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Raspberry Pi (Zero or 2 or 3) Setup with Qbert and Artwork

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jdevane:
I'm currently working on a Zero..   I have my image on the screen and sized correctly, although it looks pixelated even though I had to downsize it for it to fit.  But I'll worry about that later if i could just figure out now how to get the gameplay field in the bezel area.  I added something like this to the CFG file in the same folder as the artwork png.

custom_viewport_x = "469"
custom_viewport_y = "119"
custom_viewport_width = "359"
custom_viewport_height = "467"

That didn't work, so I then located a CFG in another folder and added those line to it, no change.  So right now I'm trying to track down where I need to put in my viewport settings to make it work.

ark_ader:
I got my zero W and added artwork.  Took forever downloading the art for mame4all.  Looks nice.  Nothing pixelated.

jdevane:
right...  but I want to use a custom bezel image I created...  I can't get the game field of the rom to appear in the center of the bezel.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: jdevane on November 15, 2018, 08:59:30 pm ---I'm currently working on a Zero..   I have my image on the screen and sized correctly, although it looks pixelated even though I had to downsize it for it to fit.  But I'll worry about that later if i could just figure out now how to get the gameplay field in the bezel area.  I added something like this to the CFG file in the same folder as the artwork png.

custom_viewport_x = "469"
custom_viewport_y = "119"
custom_viewport_width = "359"
custom_viewport_height = "467"

That didn't work, so I then located a CFG in another folder and added those line to it, no change.  So right now I'm trying to track down where I need to put in my viewport settings to make it work.

--- End quote ---

Which configuration file?

Have a look at this and see if this will help.  Also which Mame emulator are you using?  Mame4all?

jdevane:
no, I'm using mame 2003.  In hopes that I could use a later version once I got it working.  I like to use the save state on exit feature to "save" my high scores, but that usually means using a newer version.  If I am correct, Mame4all is based on mame .0375 or around there and that was just too old for the options I wanted.

What I have discovered is that when using retropie, it changes things versus what normal mame would use.  I have read that link before and that is what I used to prepare my windows based machine.  If you look at the bezel project stuff, you will see that the pi stuff doesn't follow the same guidelines as the pc version does.  You are now required to have three files, your bezel.png, which uses a transparency image (like a gif), you need a romname.cfg (which basically points to the third file) and romname.zip.cfg which is where you put your bezel artwork info, which btw is also different that the link referenced.

I wish it was as easy to get working as before with the windows pc, but it ain't.  I will probably just take retropie off and install a linux os and just run the game from command prompt.  I don't expect to use this machine for more than Qbert, but it was nice having alot of elbow work completed by retropie setup.

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