News Archive - Mr. Do!'s Arcade

GENERAL UPDATE - January 10, 2020

Congrats to hydef

Due to the quality of his work, IGN saw fit to use hydef's artwork in a recent article about Game & Watch. You can check out the article and video below:

The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo

SITE UPDATE - January 01, 2020

In-Game Artwork: 1 new set

Small update for the New Year!

I read somewhere that it was not possible to use MAME with tilted artwork and tilted screen. I just wanted to show that is incorrect.

Grab the new artwork file mspacmnf.ZIP from the In-Game Artwork page.

Run MAME using the following options:
- video: bgfx
- bgfx_screen_chains: crt-geom
Once in MAME, use the ˜ menu, and change the following options to the listed values:
- tilt x = -0.90
- distance to screen = 4.0

That's it. You can now run mspacmnf in the most recent version of MAME, and it will look just like the screenshot as shown on the download page.

However... changes you make in the ˜ menu are not permanent. If you want to keep these changes for this game:

Copy the mspacmnf.ini file in the artwork ZIP file to the \ini subfolder of your MAME install
Copy the crt-geom_mspacmnf.json file in the artwork ZIP file to the \bgfx\chains subfolder of your MAME install

Now you can always play this game with this artwork view. Hopefully this helps people that are interested in creating new types of MAME Artwork.

If you would like to see it in action, YouTube video is linked below:

SITE UPDATE - December 30, 2019

Google Drive (Link Removed) — MAME Artwork Update 20191229

Linked above is the Google Drive folder for the December 2019 MAME Artwork update. One folder for the artwork; another for the screenshots.

SITE UPDATE - December 29, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 46 new sets; 48 additional sets updated; 34 files removed; 62 files temporarily removed

One more update before the year is over.

First, the tl;dr of why hydef's artwork has been temporarily removed: the artwork is amazing, but I have not had enough time to update this site as he continues to update many of the already completed titles. It is better that I link everyone to the most current versions of the artwork, rather than have an old version here, and the newer version somewhere else. I will keep the extra newspost on my frontpage, along with a current copy of the DAT file, so that everyone can stay up to date.

For those that have been around for a few years, a while ago I collaborated with this one guy who ended up screwing me over by taking artwork that I had scanned, cleaning it up, promoting it on his website, then not sending it back this way, and even actually printing copies and selling it. He even sold a second copy of Space Harrier this year. Live and learn, I guess. Since that time, he has been banned from multiple arcade and emulation websites, yet somehow, he is still active on a particular one today. Hopefully he has learned his ways by now. Anyway…

Space Harrier is done!! I have waited soooo long for this. The deluxe cabinet version of Space Harrier is my all-time favorite arcade game ever, and we finally have full artwork for it in MAME. The marquee we have now turned out way better than the version the other guy did, thanks to the efforts of muddymusic. When you get a chance, go ahead and check out Arcade Art Shop to check out the quality of more of his work. We have a couple more things coming from him in the next update.

Back to Space Harrier… upright artwork is complete for both US and JPN variations. Thank you also to the awesome photos made available by Jodo over at the UKVAC forums, and from Stefano CSW over on Flickr. Also thank you to Vas Crabb for transcribing the text from the JPN version of the instruction card, so that it could also be added.

Atari's Destroyer and Sky Raider both now have full artwork. Thank you to TrevEB for scanning the background artwork and taking pictures of the cabs, and to Comboman for cleaning it up and putting it all together. I did a little bit of extra work on the cabinet artwork, shifter, and trigger button, which are all animated now. The volcano buttons for these, and the other applicable games below, are courtesy of SteelTiger.

Tournament Table and Pong Doubles both have artwork, recreated by Comboman.

The Ladybug bezel has had its colors adjusted. Again. Thank you to Comboman for getting it started in the right direction. After going through tens of pics all over the internet, I think this is finally correct. If you happen to look yourself later and compare different pics, you will see what I mean. While we were at it, might as well add the marquee and the control panel also. I cleaned up the marquee, courtesy of the BYOAC/CAG artwork. Thank you to Nightvoice for recreating the control panel and buttons.

Thank you to Comboman for originally tackling the artwork for Atari's original Breakout. Unfortunately, the bezel needed to be redone because, among other things, the scan suffered from scanner skip, which plagues many of the files from the BYOAC/CAG artwork. Hopefully I can do a write-up on this for the next update to explain the situation, so that people that are using these files to reprint artwork for their real cabinets are aware of the problem. I ended up re-cleaning the entire bezel and marquee, and am now happy with it. Against our usual rules, the bezel and marquee for this game in the artwork set is full-size, ready to print. I would much rather people use this version, than the version that is currently floating around everywhere else. To complete the artwork for Breakout, Comboman recreated the control panel, the start buttons are courtesy of Nightvoice, and the volcano button is courtesy of SteelTiger. I hit some snags on the cocktail version of this, so that will come out next update.

After being made available on zorg's site for so long, UDb23 put together the artwork for the Williams version of 1942. Thank you to 7146aaron for providing the bezel artwork, and for Andykmv for scanning it. Thank you to TheShanMan for providing and scanning the marquee and instruction card. To fix up the rest of the artwork, I fixed the colors up a bit on the Romstar bezel, and added the Romstar marquee, courtesy of the BYOAC/CAG artwork again. The control panel for both versions will be completed at a later date.

UDb23 also recreated the bezel for Taito Volleyball, based on multiple photos, and also cleaned up the marquee, courtesty of the BYOAC/CAG artwork.

After looking at 1942, we took a look at the other games in the series. We added some fun widescreen artwork to both 1941 and 19xx, based on a couple flyers. After looking 1943, it needs to be redone; the current version has some colors that are off, and is actually missing quite a bit of detail. Unfortunately, time ran out, so that should come out next update.

UDb23 redid one of the bezels for the DECO series of cabinets. This had previously been done a while back, but after comparing his version to the current version we had, I noticed that his was symmetrical (all four fourths of the bezel are exactly the same), while the existing version was not, so that has been replaced. After that, we looked at the other version of the bezel, and it needed fixing also, along with some color correction. Thank you also to Nightvoice for recreating the control panel for this, along with the buttons. The version with both the bezel and control panel is now the primary view in the artwork set, while the other bezel is the secondary version.

Something we noticed a while back; the bios decocass is the parent for all of the DECO Cassette games in the MAME driver, which means that the artwork available in the artwork decocass is available to all those games. Rather than have thirty-five copies of the same file, the artwork sets for the thirty-four individual games have been removed, and only the file for decocass remains. In the future, when we add artwork that is specific to one of these games (e.g. the marquee), then the file for that game will be added back in. At the end of the day, this makes it easier to keep things up to date.

Back to the DECO bezel that UDb23 redid, that bezel also applies to Mad Alien and Tomahawk 777, so those have both been updated.

Still not finished, UDb23 recreated the bezel for Crazy Balloon, and cleaned up the marquee available from the BYOAC/CAG artwork. From that same artwork, he also cleaned up the marquee for Sky Soldiers, and also the bezel we scanned for that same game.

Finally, he also finished cleaning up the bezel for Exidy's Crash, which was scanned by TrevEB. Thank you to Comboman for noticing the Bertolino version available at The Dragon's Lair Project. That version has now been added, thanks to vectorization by Spinnhacker. The bezel for Smash, which was previously in the Crash artwork set, has now been moved to its own artwork set.

Thanks to Comboman for noticing that the marquee in APB is animated. I borrowed the marquee from krakerman's version of the artwork to update that here.

Mr. Retrolust continues to send stuff our way, while updating his own work over at the LaunchBox forums. Thanks to him, we now have bezels for A.B. Cop, Alien Storm, and Racing Hero.

The Taito bezel for Space Cyclone was completed some time ago, but before the game had a driver in MAME. Now that it is, we can add the bezel.

Back to variations on the Radar Scope bezel, both the Nintendo upright version of Space Firebird, and a clone of that game, Space Demon, use different color variations of that same bezel. Both have now been added.

Now that Sega's Star Wars Arcade is working in MAME, it seems only right to add the really cool control panel artwork. Man, how I wish I had kept all the pics I took back when I was working on the Control Panel project. The final version of that pic was only 1000px wide. I did what I could for now; if anyone happens to live in vicinity of the Galloping Ghost Arcade, they have the game there. If you are really good with a camera, I would love a newer version of this pic, at the same angle, just way better resolution, if possible.

Small updates to the Star Wars Trilogy artwork and Asteroids Deluxe artwork.

Earlier this year when creating the current generic artwork, I had found another cool starmap pic from NASA's website. Turns out this looks really nice as widescreen artwork in Asteroids. We will add it to other games on the next update.

Also noticed that the flyer for Tempest looks really cool as a bezel, so that has been added. Thank you to Dan at Flyer Fever for the scan of that.

Back when Toys to Life games were still the rage, there was a game called Lego Dimensions, which I spent probably hundreds of hours on, and yes, I have the complete set at home. One of the DLC sets for that game was called Midway Arcade and was really cool, in that it was like a follow-up to Midway Arcade Origins, but all of the artwork in the game was lego-ized. Now that it is no longer for sale, here is the artwork files ripped from the game, to be used in MAME. For the complete list of games affected, you can check the Arcade Compilations page. Note that for Spy Hunter, the artwork for the High Gear was a bit, um, klunky. It looked bad, switching gears, and is noticeable in the real game. That has been fixed, and the fixed version is what is used in the current artwork, but the klunky version is also in the file, for those that would like to experience it. Notes included in the LAY file.

While doing other miscellaneous cleanup, we noticed that there were three more games added to the United Amusements PC Engine driver. The artwork for Blazing Lazers has been updated, and also copied over for Alien Crush, Keith Courage, and Pac-Land for that system.

We are getting closer to moving over and/or replacing the final files from MESS Artwork, so that Stiletto can finally retire the site. Today we have replacement artwork for to7, t0770, to8, to9,and to9p for computers, along with small updates for mo5, mo5nr, and mo6. For game consoles, we have artwork for a2600, famicom, fds, genesis, nes, sms, snes. The genesis artwork is currently only the Nomad handheld. We will add the actual console artwork next update. All console artwork updates thanks to Evan Amos.

The sets a1000n and a500n have been renamed to a1000 and a500, so that they are the parent set.

Thank you to John IV, Robbbert, and Tafoid for reporting and testing some artwork errors found in ccmk1, ccmk2, and ebases. These have all been found and corrected in the updated files.

Chess games have seen renewed interest this year. Thank you to hap for helping update the artwork system so that chess board and pieces can be used in external artwork again. For today, we have fdes2100d, with artwork supplied courtesy of Volodymyr. Hopefully we can add artwork for more chess games going forward.

Added artwork for the following Tiger handheld games that hydef does not have artwork for: taddams, tddragon3, tgaiden, tinday, tmchammer, and trobocop2. Between this site and hydef's artwork, that should cover all the artwork available on Sean's temporary site. If I missed any, please let me know, and we will get that corrected next update.

With these updates, we are only missing three sets left from the old MESS site. Commodore 64, which I already have planned for next update. Gameboy Advance, which I was hoping to receive from someone a couple months ago; I will have to reach out again. And Vectrex. uman has done an amazing job on redoing all of the overlays in hi-res quality, and I have them all here ready to go. I am just waiting for the hi-res pic of the Vectrex system that he has, so that we can complete the artwork.

Finally, for some fun stuff, I noticed a while back that Nightvoice created specific artwork files for some HB MAME games. There are a lot of games I do enjoy in HB MAME, so I thought I would give it a try, and add artwork for a few of these. The bezel for vecbtime was done by Nightvoice. He also did a bezel for Rainbow Donkey Kong. Inspired by his, I did mine slightly different. Also created bezels for galagax (1942 mixed with Galaga), mrdigdo and newdigdo (Mr. Do! with Dig Dug sprites), and stapper (Tapper with Simpson's sprites). Thank you to Robbbert for adding a couple of the games from the Model 3 Tesla, you can play missilet and mmadness while sitting in your car, enjoying the view. Also added the Spice Girls Tiger handheld, courtesy of Pangent Technologies.

Phew! That was a lot. If you are still with me, we have some site updates to talk about.

I reorganized the artwork table on the download page a bit. Removed the column for the LAY files, as it is pretty redundant to have now, and it freed up some room. Added a couple columns to define Artwork type, and redefined this where necessary for all 1400+ artwork files. For a complete explanation of the Artwork Type, Artwork Effects, and Category, you can check the Artwork Category page. Finally, moved the download column from the far right to the far left, and it looks and feels better there. I also figured out a way to create a copy of the Table Header down in the footer, so as you are scrolling down past the top of the table, you can still view the Column Headers at the bottom, so things make sense. It lines up "mostly correct" on my end, depending on the window size. Please let me know if it looks way wonky in your browser.

