Mr. RetroLust's MAME Lights Out Bezels Revisited 0.08 fix

Where i have to extract this files? i'm a bit confused

1 hour ago, carminerock97 said:

Where i have to extract this files? i'm a bit confused

Unzip all LightsOutRevisited0-Z archives in MAME/ARTWORK/

Put horizontal and vertical INIs in MAME/INI/PRESETS/

Came here from Mr Retrolust's page. Very nice work! Surprised there aren't more comments here. One thing, what has been mentioned before - the reflections. Would it be possible to batch reduce the screen reflection & scratch amount? I know that you can edit them individually but I wondered if you might be able to do the set as a batch.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Retrofrogg

I've been using MAME in retroarch until now. Where would I install these? Or is it not possible?

noob question; I saw your post on updated files, but there´s no description about what was changed/updated. My english is WIP , so mayber you did it, but I cound´t found. can you explain please?

Thanks

On 9/11/2023 at 4:22 PM, retrospace said:

noob question; I saw your post on updated files, but there´s no description about what was changed/updated. My english is WIP , so mayber you did it, but I cound´t found. can you explain please?

Thanks

??? Everything is listed in the changelog.

On 9/10/2023 at 9:29 PM, bradigor said:

I've been using MAME in retroarch until now. Where would I install these? Or is it not possible?

Only MAME and derivative builds, not the butchered version that comes with RA.

On 8/25/2023 at 10:31 AM, Retrofrogg said:

Came here from Mr Retrolust's page. Very nice work! Surprised there aren't more comments here. One thing, what has been mentioned before - the reflections. Would it be possible to batch reduce the screen reflection & scratch amount? I know that you can edit them individually but I wondered if you might be able to do the set as a batch.

Automatic batch graphic editing will give very bad results and would kill the magic of the reflections.

With a few rare exceptions, I mainly only update the code for lay files and do not want to touch Mr. Retrolust's tremendous graphic work.

Edited June 13, 2024 by kloug666

On 12/2/2022 at 3:20 PM, kloug666 said:

Unzip all LightsOutRevisited0-Z archives in MAME/ARTWORK/

Put horizontal and vertical INIs in MAME/INI/PRESETS/

Hey so I tried this and still nothing is there any other additional setup needed?

On 11/22/2023 at 2:48 AM, Fluffykins298 said:

Hey so I tried this and still nothing is there any other additional setup needed?

If you've done it properly, now you must have numerous zip files in your main MAME "Artwork" folder.

Please check it, first is 3countb.zip, last is zzyzzyxx.zip. Everything should work.

Edited November 23, 2023 by kloug666

21 hours ago, kloug666 said:

If you've done it properly, now you must have numerous zip files in your main MAME "Artwork" folder.

Please check it, first is 3countb.zip, last is zzyzzyxx.zip. Everything should work.

yep tried it again for some reason it was to do with one of the games not the bezels not working 

Thx for sharing! The artwork of blood wolf(battlera.zip) with the ArcCabview shader doesn't display properly, only the right side shows the reflection effect. And outrunner missed the gear shifter as well. Pls feel free to check it out.😋

Edited January 31, 2024 by CKL

Should I use these files (which i have installed now), or use the ones from the original thread?
I just want new updates.

Thanks so much for bringing these up to date. Now with Dragon's Lair supported in 262 it would be amazing to get a realistic bezel that includes the LED scoreboards... Any chance of that?

 

Hey, for the zip containing the 5.4 version, do i replace all zips when asked and also what is the directory folder with the ini file in it ? do i need that ini file ?

The community can't thank you enough, now you have also made an update for newer MAME versions. I really have to try your Bezels, hoping they work with MAME v0.264.

I have a question and would be glad if you can help: What happens to games which don´t have a dedicated Bezel? Is a system bezel loaded then? That would be great. If not, is there a way to use the old bezels of the Bezel-Project that Launchbox already has saved in the MAME/artwork folder? So is there a way to combine your bezels and those of other projects? In conclusion, how do I set up such a mish-mash bezel system, as I learned to first delete all bezel artworks from an older project and merely than installing the new one. 

Thank you so much for all your efforts and creativity and especially for sharing all this with us. 
Cheers
Matthias

From darkfella: "Hey, for the zip containing the 5.4 version, do i replace all zips when asked and also what is the directory folder with the ini file in it ? do i need that ini file ? "

This is a most important question and should be answered ... I asked myself the same thing. Thank you in advance.

Edited April 18, 2024 by matsrats

On 1/28/2024 at 7:23 AM, CKL said:

Thx for sharing! The artwork of blood wolf(battlera.zip) with the ArcCabview shader doesn't display properly, only the right side shows the reflection effect. And outrunner missed the gear shifter as well. Pls feel free to check it out.😋

Hello, sorry for the late reply.

1) battlera : I can't reproduce this display bug. As I've tried with 3 different PC, I think it has something to do with your personal setup.

