4K Vertical Overlay Community Contributions

I just wanted to thank all the contributors in this thread for the amazing work that’s being done for this format! I am so inspired by this I’m personally building a verticle cabinet just to utilize these amazing overlays.

It’s also so cool that they are being done in 4K. The attention to detail and high-quality control coupled with the reflection shaders has made this project truly magical! I currently have a 50 inch 1080p LCD in vertical mode just running all the previews in a slideshow to enjoy while I design and build the cabinet in my space time.

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I also wanted to share for anyone new to this thread, if you want to get these up and running quickly. Using the MAME Layout .lay files in retroarch works perfectly. Just unzip the MAME versions into the “layouts” folder in retroarch. Then just select the one you want. This also allows you the select the multiple views that some support like larger screens. This only works in GL driver on my system.

Settings -> On Screen Display -> Video Overlays -> Browse to .lay file

For screen rotation: Set it in your operating system settings to portrait mode and in retroarch: First, enable advanced options in the menu, then: Settings -> Video -> Output -> Screen Orentation -> 90 Degs

Then all done. No more messing or fiddling with the Overlay options. Save the Game preset in the config. :slight_smile:

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Run and Gun - (1993) (Konami)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3_RoDu30sQuz4s4uoem9bI6C8jZUEjj/view?usp=sharing

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Run and Gun 2 (1996) (Konami)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G5v48qFyXACH-GLAvSW4qhW46ZoiU7o-/view?usp=sharing

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (KONAMI)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrHYXiAuhI7nrgV08vswomF_vsFTLy7T/view?usp=sharing

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Thank you! Walter remade this TMNT overlay on request because the previous one was deleted for some reason!

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@walter.farmacia i like this. it’s much better than mine. the buttons and joystick looks so good

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Thank is a great team effort! Would love request KI1 with CPO as well. I think Walter did the CPO for it in this thread. I would add it but the preview CPO image is not in 4k.

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Walter, thanks so much for all your hard work. Beautiful stuff. Much appreciated.

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Thunder Fox (1990) (Taito Corp.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDB649YakLGEOZjPPXsSZY5vcAmK58lh/view?usp=sharing

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Killer Instinct (1994) (Midway)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Kd3aijMugwo-cVjzJ0v6Ri4E-Gvc5Ai/view?usp=sharing

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G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero (1992) (Konami)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YkYzqcEGqKtmGzdRi8RWU0zBZPzSEaTY/view?usp=sharing

Point Blank (1994) (Namco)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QMle6ZAoftGj3VjuzQmvLBlA-7KjojZ9/view?usp=sharing

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@ArsInvictus are you ok buddy ? will you back to your fantastic work ? Hope everybody ok and safe in thos cracy times.

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Does anyone happen to have just the PNG for the entire black bottom section with the coin door? Like from the plastic strip down? I’m trying to make coin door versions for some of the ones that only have CPO. I think @PapaShine made it.

It would be best to have the original PNG, because it looks like there are some shading effects towards the top area of that section. This helps blend the game bezel with the bottom coin door section.

Thank you if anyone has the file!

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Hey @BlackTiger, thanks for asking! I’m doing good here, I’ve just been focusing more on my work and family. For the artwork I’m not sure, I have been mostly gaming on actual arcade cabinets with CRT’s and I’m less interested in playing on LCD’s. So I’m not as personally motivated to work on these as I used to be. I may get back into it at some point in the future but I really can’t say when that might be.

I’m really happy with the quality of what others have been putting up on here so it’s great to see there’s continued progress.

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Hi @tekn0,

I’ve got a number of sample PSD’s out in this directory:

You can see examples of my marquee effect approach as well as some CPO’s and the cyberbots one has the coin door there. If there’s a particular overlay you would like to see the source for let me know.

Hope this helps you and anyone else who wants to create more of these overlays.

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Thank you so much for this and all of your hard work, knowledge, and generosity. I just opened the cyber bots one and this is exactly what I was looking for. It’s quite the file so it will take a bit of digging into to get my head around everything. I may have a request for one or another in the future if that is ok. Best of luck enjoying your break away from this project and playing on your other cabinets!

Personally I have been behind the scenes collecting every single overlay in this thread, as well as all the variations and updates I could find. I’ve also started to figure out what you’re missing on the website versus what was posted here. I have been slowly putting all this together in a spreadsheet and creating an archive in google drive over the past few months. It’s not completed yet. I work on it when inspiration strikes, but it’s close. I have also been working with a theme developer from attract mode, creating a front end just to utilize these overlays, as well as starting to learn CAD/Fusion 360 to model and bring this amazing work into the real world. I am trying to design a sit-down cabinet for a 50’’ screen and doing some modifications to the existing VCabinets.es upright designs making more room on the controllers and a few other changes for a 43’’ screen.

Unfortunately with the state of supplies and the price of materials, the stuff might not come to light until the middle of next year, but I look forward to sharing everything with the community to keep this project going! This project is absolutely amazing, and has been very helpful for me personally in many ways during a tough time. It has helped me stay happy and inspired. So I just want to say a big thank you to everybody involved.

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Impressive work @tekn0! I love the front end work! We talked a lot off line about creating a turnkey solution like you are working toward so I’m excited to see how your effort progresses! This project definitely kept me happy and inspired for the last couple years too and thanks for carrying things forward!

Just let me know if you have any questions on the files, I’m afraid I’m not very organized with these things and the PSD’s were pretty messy so I apologize if they are confusing to look at :slight_smile:

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Thank you @ArsInvictus I’m so glad you like the progress! What is so great about this front end is that it will support multiple list “displays”. Meaning we can have one display for all coin doors, and one for all CPOs.

The CPO’s look absolutely fantastic. They work great when the control stick is farther away from the screen, like if the TV was mounted in portrait mode on the wall. So it looks almost like a poster. Or if you have a pedestal arcade where the screen is farther away. But, if the control stick is right next to the screen, it can look a bit strange to have the CPO directly above it. This is where I think the coin door style shines. I found these somewhere on the Internet and photoshopped in the overlays for these examples. I think these might belong to @PapaShine ?

Here the double CPO is a bit crowded with the controls and screen so close in my opinion.

In this mockup, the presentation has much more room to breathe with the physical controls using the coin doors.

So the plan would be in theory, to slowly create coin door versions of all the overlays that are exclusively CPO for use in a close cabinet, like the pictures above.

The PSD files you supplied are perfect. Thank you again! I already have one modded and the color changed just for a test run. I think the only other PSD I might need would be a good verticle template. Kind of like cyberbots in completion. Meaning it has all the speaker variants and the ability to change the coin door area color. I think Raiden would work perfectly if the color was changed to red using the adjustment layer technique. Then colors could be swapped to whatever is best for the overlay.

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Hey, good to see your post! It’s very generous to share your PSDs :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: Glad to hear you are enjoying the new game room and real life :smiley: Can’t say I won’t miss the beautiful works of art of your overlays popping up every so often , but I really appreciate your contribution to the community!

@tekn0 I’m happy to hear about your interest in this! And the front end looks like a lot of fun. I’m eventually going to build my own vertical cabinet, probably when I move to a new place and the Mega Bezel Shader is in a more “done” state. I’m not sure if you’ve seen it but the Mega Bezel shader might be something you would be interested in if you are using or open to using Retroarch, it does the screen scaling, bezel generation and reflection around the screen. I’ve got an update coming quite soon with what should be a big performance improvement.

Good luck on your adventure and it would be great to see your progress here!

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