¶ Presentation
The overlays (also called bezels) are illustrations which come to "decorate" your screen during the game. These illustrations are often placed on the black areas of your 16/9 screen, not used by the game which is displayed in 4/3.
Street of Rage 3 with the Megadrive overlay, on a 16:9 screen:
Street of Rage 3 without overlay, on a 16/9 screen:
Street of Rage 3 without overlay, on a 16:9 screen, with the image stretched:
¶ Recalbox Overlays
Recalbox integrates the Recalbox Overlays which are displayed by default on compatible screens.
You can enable or disable Recalbox Overlays in the Game Options menu of EmulationStation:
¶ Activation by system
In recalbox.conf it is possible to enable or disable overlays in general:
global.recalboxoverlays=1
Or for a system :
snes.recalboxoverlays=0
¶ Add your custom overlays
There are different overlay packs, some of which offer one overlay per game!
When you have downloaded your overlay pack, copy all the directories it contains into the overlays directory of your SHARE partition:
┣ 📁 recalbox
┃ ┣ 📁 share
┃ ┃ ┣ 📁 overlays
┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📁 megadrive
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 🗒 megadrive.cfg
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 🗒 megadrive_overlay.cfg
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 🗒 megadrive.png
┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📁 snes
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 🗒 .....
Custom overlays have priority over automatic overlays.