2) orunners : For now, as the gear shift is not referenced in MAME sources, it is not possible to display it on screen.

On 2/4/2024 at 3:12 PM, McCHitman said:

Should I use these files (which i have installed now), or use the ones from the original thread?
I just want new updates.

If you're using a recent relase of MAME, it's best to use this fork, which is more future-proof.

On 2/18/2024 at 2:36 AM, XboxSlacker said:

Thanks so much for bringing these up to date. Now with Dragon's Lair supported in 262 it would be amazing to get a realistic bezel that includes the LED scoreboards... Any chance of that?

 

For the bezel, everything depends on Mr Retrolust.
But the LED display is technically feasible, I could code it into the lay file.
Please note that for LaserDisc games, the emulator of choice is https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe
Much more advanced than MAME.

On 4/8/2024 at 6:12 PM, darkfella said:

Hey, for the zip containing the 5.4 version, do i replace all zips when asked and also what is the directory folder with the ini file in it ? do i need that ini file ?

Yeah, replace all the zips on each update.

The folder ini is completely accessory but allows you to display a list of all games with artwork.

On 4/18/2024 at 3:42 PM, matsrats said:

The community can't thank you enough, now you have also made an update for newer MAME versions. I really have to try your Bezels, hoping they work with MAME v0.264.

I have a question and would be glad if you can help: What happens to games which don´t have a dedicated Bezel? Is a system bezel loaded then? That would be great. If not, is there a way to use the old bezels of the Bezel-Project that Launchbox already has saved in the MAME/artwork folder? So is there a way to combine your bezels and those of other projects? In conclusion, how do I set up such a mish-mash bezel system, as I learned to first delete all bezel artworks from an older project and merely than installing the new one. 

Thank you so much for all your efforts and creativity and especially for sharing all this with us. 
Cheers
Matthias

1) For games which don´t have a dedicated bezel, if a system bezel exists, it will be loaded first. Otherwise, the generic horizontal and vertical bezels will be used as fallback artworks.

2) Editing your MAME ini file, you can select a multitude of different artworks folders. This is very practical, but it can lead to conflicts, and not all artworks may always be available.

Please note that this collection is already perfectly compatible with the classic artworks of Mr. Do.

Thank you for your kind comments

 

These look amazing. However, I followed your installation instructions and placed all of the artwork and ini files where specified, and no bezels are loading in MAME for me. I see the curvature of the screen and the scan lines, but no bezel or overlays, despite these being enabled in my mame.ini.

Any ideas?

On 6/15/2024 at 9:16 PM, technabob said:

These look amazing. However, I followed your installation instructions and placed all of the artwork and ini files where specified, and no bezels are loading in MAME for me. I see the curvature of the screen and the scan lines, but no bezel or overlays, despite these being enabled in my mame.ini.

Any ideas?

Here, screen curvature and scanlines depend on your graphics plugin, not on the artworks.
Please copy/paste your mame ini afterwards, I'll check it.

If you take requests, I hope you can make a bezel for sagaia (aka Darius 2 dual screen).

Even the same darius2 artwork modified to fit dualscreen would do.

 

On 7/11/2024 at 7:00 PM, Starman99x said:

If you take requests, I hope you can make a bezel for sagaia (aka Darius 2 dual screen).

Even the same darius2 artwork modified to fit dualscreen would do.

 

Mr. RetroLust is the artist, not me.
I just code the lay files according to the new standard and sometimes slightly modify his works to adapt 'em to it.
I did this thing quickly to answer your request, I hope it will do the trick.
Here it is in advance of the next update.

Thanks for your interest.

sagaia.zip

On 7/15/2024 at 9:57 AM, kloug666 said:

Mr. RetroLust is the artist, not me.
I just code the lay files according to the new standard and sometimes slightly modify his works to adapt 'em to it.
I did this thing quickly to answer your request, I hope it will do the trick.
Here it is in advance of the next update.

Thanks for your interest.

sagaia.zip 10.24 MB · 0 downloads

This will do! Thank you.

Very Cool, thanks for this.  I'm having trouble using the ArcCabView with these overlays though. For some reason I get wavy lines overlaid on the screen.  If I go into slider controls and change ArcCabView to something else, then switch back it fixes it, but doesn't save it.  Wavy lines return after restart. Works with OrionsAngel overlays, but not Mr. Retrolusts.

 

**Update** - found the issue in mame.ini     now it works great! Thanks again!

    # OSD ACCELERATED VIDEO OPTIONS
#
filter                    1
prescale                  3 <---- problem - originally set to 1, causes issues when set to 3

Edited July 22, 2024 by slammin007

All you who wants less scratches and less glare. Just open up the game zip and extract the png file in there and edit it to be less reflective and erase some glares. Its not that hard. Time consuming if you need to do it for all games and their diffrent bezels. Oh well. At least you have the option!