Bezels cause Vertical games to stretch.

[Kleigkarath]

So I just recently started from scratch with Mame.  Brand new set all the CHD's and followed the full set installer.  All installed well and played well.  I then added the bezels through the media interface.  It downloaded and installed the bezels.  When I go to play the vertical games they are stretched.  If I go to the video options and turn of scaling it is still stretched.  If I remove the bezels it is back to normal ratio.  Also I used to have overlays for glass and and scratches but those seem to be missing.

[Kleigkarath]

I apologize if this is more an emulation topic but it only occurred after Launchbox installed the bezels and the bezel project.  So  didn't know where the disconnect lay.

[dragon57]

Here is how mine is setup.

[Kleigkarath]

I have tried that setting. There was no change. More odd than that is if the game uses the fall back artwork. The aspect ratio is correct. 

[spycat]

That's an odd one. Going on the pictures it might be worth opening the game's lay to see if the screen bounds are for a vertical game area and not a horizontal one.

[Kleigkarath]

This is the lay file for the Artwork in 1943mii.

<mamelayout version="2">
  <element name="bezel">
    <image file="bezel.png" />
  </element>
  <view name="Bezel Artwork">
    <bezel element="bezel">
      <bounds left="0" top="0" right="16" bottom="9" />
    </bezel>
    <screen index="0">
      <bounds left="2" top="0" right="14" bottom="9" />
    </screen>
  </view>
</mamelayout>

[spycat]

I'm not too familiar with the left, top, right, bottom way of doing bounds, I use x, y, width, height values.
But your screen bounds left="2" and right="14" would seem to be for a horizontal (4:3) game.
For a vertical (3:4) game try left="4.5" and right="11.5" and see how you go from there.

[dragon57]

Note: the MAME bezels were just updated a couple of weeks ago. Depending on the age of your files, you may want to reinstall them.

Here is my lay file:
<!-- bezel.lay -->
<mamelayout version="2">
<element name="bezel">
<image file="bezel.png" />
</element>
<view name="Bezel Artwork">
<element ref="bezel">
<bounds left="0" top="0" right="16" bottom="9" />
</element>
<screen index="0">
<bounds left="4.625" top="0" right="11.375" bottom="9" />
</screen>
</view>
</mamelayout>

Edited March 16 by dragon57

[Kleigkarath]

That did work!  Now the next question is that the .lay file is located in each of the artwork folders.  Is there a mass way to change that or am I stuck one by one?

 

[dragon57]

Have you updated your bezels for MAME very recently? The new ones we just pushed to Github should have correct lay files for all the vertical games.

[Kleigkarath]

I did the install through launchbox, not the Github.  But I can look over there and see if I can update through that.

 

Edited March 16 by Kleigkarath

[dragon57]

27 minutes ago, Kleigkarath said:

I did the install through launchbox, not the Github.  But I can look over there and see if I can update through that.

 

LaunchBox pulls from the same Github, so updating with LB should be fine.

[Kleigkarath]

I ended up installing directly from the bezel project and all is well!!!  Thank-you for all the help!

[stevenmh]

I'm having the same problem.  I have some old bezel art that works, but wanted to try out the Bezel Project art.  Deleted everything from the artwork folder, downloaded bezels from the Bezel Project through LB just now, and it's doing what's described above.  I suppose I'll try GitHub, but just wanted to put it out there that whatever LB is doing isn't correct.

 

[stevenmh]

Update:  Installing manually worked.  But now I have artwork for thousands of games when I only have 80 games set up.  Not going to worry about it for the moment, just happy that it works.  Bezels look great, better than what I've been using, and I didn't have them for every game.  But if this can get fixed in LB, it would be great to delete my folder and just have the art downloaded for the games I need.  Will the LB developers see this here, or is there somewhere else I should provide feedback?

[JoeViking245]

40 minutes ago, stevenmh said:

Will the LB developers see this here, or is there somewhere else I should provide feedback?

The developers are aware and will (if not done already) remediate the issue.

 

EDIT:  In the most recent beta, the has been resolved.

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Fixed: Bezels for vertical MAME games were applying a horizontal layout file

 

[stevenmh]

Thank you!