MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork X: Other Artwork Projects

Okay, so I took a look....

I see what you mean. The clue is in the link name "Capcomm Bowling". I mistakenly linked that to the old ZIP.

Now fixed. The thumbnails are correct.

The problem here is that I've had too much change going on: New thread, new layout, new zips, new Zip storage, problems with POSTIMAGE etc. There is a rule in my business: "Problems occur at the point of change", and that's what has happened here. Apologies.

On top of that - here's another bit of minutia.

This thread works okay, but the forum software isn't exactly up-to-date (no a criticism, just an observation). It seems to be VERY picky about codes used to display thumbnails etc. So in a thread such as this, the majority of the first and second post is just a stream of codes.

Now, you'll note that the first and second post are A-R, and S-Z. The old thread wasn't like that. I had to make this change because for some reason a single post no longer wants to display beyond the letter R - it truncates the post. So I went with two posts.

Add into the mix some stupidity. While I'm a long way from being a coder, I did know that trying to use Notepad as your text editor is plain stupid. Up until last night though, that's exactly what I'd been using. Pure laziness on my part, I'm a windows user, and Notepad is right there......

Notepad is an okay text editor, and for most things it's good enough, but it does have issues. One of them is a tendency to create hard breaks where you don't want them. This seems to be at the heart of my issues with the forum software - the forum software doesn't like these hard breaks, and everything gets broken. As I said, I knew using Notepad was not a great choice, but I'd done it anyway....

So last night I had to do a little research into text editors. At first I opted for ATOM, which looks great. Sadly though, their Windows release (it was written on a Mac, I think) was pretty terrible (very slow when scrolling).

After trying a couple more I opted for Sublime Text. So that's what I'll use from now on.

Back to the ZIP issue - I have a couple games that I've worked on in the past that I want to revisit. For example, last night I created a new bezel for Trojan. The first was poor. At the time I did it the only materials I had to work with were pretty goofy looking, not suiting the game at all. But I had come across a really nice bit of artwork - so an update was in order.

In the same vein I will have additions to Gunsmoke, Metrocross, and maybe another I forget..... So I had created a folder containing the new source files, and the Zips. Captain Commando is in that list too. Hence, I screwed up.

No excuses on my end. I actually didn't stop working last night until 5:00am my time, way passed when I should be trying to do anything remotely detail oriented.

So - that's the verbose version. TOO MUCH INFO.