Game:

The King of Fighters 2002 (2002)

Duration: 18:48

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This is a Derek Moore artwork:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYJIdKAOzWs

This artwork uses an old MAME structure for artwork, witch means, it stop working along the way, old tricks done to animate stuff also doesn't work anymore, so far I was able to:

- Rewrite the layout file (default.lay) from scratch.
- Use the full artwork size 2560x1440 instead of 1920x1080.
- Rearrange the buttons positions and everything else to match the 2560x1440.
- Use the new engine to make the animation logic work.
- Set display aspect ratio to 10:7 instead of 4:3, 10:7 covers all screen sizes. You can check 4:3 to see what happens with some games. There's a huge list of games with different resolutions you can check it out here:
http://neogeo-megashock.blogspot.com/p/neo-geo-resolution.html
- Recalculate the correct aspect ratio for the screen area (so it doesn't cut any part of the screen).
- Get rid of the "screen mask", with the current version of MAME, it's not needed anymore, you can use -video bgfx -bgfx_backend auto -bgfx_screen_chains crt-geom to create the same effect plus, scanlines.
- Add the correct curvature (borders and screen) to the inner side of the frame, so it match the curvatures of the real one.
- Rotate the buttons 180º, if the light reference it's coming from the top or from the screen, to me it looks better to set the light refection at the bottom of the buttons. This is done in layout with "rotate" so it can be reversed back.
- Set the graphics in groups so you can move or resize the buttons or joystick without breaking the format or the way they are organized.
- Now you can toggle two types of glass on and off.
- Added a joystick panel only artwork (screen + panel).

Download here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7uhai2yliyzpide/neogeo.zip
Copy 'neogeo.zip' inside the MAME 'artwork' folder (no need to decompress), MAME will use your Neo Geo game artwork together with this one (you'll see a complete list at video options).

The video doesn't do justice to the high quality of this artwork.
https://i.imgur.com/xFwjc9I.png

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