No Color in Space Invaders

[Hastor]

I have an interesting problem that I'm hoping someone else has experienced. When I run Space Invaders with bezel enabled, it goes to pure black and white. With bezel disabled, the player ship and barriers are green. I'd like to use bezel if possible, but would like the game to have the colors that it should.

I'm using an ArcadeVGA card on a 15khz Arcade Monitor connected via a JPAC. I haven't had any issues with any vertical games until this one.

BTW googling for Space Invaders screenshots, I see some with green, and some with black and white. Is this an option somewhere in the game?

Here is my Run Last Game batch file after running with bezel enabled, causing the pure black and white (yes I'm running Mame64 from a Mame32 named dir), I've also attached my gameex.ini:

@ECHO OFF

chcp 65001

C:

CD "C:\Emulators\Mame32"

mame64.exe invaders -rompath "C:\Emulators\mame32\roms" -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -bezel -artpath artworkgameex

GameEx.ini

[Heretik]

Sounds to me like it's working just fine. The original Space Invaders had no color. It was B&W with color overlays.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9662

[Adultery]

-[no]use_overlays / -[no]overlay

Enables/disables the display of overlays. The default is ON

(-use_overlays).

http://tinyurl.com/czhj45v

[Hastor]

Ok, that explains why sometimes there is color, and other times there isn't. However, why does enabling the bezel disable the overlay? Is this typical Mame behavior? Overlay is enabled in my .ini file, and I'd like to use the overlay if possible. Is it possible to use both bezel for vertical games, as well as overlay? If not, is there a way I can use bezel for everything except one game? Disabling bezel in the game's ini file is overidden by GameEx's command line bezel.

My other thought, assuming this is as-designed, would be to disable bezel in gameex. Unless it turns it off with the command line, which I don't think it does, I could then turn it on in the Mame.ini, and turn it off in game ini files where I want to use overlay. Is it possible to specify the bezel graphic location in the mame.ini the same as the GameEx command line does?

[Hastor]

I just tried specifying the artwork directory in the mame.ini, but had no luck. Looks like the folder gameexartwork is empty. Does it simply copy the bezel file there when it runs a game, then remove it? The folder exists in my Mame directory, but is empty.

[fRequEnCy]

These files must be downloaded and then copied to that directory or one of your choice then called either by the mame.ini file or the command-line.