MAME Bezel/Background issue

[Hasslehogg]

Guys

 

Wondering if anyone can help me please. I am using bezels fine across all systems possible apart from MAME.

On my setup, i have a bezel that is an outside of a screen, like a screen frame and then backgrounds with artwork in them that also acts as a bezel, say for instance altered beast, the background has the instructions and buttons down the sides but also is shaped liked a curved screen.

Now my problem is i cant seem to display just the background, i NEED to have the bezel in the folder otherwise no bezel/background shows at all and its just blank. I dont want to TV frame at all, anyone know how to get rid of it but still show the background pls, its driving me mad

thanks in advance

[Hasslehogg]

ignore guys

 

worked out i can rename the background to bezel, now just to get screen size correct the same way that the unified bezels do

[griffin518]

Good work figuring that out, this is the most common question from new users of RL bezels.

A large percentage of the original bezels use a smaller screen size area, with a curved cut-out, based on the original bezels (or an exact scan of them). What you'll find it that the screen size must be smaller in order to fit the cut-out. What some of us have done is the use a set with the TV frame overlay to make 1) the display area be full size, and 2) to make it look more consistent or "unified."

If you're OK with not fitting the area to the cut-out, you can use a transparent png as your bezel image file, which will leave the art behind the game area. It's up to you.