it up for tapper since that game doesn't work in mame2003.

backstander

UDb23 has been working on some arcade bezels and he did a version of Tapper for mame2010 here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7059/top-10-requested-arcade-games-for-overlays/45
https://github.com/UDb23/rpie-ovl/tree/master/Tapper

caver01

@ryguyrocks said in AdvanceMAME Bezels:

@Finhead Does this still work? I've modified the config file and uploaded some artwork and can't get anything to show up. I'm able to get the bezels to work in mame 2003 but not advanceMAME, I'm trying to set it up for tapper since that game doesn't work in mame2003.

Assuming you understand AdvanceMAME is not a libretro core So, if you are trying to use the same technique as in mame2003, none of that applies to AdvanceMAME. You should be able to use the steps @Finhead noted above. You have to use different artwork files (they are the old artwork zip files for pre .107 mame). The artwork zip goes here /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame/artworkor wherever you .rc file is pointing for artwork.

If the old artwork isn't available for the game you want, you could take a crack at making your own. Inside the zip file are images, masks, and the important .art text file which tells Advmame how to setup backgrounds, bezels etc. I understand it is a hassle to get the position correct, but it can be done. Here's another discussion about it.

MikOzzZ

@caver01

Hello everyone,

can you add overlay to systems advance - mame or Pi FBA ?

because I tried this method but without success.

thank you for your answers

caver01

@mikozzz You can add overlays to AdvanceMAME. You have to use the MAME artwork format from MAME .106 and earlier. This is not well documented, but basically, MAME expects a .art file with the same name as the ROM in the artwork folder . This file is actually a zip archive of the overlay, background, bezel images as needed plus a text file to control how everything gets used. One example is described here under the Other Tricks section, but I don't really know how to build artwork from scratch. I understand the latest version of AdvanceMAME (3.6) does a better job of handling artwork size and position computation.

As for Pi FBA, I have no idea. I don't use it. However, libretro cores (lr-fbalpha) can leverage overlays quite easily. There are MANY threads on the topic as well as utilities for adding them.

MikOzzZ

@caver01 thanks

illando

@caver01
at this link: http://mrdo.mameworld.info/old_artwork.php
There is a collection of overlays in the old format ( MAME 0.106 or earlier ). It's a series of .zip files containing the .art file as you said. I'm trying to put some of them in the artwork folder but nothing seems to happen.

Also, there are 2 artwork folders:
roms/mame-advmame/artwork
configs/mame-advmame/artwork

What's the right one?

caver01

@illando those got created during the install or first run of advmame probably as a result of what directories are defined in the advmame.rc file. Check your .rc file and you will know where MAME is looking for artwork. While you are in that file, enable artwork overlays.

illando

@caver01
I did it but I cant't make it work.
I'm using AdvanceMAME 3.
Inside the file "advmame.rc" is written:

dir_artwork /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame/artwork
display_artwork_backdrop yes
display_artwork_bezel yes
display_artwork_crop yes
display_artwork_overlay yes

Inside the correct directory there's a zip file with same name of my rom (sharrier.zip) and inside of that file there are the "sharrier.art" and "sharrier.png" files.

What's wrong in this process???

caver01

@illando did you make this file file or download it? Have you tried editing the .art file?

Meneer Jansen

I can't remember anymore how one had to enable the artwork, but doesn't one have to unpack the Zip file of the artwork? (that is: not the zip file of the ROM)