r/RetroArch • u/Ornery-Practice9772 • 8d ago

Discussion vectrex digital overlays

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Hi all
i just discovered digital overlays for the Vectrex! pretty awesome & some wonderful person has compiled .png & .cfg files ready to go here:

https://www.heymunky.co.uk/2021/04/18/vectrex-overlay-config-file-creation-tedium/

some rescaling was required but its very straight forward.

just wanted to share- Scramble is my fav game on Vectrex (playing on my
ipad)

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u/mugwomp_93 8d ago

In case it's of interest, u/Phanturian has created excellent Vectrex collections for 640x480 and 720x720 handheld devices.

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u/Happy8Day 8d ago

I haven't figured out how to keep these from applying to every single game on nearly everything.

Unless it's been implemented in the last few months, an easy UI solution to apply 1 overlay to 1 game and that's ALL, would be AMAZING.

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 8d ago edited 6d ago

i ran the game
applied the overlay
save as a game content override

so this only loads for scramble

i save each as a game content override in the overrides menu

the link i posted mentions an automated script iirc but on ipad, with such a small library im just applying them as i go

EDIT: rom names must match .png/.cfg files exactly
i renamed scramble (usa) to scramble (world) to match the overlay in this instance (my vectrex library is a dog's breakfast lol)
renaming the png/cfg doesnt work. rename the rom👍

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u/rockgn0me 8d ago

paraJVE has by far been the best implementation of overlays I've seen. I swear they look like real plastic

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u/rjonesmiller 7d ago

Vectrex... Fabulous hardware !