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Hi all,
In addition to the themes I've created for ARRM ( https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/11850/soft-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager/168 downwards), I've been working on a few "old / retro look" bezels in Photoshop.
I mean, if I'm playing an old Atari 2600 game, or a ZX Spectrum game etc, a "period looking" bezel would be perfect, and that's been my aim.

I've uploaded a few pics of my work in progress so far, and once Im happy with them in Photoshop, I will work out the config files for each.

There are a few more, but, you get the point.
All will be available to anyone who wants them

@michael-lajoie Hiya,
I'm working on the config files just now (so Recalbox knows where on screen the emulator displays the game image, and how much to resize it).

Will hopefully have this done in a few days, as I have done the hard work with the images!

Hello all!
Well, I must be the unluckiest man alive.

I lost my usb stick with the bezels I was working on as shown on here a few months back, and the backup drive failed, meaning I lost a lot of work.

Well, now I have finally finished my bezel collection.
All the below are in 1080p although when I finish the config files it will assume the user is running at 720p, as 1080p overlays is a bit of a strain on a Pi Zero, Pi2 and Pi3 (Recalbox automatically resizes them to 720p).

I have been to so many clip art sites, PNG repositories, retro forums, I have lost track of the sources for the ones I havent created myself.
So, although I have amended, adjusted, changed or added to every single overlay I found online, some beyond recognition, if anyone recognises the source, please do not hesitate to let me know, so that I can give them the credit. I know a few are heavily modified versions from OrionsAngel.

Also, if anyone wants a zip file of these, just let me know and I will put up a download link.

Mods - I see the next release will include overlays. If you wish to include any of my work, feel free and I can forward on the files.

Now for my terrible attempts in French and Spanish......

Bonjour à tous!
Eh bien, je dois être l'homme le plus malchanceux vivant.

J'ai perdu ma clé USB avec les lunettes sur lesquelles je travaillais, comme indiqué ici il y a quelques mois, et le lecteur de sauvegarde a échoué, ce qui signifie que j'ai perdu beaucoup de travail.

Eh bien, maintenant j'ai enfin terminé ma collection de lunettes.
Tous les éléments ci-dessous sont en 1080p, bien que lorsque je termine les fichiers de configuration, il suppose que l'utilisateur fonctionne à 720p, car les superpositions 1080p sont un peu contraignantes pour un Pi Zero, Pi2 et Pi3 (Recalbox les redimensionne automatiquement à 720p).

J'ai visité tellement de sites d'images clipart, de référentiels PNG, de forums rétro, j'ai perdu la trace des sources de celles que je n'ai pas créées moi-même.
Donc, bien que j'aie amendé, ajusté, changé ou ajouté à chaque superposition que j'ai trouvée en ligne, certaines au-delà de la reconnaissance, si quelqu'un reconnaît la source, n'hésitez pas à me le faire savoir, afin que je puisse lui donner le crédit. Je sais que quelques-unes sont des versions fortement modifiées d'OrionsAngel.

De plus, si quelqu'un veut un fichier zip de ceux-ci, faites-le moi savoir et je mettrai un lien de téléchargement.

Mods - Je vois que la prochaine version inclura des superpositions. Si vous souhaitez inclure l'un de mes travaux, n'hésitez pas et je peux transmettre les fichiers.

¡Hola a todos!
Bueno, debo ser el hombre vivo más desafortunado.

Perdí mi memoria USB con los biseles en los que estaba trabajando como se muestra aquí hace unos meses, y la unidad de respaldo falló, lo que significa que perdí mucho trabajo.

Bueno, ahora finalmente he terminado mi colección de bisel.
Todos los siguientes están en 1080p, aunque cuando termine los archivos de configuración, asumirá que el usuario está ejecutando a 720p, ya que las superposiciones de 1080p son un poco exigentes en Pi Zero, Pi2 y Pi3 (Recalbox los redimensiona automáticamente a 720p).

