About This File
This is for MAME and is not compatible with RetroArch.
It assumes that you are emulating the Odyssey 2 No-Intro games with MAME via LaunchBox, with the "Remove file extension and folder path" and "Remove Quotes" settings disabled as required.
It displays per-game bezels, and is for use with either the "bezelprojectSA-Videopac" or the "bezelproject-Videopac" bezels. The bezel images themselves are not included - they're available from the bezelproject.
How to use:
Download the odyssey2_nointro.zip and unzip it. Inside is the artwork file odyssey2.zip which contains a multi-view lay file matched to the Odyssey 2 No-Intro game names.
Move odyssey2.zip to a location within your MAME artwork folder that your mame.ini artpath is aware of. If you already have an odyssey2.zip there, then first either delete it or move it to a safe location outside of MAME.
If you intend to use the system artwork (SA) bezels then drop the 146 game bezels as well as the generic (Magnavox-Odyssey-2.png) bezel that come with the "bezelprojectSA-Videopac" pack into your new odyssey2.zip
If you prefer to use the themed artwork bezels instead then drop the 147 game bezels as well as the generic (Magnavox-Odyssey-2.png) bezel that come with the "bezelproject-Videopac" pack into your new odyssey2.zip
Only the png images are needed, the corresponding cfg files are not.
Any game that passes a view parameter which fails to match (full or partial) with a view name in the lay will use the system's generic bezel.
LaunchBox 13.15 users:
Set your MAME Associated Platforms Default Command-Line Parameters for your Magnavox Odyssey 2 platform as
odyssey2 -view "%romfilename%" -cart1 voice -cart2
Note that the %romfilename% variable requires double quotes, as the game names and the lay's view names contain spaces.
LaunchBox 13.14 or earlier users:
%romfilename% is not supported.
Per-game custom parameters using the game name in the view parameter can be used; two examples
odyssey2 -view "atlantis (usa, europe)" -cart1 voice -cart2
odyssey2 -view "las vegas (france)" -cart1 voice -cart2
Tested using MAME 0.267 with LaunchBox 13.15 and 13.14.
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