[Marquees in BigBox and MAME]

3 hours ago, C-Beats said:

The answer to your issue depends on how the theme you're using was created, and how your marquee monitor is built. The first is easy, try moving to default theme and see if it appears better. Second will take a bit more to figure out. Some marquee monitors are just cut monitors that still act like the full size and so the marquee has to be treated slightly differently to make those work. We have compatibility settings in Big Box to assist with those if that's the case.

Thanks for the reply.

I actually figured out the solution using the ThirdScreen plugin - that was able to display the marquee properly compared to the internal marquee support. My display isn't a cut monitor - but I think the issue is that I have my main desktop set to 300% text scaling and the marquee set to 100% and that seems to cause the internal marquee settings in LaunchBox/BigBox to improperly scale the image. With text scaling off, the problem goes away but then I can't read any of the teensy desktop text on my 40" 4K monitor. ThirdScreen doesn't seem to care about the text scaling size in Windows.

[Marquees in BigBox and MAME]

I'm a little confused about how to get marquees to work with BigBox and Mame. I have a 1920x540 second display for Marquees, and if I load them into the MAME artwork folder, they appear when playing MAME games, but I have lots of Marquees in my BigBox media and when I enable the Marquee functionality in BigBox, the images are cut off, and stretched to where they aren't usable at all. I've tried playing with the various stretch settings and none of them work, so I had to disable the marquee functionality in BigBox.

Any thoughts on how to get this to work properly? Ideally, the HD marquee files that I have will fill the marquee screen and display both while flipping through games in BigBox and also when playing the game in MAME.

[Replaced all marquee images with my own yet it's still using the old marquee images. (SUCCESS!)]

If I have a bunch of new marquee files named for specific MAME ROMs, is there an easy way to get all of these loaded and lined up with the right games in LaunchBox/Big Box, and also to have them replace the existing marquee.png files that are inside of the MAME artwork zips?

[Huge Mame Marquee Collection including many in 4K resolution]

This is absolutely amazing. Is there any easy way to replace all of my MAME marquee files with these, or do I have to go through each and every MAME artwork ZIP, change the name of these files to marquee.png and replace the ones in each ZIP file?

Is there a tool out there that can do this automatically?

[BigBox - Second Monitor Question]

Has anyone had an issue where the marquee screen doesn't appear until you go into the BigBox Settings and toggle the Marquee options back and forth? I find this happens every time I start up BigBox. I'm also struggling to get the marquee to align properly on my 1920x502 2nd screen - It's an LG display that Windows does see as that exact resolution, so I don't think I need the grid.

[Complete Marquee Library]

So I have have artwork .zip files for a bunch of marquees only, and they're pointing to old low-res marquees. I now have a sweet hi-res LCD marquee display, and I'm trying to figure out a way to easily update my artwork .zip files with hi-res marquees (many of which I've already downloaded from various places).

Right now, I'm stuck manually going into each artwork .zip folder, removing the old low-res marquee.png file, renaming the hi-res marquee file I have to marquee.png, then copying it into the artwork .zip, which is going to take forever to do manually.

It would be nice to find a complete collection of artwork .zip files which already include a hi-res marquee, bezels, and .lay files, but I haven't found anything of the sort out there.

Ideas?