MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork: Official - Re: Displaying Artwork from Multiple Locations

> Good afternoon all,
> Is it possible to display artwork from 2 different ZIP files from 2 different folders
> at the same time ? I am trying to display the marquee in the second display w/o use
> of anything but MAME and the files - no frontend, etc.
> I created a simple script that builds "marquee only" ZIPs that contains the marquee
> and custom LAY file (followed example from the pinned topic here). I configured MAME
> to use 2 screens, screen0 and screen1 are set to use //.DISPLAY1 and //.DISPLAY2,
> view0 is Standard and view1 is Marquee_Only. In the MAME.ini file I changed the
> artwork folder from artwork to artwork;artwork_mq (the subfolder that contains the
> new ZIPs).
>
> When MAME is launched, it appears to ignore the second folder/file and mirrors the
> main display on the second monitor. I know the new LAY file and ZIP are correct
> because it works if I
> merge it into the original artwork file. It would appear that MAME just ignores the
> second file and setting. I would like to keep it separated so I can still do my
> monthly updates w/o having to update/rebuild the official
> artwork files. This way, the original files can be left as-is and my custom ones are
> displayed.

Unfortunately, no, it just doesn't work that way today. As MAME searches the directories in your path, when it finds the first match, that is the file it uses. It doesn't continue searching in other directories, and also using those files.

I don't know if there are plans for anything like that later, either

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