Games include the"bezel" on the screen

[Czapala]

I was wondering.  I notice that some games include what looks like the bezel (w/graphics) from the original game ON the screen with the actual game play in the middle. IE. game play screen is smaller.  Pacman (midway) and I think  Marvel vs Capcom(?) were a couple that I ran across.  I am sure there are more.

Is there a way to turn that off so that the whole screen is the actual game?  maybe in an ini or something?

[fatfingers]

I cannot remember which folder it is, but I think that artwork is in one of the folders in your mame directory.  I think if you get rid of the files in that folder, the bezels should go away.

[loadman]

I think if you get rid of the files in that folder, the bezels should go away

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true

or for mame .79 its  the following in mame.ini

set them to 0 not 1

### Mame CORE misc options ###
artwork                 1
use_backdrops           1
use_overlays            1
use_bezels              1

[Havok]

I think if you get rid of the files in that folder, the bezels should go away

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true

or for mame .79 its  the following in mame.ini

set them to 0 not 1

### Mame CORE misc options ###
artwork                 1
use_backdrops           1
use_overlays            1
use_bezels              1

I have my setup with just the bezels set to 0. The backdrops and overlays will not reduce the size of the image. In some cases, the game just doesn't look the same without them - for example Battlezone wouldn't have the green lines without it, and Asteroids Deluxe wouldn't have the space scene in the background...

[darthbane2k]

well, I removed the bezel simply because of what it did to Marvel Super Heroes. However I would like to bring back the bezels but only for vertical games - I figure at least the entire screen will be then filled up with some sort of graphic/s.

Is there a way of doing this? To tell Mame to apply the bezel for only vertical games?

[Tiger-Heli]

Is there a way of doing this? To tell Mame to apply the bezel for only vertical games?

Semi-Related . . .

See http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/arcadepanels/crop43.jpg - You used to be able to do this using a hack that SirPoonga made called -artworkfilledges.

Does anyone know if there is a way to configure the new view settings introduced in MAME 0.107 to do this automatically now?

[Buddabing]

well, I removed the bezel simply because of what it did to Marvel Super Heroes. However I would like to bring back the bezels but only for vertical games - I figure at least the entire screen will be then filled up with some sort of graphic/s.

Is there a way of doing this? To tell Mame to apply the bezel for only vertical games?

I can write a ListGen script to do it. I can create a batch file to mass create/modify all the .ini files to disable bezels for non-vertical games, or to enable bezels for vertical games.

[Buddabing]

I went ahead and wrote the script. It assumes your ini directory is named ini.

Take the attached text files, rename them to .bat, and put them in your mame directory. Then run makeini.bat.

[wpcmame]

Here is a patch that will add back the cleanstretch option to 107u2. A side effect is that borders will automaticly be filled with artwork (both horizontally and vertically). If you also specify artwork_crop the game screen will be as big as possible and the artwork fills the rest. No need to disable bezels.
(both cleanstretch and artwork_crop can be changed at runtime in the video menu)

Read more about the it here
http://web.telia.com/~u84606172/

[wpcmame]

Double post

[darthbane2k]

I went ahead and wrote the script. It assumes your ini directory is named ini.

Take the attached text files, rename them to .bat, and put them in your mame directory. Then run makeini.bat.

okay  (bare with me, its early in the morning) so all I do is stick this txt file in my MAME directory, change it into a batch file (.BAT at end) and run it? What is telling it to change the ini of the vertical games? Looking at the txt file, I cant see a command that does this?


Were you meant to include more than one txt file in your post?

[Buddabing]

Yes, the other attachment didn't post. Here it is, rename to .bat also:

[darthbane2k]

Yes, the other attachment didn't post. Here it is, rename to .bat also:

nice one - thanks!

[Howard_Casto]

You guys do know that as of .107 you can turn the bezels on and off inside mame as well as crop/uncrop them.  On top of that mame saves the screen settings on exit so none of this is an issue anymore, set your most likely setting and when you run across one that bugs you turn it off.