Screenshot porn: MAME bezels

[RowaN]

I finally got bezels working in MAME.

Very pretty on my 50" 1080p plasma:

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7593/sf2u.jpg

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/2410/ikari.jpg

It really adds to the nostalgia and makes the games more fun.

[Ashley]

I finally got bezels working in MAME.

Very pretty on my 50" 1080p plasma:

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7593/sf2u.jpg

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/2410/ikari.jpg

It really adds to the nostalgia and makes the games more fun.

Looks great! Is mame easy to set up? Or is it run through Xbmc ?

[beansontoast]

That looks really smart.

[RowaN]

Looks great! Is mame easy to set up? Or is it run through Xbmc ?

XBMC? I don't have that. I use the MAMEUI varient of MAME. It is pretty easy to set up apart from one thing ... getting the scaling/scanlines perfect (i.e. not blurry, and scaled in exact proportions). They are perfect, for my taste anyway, in the screenshots I posted. But it took hours of fiddling with MAME to get to that point. For me, anyway.

For each game you want to give a bezel, just make folder structure as follows in MAME's artwork folder using the same name as the ROM (in this case, sf2ce):

• \mame\artwork\sf2ce\default.lay
  This is just a simple text file (XML formatted) to tell MAME the size of your bezel image, and the size and position of the gap you want to use as the game viewport.
• \mame\artwork\sf2ce\sf2ce_bezel.png
  This is the bezel image itself.

Then make sure bezels are enabled (while running a game, press tab, then choose Video Options, then select "Upright Artwork").

I took some bezels from http://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_ingame.php then adjusted them to best fit my screen (1080p). If anyone wants them just PM me, I couldn't find a decent place to upload them (about 1.5MB each).

I tried about a year ago and just couldn't get bezels working for some reason but today I tried and it seemed to work first time.

[rookie]

looks really good mate thanks for sharing

[crazyal]

They look superb. Nice job.