Amiberry: Add Bezel support

[qqplayer]

Sorry its not an issue but I`m not sure where can I post this suggestion.
I really love this project , works great on the rpi but if you can add bezel support it will be totally awesome.
I mean just a "generic" system bezel will be great.
Thanks for the work.

[Darknior]

Yes, same for me, i love your work and use it on my PI <3
But on AMIGA all the games are 4/3 and there is big black bar on my TV around the game screen ...
If you can add an easy bezel system like on Retroarch emulators, a directory where we can put PNG images with same name that the game and Amiberry will use them on the game to mask the black on the screen :)
With a default.png one for the games who has no specific bezel ...
It will be a dream ... thanks a lot.

[midwan]

It's not impossible, but I need to focus on the higher priority stuff first :)
We'll keep it in the wishlist.

[ransom1122]

Thanks Midwan. If you need special designed art I'm more then happy to start creating them for each game. I will mock up a few example Amiberry Bezels.. Maybe the tease will advance it to #1 on your wish list? 😁

[ransom1122]

@midwan As promised here are some Amiga Bezels I have created so you can see how it may look implemented in Amiberry.

http://i66.tinypic.com/mbqupw.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/241pmw5.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/2weeyr4.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/91dp9w.jpg

[midwan]

Thanks @ransom1122
We'll definitely need some artwork, I'm thinking we can ship with a default at least (or a few!) and then optionally check for one that matches a "known title" (probably combined with the XML list for known WHDLoad titles), so it can show a different one per game.

But I'll need to experiment with it a bit and make sure it works without problems also.

[ransom1122]

@midwan. Completely agree that Amiberry should only use a default bezel. Anything extra can be done by the public. I believe Toni has already incorporated bezel use with winuae and also floppy drive led activity within bezel. Personally I think a bezel templates more then enough.

These previews are complete jpg only. I have the actual psd file which is used in photoshop with the transparent screen area if you need it?

[toddholaday]

I'm also excited about this possibility. Just curious, though. Is it possible to make Amiberry into a Libreto emulator? Because doing so, would de facto add overlays, shaders and all the other options that are so nice for continuity from one game system to another.

[ransom1122]

I assume it stays Amiberry with its own built bezel system. Libretro end up breaking emulators when they're ported... Midwan is the man... I know he can make it happen..

[midwan]

@toddholaday
The plan is to do this in Amiberry natively first.
There is another plan for attempting a libretro core port, but as that's something I haven't done before, it's sitting in the back waiting until I get a chance to work on that. If anyone else wishes to assist, they are more than welcome of course (which goes for all efforts in general, just get in touch first to make sure we're not duplicating work).

[toddholaday]

Thanks for the reply and the offer. Unfortunately, I lack the skillset to
attempt a libretro core port. Thanks for all your work on this though. It
is great fun to use this emulator and to see the effort put into it
continuing. I have done considerable work on a more compact version of the
ransom image so it can coexist on a 128mb image with other systems, with
work put into making the media in the gamelist.xml as complete as seems
possible using Skraper provided boxart, marquees, manuals and videos. If
that would be of some use to you let me know.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 2:45 PM Dimitris Panokostas [e-mail]
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@toddholaday https://github.com/toddholaday
The plan is to do this in Amiberry natively first.
There is another plan for attempting a libretro core port, but as that's
something I haven't done before, it's sitting in the back waiting until I
get a chance to work on that. If anyone else wishes to assist, they are
more than welcome of course (which goes for all efforts in general, just
get in touch first to make sure we're not duplicating work).

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