Retroarch overlays not working on individual cores?

[Johnny T]

*** SUSSED IT... JUST IN CASE ANYONE ELSE HAS THE SAME ISSUES - I HAD TO CHANGE THE VIDEO "OUTPUT" TO "GL" (I PREVIOUSLY HAD IT SET TO "GL2") - HOPE THAT HELPS SOMEONE ****

Hi all, 

I'm really new to overlays but I managed to get a Gameboy one set up and working following some info I found on the net.

I had a config file in /retroarch/config/Gambatte/Gambatte.cfg

It contained:

input_overlay = ":\overlays\handhelds\gbc.cfg"
input_overlay_show_physical_inputs = "true"
# 20 = Config, 21 = 1:1 PAR, 22 = Core Provided, 23 = Custom Viewport
aspect_ratio_index = "23"

# these two define the pixel size of the emulated screen
# keep this in the same ratio as the original console
# eg: GBA 240x160 * 3 = 720 x 480
# GBA: 240x160
# Game Boy: 160x144
# Game Gear: 160x144
# Neo Geo Pocket: 160x152
# Atari Lynx: 160x102
# WonderSwan: 224x144
custom_viewport_width = "960"
custom_viewport_height = "864"

# the following two decide how far from the left and top the game screen is shown
# to centre the game display use your original resolution, minus the screen size, divided by two
# this example for 1080p screen (1920x1080)
# (1920 - 720) / 2 = 600
custom_viewport_x = "480"
# (1080 - 480) / 2 = 300
custom_viewport_y = "108"

This worked!

However, I've changed Retroarch so that it saves configs individually for the directory the games come from and now I have two files in the folder /retroarch/config/Gambatte/

One is Nintendo Game Boy Color.cfg and the other is Nintendo Game Boy.cfg

I've duplicated the above code in them but, for some reason, there's no overlay appearing?

AND... whenever I play a game the file changes to just:

aspect_ratio_index = "23"
custom_viewport_height = "864"
custom_viewport_x = "480"
custom_viewport_y = "108"
input_overlay = ":\overlays\handhelds\gbc.cfg"
input_overlay_show_mouse_cursor = "false"
input_overlay_show_physical_inputs = "true"

My settings relating to 'overlay' in my main retroarch config file are:

input_overlay = ""
input_overlay_auto_rotate = "false"
input_overlay_center_x = "0.500000"
input_overlay_center_y = "0.500000"
input_overlay_enable = "true"
input_overlay_enable_autopreferred = "true"
input_overlay_hide_in_menu = "false"
input_overlay_next = "nul"
input_overlay_next_axis = "nul"
input_overlay_next_btn = "nul"
input_overlay_next_mbtn = "nul"
input_overlay_opacity = "0.700000"
input_overlay_scale = "1.000000"
input_overlay_show_mouse_cursor = "true"
input_overlay_show_physical_inputs = "false"
input_overlay_show_physical_inputs_port = "0"

 

Can anyone steer me in the right direction as to what is suddenly going wrong?

I ideally want "per directory" settings so that I can tweak each retroarch system individually. 

Any help or advice gratefully received ?

Edited October 8, 2020 by Johnny T
Fixed it!!