MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork: Official

> 1 - detect if a default.lay exists,
> 2 - detect if there is a matching gamename marquee file in the marquee folder, if so,
> copy to artwork folder and append _marquee to the file name
> 3 - detect the width/height of the marquee image
> 4 - backup the original lay file
> 5 - inject a marquee element and marquee_only view into the lay file
> 6 - create a new ZIP file that contains all the original artwork, the marquee and
> both lay files (original and new default.lay)

I don't see why that won't continue to work. MAME still supports multiple views in a layout file and selecting a default view on the command line of in an INI file. The only thing you'll need to change is using <element ref="..."> rather than <marquee element="..."> when generating your layout files. In any case, you'll have a year before your external artwork stops working if you don't update it.