tommyp Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 Hi - First time poster of a launchbox noob. :) I'm trying to set up the proper launcher using mess and vectrex. The problem is the overlays. I can launch a vectrex game with proper overlays via this sample dos command mess vectrex armora -view armora In the "edit emulator" window, I cannot figure out how to add the "-view name_of_game" suffix in the options in the default command-line parameters entry. Is there a trick to add a "suffix switch" to the default command line parameter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Hi @tommyp, I can certainly see adding this, but as of right now, unfortunately there is no way to do that. Does it just need to be the ROM file name, basically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyp Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 Thanks for the quick reply Jason. Unfortunately the vectrex overlays aren't configured like this by default. The documentation found on the internet (not this site) for using vectrex overlays sucks to put it nicely. I ended up modifying my vectrex.lay file so I could launch the game with proper overlay (where the overlay switch is the same as the rom filename). I have to admit, I was stupid for not RTFM but did see that you can use batch or cmd files instead. So I created a cmd file and placed it alongside my MESS file ECHO OFF SET GAME=%1 SET PREP=%~dp0 ECHO Starting %GAME% %PREP%MESS.EXE VECTREX %GAME% -view %GAME% And now it works like a champ. I'm not sure if this would be helpful for anyone, but here's a sample modification I made to my artwork\vectrex.zip's vectrex.lay file. Step 1 - see sample snip below. The "view name" needs to be the same as the rom zip filename. The bezel and overlay values are defined in step 2. <view name="3dminest"> <bezel element="mine"> <bounds left="0" top="0" right="3" bottom="4" /> </bezel> <overlay element="mine"> <bounds left="0" top="0" right="3" bottom="4" /> </overlay> <screen index="0"> <bounds left="0" top="0" right="3" bottom="4" /> </screen> </view> Part 2. Define the element name which links the above to a overlay png filename. <element name="mine"> <image file="mine.png" /> </element> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbanzo Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Have you tried ParaJVE? It has overlays built-in and is very simple to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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