Duimon - HSM Mega Bezel Graphics and Presets - Feedback and Updates

Duimon · 24 May 2022 23:42

Here is a new WIP on the first Supervision.

I added texture to the body. It takes many large textures, in various blending modes, on many masked layers. So is extremely slow work. (It needs to be done last because it really slows down real-time effect updates.)

Here is the latest on the Alt version.

I need to add the textures and then make adjustments to compensate for the slightly darker end result.

I cropped the shot so it would be easier to see the details. The accordion stuff was as fun as I’d hoped.

walter.farmacia · 25 May 2022 00:46

waoo!!! I love it!!! perfect!!! look real!!

Duimon · 25 May 2022 03:20

Here is the final WIP. I may yet do another OCD pass on them both but they should be in the repo sometime tomorrow.

Duimon · 25 May 2022 23:05

The Supervision are in the repo!

The Supervision overlays are also up, along with the Apple_Macintosh_IIx and Apple_Macintosh_LC_III. (Which it seems I forgot to commit. )

walter.farmacia · 26 May 2022 11:02

How do I play Game & Watch with the bezel on Retro Arch?

Duimon · 26 May 2022 11:25

I’m not sure it’s possible without disassembling the roms and creating Mega Bezel graphics. I think the graphics are built in.

I also don’t think there would be much advantage honestly. Adding a reflection would look unrealistic.

If you really wanted to you could turn off the scanlines and adjust the aspect ratio and screen cropping.

walter.farmacia · 26 May 2022 21:38

Tiger Handheld seems to have the same graphics as Game & Watch

hgoda90 · 26 May 2022 23:28

I think it would be possible but alpha would have to be applied to the screen. Just a poc.

Edit: I found a place that has the roms without the graphics applied to them. I was just showing that is possible with possibly a decent amount of editing to the Game & Watch bezels.

walter.farmacia · 27 May 2022 00:42

I’ll try to play it with MAME, not through RetroArch, to see if it works

hgoda90 · 27 May 2022 00:55

The rom I used was made for MAME, or at least was labeled that way. I used it with RetroArch’s MAME - Current core.

Edit: With what Duimon said the file I have is named gnw_dkjr.

Duimon · 27 May 2022 00:54

They will work in MAME. The MAME roms all start with “gnw_” (i.e. gnw_dkong.zip)

walter.farmacia · 27 May 2022 01:19

I was able to make it run with the bezel through MAME, but without RetroArch ;(

                                      **MARIO BROS**

walter.farmacia · 27 May 2022 01:24

Duimon · 27 May 2022 01:29

With the overlay backgrounds from progetto-SNAPS and some effort, these can be run in the Mega Bezel.

Again, it actually pales in comparison. MAME does some multi layering effects to really get the screen to look like the original. That isn’t possible in the Mega Bezel.

walter.farmacia · 27 May 2022 01:33

it looks super good, but can you integrate the handheld console image?

Duimon · 27 May 2022 01:50

Like I said. I don’t think it is worth the effort.

I would have to position each and every piece of the overlay elements in Photoshop, (There are 11 in dkong.) just to get a complete console.

After all of that work and adding it to the preset, we would still be left with a result that isn’t as realistic as the MAME or Game & Watch core versions.

That is an awful lot of work for each game for no good reason.