MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork: Official

> Now, i just need a "trusted source" of those overlays that are allready done.

I just PM'd you Al's scans.

For reference, these are the OLD overlays for the Vectrex.

http://www.mess.org/_media/artwork/vectrex.zip

Thing to keep in mind:
As of yet, MAME/MESS cannot automatically select artwork based on the name of the running software (either from the command-line or from the software lists). So you have to specify the desired "view" within the Vectrex artwork, which is described in the LAY file. For now, artwork support only easily extends to MAME arcade machines and computers/consoles/etc. - aka the BIOS sets.

You'd call it like so (example):

Code:

mame64 vectrex -cart C:\Users\stiletto\emulation\mame\software\vectrex\berzerk.zip -view berzerk

Or you can pick from the Video menu once it is running.

assuming artwork is in its default location of ..\artwork in the MAME folder. Short names are preferable. Or at least, that's how it WAS done.

> I checked your computer-classics link and I am wondering about the files I get. They
> are PDFs and are seperated into one color file and one alpha file. I am assuming
> those are prepared for people that want to reproduce or make those overlays for
> themselves. I am wondering especially about the alpha-file, as it seems wrong, if you
> intend to use it with MAME, mainly because the areas are not "filled" with black,
> except the copyright font text.

Yeah, I don't know. You may be right. It was just something I discovered earlier.

> Do you have a good working layout file, that is done for MAME? So, I could take a
> look into it, how it is build. I just want to understand the logic behind it, as I
> think that i.e. Minestorm is not properly done. I am pretty sure that the crosshairs
> and coordinate system are not transparent on the original overlay, therefore the
> alpha is wrong, as there are no crosshairs+coordinate system included.

Not sure what you're asking. You want to see some complex artwork? See, I dunno, Space Invaders - with seven views. Metal Slug 2, using multiple elements. "sc2drwho", with all sorts of blinking lights.

Or anything Comboman has posted to the Artwork forums here in the last year or so...

> Once, I have a clue, how the layouts are working, I will start to vectorize missing
> files.
> Other than this, the files are really decent in terms of quality. Maybe "overdone",
> as I think 300dpi would also be well enough, for vectorizing AND printing them.
> I think I can help out, with some of the missing official overlays and also have the
> "red" Vector-Pilot overlay for the homebrew-section.
>
> thx in advance.. u-man

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have more questions, but this isn't my area of expertise.

- Stiletto