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TelcoLou:

--- Quote from: Bender on March 06, 2009, 10:08:55 pm ---I'm sorry I'm so slow,

but wouldn't you have to do that for every vertical rom?

--- End quote ---

Only these bits:

• Re-named the .lay file to match the game rom
• Re-named the .zip file to match the game rom

... see, the .png is already in the zip file, and the .lay (once altered to reference the .png file name) just needs to be re-named to match the .zip file.

For example:

I have ringking.lay and ringking.zip on my desktop.
I find a game that needs this bezel to fill in the black voids on either side, say donpachi.
I rename the .lay to "donpachi.lay", open up the ringking.zip file, delete ringking.lay, replacing it with donpachi.lay, then re-name the .zip "donpachi.zip" and place it in mame/artwork folder.

... hope this makes sense ...

Bender:
Yep! that makes sense

that's what I was afraid of
I just wish I could have a generic background that replaced where mame puts the black bars without having to make a file for each vertical rom
I'm just Lazy ;D

TelcoLou:
I'm lazy too, but my hatred for the black bars gave me just enough incentive to do this  :laugh2:

Bender:
create an easy one shot  bezel far ALL vertical mame games Mr. DO! to the rescue


Just did it, it rocks!
Took 5 min and now I have a generic bezel that maches my cab theme and NO BLACK BARS!!!!!!!!!!!
Plus you can easily change one .png file whenever you want to get a new generic bezel
Woo Hoo!!!!

 :cheers: to MR. DO!  :notworthy: :notworthy:

and may thanks to TelcoLou

Lazy comes in handy once in a while!

Test by saint

Bender:
WOW, this solution is even better than I thought!

If you have game specific bezel files in your mame Artwork folder it defaults to them.
or you can override those and use your default by selecting "Generic Bezel" in the video options section in mame
or you can get the black bars back by turning it off by selecting the standard or pixel aspect ratio, again under video options

Pretty cool
I think you may even be able to make more defaults by adjusting Mr. Do's file and adding another one (with a different name) before you compile mame
I'll try that next

EDIT: If any one need the files PM me the link on the mameworld sight is dead

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