Bezel artwork

[vidmouse]

How many of you use bezel artwork in MAME when playing your games?  I've been tinkering around w/ it lately and it looks cool, but the images, even on my desktop monitor w/ high resolution, come out looking a little fuzzy --- can't make out any printed directions if they are included on the bezels, etc.

[nexusmtz]

Open the files in a paint program at 100% and see if the text is clear. Many of the bezels are very high res. Even a 4K monitor would have to downsample some of them, and that's where the fuzziness will come from.

Of course, if you look at it at 100% and it looks terrible, no monitor is going to make that look good.

[Laythe]

I use bezel artwork on everything.  If it doesn't exist, I make it.  At 1080x1080, I've managed to get all instructions readable, though sometimes I have to tinker a bit to do it - scaling an instruction card a little larger than it actually was, for example.

As nexusmtz says, a lot of the bezels out there are very high res - I found that contributed a bit to loading time.  If you know the resolution you're going to be running it at, you can resize it down to your exact target size in an image editor and it'll load a lot faster, as well as giving you the chance to clean up the sharpness to your liking.  It is labor intensive, though.