That will do it for 2019. I know I keep saying it, but I hope to get to updating this site more regularly, real-life work permitting. I was able to get a bunch of stuff out of the way with this update, so I am hoping that will actually be possible for 2020. I also have to get back to scanning more of the artwork I have sitting here, as I promised UDb23 some of the stuff I have sitting here today.

I will add the link for the Google Drive folder for this update tomorrow.

SITE UPDATE - July 1, 2019

Google Drive (Link Removed) — MAME Artwork Update 20190630

Going to try something new here.

I understand the trouble it must be to download files one at a time each time there is a MAME Artwork Update.

I have now setup a Google Drive account, which will contain the most recent files update, along with the snapshots. This should make it easier for people to download each update, and also alleviate a bit of bandwidth off of MAMEWorld at the same time.

Each update going forward, I will replace the existing files with the next future update.

SITE UPDATE - June 30, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 35 new sets; 49 additional sets updated

Fixing old stuff

Today we have more sets being updated than actually new artwork sets. Let us get right into it.

hydef has more Game & Watch updates for us. First, we have the following new files: Balloon Fight, Chef, Climber (Crystal Screen), Fire Attack, Octopus, Parachute, Popeye, Turtle Bridge, and Zelda. In addition, all of the other Game & Watch games have also been updated. Among other fixes, you will notice is that the game cases look more realistic than the previous versions here. I also went through and updated all of the credits in the LAY file for each game; I am hoping I got them all correct finally. (If you donated a game, you get credit for donating the artwork; if you did the actual scanning or cleanup of the artwork, you get credit for that). If I missed anyone, please let me know.

I still have older stuff on my end from other users that I need to get caught up on. First, we have King of Dragons, with complete artwork for the marquee, bezel, and control panel, thanks to Lord Hiryu from Arcade Forever. Much of this was thanks to pencil drawings contributed by Buyatari at KLOV, which were then traced and colored in. Very amazing work on this one. We still do not have the instruction sticker that goes with this version of the bezel today; hopefully it will turn up later at some point.

We have a few submissions from UDb23 today. First, he cleaned up the existing bezel instruction card for Choplifter. With that, I remembered an old thread on KLOV that included a partial scan of the bezel from Nondrowsy. From there, I was able to complete the bezel for this one. That same bezel also covers My Hero and Wonderboy. For Wonderboy, I also cleaned up the bezel instruction card, provided by tormod.

Also from UDb23, he cleaned up the Sega cocktail instruction card for Frogger. I wanted to help make that shine a bit more, so I recreated the rest of the components needed, so that the artwork view looks like a real Sega cocktail table from that time.

Robcfg was kind enough to send in a real nice scan of his V.Smile pocket handheld. I cleaned it up a bit more, and the buttons are all clickable in the Artwork View.

More stuff from Comboman's previously completed artwork. He added realistic control panels with the arcade shifter to many driving games. I started with Outrun. He did a great job with finding good pics of a bezel and control panel. From there, I fixed the aspect on the bezel, so that it would be the right size for a 4:3 game, and did some touchups on the control panel to clean things up here and there. The marquee is courtesy of the BYOAC / CAG artwork, with additional touchups by both Comboman and myself. For the flashing start lamp, I liked the version that Nightvoice did, so that is also in there. For the Cabaret view, I also added the map onto a marquee topper that that version of the cabinet came with. This cabinet had a different control panel, though, so no update on that yet.

After doing Outrun, it only made sense to use the same elements for Turbo Outrun, as one of the options back then was to convert an Outrun upright to Turbo Outrun. Just had to change the start button to a green button, along with Nightvoice's flashing lamp to green, and add the Turbo sticker above it. No marquee unfortunately at this time. You want to make sure that in the dipswitch settings, you set the Turbo button option to Start Button, so that it works correctly.

Spy Hunter was next on the list. The CPO comes courtesy of the BYOAC / CAG artwork again, with the rest of the control panel elements from Comboman. After starting on Spy Hunter, though, I noticed a couple things. One... the lamps did not pop like I would like them to. Two... there were mistakes in the bezel that I never caught when we first added Spy Hunter. The bezel mistakes have been fixed, and the lamps look a lot cooler now. I also added the marquee, for both the upright version, and the cockpit version, courtesy of BYOAC / CAG artwork. (both use the same bezel and control panel). As if that was not enough already, during some browsing around, I saw that there was a Spanish version of the bezel artwork. It is not completely perfect, as this was done basically with one photo, but I think it came out pretty good. Made the Start button Spanish also. Was not sure if the CPO would be different or not also, so I have not touched that yet. If anyone else has ever seen a Spanish cabinet, get some pics so that we can confirm.

After that, I started finishing up Turbo. Comboman found a good pic of an upright control panel. I replaced the gearshift handle, added the sticker to it, and added the sticker in the steering wheel. The original artwork file had the tachometer sitting in the bezel area, which was simply incorrect, plus, when I first created that, it was a VERY long time ago, when I was not as good at Photoshop, so that had to be fixed. I redid the whole tachometer, so it is more accurate in regards to font, colors, and geometry. In the real cabinet, the upright simply had the Control Panel, the cockpit version had a different Control Panel with the tachometer built-in, and the gearshift was down near the seat on the left hand side. I took Comboman's existing Control Panel and tweaked it to match as best I could the cockpit version, and from there, setup both the Upright and Cockpit views correctly. And thank you to Nightvoice for setting up the start button lamp in his version, so I could copy the LAY file code from there.

Once Turbo was done, I figured I would add the flashing Start lamp to the other games in the Turbo driver: Subroc 3D and Buck Rogers. That did not work out, though, due to not having source material that I was happy enough with. But in doing so, I now was not happy with the current Subroc artwork. The sight in the middle of the screen was always "off", and I have seen pics of it where it is lit up red. I just cannot find any video of the actual game in action, so not sure how it really appears in game. For now, I changed the sight to the red version, but left the original in the file if necessary for later updates. In regards to the score bezel above the screen, I noticed some things were off when comparing to actual cabinet pics, and as this was one of the artworks that was simply carried over from the old artwork system 16 years ago, I redid the artwork for it, and I think it looks a bit better now.

For one more from Comboman, we have Ripcord, scanned courtesy of TrevEB. Only thing I changed is resizing the ripcord handle to align with the bezel, similar to the real cab.

We have a couple new things from a new contributor, Mr. Retrolust. First, we have bezel artwork for Truxton, redrawn based on existing pics. We also have a different version of the bezel and instruction card for Shadow Dancer.

Many, many years ago, gregf purchased a backdrop for Tornado Baseball and dropped it off at my house for future inclusion in MAME Artwork. I never got around to it, mainly because at that time, I was still teaching myself stuff on how to cleanup artwork well, and was not confident enough yet to tackle the job, so it sat in my garage for a while, but I never forgot about it. As years went by, I finally got to the point where I felt I could do a good job on this one, but I had a new snag; how to get the picture correctly, when in the original cabinet, it had a blacklight on the display, giving it a whole different look. Ended up being simple enough... I went out and bought a good blacklight, one of those long, skinnny ones, like a fluorescent tube. Waited until after sunset, so it was dark outside, set everything up in my bedroom, turned off the hall light, closed the door, turned off the room lights, and it was completely dark. Turned on the blacklight, took a bunch of pics at different angles, and picked the best one. So now Tornado Baseball has backdrop artwork. Double Play uses the same backdrop, just without the stickers for the scoreboard, so that also has artwork. Somewhere down the line, I also picked up a backdrop for Extra Innings, so that also has artwork (hit all the letters in MIDWAY to extend your gameplay). There was still one more Midway baseball game left from that time, but I did not have the backdrop for that one. I tried editing one of the other two backdrops to match, but the end work did not look natural when I was done. Then one day when going through some older pics of stuff, I found that at some point, I had taken a picture of an Extra Bases somewhere. Using color matching in Photoshop with one of the others as reference, the result came out pretty good. Not as good as the other two, but acceptable for the time being. You need to make sure to set your dipswitch to a black and white monitor to use the backdrop artwork correctly.

I have a bunch of stuff from Etienne and other members that frequent the Dragon's Lair Fans website. For today, we have the marquee for Star Wars Trilogy. The game is not completely working at this time, but I love this marquee.

I updated Cheyenne by mistake, forgetting that it was already done the last release.

The View names in the Gameboy file were updated to be the actual names of those color version back when it was released. I am not happy, though, with the current regular Gameboy view, so that is going to be updated next update.

Almost eleven years ago, I first setup artwork for the various Beatmania games. Again, this was back when I was still new at stuff. Long story short, the artwork was setup incorrectly, and has been wrong all this time. smf was kind enough to point out to me some time ago that lamps were done incorrectly. The current artwork, both the left and right lamps flash blue for any keypress. The way it was supposed to be, the left lamp is for Player One, the right lamp is for Player Two. It flashes blue if you hit the note correctly; it flashes red if hit the note incorrectly. The speaker lamps flash based on the rythm of the current song. I had never noticed before he told me that, having never played the game, and still learning at this. Unfortunately, getting good pics of a machine turned into a very long waiting game. Finally, I found an arcade that had a machine in very good shape, and I was able to take good pictures at. The artwork for all games looks WAY better than before, and works correctly. The marquee between the speakers is still faked, using the title screen as a basis, but I put more work into them this time, so they look closer to the actual marquees than the previous versions. All existing artwork has been updated, and we now have artwork for the games where it has been missing for some time: 7th MIX, Club MIX, and THE FINAL. I also put the artwork for the two hiphopmania games in their own file.

In working to finish up replacing the remaining files from the old MESS artwork page, we are ever so close; we are down to thirteen after this update. I moved over the existing artwork for mdndclab as-is, originally done by Bad A Billy. Updated the computer artwork for trs80 and pro128. Also updated the artwork for mac128k and macplus, but I guess these drivers do not currently work, so hey, at least the artwork is now there for when it does. Updated the four Sharp Pocket Computers; all four also have working clickable artwork. Tomytronic Tron has a fresh artwork file also. Also, for the Thomson computers that are currently done, I added back in the old artwork, reason being that the author of the MAME driver is the one who specifically created that artwork, and I am assuming it was for good reason he wanted it. No reason to throw it out just because the new one is "shinier," so it is back in as an option. When we update the remaining Thomson computers, same thought process will hold.

On the console side of things, first we have artwork for Sega Game Gear. The site where the original rendered file was hosted is no longer around, or available on archive.org. From there, SteelTigers adapted it and finshed it up into fantastic artwork, along with four alternate color variations. All buttons are also clickable in the artwork.

We have more Gameboy artwork, based on the work by BLUEamnesiac over at DeviantArt. As I was adding in the artwork, I noticed little things that I had not seen the first time around, so I had to spend a good bit of time fixing things for each version. For the Gameboy Pocket, the fonts for Select, Start, A, B, ON, OFF have been corrected, the GAME BOY pocket logo has been corrected, and the font and graphics for POWER have been corrected. For the Gameboy Light, corrected the fonts for Select, Start, and the On/Off switch, plus fixed the orientation of the Select and Start buttons and the Nintendo logo, along with the POWER font and graphics. For the Gameboy Color, fixed the font for Select, Start, and COMM, the size of the Nintendo logo, and the POWER font and graphics.

In total, there are eleven variations of Gameboy Pocket, three of Gameboy Light, and seven of Gameboy Color. As I wanted to add something special, I also added in a special edition of each Gameboy type. For the Pocket, I added the Hello Kitty version. For Light, I added the Pokemon Center Tokyo version. For Color, I added the Pokemon version with Jigglypuff and Togepi. Trivia note: the colors in the C-O-L-O-R part of the Gameboy COLOR logo are the five colors that the handheld was first released as.

The Gameboy Light has a color overlay to try and match the effect of what the screen looks like with the light on, based on various pics and videos that I could find. As there is no separate file for the Gameboy Light at this time, that artwork is built-in to the Gameboy Pocket artwork file.

That is it for today... I was hoping to have the Gameboy Advance done along with the other three, but the things that need to be fixed in that one are going to take a bit more work. I have reached out to someone who at one point had a bunch of GBA stuff done for another area of the internet, but things happened, and it never got released. I am hoping he answers back and will have second thoughts. Also hoping to have the old MESS Artwork remaining to be zero by next release. Vectrex will be done if I ever get that last missing piece (hint hint). See you soon.

SITE UPDATE - March 24, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 289 new sets

What happens in MAME, stays in MAME.

This is going to be a short news update, but a large set update, at the same time.

Back in June 2018, Divemaster started working on some nice bezel and button artwork for some casino games in MAME. Each game has a nice generic widescreen bezel, along with the different colored buttons for each game. All lamps are animated.

He started off with 12 games back then; thru March 2019, he has worked his way up to 444. Today's update contains 289 of those.

