I would like to have a bezel appear while playing a game. Unfortunately I'm having a difficult time getting it to work and was hoping someone here could shed some light on what I'm doing wrong.
Here is what I've done so far: 1. Flash 4 GB SD card with PiMAME 0.6 Beta5 2. Put the card in my 512 B RPi (attached to an HD monitor via HDMI) and supplied power 3. Entered raspi-config and did the following: a. overclocked to 800 Mhz b. expanded the file system 4. Rebooted 5. Exited PiMAME menu and started desktop GUI with "starts" 6. Downloaded "robotron.zip" from http://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_ingame.php?p=12 to a USB thumb drive on my Mac. This is the LAY version of the artwork package. 7. Mounted the thumb drive on the RPi and copied robotron.zip to ~/.advance/artwork 8. Edited and saved ~/.advance/advmame.rc to make the following lines read as such: display_artwork_backdrop yes display_artwork_bezel yes display_artwork_crop yes display_artwork_overlay yes 9. From terminal: sudo reboot
After rebooting and launching MAME, Robotron played as expected, but no bezel overlay appeared.
So I downloaded "robotron.zip" from this page: http://mrdo.mameworld.info/old_artwork.php Which is the ART version and according to the site is compatible with MAME 0.106 (which PiMAME is running) or earlier.
I deleted the LAY version of robotron.zip from ~/.advance/artwork and replaced it with the ART version.
After rebooting and launching MAME, I navigated to Robotron without an issue, but when I selected it to play, the RPi crashed, showing just an all-black screen.
Here are the relevant bits with full credit and gratitude to Lang: /boot/config.txt only has the following video settings configured hdmi_drive=1 gpu_mem=64
w.r.t advmame.rc, I made a lot of tweaks. The ones I think might have sealed the deal were limiting the colour output:
#I set all to no except bgr16 device_color_bgr15 no device_color_bgr16 yes device_color_bgr24 no device_color_bgr32 no device_color_bgr8 no device_color_palette8 no device_color_yuy2 no
Rest of the video-related settings are provided: #Here are the artwork-specific settings: display_antialias yes display_artwork_backdrop yes display_artwork_bezel yes display_artwork_crop no display_artwork_overlay yes
#Here are the other video settings display_aspectx 4 display_aspecty 3 display_beam 1 display_brightness 1 display_buffer no display_color auto display_expand 1 display_flicker 0 display_flipx no display_flipy no display_frameskip auto display_gamma 1 display_intensity 1.5 display_interlaceeffect none display_magnify 1 display_mode auto display_pausebrightness 1 display_resize mixed display_resizeeffect none display_restore yes display_rgbeffect none display_rol no display_ror no display_scanlines no display_skipcolumns auto display_skiplines auto display_translucency yes display_vsync yes