He estado en tantos sitios de imágenes prediseñadas, repositorios PNG, foros retro, he perdido la pista de las fuentes de los que no he creado yo mismo.
Entonces, aunque he modificado, ajustado, cambiado o agregado a cada superposición que encontré en línea, algunas más allá del reconocimiento, si alguien reconoce la fuente, no dude en hacérmelo saber para que pueda darles el crédito. Sé que algunas son versiones muy modificadas de OrionsAngel.

Además, si alguien quiere un archivo zip de estos, hágamelo saber y pondré un enlace de descarga.

Mods: veo que la próxima versión incluirá superposiciones. Si desea incluir alguno de mis trabajos, siéntase libre y puedo reenviar los archivos.

If you download ARRM and simply click on the system you want to check, it will instantly show you the rom name, the name you will see on screen, tbe description, and image file used.
Its then a simple matter of either re-scraping (thru ARRM), or clicking on the image box at the right and selecting an existing image to 're link' to the game.

Honestly, ARRM has been a game changer.
It has so many options I don't understand why anyone would even use a built in scraper!

@Bkg2k Bonjour à tous,
J'espère que mon français est correct....

Je viens de parler à Andy Sinden, qui fait une démonstration de son matériel à Play Expo Blackpool.

Il connaît Recalbox, et c'est sur la liste "à faire".

Il a déclaré que deux personnes l'avaient déjà contacté à ce sujet.

Dit que c'est tout à fait différent, et qu'il devrait désassembler le code et "regarder" pour voir ce qui doit être fait.

Il veut que son arme légère fonctionne sur « tout », alors il veut le faire.

@fretman https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/22742/file-transfer-roms-directly-to-microsd-card-it-works

You need to "add" the partition, but it takes literally seconds.
Your looking for, more than likely, the largest unassigned partition.
Where he says "Go to disk management", just search for "diskmgmt" in the windows search box - that's it.

Hi,
Assuming your using Mame2003, the zip files containing samples go in Recalbox/share/bios/mame2003/samples

@Zing Yes, got to agree with Zing.
If it's made available, before you know it there are copies for sale on ebay, and as its a pre release, with lots of bugs still to be resolved, people pay for it, and think Recalbox is rubbish, or complain on here that stuff doesn't work.

@denys06 Salut,
Je suis écossais et ne parle pas très bien le français.

J'espère rencontrer Andy Sinden, en personne, samedi.

Je lui poserai des questions sur Recalbox si je peux.

https://www.playexpoblackpool.com/whats-on/guests

@digitalumberjack
Erm, when the server went down and the unstable release a lot of us require went with it, do you not think that if the above message was conveyed, people may have been a bit more understanding?
Granted, I'm not saying we the users demand an explanation for everything - that's just ludicrous, but when something as major as a server goes, even a brief explanation as to what was going on in the background would have helped.....

At work just now - gimmie 6 hours !
I will get the original file and the one that Recalbox has changed.

Try ARRM.
Easily the best I've ever used on a PC, and so so many options.
Even something as simple as pulling in "disk 1 of 2" from a disk file name when scraping IF you want it to do so, and being able to create your own 3d cover and screen from images you have downloaded yourself ( for those rare games no database can find).

Honestly - Id never use an on Pi scraper after using it - I used it to re scrape about 30 of my systems.

@wattaman hi, its nothing to do with how powerful the hardware is tbh.
Recalbox, like Batocera and Retropie can only run on Linux based systems.
Below is the only supported hardware:

https://www.recalbox.com/download/stable/

As substring said, press select to bring up the game options and from memory you either scroll down to the delete option, or click on edit game data or summat and delete the game from that sub menu.

Im thinking Recalbox is having issues with filenames that have spaces directly before the file extention.
Admittedly this is an unusual occurance, but, surely it should make no difference......
Its as if its trying to "trim" the image filename........

