Controlling / removing Bezels

[viritys]

What I really wanted was to remove Bezels from Mame screenshots so that all you fine people are not annoyed by my DB screenshot contributions. Turns out even when disabling them from within MAME settings, they still appear on screenshots (Googled, MAME feature, no convenient workaround). I'd rather not delete them completely and manually removing them whenever I want to take a screenshot feels stupid and cumbersome. 

As things got complicated, figured I'll just disable them from LB as that's where they got installed but can't find away. Help? "There is no way to disable/uninstall/control them from LB" is also an acceptable answer

Two screenshots with Bezels disabled; Mame screenshot on the left, snipping tool on the right.

Edited October 8, 2023 by viritys
Typos and stuff

[JoeViking245]

MAME bezel information is [typically] stored under /MAME/artwork/  (Without MAME running) try renaming the artwork folder. i.e. "artworkBackup"

This will (should?) make it so MAME can't find them.

[JoeViking245]

25 minutes ago, viritys said:

"There is no way to disable/uninstall/control them from LB" is also an acceptable answer

But there is.  (in a roundabout way)

Edit your MAME emulator in LB and in the Default Command-line Parameters add (probably towards the beginning of the line):

-artpath "D:\this\path\does\not\exist"

 

[viritys]

1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said:

But there is.  (in a roundabout way)

Edit your MAME emulator in LB and in the Default Command-line Parameters add (probably towards the beginning of the line):

-artpath "D:\this\path\does\not\exist"

 

Fantastic! To help the future googler, by adding that line to the "Custom Command-line Parameters" under emulation on "Edit Game", I can conveniently and temporarily disable them on game by game basis while otherwise enjoying them. Thanks!