Many of his files already had clickable buttons already coded in, but that stopped at some point, so I have been going through and adding that in for the remaining games. I could add the other 155 sets today, but they would not have clickable artwork yet, so I will get to those as soon as I can. If you map the coin input to one of your mouse buttons, you can play all of these games using just your mouse, if desired.

How many games is 289 new sets? This now adds external artwork for the following casino games:

3bagflvt, abnudge, ampoker2, amusco, anibonus, apple10, arcwins, autmoon, babydad, babypkr, baddog, bingo, bingowng, blckjack, blkrhino, bonuscrd, bottle10, brasil86, brasil87, brasil89, bsuerte, buttdeli, cgold2, chry10, chrygld, cmaster, cmv4, cmv801, coralr2, crystal, crystalc, draw88pkr, eforest, eforsta5, elephfam, falcnwld, fb2010, ffortune, fhunter, fvrpitch, gldnpkr, goldenc, goldnpkr, goldstar, gtroppo, kgbird, kkotnoli, lucky8, megadpkr, minemine, nc96, ncb3, nfb96, ns8lines, pebe0014, peip0028, peip0031, peip0041, peke1001, pekoc766, pekoc801, pekoc802, pekoc803, pekoc804, pekoc806, pekoc818, pekoc819, pekoc822, pekoc825, pepk1024, pepp0001, pepp0048, pepp0054, pepp0120, pepp0127, pepp0158, pepp0232, pepp0250, pepp0294, pepp0295, pepp0434, pepp0450, pepp0452, pepp0514, pepp0542, pepp0775, pepp0816, peps0014, peps0021, peps0042, peps0047, peps0090, peps0239, peps0280, peps0296, peps0308, peps0358, peps0366, peps0425, peps0470, peps0629, peps0708, peps0716, pex0002p, pex0006p, pex0040p, pex0042p, pex0045p, pex0046p, pex0053p, pex0054p, pex0055p, pex0057p, pex0060p, pex0124p, pex0150p, pex0158p, pex0171p, pex0188p, pex0190p, pex0197p, pex0203p, pex0224p, pex0225p, pex0242p, pex0265p, pex0291p, pex0417p, pex0426p, pex0430p, pex0434p, pex0447p, pex0449p, pex0451p, pex0452p, pex0454p, pex0455p, pex0458p, pex0459p, pex0508p, pex0514p, pex0515p, pex0516p, pex0536p, pex0537p, pex0550p, pex0557p, pex0568p, pex0578p, pex0581p, pex0588p, pex0725p, pex0726p, pex0727p, pex0763p, pex0764p, pex0838s, pex0998s, pex2002p, pex2010p, pex2016p, pex2017p, pex2018p, pex2021p, pex2024p, pex2025p, pex2026p, pex2027p, pex2028p, pex2029p, pex2031p, pex2033p, pex2034p, pex2035p, pex2036p, pex2037p, pex2038p, pex2039p, pex2040p, pex2042p, pex2043p, pex2044p, pex2045p, pex2066p, pex2067p, pex2068p, pex2069p, pex2070p, pex2111p, pex2121p, pex2127p, pex2134p, pex2143p, pex2149p, pex2150p, pex2152p, pex2172p, pex2173p, pex2178p, pex2179p, pex2180p, pex2211p, pex2236p, pex2240p, pex2241p, pex2244p, pex2245p, pex2247p, pex2250p, pex2251p, pex2252p, pex2270p, pex2272p, pex2275p, pex2276p, pex2279p, pex2283p, pex2284p, pex2287p, pex2297p, pex2302p, pex2303p, pex2306p, pex2307p, pex2308p, pex2309p, pex2310p, pex2312p, pex2314p, pex2315p, pex2374p, pex2376p, pex2377p, pex2386p, pex2412p, pex2419p, pex2420p, pex2421p, pex2440p, pex2461p, pex2478p, pex2479p, pex2480p, pex2485p, pexm001p, pexm004p, pexm005p, pexm007p, pexm008p, pexm009p, pexm013p, pexmp011, pexmp013, pexmp017, pexmp022, pexmp026, pexmp030, phantomp, phantpay, pokonl97, potgame, pottnpkr, rollfr_4, royale, roypok96, schery97, segajw, silverga, skill98, snookr10, swhr2, swhr2a, swtht2nz, topgear, tortufam, trpdlght, vegasslw, videopkr, videtron, wildone, witchcrd, witchgme, witchjol, wldangel, wldwitch, wstrike, wtchjack, wtigernz, wupndown.

If you have already downloaded any of these games from Divemaster's Google drive, you do not need to download them again here. You can simply download this file, which contains the updated LAY files for all of the above games, then use ClrMAMEpro to update your files. Also, many of these games need to be initialized is some way before the first time you run them in MAME. Again, Divemaster has you covered. Click here for a copy of starting NVRAM files for all of the games he currently has available, and extract to your \mame\nvram folder (this is for both the above games, and the ones we have not gotten to yet).

That is it for today. I am aware that there are additional Game and Watch games to add. Those will be in the next release, along with a bunch more new stuff.

SITE UPDATE - February 25, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 54 new sets; 11 sets updated

We have a whole bunch of different stuff tonight, so let us just get started:

Scanned by TrevEB and cleaned up by Comboman, we have Cheyenne and Side Track.

Also scanned by TrevEB and cleaned up by Comboman, we have Electric Yo-Yo and Star Cruiser. I followed up with some detail work on Yo-Yo, including the instruction card and fixing some colors, and also did some touch ups on Star Cruiser.

Again, scanned by TrevEB and cleaned up by Comboman, and some additional touch up by me, we have outer and inner artwork for Cops 'n' Robbers. This one is a little unique:

In the manual, on the parts page for the color overlay on the monitor, it states:
- The playfield is to be adjusted smaller so that the two solid inside lines are just covered by the yellow strips.
And in the manual, is a picture of the overlay on the monitor.
It does not stretch across the whole monitor.
Which makes it seem like... the game is not supposed to be run at a normal 4:3 ratio; it is actually supposed to be squished.
After playing with some settings, I got this set to where I think it is supposed to be.
Coincidentally, the game screen now looks similar to the game screen shown on the arcade flyer.
Doing so also lines up the game screen pretty closely to the inside artwork (not perfect... I could not get it set to be exactly lined up). This also matches the flyer.

Comboman noticed that our existing bezel artwork for Gunfight was incomplete, so he fixed that, along with fixing some colors.

Comboman discovered there is a second color variation of Meadows Lanes, so he took the existing bezel, and added the color variation.

Comboman did an outstanding job cleaning up the bezel for Karnov, contributed by the BYOAC/CAG artwork. I did some additional cleanup, and also added in the marquee from the same group.

Steeltigers cleaned up artwork and added in lamps for Super Simon. This artwork is also clickable.

Duane Huseby submitted some very cool artwork for the PDP-1. You can now play the first video game, Space War, with some very realistic artwork of the system. For instructions to play the game, I have started a MAME Game Tips page on this site. Head on over there for instructions.

BLUEamnesiac over at DeviantArt gave us permission to use artwork he has created for the various Game Boy systems. Today, we have the original Game Boy, along with six of the color variants that it was released as. There is also a cropped view included to give you a larger playing area. You can check out his page here. We will release the other versions that he has created in the next update or two.

Lee Robson does not just do Game $amp; Watch artwork, he created artwork for a lot of the Tiger Handheld games also. This update includes tapollo13, tbatman, tbtoads, tbttf, tdummies, tgoldeye, tgoldnaxe, thalone2, thook, tjpark, tkarnov, tnmarebc, trobocop3, tsddragon, tsf2010, tsfight2, tshadow, tsharr2, tskelwarr, tstrider, ttransf2, and txmenpx. Also included is artwork for Thief in the Garden. And let us not forget thanks to Sean Riddle, hap, algestam, and ICEknight for getting these dumped and the backdrop artwork scanned in the first place. (And please, if I missed someone in this group, please let me know so that I can update this).

Lee also added Game & Watch artwork for Fire, Rain Shower, and Snoopy Tennis. Fire and Snoopy Tennis will not be supported in MAME until 0.207 comes out, but I am guessing that will be very soon, so now you will be ready ahead of time. He did recently update artwork for all of the other games, here and there, but I did not have time to add all of that to this update. Look for it next update.

We are getting closer on being able to retire the old MESS Artwork page. Today, we have added replacement artwork for pcw8256, oz750, mo5, mo5nr, mo6, and the available backdrop artwork for many of the current Konami handheld games.

Also replaced is the artwork for both versions of the Neo Geo Pocket (original and color), thanks to pics by Evan Amos.

With that, we are down to 26 titles we still need to convert from the old MESS page.

I noticed recently that MAME has a bunch of skeleton drivers for games that do not have a working driver, but the skeleton is there, so that there is a way to catalogue the game within MAME. With that done, the artwork that was previously listed on the Unemulated Artwork page has now been moved to the regular artwork. This includes Desert Patrol, Jet Fighter, and Monaco GP. I did not move Tank II over, and in fact deleted it from the other page also, as the cleanup job on it needs to be redone.

Over at the Hyperspin website is a very talented artist named krakerman. He has been creating widescreen artwork for use with MAME and Hyperspin for some years now. I asked, and he has given us permission to add some of his widescreen artwork here. For today, we have Widescreen artwork added for Green Beret (Rush 'n' Attack) and Battlezone. Click Here for his profile page to check out some of his work. And you can check the instructions in this thread to find out how to download all of his artwork.

I finally found good enough pics of an original Gaplus bezel, and the instruction cards, so I was able to recreate that for this release.

For some more Widescreen artwork, I found good pics of the Atari 2600 artwork for Journey and Phoenix, and made them into WS artwork.

Gamecom was updated to give credit to Evan Amos for the pick. I understand that the driver was updated for this, so the LAY file needs to be updated (thank you Robbbert), but I ran out of time for this release; it will be done in the next round.

In the if at first you don't succeed, try try again category, we have updates for Super Pac-Man, Popeye, and Donkey Kong Jr. For Super Pac-Man and Popeye, it was simply fixing the background color of the bezel. For Donkey Kong Jr., first it was fixing all of the colors. As I went in closer, though, I found multiple errors that we had not caught the first time around. Speckles everywhere, a few spots that were simply not cleaned up, and multiple stitching issues, where you could see in areas that the scans were not stitched together correctly. This should deliver a much better MAME experience for users (for now, until we finally add in the marquee and control panel). As I have said before, I am our biggest critic, and have no problem going back in and fixing something that was supposedly already finished over twelve years ago.

I think that about covers everything for this artwork release. I am also slowly updating outdated pages on this site. If you get a chance, head on over to our updated About MAME Artwork page, to get a better understanding of what this project is really about.

SITE UPDATE - January 22, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 28 new sets; 5 sets updated

Game & Watch is fun! I am trying to figure out how I was an '80s kid, but I never had a Game & Watch. In fact, I had not even heard of them back then, that I can remember (though I do remember the Tiger LCD games that came out around the same time).

Today, we add artwork for eighteen Game & Watch games:

Black Jack, Boxing, Climber, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong II, Egg, Green House, Lifeboat, Manhole, Mario Bros., Mario's Cement Factory, Mickey Mouse, Mickey & Donald, Oil Panic, Super Mario Bros., Squish, and Tropical Fish
Thanks go to Sean Riddle, hap, Ryan Holtz (MooglyGuy / Just Desserts), algestam (hal3000), ICEknight, and ChoccyHobNob for donating, scanning, and cleaning up those scans
Thanks to Lee Robson (hydef) for additional scan cleanup on many games, and recreating the beautiful outer cases for these games
Thanks to Ryan Holtz and Magnus Nyström for donating and scanning instructions for those games where they were included (for now: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong II, and Mario Bros)
Full credits for each game are in its individual LAY file
Note that Black Jack, Lifeboat, and Manhole were completed after MAME 0.205 was released. You will either need to wait for MAME 0.206, or track down the necessary files to play those games early
And there is still more to come: in the time putting this update together, Rain Shower has already been completed (for purposes of this site, it will come with the next artwork release)
Additional Note: people requested that there be an option of not having the "3-D Shadow Effect" on the artwork for these games, and Lee Robson has obliged; for each game above, there are two views: the default view has the shadow, but there is also an optional view where there is no shadow on the backdrop
Additional Note 2: Lee set things up right the first time, in regards to being able to display things how you want: turn off the backdrop layer, to get rid of the white background that fills the screen; turn off the bezel layer, if you want to see just the game with the backdrop and no case. For the dual-screen games, we have added an extra view, that is backdrop only, so that the screens will be closer together (compared to if you simply turn off the backdrop and bezel)

On the arcade side of things, I am still playing catch up:

Comboman finshed artwork on some games:

Cosmic Alien, Cosmic Monsters, and Cosmic Monsters II now have bezel artwork, thanks to bezel scans by TrevEB and header scans by Sam Grech
Cosmic Avenger bezel is courtesy of rohan
The backdrop for Dark Planet has been added (note to Stiletto; do you know where this came from?)

