Bezel Help!

[moparmaniac]

Not too long ago, all my bezels were working fine. Now tonight I can't seem to get them to work.

I've upgraded to Version .129 . Has something changed? Could someone run over their config for me so I can compare notes?? Thanks!

[bkenobi]

There was a change in the bezel system somewhere after MAME v0.100. If it's been a while since you updated MAME, you might need to get a new set.

[moparmaniac]

My last mame version update was from V.126 to .129 I know it was working, but for some reason no matter what I try it won't show the bezel artwork.

One question...These are saved in individual zip files for each game that has a bezel artwork overlay. Did they need to be unzipped to work?

Are there any ini files or something that may be interfering with locating the right directory for the artwork.

[fRequEnCy]

  moparmaniac said:

My last mame version update was from V.126 to .129 I know it was working, but for some reason no matter what I try it won't show the bezel artwork.

One question...These are saved in individual zip files for each game that has a bezel artwork overlay. Did they need to be unzipped to work?

Are there any ini files or something that may be interfering with locating the right directory for the artwork.

They do not need to be unzipped to work! Leave them in their current state. Just make sure you're pointing to the correct directory and that bezels are enabled. Look for these options in the mame.ini file.

#
# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
rompath				   Path to your roms.
samplepath				samples
artpath				   Path to your artwork
ctrlrpath				 ctrlr
inipath				   ini
fontpath				  .

#
# CORE ARTWORK OPTIONS
#
artwork_crop			  0
use_backdrops			 1
use_overlays			  1
use_bezels				1

[bkenobi]

Nope, keep them zipped. There are at least 2 files for each bezel (a picture and an overlay and maybe another ascii file...can't remember). Anyway, things shouldn't have changed from those versions. Perhaps you could check/post the command line for a game that should have artwork. Make sure you either have the switch to show bezels in the command line or set to on in the mame.ini file. Also, make sure that they are not disabled in the game's ini file (hit tab and go to display settings while in the game).

[moparmaniac]

Will test out some things when I get home this evening and post findings..I know it's gotta be something simple I'm just overlooking.

[moparmaniac]

Ok..well I downloaded another mame emulator (MameUI) with the newly released version .130 and tested it from scratch and the artwork bezels worked!

I went through my mame folder and cleaned out all my exe, txt, and ini files and then moved over the mame exe files and such and tested it out in GameEx and all is back to normal.

Don't know what happened, but it's working again!

Thanks guys..

[bkenobi]

Cool. It was probably just something in your mame.ini, but that can be hard to track down sometimes.