Dreamstate, that Nintendo cab speaker port is iconic. Love to see that you’ve showcased it. Thanks!
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Genesis Console - Generic 4K Vertical Overlay
Spacies Arcade on Youtube did a couple videos showcasing the work I’ve been doing here and in one of them mentioned it would be nice to have some console versions of these overlays for vertical setups. So, I put together something simple for the Genesis. I think it will be fun to do some custom marquees for some of these Genesis games too, like Gunstar Heroes (shown here), Streets of Rage, etc. So will probably come back and do some of those at some point. I’ll put some of these together for some of the other major consoles too.
This is in a new directory under portrait-monitor:
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@Briball has posted his configs, which include my own overlay configurations on his google drive here:
The way this works, if you drop my overlays directly into the retroarch overlay directory, and place his configs into your mame config directory, then it will automatically load the overlay for each game and set the right screen coordinates.
I highly recommend using @HyperspaceMadness’s Mega Bezel Shader with this setup, as I don’t include a monitor bezel in the overlays so it looks correct with his shader.
Longer term I’d like to look into setting up a github so we have a community environment where folks can contribute more easily to this effort.
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Thanks so much for these tips, ArsInvictus. Hoping to find time to start setting Retroarch up this weekend.
Love the backlit “night Arcade” option!
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Super Nintendo Generic 4K overlay
I know there is some banding on this one, I haven’t solved that issue for solid black bezels yet. I’ll see if I can fix it next week when I have some more time. But this is out there now for anyone who wants to play SNES games on a vertical setup:
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Totally sweet. These console cabs are a great idea. Thanks!
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Hey Guys! I got Retroarch setup. I was able to configure Donkey Kong, 1943, Karnov and SpaceFB with 4K Portrait Bezels. Thanks so much! This is a load of fun. Having a super time with it. Beautiful work on your part.
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That’s awesome! Congrats on the new setup, did you get the HSM Mega Bezel going too? That really makes it to me. Let me know if you have any games on your wishlist and I’ll add them to my queue 
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Wow wow wow! I registered just right now just to be able to say Fantastic work! I am downloading now your public pack. I am using Retroarch with Raspberry, I know there is a folder that we must add the file with the scaling and position and the other folder for the png, but i don’t know what folders are. Someone ?
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Man this looks amazing, thanks for doing these console overlays they are looking great!!!
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The position config files go in the retroarch/config/MAME folder (the folder name varies by core). The overlays just go into the retroarch/overlays folder.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks @HyperspaceMadness, I really appreciate your support! I’ve been checking your thread as well, great progress on the shader! I need to get the latest version to make use of the vector preset you added and work on some more old vector games
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Just to let you know there’s a new version coming in the next couple days that is going to come with new presets.
Edit: It also fixes the missing highlight in the inside of the frame.
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Here’s a great example of the power of framing. Karnov is absolutely a game that I might have loaded up in MAME, played for ten seconds, and said, “Meh – totally boring.” I’d have moved on and never played again.
With the arcade bezel, however, I can “See the world” the devs had in mind. I gave it a chance. I’m hooked! Been playing this one for the past hour, and plan to finish it. Thanks, ArsInvictus!
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That’s so cool @benlogan. I must have played Karnov for an entire summer on my PC back in 1987, it was so addictive, and I think I got very far but don’t think I was ever able to finish it. I’m glad I could help get you into it too
EDIT: I brought Karonv up myself and decided to make a few updates to bring it more in line with my latest designs. I updated the marquee to look more like actual photos I found of the original arcade cabinet when lit up and I adjust the shading and lit up the coin slots so it looks like the cabinet is on. I put the latest version there if you want to update yours since you are playing it a lot:
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Thanks so much, ArsInvictus! Very kind of you. Looking forward to updating my machine.
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Exactly. That’s how I always thought of bezels as well. It adds to the experience.
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Nintendo Console 4K vertical overlay
Pretty minimalistic on this one, but Nintendo didn’t do much graphic design in their console branding back then and I didn’t want to do a Mario mascot type theme either:
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