Console Game Pad Belzel Overlay

[W4rCh1ld]

I went looking for gamepad OverIays that looked like the console games pads as a sort of Belzel with buttons (for android mobile phone use without using a control pad), and saw some nice looking gamepads on the kave tech youtube channel, but found that the screens were often small and also needed "custom" size scaling and alignment to fit into the "window", which i felt not only made the image smaller but possibly made the image fidelity worse as when i set them up it ended up with quite odd sizes, (so possibly made the images worse or buggy) also it was a tad less user friendly to have to set each screen up for each Game Pad Bezel Overlay, then i found the retropad editor on reddit and thought id give it a shot my self, and since i could not find a Mastersystem one i thought id start with that.

So here it is... ive Just made my first Console Game Pad Belzel Overlay for the "Mastersystem" made for retroarch's biggest screen of the cores choices for mastersystem and using "core provided" scaling so that there is no need to use "Custom Sizing and alignment"... the Genesis Plus GX has the largest core provided output (bigger than pico drive and others i compared it too) and even possibly 8 pixels bigger than normal, if you turn off the option to hide the left border too (which you probably don't want to do, anyway.) but it will also fit within the "window" too just because. (See below).

So im pretty pleased with myself and just wanted to show it off! (Even if i am just standing on the shoulder of giants, see below for Credits, as without them id never have even come close)  ... Looks like a mastersytem pad, d-pad and buttons, it got the "pause" button from the mastersytem 2 console (or atleast a nod) and even has a few retroarch quick buttons too; menu, exit, fast forward, previous and next state save and save state and load state. 

 

Credits:

ZilogZ92 - https://forums.libretro.com/t/gameboy-touch-overlay/12469 & kave tech youtube https://www.youtube.com/@kavetech/videos - for the Inspiration and the downloadable Console Game Pad Belzel Overlays they created (possibly the same person i dont know, the bezels look like the same work to me)

Valent-in - https://valent-in.github.io/retropad-editor/ - for making the RetroPad Editor that without i would never have been able to add and position the buttons without FAR MORE effort!

edbooth art - https://www.instagram.com/p/CsWcri8pSU-/ that drew an illustration of the mastersystem pad on instagram, which I shamelessly used to create the bezel art... clipping, cropping, rearranging, etc in G.I.M.P - GNU Image Manipulation Program, as drawing it myself is outside of my abilities and would have taken hours to make.

Edited 11 hours ago by W4rCh1ld