MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: MAME & Flyers

> As someone who has battled with this for years, it's just easier to change the
> artwork folder name & only use it when you want to check out the cool new artwork &
> actually play the game.
>
> My little rant: The lay files should have some sort of organization to all of them
> from the start.
> For example, the 1st view would be standard 3:4 then standard widescreen then start
> with the artwork definitions & go from there.
> Just seems to make sense to me to have a standardized method in dealing with artwork
> now that it has become so common.

But there already is a standard organization of how artwork views are listed in the Video Options menu:

- Views listed in the external artwork file
- If game is a clone, and external artwork for the parent exists, those views are listed next
- If game has a separate internal LAY file, those views are next
- If game is a clone with a separate internal LAY file, and there is a parent also with an internal LAY file, that is listed next
- Finally, the Standard views are listed for the game orientation type (Standard 3:4 or 4:3, etc.)

If the Standard views were listed first, we are defeating the whole purpose of having artwork in the first place. We'd go from a few people asking why their screenshots don't come out the way they used to be to a whole bunch of people asking "I have the artwork for game X, how come it doesn't display when I start the game."

I feel like I answered this already somewhere... oh...

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=mameui&Number=388196

Now I'm all confused... I'm answering the same person twice with the same answer.

> Now the hard coded artwork is a wholly different animal to get into & deal with...
>
> Just my 2 cents worth...

Setting the snapview option here solves that, too. Just set that option to "Screen 0" in your INI file, and problem is solved and done for 95%+ of games.

Alternately, instead of renaming your artwork folder, you can temporarily comment out the artwork folder line in your INI. Same result.

RELAX and just have fun. Remember, it's all about the games.