Color overlay for fceux available?

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DRW
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Color overlay for fceux available?

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Is there a way to define a color overlay in certain screen areas of fceux?

The thing is: I want to be able to see the whole 240 pixel rows, but I want to be reminded that the first and last eight rows are usually cut off due to overscan. So, is there some way to put some half-transparent strip of color at the top and bottom?

(In the emulator itself, not in the game. I know that I could enable the color emphasis with PPUMASK, but I want to avoid this and use the emulator itself for such stuff.)
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Re: Color overlay for fceux available?

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I have drawn overscan guidelines using Lua in Mesen. I suspect that the same is possible using Lua in FCEUX but have not tried it myself.
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Re: Color overlay for fceux available?

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Thanks for the help. Lua seems to be the right thing for me. I checked and it has pixel and line drawing functions.
My game "City Trouble":
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Download (ROM, manual, artworks): http://www.denny-r-walter.de/city.html
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