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Mamesaver is a mame emulated screensaver - get all the good ol' games playing their demo modes while you procrastinate and enjoy!
https://mika76.github.io/mamesaver/
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Artwork not showing #59

Closed Jim0ne closed 3 years ago

Jim0ne commented 3 years ago

I've been at this for a week. My Mame bevels (horizont and vertical) display fine whether from exe from within folder or cmd line but never from the screensaver. I've tried various command line options but none seem to read my mame.ini file. Is this not supported? I've tried to point to my -inipath, -fallback_artwork and -artpath in Command line options within the screensaver options but this doesn't work. On the other hand -video bgfx and -brightness etc. do work. I'm doing 1080X1080 on a flipped 16:9 TV. I have searched for days but most posts are about filtering games and nothing about setting video options such as "small" or "large" which trigger bevels. Do I need a cmd line "Large" command in the Command line options for Mamesaver? Any help would be appreciated for this screensaver which is a vital part of my machine and cabinet. Thank you very much.

nullpainter commented 3 years ago

Thanks for reporting this and for your investigation. In order to get the game's information to display in the screensaver, I render an image and create a dynamic layout which uses this image. Unfortunately this was the only reliable way to get text appearing in an aesthetically pleasing fashion. The code to do this is in the Layout directory.

This is only enabled if the in game titles option is set, on the Layout tab. I haven't looked at Mamesaver for several years now, but try unticking this and seeing if things start to work for you.

nullpainter commented 3 years ago

(in other words, I replace whatever bezels are currently set and instead use a custom layout)

Jim0ne commented 3 years ago

Hello Matt,

Thanks for your reply, but I think it's a little different from my situation. I'm not having a problem with text or screen stretching. It's about the screen size and artwork. I'm not getting artwork to show up at all. I can't believe with all the bezel artwork out there that no one else has brought this up. I will have a look at the Layout https://github.com/mika76/mamesaver/tree/master/Mamesaver/Layout directory and look at the code to see what makes sense for my situation. I am all for any kind of work around.

Thanks!

J

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(in other words, I replace whatever bezels are currently set and instead use a custom layout)

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Jim0ne commented 3 years ago

Basically Mamesaver does not read the mame.ini file which is needed to point to all art folders and files. If it works fine in cmd line, why not in Mamesaver?

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 7:12 PM jayyuma @.***> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 6:49 PM jayyuma @.***> wrote:

Hello Matt,

Thanks for your reply, but I think it's a little different from my situation. I'm not having a problem with text or screen stretching. It's about the screen size and artwork. I'm not getting artwork to show up at all. I can't believe with all the bezel artwork out there that no one else has brought this up. I will have a look at the Layout https://github.com/mika76/mamesaver/tree/master/Mamesaver/Layout directory and look at the code to see what makes sense for my situation. I am all for any kind of work around.

Thanks!

J

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(in other words, I replace whatever bezels are currently set and instead use a custom layout)

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mika76 commented 3 years ago

@Jim0ne Could you post the command line and ini file that you use that works?

mika76 commented 3 years ago

Also as @nullpainter says:

This is only enabled if the in game titles option is set, on the Layout tab.

Turning this feature off should make mame use it's defined bezels, since it dynamically creates one for you if it's on. Mamesaver uses the bezel feature to show the game name while the game is playing.

Jim0ne commented 3 years ago

Thank you @nullpainter https://github.com/nullpainter !! That did it, one click of a box on the layout tab to disable In-game titles. My arcade is now complete. I highly recommend Mamesaver for anyone wanting to see real arcade wait screens as opposed to downloaded video snaps. Thanks again for your quick responses guys!

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 3:34 AM Mladen Mihajlović @.***> wrote:

Also as @nullpainter https://github.com/nullpainter says:

This is only enabled if the in game titles option is set, on the Layout tab.

Turning this feature off should make mame use it's defined bezels, since it dynamically creates one for you if it's on. Mamesaver uses the bezel feature to show the game name while the game is playing.

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