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Enhancement Request: Onscreen artwork support for non-onscreen controls #29

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
First of all: Great work! Your imame4all really rocks - cannot await my icade 
being delivered :-)

I would like to see some support for additional onscreen retro artwork to be 
"overlaid" the screen (or surrounding the actual game "window") when running 
imame4all with external controllers (like icade and i guess same for wiimote). 
We don't need the onscreen controls then and reveal black borders. This is 
where we could have some nice per-game artwork - like they did the aprils fool 
icade 2010 (just google for icade and see the one with just 2 red buttons and 
donkey kong  - above the actual game window there is this nice banner).
Same could be done for other games - especially useful for icade since iPad 
will be normally in portrait mode and some games don't fill the whole screen or 
are even landscape.
I noticed that there is a lot of nice retro artwork out there.

However i don't know about the code - would it be possible?
Best would be some config file defining size and position of the viewport and 
some graphic files to be displayed - maybe for landscape and for portrait mode 
- i don't know.

I noticed that there already is an artwork folder for "old" games like 
Asteroids Deluxe - and some other already seems to bring a long some graphic 
files with a viewport - but i don't know if it's flexible enough.

Even games like pacman (currently completely filling portrait) could be resized 
to get space for some nice artwork - native pac-man HD for iPad does similar in 
landscape mode.

I could draw some nice artwork together i think.

What do you think about this?
I think this would really enhance the retro experience... :-)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by M.Hoffma...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2011 at 7:25

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
sound interesting... really like your idea..

i'm working now doing an android port.... but i think in your request in a 
future update

cheers!

Original comment by seleuco....@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2011 at 4:25

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Feel free to contact me if you need some artwork for testing. Maybe if i can 
find the time i will create some meanwhile...
Good luck with the Android Port.

Original comment by M.Hoffma...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2011 at 6:19