There is a resolution bug if its connected to a 4k tv.

If you put your microSD card in a laptop / PC and on the share drive,look in the system\ folder, and edit the recalbox.config file, ideally using the free software Notepad++

If you need help getting microSD card recognised in a PC, read this : https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/22741/transferring-roms-directly-to-microsd-card-it-works?_=1611492045304

Change line 54 ish to read :

system.es.videomode=CEA 4 HDMI

That forces it to display 720p (you do NOT want 1080p as it eats up the video RAM)

In there, Id also put "rewind" off, as this kills the speed of lots of emulators. Its around line 320 ish - change to :

##Set rewind for all emulators (0,1)
global.rewind=0

As for audio, lines 205 ish have the following, which may help:

#-------------C - Audio ------------ #
Set the audio device (auto, hdmi, jack)

audio.device=hdmi
Set system volume (0..100)
audio.volume=90
Enable or disable system sounds in ES (0,1)
audio.bgmusic=0

As for games, almost none will work unless you :
A) have the BIOS files for all the emulators
B) have all the rom / game files you want (obtained from, ahem, wherever) for each system.

As a guide, on the share drive, in the bios\ folder, I have 2484 files, so good luck getting them, as its.....a journey!

You can boot up Recalbox and on the front end, once you have configured your controller, press start to bring up the sub menu and do the bios check from in there (cant remember the exact option, but its pretty obvious).

Good luck !

@matra To be fair to the creators, they have put in a $hitload of work, and If you could change the splash screen, the ebay parasites would be on it in seconds.
These guys do all the hard work for free and on ebay it's just a joke the amount of people selling setups.....

Hi all,
As touched upon in one of my earlier posts, I was intending to use "ken rename" to bulk rename the game files and the associated image files, then do a "search & replace" in the xml file to refer to the new file names.

Thankfully, nexusone13 tested my files and had the exact same problems as myself, and renamed the files for me, removing the 3 spaces in each file name.

This seems to have done the trick - it looks as if it was the spaces causing the issue and not the "STE" in the filenames.

To be honest, I wasnt sure it would be the STE causing the issue, as there are games out there that have those letters in the file with no problems (eg any game with the word "step" in the title).

Anyway, with the 3 spaces removed, I have booted up the ST emulator, played games, reset the Pi, shut it down, did a quick shut down as well, put the usb stick in my PC and booted up ARRM, and........everything now seems fine !

Thanks for all the help (especially nexusone13), and suggestions everyone.

Salut, mon français est vraiment mauvais.

Je comprends que l'équipe de Recalbox ne souhaite pas ajouter des émulateurs qui ne fonctionnent pas très bien, et je suis d'accord avec cela, mais il est étrange que la Jaguar soit incluse, pourtant, sur chaque jeu publié dessus, je suis satisfait de la vitesse. et l'émulation de seulement 3 d'entre eux sur mon Pi4 (je les ai tous essayés), pourtant, le Saturne n'est pas inclus. J'ai essayé quelques jeux Saturn sur "d'autres systèmes", et oui, je suis d'accord avec l'équipe - les jeux 3D sont, bien, médiocres, mais, beaucoup de bons côtés 2d sur les jeux sont en fait vraiment sympas.
J'ai également essayé l'émulateur NDS sur un Pi4 et c'est mauvais - vraiment vraiment mauvais, mais je pense que ce sera inclus dans 7.2?

Je comprends également que vous ne pouvez pas plaire à tout le monde tout le temps - il doit y avoir un compromis.

Quoi qu'il en soit, il semble que Singe pourrait bientôt être inclus dans Recalbox, et c'est une GRANDE surprise de le voir travailler en ce moment

@substring
substring, if you could lock it down completely I would. I don't think you would find many complaining if you did.
Yes, people (myself included!) come on here and have a moan every now and then, but we'd never rip off all the hard work that's been done.
The ebay sellers clearly have no shame or conscience..