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#1610

Hi all,

It’s been a while since I’ve contributed anything but I was inspired by the bombshell overlays @PapaShine dropped here in recent weeks and have some time over the holidays so I started working on finishing up a Snow Bros overlay I started working on years ago now.

The versions of this marquee that are available digitally are all chopped up and missing quite a bit of the artwork but I was able to buy an original marquee that was fairly complete and I spent time this evening restoring it. You can find it here:

I’ll work on assembling it into an overlay and post it here when it’s done.

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#1611

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kof 2001 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IdO5B6jkeuSdbapPbl1xf37-fvRE8QBP/view?usp=sharing kof2000 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HWulVaYdmiM2p_trHk2-CVCfyZCl_UmM/view?usp=sharing kof99 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Imd8ErH1hmkMmd7mczDr7BLgubM7nBEt/view?usp=sharing

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#1612

Snow Bros Overlay

Sadly I don’t have retroarch or MAME set up currently on my machine (I’ve been gaming mostly on Mister FPGA’s of late). So I’ll share this out as a PNG for now and hopefully some generous soul can put together the mame and retroarch packaging and test it properly. I do miss this game (not supported by Mister yet) and will have to set everything up here so I can play it again.

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#1613

@ArsInvictus Nice work mate!, Great to see some of your again and hope to see some more :wink: Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you and Everyone in this group this year, Lets hope next year brings another good one. :beers: :beers: :evergreen_tree: :evergreen_tree: :pray:

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#1614

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@ArsInvictus Snow Bros https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xa4Ylnt5549hSqaLVidRIG_UEHcMhRD3/view?usp=sharing

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#1615

Thanks for helping out with the packaging @darkand!

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#1616

So I’m going to put together a new vertical gaming setup here and I was thinking about the TV size. My old setup was 40" and I always felt it was really too small to recreate the full experience and the monitor area was just too small to feel playable for some games with the full artwork. I was thinking to go with 50" but I’m wondering if 55" would be even better? Has anyone experimented with different sizes?

I think OLED would be best from a gaming perspective, and to create a more CRT like experience, especially with HDR. But I’d still be concerned about burn-in if I leave a single game up for many hours. I’d often leave my old rig running a single game for days at a time and never had a problem with the LCD but I’m guessing that would NOT work for OLED. Any opinions on that, or other specific TV recommendations, would be welcome as well!

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#1617

I’m also looking for front end recommendations. I know some folks here have been working on integrating the artwork here with different front ends but I don’t know the status on that. Another question is Windows vs. Linux. I was always annoyed by the frequent windows updates and would prefer something that I could count on booting up without waiting for some update to complete or breaking something. But I don’t know where that stands in regard to shader compatibility either. I loved how much power @HyperspaceMadness’s shader provides and how close I could get that to looking like an actual CRT, so ideally whatever I use would work with will that. Along the same lines, video card recommendations are welcome. I was thinking to get something small like a gaming NUC that I could easily squeeze into a svelte wallmount cabinet.

Sorry for all the questions, but I’m sure you guys have some expertise on this stuff :slight_smile:

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#1618

Now that most new Intel NUCs are using the new ARC GPU, this might be an option.

I haven’t yet had the disposable cash to do any testing. The only drawback is that, so far, the ARC seems to have lackluster Vulkan support.

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#1619

Thanks @Duimon, I was checking out the Phantom Canyon NUC models that are a little older but had RTX 2060 GPU’s built in, I would think that’s powerful enough? Any benefit for ARC above that?

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#1620

I have a system with an rtx2060 and it can run the heaviest Mega Bezel preset at 4k. So a 2060 would be good, but the fan does go up. A 30 series would handle the heaviest very comfortably

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#1621

Not that I’ve heard of with the onboard chipsets. The A770 discrete are supposed to perform as well as the RTX 3050.

In any case, if you set them up correctly, using overlays with the Mega Bezel will allow you to use a MUCH smaller viewport (Up to 70% smaller on a 4K vertical setup.) I would think that a 2060 would work well enough.

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#1622

This is a valid concern. You’d definitely be better off with one of the newer OLED displays with a heatsink or maybe a high quality LED or QDLED might be your best bet. I vary my content and have no issues with burn in on my almost 7 year old OLED TV.

Maybe someone can give one of those new TCL mini LED’s a try with the less aggressive dimming algorithm. That might be a decent middle ground and they’re cheaper than the competition as well. I’m talking about the 800 series as the 900 series has a strange quirk of a bright horizontal line running near the top of the screen.

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#1623

@ArsInvictus Absolute classic of a game and finally a very worthy overlay to enjoy it :heart_eyes: really wonderful to have one of your beautiful overlays in time for Christmas, and a classic like this is the ‘icing’ on the cake :snowflake: looking forward to some possible collaboration in the new year, Hope everyone is having a great Xmas :christmas_tree:

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#1624

Thanks @PapaShine! I’ve started looking into TV and PC options and it will take me a while to make my decisions on those things. But in the meantime I will work on some overlays as time permits :slight_smile:

I’ve started on putting Vendetta together. There was no high quality marquee scan that I could find so I upscaled a low resolution file and replaced all the logo art. Should be serviceable for an overlay. The CPO is available so I can assemble it now. If you have any of the button and stick renders available to share please send them my way! But I’ll see what I can do with what I have right now.

Here’s the marquee in case anyone wants it:

@PapaShine, I believe there was a completely different art set for the UK release of this with a brick marquee. I was wondering if you had any personal interest in an overlay with that artwork?

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#1625

Hi Ars… do you have your components (bezels, marquees, etc) available for download anywhere? They look great and I would like to use them for some bezel art (personal use), but I don’t use a vertical setup.

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#1626

I have a big local directory filled with stuff I’ve gathered or created over time, but it’s not organized in a way that would make it easy to share. PM me if there’s something specific you are looking for and I’ll see if I can help.

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#1627

front end attractmode + Arcadeflow theme (1028) Attract Mode 2022 - YouTube

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#1628

Be sure to back that thing up.

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#1629

Oh yeah, it’s backed up to cloud nightly, just for archival purposes. 2 years of my free time is in that directory…

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