One more from Comboman:
- Solar War was a planned sequel to Atari's Video Pinball, but was never widely released; only five prototypes were created
- Comboman found some good pics, and created bezel and backdrop artwork for the game, and uploaded it to the forum back in 2015, during my "hiatus" time
- When I finally got around to looking at, I noted that some things needed fixing before it could be added here, but at that time, I did not have the time
- During last month's release, there were some users that posted, rather than saying thanks for what was recently added, instead ~~complained~~ inquired about stuff that was not yet added
- So I figured, why not, let's look at Solar War again; the following items have been corrected
- And now... I like this game even more than the original Video Pinball; a shame that it was never widely released; compared to VP, this games feels much more like a real pinball game, with the drop target completion bonuses, advancing bonus multiplier, advancing reward on the top kickback, etc.
We have a new member that is helping to work on artwork cleanup: alexs; his first contribution is the bezel for Capcom's 3 Wonders. Embarassingly, I do not remember who originally submitted this, I just know I was not the one who scanned it, and I cannot find notes in older emails or PMs about this one. If it is you, please let me know.
From udb23, Strato Fighter has bezel and marquee artwork now, thanks to scans from the BYOAC / CAG Artwork
Thank you to haynor666 for letting me know about the error in ncombat. Seems I must have edited the file at some point, and deleted a line, causing the game to crash in MAME if you had the bad artwork file (a bug was even filed on MAMETesters about this error at one point). This is now fixed.
While going through Solar War, I revisited Video Pinball, and noticed that a couple things were not set right in the LAY file, causing the backdrop and video screen to not look as nice as they should; this has been corrected, and the nicer lighted lamps have also been added
Happened to be watching videos of Sea Wolf on YouTube; noticed a couple things that were not displayed right in the current artwork (how the explosion lamps flash, and the color of the overlay); these have been adjusted
Not sure when this changed in MAME, but artwork file ddpdoj has been renamed to ddp3, since that is now the parent file

And finally, a few more LCD Handheld updates:

Realized that what I was trying to do with the artwork for tsharr2 and kblades was the wrong thing to do, so converted them back to how they should be displayed on screen
And then, Lee Robson decides to create a bunch of cases for the Tiger line of LCD games currently in MAME. tsharr2 is added for now; the rest will be in the next update.
Nu, Pogodi! is a Russian clone of Nintendo's Game & Watch Egg; thanks to Igor, we have backdrop artwork for this game

So this was nice... two artwork updates about a month from each other, like the old days. I may have finally found the work/home/MAME balance I need to keep all three things running smoothly. Cross your fingers.

For those users that want to know why "Game X" has not been added to this page yet, I will just get this out of the way now:

I am, truly, forever grateful to the donators and contributors who, over the last thirteen years, have helped to make this artwork collection what it is today
With that said: I am the lone person who actually posts updates on this site
There is no "official" MAME Artwork site, as far as the official MAMEDev site is concerned, similar to how the old MAME.net site was never the official site way back when
Over the years, general public opinion has decided that the MAME Artwork Project on this site is the "go to" site for MAME Artwork
In my opinion, this is due to the quality control standards we have had in place, and have continued to improve upon over the years
Which means... just because an artwork file is posted for download on the MAMEWorld forums, it does not necessarily mean it is ready to be posted on this site... and that could be for a various number of reasons
I am going through, as quickly and accurately possible, all of the files that were completed while I was on "hiatus." But if something is not up to standard, it needs to be fixed or corrected as needed. (As example, see Solar War above). If it is something I can take care of quickly/easily, it will get done first; if not, it will go to the back of the line, until I get back around to it.
If you are a creator or donator that is upset by this mindset, I am sorry I took a break some time ago, and it is taking this long to catch things up. But I am not sorry for anyone that thinks they get to decide what is priority and what should be next in line. If you are impatient and not happy with how things are currently being done here, AntoPisa has a nice "Alternate Authors Artwork" download on his site, that includes all these files, in their current state. You can download that pack of artwork to use it in MAME today. I am trying to be fair as possible to both those that posted stuff over the last few years, together with those that are posting new artwork today. It is a balance.
I have bezels here at my house that have been waiting years to be scanned; there is other artwork that has been scanned for over ten years, and still has not been cleaned up yet; I have hundreds of pieces of Japan instruction cards and artwork, that have never been posted publicly, including some rare Neo Geo mini marquees, that have yet to be scanned. If we are supposed to do things in order, then I should drop everything and work on the remaining Solar Fox files that anoid scanned from his own cabinets twelve to thirteen years ago during the first year of the project, to complete the upright and cabaret artwork for this game.
I do not want to discourage anyone from donating time or resources to this project, but I am not at a point in time yet when I can make promises of when things will be completed, either. Things are getting back on track, but things also take time. As a favorite person of mine originally coined: Just sit back and wait for cool things to happen.

See you next update!!

SITE UPDATE - December 15, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 198 sets new or updated

Everything old is new again... sort of.

Took a break from "old MESS" stuff to reorganize things a bit here; main goal to get rid of the separate "Other Artwork" section, by combining everything into one database:

185 files; 306 pieces of artwork; combine everything into the existing files
Playtest everything, to ensure everything was done correctly
And good thing I did; needed to fixed a lot during playtesting
Rename all the screenshots

This is something I have been wanting to do for a while now, as it really was a bit of a pain actually using "Other Artwork" and keeping it all separate. This makes it easier for me, and makes it easier for the MAME user, so win-win. With that, everything from the "Other Artwork" page is now part of "In-Game Artwork," with the exception of Monaco GP. As this is not emulated by MAME yet, it has been moved to the Unemulated Artwork page for download. The artwork file does work with HBMAME.

Not content with this being the only thing in the update, I had to put some new stuff in, seeing as I am still behind and playing catch up:

Originally, I planned to add in the LCD handheld stuff next; I started with tsharr2 and kblades. The interesting thing about how the artwork for the LCD games works, is the backdrop artwork has to be setup as an overlay. This has the side-effect that, if only setup as an overlay, you don't see the entire backdrop on screen. I figured out a workaround for that, which is included in these two games, but I do not have the patience right now to setup every game that way. Next update, I am going to simply add everything else in as they are already setup, for the most part. Huge thanks to hap, SeanRiddle, and others that have being doing a ton of work getting these preserved.
Added the bezel form the Euro version of Black Widow, cleaned up by lamprey, based on pics from Alpha1
Added marquee, speaker grill, and cpo artwork for Crystal Castles, cleaned up by Nightvoice; I adjusted the colors so all three pieces matched the original cabinet
Added bezel and inner artwork for Dog Patch, cleaned up by Comboman; colors adjusted as needed
Added bezel and marquee for Outzone; bezel scan supplied by Smitdogg; artwork cleanup by udb23
To test out some of the layout changes Vas Crabb added in 0.200, updated the artwork for aim65
Fixed the gearshift in chasehq; thanks to ArcadeShadow for the heads up
Just for fun, added some widescreen artwork to the four Gradius games and Space Harrier.

The Generic Artwork has been updated with instructions on how to use fallback and override artwork, thanks to the update added in 0.194 by phulshof. The artwork example used on that page is based on the Lagoon Nebula photo from HubbleSite, just because I thought it was a cool photo. These are now also part of In-Game Artwork, listed as genhorizontal and genvertical.

Other site updates and fixes:

Fixed a bug on the In-Game Artwork page, where the screenshot view links for some games were listed in descending order, rather than ascending order
Fixed a bug on the In-Game Artwork page, where sets that had more than one category-type artwork showed as two separate entries on the page.
Updated the totally out of date Compiling page, and moved it to the MAME section of the site menu. For now, it simply points to the Tools page of MAMEDev.org, as that documentation is already well-written.
Moved the Other Artwork page to the MAME Artwork section of the site menu. Added pages with more info on Game Compilation, Widescreen, and Other Artwork.

I know I said it last time, but next update really will be adding in all of the handheld artwork that hap and Sean Riddle have been working on. After that, I need to get better at time management, so that I can clear the backlog of need to do stuff; I still have artwork that has been sitting here for years that still needs scanning.

SITE UPDATE - September 15, 2018

Download Issues

~~If you navigate to this site from Google or another search engine, https will be appended to the beginning of the URL. This is causing downloads to give a 403 error.~~

~~To fix for now, change to just http, and downloads will work fine.~~

Download errors due to the above issue have now been fixed as of 2018-12-16

~~On a separate note, downloads for the Other Artwork page are currently broken, due to a recent server move.~~

~~Since I was planning to anyway, all of these files will be merged into the normal In-Game Artwork page. I'm about a third of the way done now... give me a couple more weeks to finish~~

All Other Artwork files have been merged into In-Game Artwork as of 2018-12-15.

SITE UPDATE - June 03, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 3 systems updated artwork

Whoops... made a couple mistakes with the BBC files that I thought I had already corrected. These are fixed now and have been re-uploaded. DAT file has been updated. Thank you to pernod and Tafoid!!

SITE UPDATE - June 02, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 56 new systems; 3 systems updated artwork

Well that took longer than I thought it would. I was in a groove, then I hit one of those "personal life / work life" road blocks that pop up every so often. That is okay, though, because in the last two weeks, my two oldest kids graduated city college with their AA degrees, and my youngest graduated high school. Fall semester, I will have three kids attending 4-year universities.

This update takes care of a large chunk of the old MESS Artwork page. After today, there are only 36 files left to go so that the old page can officialy be retired. This also adds a bunch of stuff that I just happened to add in along the way:

Added PasoGo; cleaned up the pic just a bit more.
Added Cybiko Classic; replaced the file with a new pic. Also added Cybiko Xtreme. Added correct color overlay to both.
Added Pokemon Mini; replaced the file with a new pic, and added the correct color overlay.
Added Game Master; cleaned the pic up a bit more.
Added the five HP calculators already part of MESS artwork; all existing pics were replaced with larger, clearer pics. Also added the HP38G and HP49G. Annunciators for all files were redrawn, based on an HP manual. Artwork is clickable in all of these files.
Added Mega Duck; replaced the file with a new pic. Also added the Cougar Boy variant.
Thank you to pernon for letting me know about the error on the BBC artwork last update. All three have been updated with more realistic artwork. I understand the Compact came with its own monitor, but I have not been able to find a good picture source for that one yet, so that still has the Cub monitor for now. Lamps have also been added to the floppy drive for bbcm; just need a driver update to use them.
Added WonderSwan and WonderSwan color; replaced the pic in WonderSwan, and added the correct color overlay. On both, added the additional layouts needed so that when you play a vertical-oriented game, the artwork will automatically rotate with the game screen. The original WonderSwan supposedly had annunciators similar to the HP calculators, but I cannot find any more info on these. I do not know what they look like, and cannot tell if they are hooked up in the driver. If a kind soul could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated.
Added Otrona Attache, just because it looked cool.
Added Kaypro II; replaced existing pic. Also added Kaypro 10.
Added Osborne-1; replaced existing pic. Also added the Vixen and Excecutive while I was researching the Osborne.
Added SYM-1; replaced existing pic.
Added TEC-1; added missing capacitor and speaker.
Added Tiger Game.com; replaced existing pic.
Added the four Sinclair computers from the old MESS page; replaced existing pics with higher quality full pics, and added a data recorder to each. Also added the +2, +2a, and +3. All seven use an old tv for the monitor, tuned to the correct UHF station as noted in the manual.
Added the seven existing Texas Instruments calculators from the old MESS page; replaced all existing pics. Also added TI83, TI83pse, TI84, TI84pce, TI84pcse, TI84pse. Pics for all of the preceding are courtesy of Wabbitemu. Also added the TI92, TI92p, and the Voyage 200. All TI calculators have clickable artwork, except for the two Color versions (the driver does not work at this time, anyway).
Added 005, simply because it is the first file in MAME's game listing; I did this before I started working on the code for the new page, and wanted to ensure things worked correctly. File currently has a generic bezel similar in dimension to the actual one, which I don't have a scan of. I am working on the actual marquee, which will be added at a later date.
Added Adventure Vision; I could not help myself adding at least one new thing that did not exist yet.

And breathe.

If you have not seen it yourself already, there is a guy by the name of Evan Amos who has spent a good amount of his time creating the ultimate reference gallery for old video game systems. A lot of his stuff will be used here for future updates.

First off, we have both versions of the Atari Lynx. Each version also includes the additional layouts needed so that when you play a vertical-oriented game, the artwork will automatically rotate with the game screen.

