Groovyarcade Tab menu Blury

[aj8302]

So I’m having a problem where the tab menu is all blurry and can’t read it. Even though My game and text in game look fine. Is this a common an issue? Does any one know how to fix it that can hopefully help me?

[Substring]

You need to change the mame font. Depending on the groovyarcade version you're using it's more or less easy

[aj8302]

In not sure what version in running of mame. I guess what ever came with the groovyarcade live CD 2019 running on Lenix. Is there a good tutorial that I can use to change it?

[tyson171]

Here is how i fixed this on my machine.  I just worked through the same issue -

I'm using winscp, as i'm not a strong linux user.

Download and connect to your machine with WinSCP

I used root, you need to enable this via console first or your might get rights issues -

Root login over ssh can be enabled by the doing following steps,

Login as a root user. use any text editor, here i am using vim editor. (if your using mlocate in linux, you can just search for sshd_config)

vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
uncomment the line below line

PermitRootLogin yes

I then rebooted my machine ( you can just restart ssh also)

Now in WinSCP you need to enable hidden files -

Open up Options - Preferences - Panels - Check "Show Hidden Files"

I was missing the fonts file, so i downloaded Groovymame for windows, extracted it to a folder, and copied over the following file from the root to the directory below - uismall.bdf

Now we need to copy the font file over to the Mame Fonts folder -

/home/roms/MAME/fonts

Finally we need to edit the mame.ini

Edit the mame.ini located here -

/home/arcade/.mame

Search for the following line below and add the font type we copied over -

uifont    uismall.bdf

Save the mame.ini and thats it!

If you have any issues let me know, this assumes some basic linux/windows knowledge, but you can google all of those parts.

There is probably a MUCH MUCH easier way to do this, but I'm like I mentioned I'm not very strong in Linux, so I cheated with winscp and got it done however I could figure it out.

[Substring]

Hey that's a good answer

The groovyarcade fork I'm working on already has the uismall font. But even better : the april release should be much more eye candy regarding the mame menu