05173: burnin option not functioning

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
05173	Interface	Major	Always	Mar 23, 2013, 02:11	Mar 23, 2013, 18:08

Tester	sandheaver	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Self-compiled)
Assigned To		Resolution	Fixed	OS	Windows Vista/7 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver
Version	0.148u1	Fixed in Version	0.148u3	Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	05173: burnin option not functioning
Description	The -burnin option does not produce a burnin image.
Steps To Reproduce	Run mame with the -burnin option. At the end of emulation, snap/romname/burnin-0.png should appear. Bug is identified by the generation of a 0-length file named snap/romname/burnin- at the end of emulation.
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Regression Version	0.144u7
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No.09435 etabeta Developer Mar 23, 2013, 14:19	Actually, I think the could should output a "burnin-TAG.png" now, where TAG is the screen tag (now there are no more screen 0, screen 1 etc. so it makes not much sense to save burnin-0 etc.) I've just fixed the code to output such a file correctly, but I'm not sure how the resulting png is expected to be used, so let me know if this bug can be closed or if there is anything else to be fixed...
No.09436 sandheaver Tester Mar 23, 2013, 17:09	I'm actually not sure how to use the burnin image, either. I was going to generate one and work it out. (I imagine that if the burnin image exists it will be overlaid without intervention, but, again, I wanted to test it.) I didn't know the screen IDs were changed... sorry about the error in the description.
No.09437 etabeta Developer Mar 23, 2013, 18:08	np. probably burnin-0 was indeed the output name when the option was added and you could not have been aware of the later change :) Anyway, according to Tafoid, you can take the png given by MAME to create a custom artwork which overlays the png to your screen, so the MAME side is now fixed. Thanks for reporting the problem.