Game Console artwork... I had been debating internally for a while on how I wanted to approach artwork for Game Consoles here. I did not want to just create some widescreen artwork, simply to fill the screen, with random related graphics of each console brand. After finding Evan's site, I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do. Growing up, playing console games was me sitting on the floor, console brought out from the shelf under the TV enough, so that the joystick will reach without pulling. I wanted to create that "sitting on the floor" idea. Between Evan's gallery, and a good pic of the right TV, I could do something simple; problem was finding a real good pic of a TV that I was happy with. My favorite tube TV that I ever had was my Sony Trinitron; I wanted something like that. By chance one day, I found the pic that I had in my head, and I am happy with it.

So as we add Game Console artwork here, whenever possible, it will be pics from Evan's site, along with the shiny new TV. Today we have:

Sony Playstation; also added in the PSOne lid monitor from MESS artwork.
TurboGrafx 16; added in both the original, and Turbo Duo versions. Also added a better pic of the Turbo Express handheld artwork, which was previously labeled under PCE on the MESS page.
NEC PC Engine; added both the original and PC Engine Duo variants. Also added the PC Engine LT (similar to the PSOne flip lid) and the PC Engine GT, which is the JPN version of the Express.

That is it for today. Next update: Finally adding in all of the handheld artwork that hap and Sean Riddle have been working on. After that, the last of the MESS artwork. And somehow, I need to make some time to fit some actual arcade artwork in here also.

SITE UPDATE - February 26, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 35 new games; 1 game updated artwork; update to page layout

Now that the site is back up and running, it is time to get to the next step in the plan: moving all of the existing MESS Artwork to this page.

We are going to do it in phases. The current MESS artwork page has about 100 files that would be considered current artwork. On top of that, there is all the handheld artwork that the team over at Bannister's forums has been working on, plus some recent stuff posted at the Artwork forums. If we released all that in one shot, we probably would not break MAMEWorld, but I would rather not take the chance.

In addition, much of the current MESS artwork needs work before it is moved over here. There are certain standards that I try and maintain here (which I should probably actually put in writing... coming soon). With that said, I am going through each file, doing what needs to be done, and then I need to run each of those systems in MAME, to ensure the artwork file actually works and to take a preview screenshot. To do that, I need to understand how to start each system in MAME, load software, etc.

Prior to this week, my experience with non-arcade systems in MAME has been almost none... and in retrospect, I have been missing out. There are SO many different systems that are in MAME now, it truly is amazing. I feel like I have been learning a little bit of computer history as I have been working on everything these past few days. The interface for computer and other systems, which intimidated me in the past, is actually quite intuitive to use, once you have run thirty different systems on it, some of them requiring software to be loaded. Do it over and over enough, and it really is as simple as "regular" MAME.

At first, I was simply going in alphabetical order, but that got boring, so I ended up skipping around using one criteria, then another, then another, and by yesterday, I had 34 new files to add. For historical purposes, I have put a somewhat copy of the current MESS artwork page here, minus any artwork that was marked as updated in 2017. Those were the biggest files, and have already been moved to the current artwork page.

When all is said and done, just like the previous iteration of the old MAME artwork page, there may be a few files from the current MESS page that will not be added to the current artwork page. I am thoroughly trying to find replacement images for each file that needs it, and I have not fallen short yet; we will see how things progress in the next few weeks. With that, here is what we have for today:

Added the artwork for Speak & Spell, Speak & Math, Speak & Read, and Wiz-A-Tron. Scans were by Lord Nightmare, and artwork cleanup was done by Comboman. I fixed the crooked E and O keys in snspell, as those were setting me off every time I looked at the file.
Added Simon, again thanks to Lord Nightmare and Comboman. I tweaked things in the LAY file for this one, so that the actual area of each lamp is the clickable part of the artwork; no more, no less.
Added the artwork for Milton Bradley Dark Tower, completed by The Flying Ape.
Added the version of Amstrad NC100 completed by Retro27.
Added the files for 4004clk, 990189, a500n, aim65, and ccmk2 as they were, with very minor changes to the LAY files (simply to standardize how everything else is on this site).
Added Alien Chase, thanks to AntoPisa.
Added alnattck, apple2e, a1000n, c64p, c128; replaced previous pictures to improve perspective.
Added bbcb and bbcm; replaced the Cub monitor in both of those with a better picture. Also added bbcmc, which would have used the same monitor. Looks like I have a mistake in the LAY file for two of those, though, so they will be updated again next release.
Added kim1 and junior; replaced both with an improved pic; fixed the LAY file for kim1 so that clickable artwork works again.
Added ccmk2 and ssystem3; replaced pics in both files with improved versions.
Added dmv; cleaned up the pic a bit more; reworked the LAY file to use the Group function for the Status Lamps and Diagnostic LEDs.
Added avigo and palmiii; replaced pics in both files with improved versions; added an overlay to avigo to better match the actual screen color.
Added svision; added an alternate version of the hardware, and added an overlay to better match the actual screen color.
Added mpf1 and mpf1b; replaced pics in both files with improved version; replaced chip on mpf1b to differentiate it from mpf1.
Added mpf1p; replaced the pic to show correct version of the hardware; fixed the LAY file to show correct LEDs and clickable buttons (though this driver is currently not working).
Added the larger version of gamepock; cleaned the pic up some; fixed the LAY file, so that screen ratio was correct; added an overlay to better match the actual screen color.
Updated sc2drwho; I forget why I was looking at this, but I noticed something in it that needed fixing and fixed it.
Added 005, simply because it is the first file in MAME's game listing; I did this before I started working on the code for the new page, and wanted to ensure things worked correctly. File currently has a generic bezel similar in dimension to the actual one, which I don't have a scan of. I am working on the actual marquee, which will be added at a later date.
Added Adventure Vision; I could not help myself adding at least one new thing that did not exist yet.

Finally... added a column to the page to add detail for Clickable artwork, as that is an important feature in many non-arcade systems in MAME.

Next update: Part II of moving over MESS Artwork.

SITE UPDATE - February 22, 2018

In-Game Artwork: Artwork page - Code update

Somehow during the last site update, the artwork page broke. Literally... it was not working; or would load, but incorrectly. It was flat busted. I was already planning on recoding it soon, but now I had to fix things ASAP.

Way back in 2007, when I first realized how much artwork was going to end up on this site, I realized I could not continue updating everything by hand. Up until that point, the whole site was just HTML pages with some CSS sprinkled in for good measure. Everytime there was an artwork update, I had to manually add the HTML for each game. I reached out for help, and the amazing Pi came to the rescue. By November that year, the artwork page was running on PHP and MySQL, and I could spend more time on getting artwork done again, without worrying how long the next site update would take.

It was clean code, also. I did not know anything about PHP back then, but he wrote good clean code, with comments for each section, so that I could still make sense out of it, and over the years, I was able to update it three more times as things changed around here. The issue with the page, though, is he made things so user friendly for me, the way it was designed was actually starting to slow things down as the size of the artwork database got bigger.

Since I did not know how any of that worked back then, the code was written so that all I had to to update the database was upload a new text file when new artwork was released. The page would query the text file; if the date of the text file was newer than the last date of the last database update, then it would update the database, and present the updated page. Not a big deal on normal days, but during release weeks, it seemed like things would slow down a lot. Not sure if this was due to the constant querying of the table, or if it was simply my own fault, after updating things three times. I do not think I ever touched anything important, but you never know.

Anyway, it had been ten years since the original code was written, and PHP and MySQL had multiple updates since then, with new features added that were not available back then. There were a few changes I needed to make, to start adding non-arcade (MESS) artwork, and a few changes I wanted to add in, that I was never able to before. While at a used bookstore a few years ago, I bought a book - PHP/MySQL for Dummies - and kept telling myself I was going to read it, so I could learn to update the site myself. Now was the time.

I planned a week vacation for last week, just for this. From the week after the update, until before vacation started, I spent all my free time reading and planning on how I wanted the site to look. I was determined to at least learn the basics necessary to be able to fix things here and get back to actual artwork stuff. Once vacation started, I spent my entire time, day thru night, coding, failing, coding, succeeding, searching, reading, etc.

I started on Monday with the basic MySQL stuff... setting up the database from scratch, adding a table, adding data, updating the data. During that first day, I got that nailed down... I could add, drop, delete, sort, and filter, and everything showed up on screen as expected. From there, it was on to PHP code, to get all the functions working and making things pretty.

This was where things got fun. The book only covered basic stuff; some of the things I wanted to do were not covered, so it was off to the internet, to search, read, code, try, repeat, until things started shaping into the page that I wanted (which, for the most part, was only going to be a little different than before). And again, the good part was that Pi wrote everything so well the first time around, with comments, so that I was at least able to take the concepts he originally added, and keep them, just with newer code.

By Wednesday, things were almost there. I was actually editing two files at once: one was what was going to become the new page, the other was the current page, as I methodically stripped certain components out of it, but still left it functioning. I did it this way (slow and steady) so I would not lose my place during the whole rewrite. Wednesday afternoon, I had the whole page mostly working as before, just without filters. Did some more research and reading, and figured out the code I wanted to use. I finally finished just before midnight Wednesday night.

At the end of the day, I just wanted to keep things simple:

By default, display all artwork available on initial page view, sorted by most recent date, as most people are usually coming here to see what the lastest artwork is.
Be able to sort by either set name or game name, and be able to filter to the first letter of a set or game name. I prefer this method to the old paging method... before, if I wanted to find Puckman, I would have to click on the page number where I thought the game would land; now, I can simply filter to P, and there it is.
Got rid of the source quality columns, as they were mostly redundant. All of that information is already in the LAY file; no one is really coming to the page to see which artwork was based on photos versus which ones were based on scans.
Added a column and filter for Category. As MAME is no longer solely an arcade emulator, people are going to want to come and see readily which type of artwork each file is for (is this for an arcade game, or a calculator?)
Added a column for Clickable Artwork. This is a very big deal with the non-arcade artwork that we are going to start adding. And looking forward, it is going to apply to many arcade artworks, also.
No need for combining multiple filtering/sorting methods (e.g. filter to Handheld Artwork, with just Overlays, that start with P, and sort descending). I do not need things to be that complex; pick one filter, and use [CTRL + F] from there.
When new artwork is added, simply upload the new data, update the table, and be done with it.

So, that is my story. I tend to be self-sufficient at things. If I have an idea, but do not know how to do it, I take it upon myself to figure it out if I can. It kind of goes with the whole take it apart to see how it works mentality, I guess.

After uploading all the new code, everything seems lightning fast now, compared to before. Initial page load might take a second or two sometimes, but once you are there, you can filter to your heart's delight, and most of the time the page loads with the requested settings in just tenths of a second. And, everything is still phone and tablet friendly, too.

If you notice anything weird, stop by the Artwork forum at MAMEWorld and let us know, so that it can be fixed.

SITE UPDATE - January 30, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 6 games updated artwork; 3 games other updates

So a week or two ended up being almost seven months this time... and I am truly, truly sorry for that. Lots of real-life stuff happened... again... cross your fingers that this is the last time for a while.

I am determined to "be back" for good this time, and for the long haul. This past couple months especially, I have felt excited working on this stuff again, more so than I have in a very long while. I can sit for hours in Photoshop until the wee hours of the morning again, without that lack of sleep feeling. So many things circling in my head of what needs to get done this year and after that... I plan to be very busy this year.

