RETRO ARCADE BROADCAST
OBS GUIDE

Before you start

• OBS Studio 28 or newer. Older versions have no Docks menu for web pages and no WebSocket built in.
• Unzip the package anywhere you like. Right click the zip, Extract All, press Extract. Then open this page from that folder, not from inside the zip.
• Save your current setup first. In OBS: Scene Collection, Export. Nothing below deletes it.

1 Import the scenes

1. In OBS open Scene Collection, then Import.
2. Press the ... button, go to the folder above and pick Retro_Arcade_Scene_Collection.json. Make sure it is ticked, then press Import.
3. Open Scene Collection again and choose Retro Arcade Broadcast.

Pick the file from inside the package folder. OBS uses the folder the file is in to find every screen, so it works wherever you unzipped it. Moved the folder later? Import it again from the new place.

Screens that are not on air shut down and everything runs at 30 fps, so OBS only works on the scene you are showing. Each screen slides in when you switch to it.

2 Pick your cams and the game

• Cam 1 and Cam 2 are empty to start. Double click each one and pick a camera. They already sit under the right windows in Caster Desk and Interview, and setting one sets it in every scene.
• Casters on a call? Swap a cam for a browser source (VDO.Ninja and the like): add it to the scene, then right click it, Transform, Edit Transform, and copy the position and size from the cam it replaces.
• SMITE 2 captures the game window (In Game and Post Game). Start the game once so OBS can find it.
• Intro Video (optional) plays your own intro: double click it and pick the video file. It starts from the beginning each time you switch to its scene.
• Desktop Audio and Mic use your default devices. Change them by double clicking.

3 Add the dock

1. In OBS open the Docks menu (in some versions it is under View, then Docks) and choose Custom Browser Docks.
2. Type Retro Arcade Dock in Dock Name.
3. Paste this in URL:

4. Press Apply and close the window. Drag the dock where you want it.
5. Click through a few scenes. The top of the dock should say how many screens are open.

The address above is the easy way. A plain path to controller.html works too, like C:\Users\You\Desktop\Retro-Arcade-Package\controller.html (leave out any " marks): when the dock opens inside OBS it moves itself to the right address, so it shares its settings with the screens.

4 Link the dock to OBS (optional)

This gives the dock scene buttons, and it sends every change to the screens through OBS too, so they always follow the dock.

1. In OBS open Tools, WebSocket Server Settings. Tick Enable WebSocket server and press Apply.
2. Press Show Connect Info and copy the Server Password.
3. In the dock open OBS LINK AND SETUP at the bottom, paste the password and press Link OBS. The chip at the top turns to OBS linked.

The dock remembers it and links again by itself next time.

5 Running a match

The dock runs top to bottom in the order of a broadcast: SET UP first (teams, logos, casters, OBS), then 1 Starting Soon, 2 Intro video, 3 Caster Desk, 4 Sponsors, ad reads and info, 5 Match Up, 6 Picks and bans, 7 In Game, 8 Post Game and 9 Be Right Back. Steps 6 to 9 repeat for every game. After the games: 10 Bracket, 11 Extra stuff (Schedule) and 12 Thanks for Watching. The step buttons at the top of the dock jump to each step; with the dock linked to OBS, the step on stream says ON AIR.

• MATCH: type both team names. Order is player one on the left in cyan, Chaos is player two on the right in yellow. Add a tag (the short name on the scorebug) and a logo if you have one. Teams are remembered with their tag, logo and lineup, so next time just type the name.
• TEAM ROSTERS (under Match Up, laid out like the site panel): five players per team, Solo, Jungle, Mid, Support and Carry. To fill a team at once, paste a list into its Solo box (one name a line, or names split by commas); ten names in Order's Solo box fill both teams. They show on Match Up, Head to Head and in the draft's roster boxes. Player names never go on god cards.
• DESK AND CAMS: names and handles for the name bars on Caster Desk and Interview.
• SCHEDULE, STARTING SOON, BE RIGHT BACK, THANKS: the text on those screens. Countdowns use 24 hour time.
• SPONSORS: add logos for a strip on Starting Soon and Be Right Back. White or black boxes go behind logos that need them.
• TICKER: a line along the bottom of the full screens. It scrolls by itself when the text is long.
• HEAD TO HEAD: the title and the line under it. The cards fill in from MATCH and TEAM ROSTERS.
• DRAFT: type a god and press Enter, it goes into the next pick or ban. After the game press Game done to save the picks to the Fearless vault and move to the next game. New series starts over.
• IN GAME: the scorebug shows team tags (or full names). The lower third shows a big and a small line on the game, at the top, left or bottom. Fill with the casters and Fill with the match type it for you.
• Order won this game / Chaos won this game: (in POST GAME, after every game) adds the point and sets the winner on Post Game. The plus and minus buttons fix mistakes. The small boxes beside each score (win pips) fill in as games are won.
• POST GAME STATS: paste or drop the two post game screenshots (scoreboard and stats page). This PC reads the numbers, the Post Game Stats scene keeps your casters on until they are ready, then the board shows. Back to the casters takes it off.
• SERIES TRACKER: who won each game. The win buttons fill it in; change a game here and the score follows.
• Next match from the bracket (in MATCH): saves this series' result in the bracket and loads the next match's teams on every screen.
• Performance mode: the switch at the top stops all movement on every screen. Turn it on if the stream drops frames.
• MUSIC: the package's own music plays on Starting Soon, Be Right Back, Thanks for Watching and Victory. Turn it off or set the volume here. It is free to use on stream and in VODs.

6 The stinger

Retro Arcade Stinger is already the scene transition. Switch scenes and it plays: big pixel blocks fill the screen from both sides, flashing cyan and yellow as they land, a white pixel ring bursts in the middle, then the blocks blink away. It has its own 8-bit sound.

If it ever goes missing: in Scene Transitions press +, pick Stinger, choose media\RA_Stinger.webm from the package and set Transition Point to 560 milliseconds.

Fixes

1. Open Scene Collection and make sure Retro Arcade Broadcast is the one ticked.
2. Did OBS show a Missing Files box? The scene file was picked from somewhere else, like Downloads. Do step 1 again and pick the file from inside the package folder.
3. In OBS open Settings, Advanced. Under Sources untick Enable Browser Source Hardware Acceleration, press OK and restart OBS.
4. Still black? Press this button. It makes a scene file with the full address of this folder written in. Import that one (it is in your Downloads) and pick the newest Retro Arcade Broadcast.

Make a scene file for this folder