Amazing work John thanks for sharing mate
Hi, thanks for these, i love them! How can i set the generic arcade horizantal for mame and fba? (For the ones without their proper bezel)thank you
That’s sad that just because of some difficulties, they decided to remove all of their content. That only serves to hinder the retro-gaming community as a whole. Right when I was finally going to give this .lay stuff a try. What a bummer.
Does anybody know where to get this overlay?
I have created an account here just so that i can share My entire artwork folder from my mame setup. This includes various bezels/overlays by John Merrit / Orionsangel / AshuraX / Vaughan / Griff / Krakerman / Derek Moore / Mr Do. in Mame .LAY format. Every bezel also has John’s glass inserted into it and has had the alpha changed to the correct 70-80% of the original .png. This I believe is something that retroarch can be configured to do but mame cannot. Each game has multiple artworks already configured.
I do not leave the artwork folders in zip format because it is easier to add new images and to edit the .lay to get accurate screen sizing. I recommend this approach for people who are keen on updating the artwork on the fly. I am still refining these settings if i find something not looking quite right.
Bear in mind that this does not include overlays/bezels for all games, but only mine. It has been a long and tough process to do this but I am so pleased with how seamless and authentic it all runs with my maximus arcade setup. Mame is still king as far as using overlays with HLSL goes! Credit MUST go to the original creators and I personally thank them all for making retro gaming so much better!
I will also provide my .inis for the hlsl. I am using mame 0.186 with no issues whatsoever. I think that due to how great eveything looks and feels I will not update mame again!!
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OK. So here is the link to the zip file with unified bezels/overlays and .lay files plus the .ini directory with my HLSL settings for mame 0.186
I Use MAME on a 1080p IPS panel and i find these settings to be pretty much as good as I can get them.
If the link is slow to download then I hope one of you guys can upload to a different host. It’s not my area of expertise I’m afraid.
Share and Enjoy! Lets Hope that John Merrit returns with another batch of great overlays as he promised, but these should keep you non Retroarch users happy
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxhr1yQtWWz4clMycm9kYWVoWU0/view?usp=sharing
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Great mamehead! one note, you can easily swap mame overlays with retroarch simply by editing .cfg default file from retroarch instead of using the .lay file from mame! again great work!
Yes, however I think the .pngs have to be edited to reduce the alpha to 80% in MAME otherwise you will have a dull looking screen behind the overlay which is unuseable. So the .cfg trick will not suffice here.
There is no function within the .lay to change transparency so every piece of artwork in my package has been amended. Enjoy!
Cfg trick for retroarch require manually editing and alot of work and time and must be edited per game configs to fit overlay on screen, i made john merrit 40 overlays for 1680x1050 resolution and lost alot of time.
Hi Guys as Goofers is saying “I take it this posts dead be as well removing it as most of the links are down so people are saying never tried them myself lol.”
I took a lot of hours trying to recreate a blank template for this and I am more than willing to share with you.
However, you will need some PS skills to work between the layers
I have also created multiple bezel colors to choose from
(https://mega.nz/#!hmZhgRTK!Cz_QGz4ysysUmV40H0shn4tP_xQJzDd_f_ei294OQZk)
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This is one of the most exciting topics here and made me register just to answer here that it’s amazing work!
I think the overlays should be hosted on github just like the thumbnails as well as the cfg files so everyone who wants them can download them as a package. 
derikpelser do you know how to add gear shifters to the lay files artwork I mean I could do all the bezels if you or someone can to the coordinates and so on in the .lay
I used to have these overlays and all the associated Mame config files so the PC version of Retroarch would automatically load the overlay and the associated shaders when the appropriate game was played. Does anyone have a link for these configs?
The only thing I find in the Libretro repository is for Retropie and… those configs don’t work for the PC.
I would also love to find the original files. As mentioned, all the links are broken to the images. Is John still here?
Not adding anything to the discussion unfortunately, but I’m also searching for the original files for these. I got the Overlays, i got their config files, what i’m looking for is the original Mame core config files for each games, with the shaders, screen size and overlays informations.
All I can find is the ones converted for Retropie and they’re not working with Retroarch Windows version. The informations are there, but you have to manually edit most of the rows for Retroarch to understand them…
Anyone that could help to get the original files, or a way to make these ones working with Retroarch windows ?
Thanks a lot !
If you mean the original retroarch ones - are these what you want? They are raw unformatted so you’ll have to eyeball them for what you want.
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Its been a while Floob. Hope you are well
Hi ! Thanks for your reply.
Exactly what I was looking, but I was expecting these to be different actually 
I thought the original config files simply had informations about the shaders / overlays / settings for screen sizes actually, not the whole mame config for each game. I already have quite a lot of games with proper setups and inputs, these are working for what I was looking for, but it also overrides my configs… I doubt there’s a easy way to combine both.
Still, thanks for this, I’ll try to do something
Hi, I’m also searching for that dirty glass overlay, or this:
…any help? Thank you very much
I think it’s revealing that this is one of the most viewed threads in the libretro forums!
I’m here to post about the new RetroArch bounty fundraiser going on to add at least partial support for the native MAME artwork format (specifically bezels/backdrops/overlays). That support will open up a world of possibilities for sharing and creating new artwork (for arcade and console systems) as part of the well-established MAME and MESS artwork scene.
This effort has been vetted by several RetroArch developers as viable. What is needed now is a coder to take on the project. To that end, donations are welcome.
For what it’s worth I have seen numerous examples of these bounties leading to bugfixes and new features, particularly when the bounty has input from other developers early on like this.
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