As mentioned last time, there has been a TON of artwork completed that I need to get to. I'm working on it, and will get it all out as fast as I can. I feel like this year we are going to hit that 1000 artwork files mark. Here is what we have for now:

Fire One bezel artwork is complete. Thanks to the scan from TrevEB, and clean-up work by comboman.
Comboman was kind enough to touch up and fix the colors on the bezel for Devil Zone... it looks much much nicer now. This also updates Magical Spot and Magical Spot 2, as all three games used the same bezel artwork.
Based on multiple high quality photos, comboman completed the bezel for Shuuz.
The Blue Print bezel is another scan from TrevEB. Comboman also cleaned this one up. We had a scan of the marquee for this, thanks to the BYOAC / CAG artwork, so I cleaned that up to go along with this.
Circus has absolutely beautiful artwork. TrevEB scanned this some time ago. Newcomer JB did an amazing job cleaning this one up. I touched it up just a bit, fixing the colors, and adding the rest of the parts of the control panel, thanks to contributions from Nightvoice
JB was not done yet, though, and he tackled the bezel for Bank Panic. Once completed, I figured we should add in the control panel also, so that is also included. Both thanks to the BYOAC / CAG artwork.
We have a second newcomer, RaspBear. You will see him credited as udb23 in the notes. He has previously done artwork for the RetroPie crowd, and has now started to help out over in our little corner of the internet. First up is P-47... bezel and marquee are both completed, thanks to scans from the BYOAC / CAG artwork, plus a bezel scan that I completed. Had to finish the game up again, so I found as many decent pics as I could of a working cabinet, and created the control panel to complete the game.
As I started getting in the groove for this stuff again, I found a few really good pics of the bezel for Lock On, got bored one day in November, and finsihed that one up.
I promised Shoegazr that he would have Rygar usable before the end of 2017... it is done as well as can be for now. Comboman did the bulk of the cleanup work on the bezel some time ago... I did a few more tweaks to that, along with the marquee and control panel. All three pieces courtesy of the BYOAC / CAG artwork. There are still some areas on each piece that are kind of dirty, but this will work for now.
Timber has bezel artwork now, thanks to comboman, and a little color adjusting on my end. This one is based on a photo, so it is not perfect yet, but still very nice. I forget who sent me the photo for this... whoever did, please please... message me, so that I can update the notes for the game.
MAMEWorld user gginelli was kind enough to let me know that the shifter was not working in either Pole Position game. When I went to go fix it, I figured I should do it right, and also add in the whole control panel, as the current artwork was kind of hokey. As I got that done, I found other things that needed fixing: the colors were off on the cockpit bezel, and the Atari logo section was not an equal circle on the upright artwork, which also had the colors off a bit. Some time around when I started working on this, Nightvoice had posted a TON of artwork he has been working on for the past months, and it inspired me. A lot of what he had done really aligned with the ideas that I have had for some time now on how each game should look on screen. I ended up going all out on Pole Position and PP2, and cleaned up everything. Full cockpit and upright artwork for both games is done, along with the Euro version of PP2. Of the new artwork added, the marquee and both cpos for PP1 are from the BYOAC / CAG artwork, as is the bezel for the conversion version of PP2. The cpo and bezel for the Euro PP2, along with the gauges for PP1, the various stickers for PP2, and the steering wheel, I created based on multiple photos. The marquee for PP2 was vectored by zorg some time ago, along with the steering wheel logo. All items for all games were color matched together. We are now Prepared to Qualify. For those that only want to see bezel artwork on the screen, but still want the gearshift, I added in extra views that you can apply by going to Video Options while in-game.
The bezel for Donkey Kong 3 was completed ages ago, but I was never told who scanned it. By chance, I came upon a post at BYOAC which cleared that up... so thank you to bobbyconover at BYOAC!! LAY file has been updated with past due credit.
Two games changed names since the last update: fantasy is now fantasyu, and twc96 is now twsoc96.

That seems like a lot... but I want more... we need to keep adding more artwork.

Next update will see a change to the download page, so that we can start including non-arcade artwork that is now supported with the merger of MAME and MESS some time ago. Lots of good stuff coming soon for that side of the business. Also, I am going to squeeze in some "life lesson" stuff here and there, just to elaborate on why things were somewhat dormant here recently.

Stay tuned. Lots of good things are coming in 2018 and beyond.

P.S. almost forgot... thank you to Vas Crabb on MAMEDev for adding layout groups to the artwork system in 0.189... this makes setting up various Control Panel parts SOOO much easier at the end of the day.

SITE UPDATE - July 2, 2017

In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 6 games updated artwork; much other stuff fixed

It has been three and a half years since artwork on this site had any type of update; almost five years since we had regular updates. That stops today. We will save the "where have I been" news for another day, and get straight to the artwork.

NOTE: this is NOT all the artwork that has been released on the forum in the past three years... there is way, way more that I still have to sort through. I figured it would be best to update what I have looked at now, and continue to go through the rest as quick as I can.

Starship 1 has full artwork. Thanks to pics and scans from TrevEB, it is like playing on the full cabinet. Update includes marquee, all inner artwork, control panel with flashing start button and working speed shifter, and outer bezel. comboman did the bulk of the cleanup here, including the LAY file, and I touched up a few things at the end.
Antny did an outstanding job with the bezel for Clowns. And gregf was kind enough to supply scans of the various instruction cards that are taped to the inside of the bezel. All of the different variations are in the artwork file, but I have not added all the different views yet (which simply changes the card). That will come next update.
comboman was able to completely revamp the artwork for Drag Race. TrevEB supplied a scan of the outer bezel, which comboman cleaned up nicely, and I touched up a bit more. comboman added the text to the inner bezel. The game has a whole control panel now, including blinking start button, working gear shift (which he also submitted a code change for) thanks to pics by blinddog, and working tachometer (which works thanks to a code update from hap... in 2014).
With Drag Race done, comboman was able to apply the gearshift artwork to Sprint 1, and gave it a whole control panel. This also adds gear shifters to the view for Sprint 2.
comboman recreated the bezel for Aztarac, as best as it can be done for now, based on some pics we had lying around.
I plan to overhaul all of the Neo Geo games at some point... for now, Metal Slug 2 and the generic MVS file are done. The mini marquee is a better scan, cleaned up; it includes a new generic bezel provided by N.I.B., and the buttons have been updated, thanks to a posting at Deviant Art by atebitninja. The quality on the buttons is almost perfect, but they are currently raster copies of the pic posted there; if he ever gets back to me, that will change. We will also be able to use these buttons in all forthcoming control panels in MAME Artwork.
As it is now in base MAME, the artwork for Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition has been added to In-Game Artwork. (I have not updated the Other Artwork page yet.)
Added the Taito F3 bezel to spacedx; added files for dankuga and dariusgx, as they were made to parent games in 0.182.
Added files for cocean1a and cfboy0a1, which are new DECO Cassette games added since the last artwork update.
Updated the overlay for Solar Quest, to include a scan of the actual sunburst in the middle, thanks to, um... I am not sure. I know where I got the scan from, but do not remember who originally supplied the scan. I will try to find out and update.
Updated the LAY file on the following games, as overlay settings in these were incorrect, and I finally noticed last year: armora, astdelux, invaddlx, invaders, omegrace, seawolf, seawolf2, solarq.
Many games where the filename was a clone, these have been renamed to the current parent, with slight LAY file changes. The current names for these games are: cobra, decocass, fantjour, feversos, grindstm, kingdmgp, nvs_machrider, redearth, secretag, sstriker, travrusa. This also resulted in deleting two files where the game is now the clone of something else, and the artwork in the file was already duplicated: cobraseg and trivia12. I am not sure if I had them "wrong" this whole time, or if parents for these games changed in the last couple years. The rule I try to use is: all clone artwork goes in one file, named after the parent game. The exception is if the artwork for the clone is made specifically for EXACTLY one clone only, and keeping that artwork in a separate file makes sense. (Subject to change without notice).
I was missing a bunch of screenshots here and there; this should all be fixed now.

That will be all for tonight. Happy downloading!!! I will post in a week or two, just to update what I have been up to, then the artwork updates will continue for a good long time.

NOTE: mirror2 link for new files is not working at the moment... looks like I need to get a new password.

SITE UPDATE - July 31, 2016

Slowly getting back on track - Artwork updates will resume August 2016

So it has been two and a half years since the last artwork update; or any other update, for that matter. That is a long time, and I do apologize. Just to fill you in real quick, here is what has happened in my life the last two and a half years:

I had a falling out with a particular person that was helping with artwork. In the end, he was only here to help himself. For anyone that has frequently visited sites like KLOV, BYOAC, Dragon's Lair Fans, etc., you may have seen other antics he has performed, and consequently gotten himself blacklisted. This was not the main or only reason I have been gone, but it did put a sour taste in my mouth for a while. Later this year, if I find the engergy, I might post some fun to read email chains.
My daughter graduated high school. Two down; one to go. Well, as far as high school is concerned; all three still live here.
I decided to buckle down and finish school.
- I started classes at the local Community College in 1991. I went for a year, then had to put things on hold to work more and raise my family.
- I went back again for a year in 2004/2005 for a Certification for my job back then. I also took a few more classes to work towards earning an AA degree. Work became too much, though, at that time, so I had to take a break again once I completed the certification.
- At my current job, there is a training program that I wanted to get into, but you have to have at least an AA degree to qualify for it. I went through the classes I took already, and figured I could finish it in a year. Summer 2015, I took one class. Fall 2015, I took five classes for 17.5 units. Spring 2016, I took the last four classes for 12.5 units. I graduated with honors May 2016 with an AA in Business Management, a second AA in Retail Management, and also passed my CompTIA A+ certification. Yes, I am an overacheiver.
- I am debating at this point if the Bacherlor's Degree is worth it at this point. For now, though, I am going to take a school break, as I really over-extended myself this past year. On top of school, I was still working fifty hours a week. I was happy to finish, but I was also really tired at the end.
My wife experienced an injury last November, and has not worked since then, so we are making due with living on less money coming in to the household.

With everything else going on, I just needed to put the artwork thing on hold for a bit. Artwork updates will resume in August, starting with work that has been posted to the forums the last two years.

For starters, this site is now up to date with fresh, clean code, which fixes a lot of weird things that were wrong with the old site, including some stuff that I had not noticed until I rewrote everything. Everything is HTML5/CSS3 compliant, as far as I can tell. If you still notice anything weird, please let me know. On that note, though, I did not make an effort to support old browsers. Recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari should be fine, along with IE11 and Edge. In IE10 and prior, things might not look as pretty, but everything should still be functional. I just do not have time right now to do all the extra little tweaks necessary to make things work with 0.5% of the MAME population. Everything I rewrote, I did looking toward the future.

Regarding phone browsers, I have not had time to test that out yet. I do at least want this site to work better on phones. That will come later, though, as most people that come here are coming for artwork downloads anyway, and that will be on a computer.

The MAME Artwork FTP, which was previously hosted on MAMEWorld, is now hosted by me, on a box that I have at home. If you would like to assist the MAME Artwork Project, contact me at MAMEWorld, and we can go from there.

That is it for now. Enjoy the new site, and we will have those Artwork Updates for you next month.

-- Mr. Do

SITE UPDATE - July 19, 2015

Rumours of this site's demise are greatly exaggerated.

So it's been, what, 18 months? Damn. Need to do something about that. Still have 100s of pieces of artwork to introduce. Stay tuned.

SITE UPDATE - January 4, 2014

In-Game Artwork: 6 new games; 4 games updated artwork

Wow... only one update in all of 2013? That's gotta get better. Sorry guys, 2013 was a helluva year. Good part is I work for a company that seems to actually appreciate me. Bummer part is I had to really work hard to give them a reason to, which cut into my artwork time. Anyway... I finally put everything together this week, so let's get on with it:

Antny again did an unbelievable job cleaning up the bezel for Astro Invaders. (You'll find it listed as Kamikaze, since that is the parent game).
Antny also cleaned up the bezel instruction card for Space Harrier, so that's been added. He also cleaned up one of the parts of the control panel, but we didn't realize until later that there's two parts to that, so we'll get that in later. Also, I've got the bezel in the garage; I should probably photograph it and add that in later, also. I'd like to add in the marquee, as it was cleaned up back in July 2012. Sadly, there seems to be some miscommunication in that partnership.
Speaking of which, Mikonos cleaned up the bezel for Guerilla War, from the BYOAC/CAG artwork.
Mikonos also cleaned up my scan of the Super Dodge Ball bezel. Then I followed it up and fixed a few things that he missed.
Many moons ago, zorg vectored the artwork for the stickers on a Tron bezel. Nightvoice then took them, and made artwork for a much nicer looking Tron bezel, replacing the previously photographed version.
Right after the last update, I finished up the artwork for Two Tigers. It had been so long, I thought I included it in the last update, and almost didn't add it here. So... it's here.
I also took some of my free time last month to check off one from TrevEB's list: Kram. What I liked most about this one, is this is the one that finally made me feel like I've actually gotten pretty good at this artwork thing. You see, back in 2006, when I started this gig, I wasn't the guy creating any of the artwork, I was just the guy keeping it all organized, and I figured out pretty quickly how the LAY files worked. My Photoshop skills were "meh" at best (self-taught, like most everything else I've ever learned). It was a pretty gradual process from that point to where I'm at today. Ah, but now I'm rambling; we'll save that story for another day. Let's continue. Wait... almost forgot... zorg vectored the Kram marquee some time ago, so that's in here, too. NOW... let's continue.
Happy days!! After seven years of waiting patiently, the moon from the Taito version of Space Invaders popped up on eBay last year, and I snapped it right up. That moon was one of the last remaining pieces of low-res artwork left over from the old site (the previous version was basically cropped from a screenshot of a picture of the inside of the cabinet). So I got that all cleaned up, added it in, and... ugh. MAME doesn't play nice with multiple backdrops. In the previous version of the artwork file, I used a mask to make the backdrop and moon blend together correctly. I don't know if something changed again in MAME, or I just hadn't noticed before, but it just looked... bad. So... I said screw it, and went back to the old way of how I had it a few years ago; with the moon and backdrop combined in one file, so it looks cleaner on screen. Don't worry, the full pieces are also in the ZIP file, for integrity's sake. Also, while I was at it, I fixed the little red top hat issue that John IV reported after the last update.
joey35car pointed out some glaring errors in the current Solar Fox artwork. After I took a closer look, I found even more. Amazingly, this went unnoticed for about seven years. So, it's all fixed up now. It's probably time I finished the rest of the artwork for this game now, so I can make anoid happy. (He's gotta be one of the most patient guys ever, waiting this long for me to finish this game up).
Thanks to the kind folks that created Midway Arcade Origins, I noticed that our Joust 2 bezel, while cleaned up nicely, was a little faded, especially after I went and scoured around checking a few cabinet photos and flyers. It's a bit more polished up now.
Finally, screenshots for crater, espgal, vstennis, and ddpdoj have been created and/or updated, as reported by scythe.
EDIT: Two more quick things: the LAY file for frogs changed, so grab that. Also, ddpdojb was properly renamed to ddpdoj. Thank you MASH.

But wait, there's more. Keep reading for Other Artwork updates.

Other Arcade Artwork: 19 new games; 17 games updated artwork

Back in March 2013, a very cool father fulfilled his daughter's request and hacked the 2010 NES version of Donkey Kong so that you play as Pauline, rescuing Mario. You can see video of it on YouTube. Clay Cowgill thinks hey, that's cool; I can do that for the arcade version. So he does. Rich from This Old Game gets requests to make up some artwork for the new game. So he does. Robbert gets requests to add the hack to HBMAME. So he does. I then get requests to add the artwork to the HBMAME version. So here it is. (I'll add the marquee later).
A few years ago, when a 39-in-1 board was dumped, then later emulated, it was the first version of MAME emulating a pcb emulating MAME. Not wanting to be left out of the meta game, the artwork from the game Midway Arcade Origins has now been added. We now have MAME Artwork ripped from a game that was itself made with MAME Artwork. I can definitively say that the artwork for the following games was adapted from already existing MAME Artwork: APB, Joust, Joust 2, Rampage, Robotron, Satan's Hollow, Spy Hunter II, Stargate, Super Sprint. A couple others may also, but those are the ones I'm sure about. Oh, this also adds Other Artwork for the following games: 720, Arch Rivals, Bubbles, Championship Sprint, Cyberball 2020, Defender, Gauntlet, Gauntlet II, Marble Madness, Pit Fighter, Rampart, Sinistar, Smash TV, Spy Hunter, Super Off Road, Tapper, Toobin, Total Carnage, Vindicators, Wizard of Wor (this could have actually been improved with MAME Artwork), Xenophobe, Xybots. I still have to go back later and add in the lamps for Spy Hunter, though.
In addition, I finally ripped the artwork from Namco Museum Essentials for PS3 (both the retail and demo), which gives new cool artwork for Pacman, Galaga, Xevious, Dig Dug, and Dragon Spirit.

Well... that's it for this update, along with also updating all the other link pages on the site. Hopefully I'll get better at my time management, maybe some other people will start helping also, and we'll see more artwork releases in 2014. Also, expect updates to the Samples page later this year.

SITE UPDATE - May 11, 2013

In-Game Artwork: 10 new games; 3 games updated artwork

Yay, more artwork...

Omega Race cockpit is complete. Thanks to TrevEB for borrowing and scanning the artwork, and Antny for the outstanding job cleaning up the bezel, marquee, and the trippy backdrop artwork.
Mikonos cleaned up my Shadow Dancer bezel scan, along with the Wrestle War artwork from the BYOAC/CAG artwork
Roberto Fresca created artwork for Janken Man Kattara Ageru... but I forgot to include it with the last update. Sorry, Robert... it's here now.
Retro27 purchased the cocktail instruction cards for the Japan Space Invaders cocktail, and sent the scans my way. These are all cleaned up and pretty, now.
Retro27 also pointed me towards some artwork that had been posted over at Gamoover. Thank you to bat968 for the instruction cards for Daytona USA, and to Iro for the instruction card to Sega Rally Championship.
gregf showed us a picture of an Extra Bases cocktail, which used the same screen overlay as Space Zap, so that has been added in.
Now that it is in official MAME, the artwork for Williams Multi-Game has been moved from the Other Artwork page to the Official Artwork page.
Got a copy of the instruction card for Water Match from a nice MAMEDev resource. I did a cleanup job on that one, so there you go.
Thanks to joey35car for pointing out that FHMC QBert needed it's own copy of the bezel. That's done.

I also updated the Other Artwork page with similar code to the regular artwork page, so that it will be easier to update all of that. Thanks to Pi for making the code so easy to read, so that it was easy to update.

SITE UPDATE - December 12, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 4 new games; 6 games updated artwork

For admirers of arcade artwork, Christmas comes early this year. I finally hunkered down, and got a whole bunch of stuff done in the last few weeks. Here we go...

So a LONG time ago, alien_mame bought and scanned the bezel for the JPM version of Monopoly. Half the fun of the game is the different lamps around the gameboard as you play. To actually make the lamps work properly, I took a different approach, and created the bezel in layers, so that the lamps would stick out better. Don't worry... the full version of the bezel is in the file, for prosperity.
I've been wanting to add the proper color overlay to Space Zap for a long time, once a collector contacted me that there was a B&W version, but then that collector never got back to me with the artwork. Recently, joey35car pointed me in the direction of someone that had that cab. I reached out, and he obliged, so a big thanks to Keith at Keith's Arcade for scanning his overlay and sending it to me. It really does look nicer now.
Trebor had pointed out a small glitch in the bezel for Ghosts 'n Goblins this year. When I went to look at it, I realized just how BAD the bezel looked. It totally wasn't up to snuff compared to the stuff that we normally release. So... I re-did it. And it was good practice for me; seems like I know what I'm doing now, so now that almost no one is left helping me, I'll still be able to churn out really good artwork regularly.
This year, Dave at https://www.robotron-2084.co.uk/ restored his Space Invaders II cab. He scanned and vectored the bezel/control panel, and was kind enough to send it to zorg for safe keeping at his site, so this is now in MAME.
KombatMAME at BYOAC scanned and cleaned up the marquee and instruction card for Wrestlemania; these have been added.
Just found out that in the Taito version of Space Invaders, the overlay for the saucer area is purple, not red like the Midway version. This has been fixed. You don't have to download the whole file; you can just download the new LAY file and replace it.
I took a bunch of pictures at CA Extreme last year. One of the games that stuck out on me was Gee Bee. The actually overlay is different than what is in MAME today. I verified by checking a few other cabinets around the internet. Looks a lot cooler now. I'll submit it later to update the internal MAME version, with some slight alterations (since there are diagonal shapes in it).
Found a good photo of the instruction card for Alpine Ski, which has been missing since forever, so that's fixed now.
So right after I finished GNG, for some reason I decided to go back and look at Super Pac-Man. And... O M G... there were so many things wrong with it... just click here to see. Sad thing is, even the official repro that is sold today has some of these mistakes. At least it'll be right when you play it in MAME. And since I was at it, I had good photos of the cabaret version, so I added that one in also.
And to end the year of with a bang... I think Video Pinball has been "the community's" most requested artwork since everything changed in MAME 0.107 over six years ago. I've been holding off on adding it all this time, because someone has been "working on the perfect version" of this artwork since before I started on this project. I'm tired of waiting, and the game is simply unplayable without artwork, so I'm doing something about it for now.

Thanks go to TrevEB for taking some pretty good photos of the backdrop lit up in a cabinet. I tweaked it as best as I could to line it up with the game screen (good thing with the game in service mode, it lights up nine spots that show you how to line the screen with the artwork). Also, thanks go out to Andy Welburn for scanning the bezel so long ago for us, which zorg finished some time ago. So now, we can all play Video Pinball again.

When the perfect version is finally finished, I'll more than happily replace this version.

That's probably going to be it for 2012 (unless Mikonos finally sends me the four pieces he finished four months ago). Have fun with the new stuff, and we'll have more goodies coming soon.

SITE UPDATE - October 20, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 7 new games; 1 game updated artwork

Sorry fellow gamers... work kept me pretty busy this summer. Luckily, some other people found time to get stuff done...

Thanks to Mikonos , we have:

A cleaned-up bezel for Exerion, scanned by me
A cleaned-up bezel for Bomb Jack, provided by the BYOAC/CAG artwork
A cleaned-up bezel for Street Smart, scanned by zorg
A cleaned-up marquee for Hammerin' Harry, scanned by Mikonos himself

Thanks to Lord Hiryu from Arcade Forever for cleaning up the marquee and bezel for Ring King. Marquee thanks to BYOAC/CAG; bezel provided by myself, and scanned by TrevEB
My apologies to Roger Coltrane... he scanned and submitted the instruction card to Pit Fighter some time ago, but I, uh, forgot about it. So here it is now (and I cleaned it up a bit more, also).
Got an instruction sticker for Hydro Thunder that I completed some time ago; game doesn't work in MAME yet, but the sticker sure is pretty ;-)
And now that MAME supports Pong, the real bezel artwork can be moved from the Other Games page to here. Originally vectored by jcroach, on loan from Vintage Arcade Superstore.

That's about it for today. Still eagerly awaiting the finishing touches for Omega Race from Antny (which he'll get to when time allows), and some more completed pieces by Mikonos, which I'm just waiting to receive back from him.

SITE UPDATE - September 9, 2012

MAME Compiling Page: updated for 0.146u5

Compiling page has been updated:

Information updated to build 0.146u5
Information updated for building MAMEUI
Added a batch file to run a command prompt with Administrative rights, so that you won't get patch.exe errors and don't have to rename the file

SITE UPDATE - May 28, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 12 new games; 11 games updated artwork; 5 code updates

Been what, four months now? Too long again, sorry 'bout that. Let's get on with it...

Added in a bunch more stuff from Nightvoice: marquees and control panels for all of the Trivial Pursuit games, control panel for Chicken Shift, control panel for Circus, control panel for Liberator, control panel and marquee for Depth Charge (marquee is thanks to the BYOAC / CAG artwork), complete artwork for Wheel of Fortune, and the instruction card for Point Blank 3 (though the game currently doesn't work).
We've got two new bezels fron Antny: APB, on loan from Vintage Arcade Superstore, and Cosmic Guerilla, scanned by TrevEB. Also, thanks to drewcifer for fixing the perspective on the APB bezel.
Thanks to Gamestone at Gradius Home World, we have totally awesome cocktail artwork for Gradius II.
Thanks to Mikonos, we have a new bezel for Kid Niki, on loan from Vintage Arcade, and he also touched up Psycho Soldier.
Thanks to jibmums for pointing out that our Zektor bezel was missing some stars. Nightvoice also took care of this one.
Metal Slug 2 has buttons on the control panel now. You might notice buttons in a bunch of the other files listed above, also. You'll notice that the buttons work, and are clickable, too. Special thanks to wol-nz at BYOAC for rendering those.
Added files for the four recently added Deco Cassette games.
Renamed ddp3 to ddpdojb. You can simply replace the LAY file for this one.
New LAY files for nam1975, kabukikl, breakrev, that I forgot to update last time. You can just replace the LAY file for these, too.
New LAY file for scdrwho, which uses the new REEL system. Thanks to James Wallace for the file, and to Haze for adding in the reel system. (Note: this won't work properly until 0.146u1)

And I actually updated all the screenshots this time, including the ones I missed from the last update =D

SITE UPDATE - January 29, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 31 new games; 125 games updated; 1 deleted; ALL LAY files changed

First, let's start with the main updates...

Nightvoice did a lot of work on marquees and control panels for the last year and a half. It's about time I start adding this stuff. For today, we have the control panels for Orbit, Starhawk, and Gravitar. With the artwork there now, these games are a bit easier to understand.
We have some new friends over at Arcade Forever; Lord Hiryu and Tapule have been cleaning up artwork on their own for awhile now, which you can see over at A4E. I'll be incorporating some of their stuff in the next updates, and they've agreed to start helping clean up more artwork that we have waiting in the wings. So with that...
Mortal Kombat I and II have been updated. After seeing this post at BYOAC, and then looking back at the artwork, I realized I did a crap job on both of these. So... I redid the instruction cards for both, and added the improved marquees from Lord Hiryu, along with the control panels (all scans originally from the BYOAC / CAG artwork).
Tapule did a real nice cleanup on the artwork for Ikari Warriors; bezel has been replaced, and marquee and control panel added (all scans originally from the BYOAC / CAG artwork).
To show off what he's got, Lord Hiryu cleaned up the bezel for Power Drift, which has been added.
I updated Armor Attack and Superman. Armor Attack was never set up correctly in the LAY file, so this has been fixed. On Superman, the colors always bugged me a bit; I think I've got it right this time.
I cleaned up and added the marquee for Mr. Do!'s Wild Ride, scan courtesy from the BYOAC / CAG artwork. After the work I spent on it, I picked up a better version of the marquee =P. Well, I'm adding it anyway for now, and I'll go back and improve it later; leaving it in as a reminder to not "rush stuff out the door."
Thanks to Bad Boy Billy for pointing out that the clones on DECO Cassette games weren't referencing artwork. I figured out this was due to how MAME treats the parent-clone relationship of games that use a BIOS. It's not something that recently changed in MAME, it's just something that I never noticed before =P. So anyway, decocass.zip has been deleted, and there are now individual artwork files for each DECO Cassette game. BUT WAIT... don't download them all just yet... see the update file below.
All of the currently existing Neo Geo games have had artwork added for the bezel and control panel. BUT WAIT... don't download them all just yet... see the update file below.

WAY back a while ago, as of MAME 0.110u1, Aaron made a change to the artwork layout loading, so that a game will also look for "default.lay" rather than "gamename.lay. In the end, this makes things easier to update, play around with other artwork files, etc. For whatever reason, I never changed everything over back then. Well, now they're done; the LAY file in every game has changed from gamename.lay to default.lay. PLEASE DON'T download every artwork file again; you'll waste 1.49GB of bandwidth. Just grab the update file below (along with the 10 games that show updated 2012-01-25) and use the current DAT file and CLRMAME to fix all your files. The file below also includes the DECO artwork and Neo Geo artwork mentioned above, so CLRMAME can fix those for you also (and save you from downloading 152 files).

~~artwork_update_20120129.zip~~
(since updated)

While I'm on the subject of Aaron, it's dev gush time ;) For those that weren't around six years ago, or don't remember six years ago, I just want to remind everyone that a LOT of thanks goes out to Aaron for getting the ball rolling on a lot of things to lead up to the current state of the MAME artwork project:

Aaron updated the artwork system back in May-July 2006 to handle hi-res artwork

In fact, going back even further to July 2002 is when Aaron first added generic support so that any game could use artwork. Prior to that, artwork was handled on a per-game basis.

He was the first to convert existing artwork to the new system: https://aarongiles.com/?p=177
He was the first to purchase and scan artwork "specifically" for use as MAME artwork
He was the first to borrow artwork from an arcade collector "specifically" for use as MAME artwork

All of that, in addition to Ad_Enuff grabbing existing bezel files from The Arcade Art Library and posting to MAMEWorld as new artwork files, is what inspired me to put the site together, start co-ordinating everything, making new contacts, etc., to get things the way they are today. Also thanks again to all the people listed here.

Oh... one last thing. I haven't made any new screenshots yet for this release, so if someone wants to volunteer... =D And I'll update the INI file next time, too.

SITE UPDATE - November 1, 2011

There was an error with mrdo and with one of its screenshots. Both have been updated, along with the DAT files. Both were just naming errors, so you can just grab the DATs and let ClrMAME fix it.

SITE UPDATE - October 31, 2011

Mr. Do's Arcade: Site update in progress

Finally...

I've been wanting to update the site for quite a while, actually. Finally got around to doing it. On the outside, it may just look like new colors and a slightly different design, but on the backend, all the code is cleaner, and it will be easier for me to add and update stuff now (which was the big thing for me). If anyone notices if I "broke" anything, let me know.

In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 8 games updated

More than five months since the last artwork update; sorry about that. Part of that was due to the site update, and part due to "other stuff." Anyway, it's here now, so let's get started:

Mikonos brings us some more goodies. Today, we have Prehistoric Isle and Dyger from the BYOAC / CAG artwork, Juno First, and the Journey bezel has been updated to the real thing (the last one had the bottom cut off). Thanks to Gene at Vintage Arcade Superstore for loaning that one out.
TrevEB noticed that the bezel for Us Vs. Them is almost identical to M.A.C.H. 3. So with photo evidence in hand, he took the current artwork for M3 and adjusted it for UVT.
Trevor also scanned the bezel for Warp Speed some time ago. Antny took it upon himself to complete the task, and even started working on it before the game was added to MAME.
Roberto Fresca added some new roulette games to MAME over the past few months that work better with artwork, so he created it. Grab the files for re800v1, re800v3, and kas89.
Thanks to inspiration from kelly, I gave the Mr. Do bezel the proper treatment. I taught myself how to use the pencil tool properly in Photoshop, and based on the scan from the BYOAC/CAG artwork, and various photos, I'm finally happy with the end result. We also learned that the original Mr. Do bezel had a pink border around the screen; the blue border version is for conversions. This updates the files for mrdo, docastle, sraider, and jjack. Mr. Do also includes the marquee, which is based on zorg's vector work, the BYOAC/CAG version, and photos, to make sure that I got the colors and alignment on the inside of the marquee correct. I'll add the control panel and instruction sticker later, once I finish them correctly.
Grab the files for Seawolf and Seawolf II. I took the uncropped artwork from the "other" page and stuck them in there, for reference.
Earlier this year, code was added to MAME for marquees and control panels. Metal Slug 2 has been updated to finally use this, so you can see what kind of plans I have for this. It includes every piece of artwork on the cabinet (except for sideart). Default is all artwork on. If you wanna just use the normal bezel view that has always been around, simply turn off marquees and control panels. There is also views included that only show the marquee, control panel, and instruction card. These are there for people that have a second monitor to display this info to, or if you just wanna pause the game and read the instructions, they are now available. I plan to also have moving sticks and buttons on the control panels later, so stay tuned.

Other Arcade Artwork: 50 new games; 31 games updated

On to the other artwork... back in February, hatefulgravy pointed me to this site here. With the advent of widescreen monitors, everyone's always heard complaints of the gamescreen not taking up all space on the monitor. Well, here was a guy that wasn't happy that the artwork wasn't taking up the whole monitor, so he took exisiting arcade artwork, and created custom widescreen artwork for 80 of his favorite games. After downloading everything and checking it out, I thought it was pretty cool. I contacted hausjam to ask his permission to add it to the "other artwork" page, and he agreed. So head on over to the other artwork page and check it all out.

So back the the site update now... I don't ever want to go six months again without an update. Mostly, it's not fair for contributors that finish artwork to have to wait so long before artwork is officially "released." So now that the update is done, I think it's safe to say that I will now be able to "release" artwork soon after it is completed, instead of letting it pile up and having to do a whole bunch of it at once (which kills me).

SITE UPDATE - May 15, 2011

In-Game Artwork

There's a new player in town...

But first... Gatinho goes PG-13 on us, and gives us Cheeky Mouse. Not only did he clean it up, he was kind enough to buy it in the first place for scanning.

In other news... Nightvoice continues to churn them out. This time, he's vectored Sega Championship Boxing, scanned in by TrevEB.

Now... everyone say hi to Mikonos. In just the past week, he's already fixed up four bezels: Hippodrome, Last Mission, and Last Duel, from the BYOAC / CAG artwork, and also Gunforce. Hopefully, he plans to stick around for awhile.

Looks like some games got renamed (again). batrider, bbakraid, gekiridn, and sbomber. You can simply grab the LAY files for each one and let ClrMAME work it out. Thank you Roman, for the heads up.

Two more simple updates, that you can just grab the LAY file for: Seems I put the wrong LAY file in Dr. Who while testing something awhile ago. This has been fixed. (Later, I'll also have Connie's version available; just need to work things out to have both versions available). Also, for Atari Tetris, I added a view for the cocktail version, which has a vertical screen.

EDIT: If you grabbed the DAT file within the first few hours, it inluded two files that I was testing with (which you wouldn't have). Corrected DAT now uploaded.

SITE UPDATE - April 23, 2011

In-Game Artwork

I love surprises. The day after the last release, I receive an email from LASooner, with an attachment called starwars.zip. And I quote:

I made this for my own purposes, but thought I'd share it with the community if you want it. The cabinet is a composite of multiple images I found on the web.

I dropped in my artwork folder and played. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I dug around and found the Star Wars scans from the BYOAC / CAG artwork, sent them back his way, and asked if he'd mind making it look even better. He took up the offer, and the end result is fantastic! So, we now have really cool artwork for Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. Each file includes the full view, and a cropped view. Later, I'm gonna try the full view on my living room tv, rotated =)

Thanks again to LASooner. Maybe he'll grace us with some more surpises in the future.

SITE UPDATE - April 16, 2011

In-Game Artwork

Here's some new stuff for 2011...

After all this time, Time Pilot was a real group effort. Aaron Giles first purchased and scanned this over three years ago. Ad_Enuff took care of the background and color matching, zorg vectored all the vehicles, jcroach vectored all the clouds, and thanks to my job laying me off for a week, I was able to finish up the asteroids to complete it. (Yes, I'm already back to work now).
Thanks to NightVoice for vectoring Zektor and Victory, which were scanned by TrevEB.
Thanks to zorg for getting in contact with Etienne over at Dragon's Lair Fans. He scanned and vectored the Italian version of the Namco Galaxian bezel.
Thanks to jcroach for vectoring Slither, which was scanned by TrevEB, and Hustle, which was based on a very good photo in an eBay auction
Thanks to zorg for vectoring Turtles, which was scanned by TrevEB.
Set maintenance - I redid the snap shots for venture and kick, as there was something wrong with each of them.

If you go over and check out the Artwork WIP Page, you'll notice that it's actually up to date now. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and you can also see stuff that I have scanned, but still need to stitch before cleanup starts.

Job is stable again, so I can probably put some more needed time into this stuff. Plus, we may have another helper waiting in the wings, so stay tuned.

On a final note, I would like to extend my apologies to DaPlumber. He contributed some stuff awhile ago that I had shot down, simply because I was, shall we say, really anal for no reason, and was wrong. I'm pretty sure I rubbed him the wrong way, and he hasn't been back since, though I have seen him pop his head in at MW every so often. Hopefully he reads this, or someone that knows him will forward this along to him. I'd be more than happy to welcome him back to help out artwork wise. And if anyone has the versions of Karnov and Blood Bros that he previously posted on MW, could you please send them my way, so that they can be in the next release as they should have originally been some time ago.

--- James

GENERAL UPDATE - January 10, 2020

Congrats to hydef

SITE UPDATE - January 01, 2020

In-Game Artwork: 1 new set

SITE UPDATE - December 30, 2019

Google Drive (Link Removed) — MAME Artwork Update 20191229

SITE UPDATE - December 29, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 46 new sets; 48 additional sets updated; 34 files removed; 62 files temporarily removed

SITE UPDATE - July 1, 2019

Google Drive (Link Removed) — MAME Artwork Update 20190630

SITE UPDATE - June 30, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 35 new sets; 49 additional sets updated

SITE UPDATE - March 24, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 289 new sets

SITE UPDATE - February 25, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 54 new sets; 11 sets updated

SITE UPDATE - January 22, 2019

In-Game Artwork: 28 new sets; 5 sets updated

SITE UPDATE - December 15, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 198 sets new or updated

SITE UPDATE - September 15, 2018

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SITE UPDATE - June 03, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 3 systems updated artwork

SITE UPDATE - June 02, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 56 new systems; 3 systems updated artwork

SITE UPDATE - February 26, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 35 new games; 1 game updated artwork; update to page layout

SITE UPDATE - February 22, 2018

In-Game Artwork: Artwork page - Code update

SITE UPDATE - January 30, 2018

In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 6 games updated artwork; 3 games other updates

SITE UPDATE - July 2, 2017

In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 6 games updated artwork; much other stuff fixed

SITE UPDATE - July 31, 2016

Slowly getting back on track - Artwork updates will resume August 2016

SITE UPDATE - July 19, 2015

Rumours of this site's demise are greatly exaggerated.

SITE UPDATE - January 4, 2014

In-Game Artwork: 6 new games; 4 games updated artwork

Other Arcade Artwork: 19 new games; 17 games updated artwork

SITE UPDATE - May 11, 2013

In-Game Artwork: 10 new games; 3 games updated artwork

SITE UPDATE - December 12, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 4 new games; 6 games updated artwork

SITE UPDATE - October 20, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 7 new games; 1 game updated artwork

SITE UPDATE - September 9, 2012

MAME Compiling Page: updated for 0.146u5

SITE UPDATE - May 28, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 12 new games; 11 games updated artwork; 5 code updates

SITE UPDATE - January 29, 2012

In-Game Artwork: 31 new games; 125 games updated; 1 deleted; ALL LAY files changed

SITE UPDATE - November 1, 2011

SITE UPDATE - October 31, 2011

Mr. Do's Arcade: Site update in progress

In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 8 games updated

Other Arcade Artwork: 50 new games; 31 games updated

SITE UPDATE - May 15, 2011

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SITE UPDATE - April 23, 2011

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SITE UPDATE - April 16, 2011

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SITE UPDATE - January 14, 2011

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SITE UPDATE - August 5, 2010

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SITE UPDATE - August 4, 2010

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SITE UPDATE - August 2, 2010

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SITE UPDATE - February 22, 2010

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SITE UPDATE - December 7, 2009