Artwork for my little girls arcade

[jaharr01]

Hi guys, I'm gonna build a 2/3 scale nintendo replica cab for my little girls birthday in september, I was going to do donkey kong or  mario bros, but my wife wants something more personal. I don't want a bunch of artwork on the cab just maybe a nintendo style design on the sides. I'm not that great with design and I wondered if you guys might have an idea that might help me out.The cabinet is going to be teal in color with pink controls and t-molding. I want the marquee to say " Jacie's Arcade. This will really mean a lot to her, because she wants her own arcade that she can play, kinda like dad. She will be 6 years old. I would appreciate any ideas.

Jay

[Le Chuck]

Do the DK art but flip roles for Pauline and Mario then install the Pauline DK rom.

[Malenko]

Something like this?

I was totally winging the shade of pink and teal.  I have the PSD where I made each letter if you want it, or want it tweaked.

[jaharr01]

Yes that looks great. You guys are good.

[Malenko]

whoops, wrong one.

[jaharr01]

You mean side art something like this but tweaked

[Le Chuck]

Yup, all that on a white nintendo cab would be sweomes. 

[jaharr01]

She wants like a  teal color. That wouldn't be  my fav. I guess teal and pink wouldn't look too bad.

[Le Chuck]

She wants like a  teal color. That wouldn't be  my fav. I guess teal and pink wouldn't look too bad.

Save the teal for the vinyl, keep it as the highlight color.  Use white as the base with pink as the compliment.  White cab, pink t-molding, teal and pink CPO, bezel, marquee, side art, pink and white controls.  Don't leave design desicions solely to adorable 6 year olds or it will be covered in chocolate and glitter. 

For added pimp-a-tude buy white plastic everything then dye it all together to the same shade of pink, then take a sample of that to the paint store/hobby store and have them scan it and give you a pantone color code and use that in the graphics then have it match printed at a sign maker.  If it is worth doing...

[jaharr01]

Yes you are right about that

[Malenko]

so more like this then:

[Le Chuck]

why is your apostrophe rotated 180^o?

[Malenko]

why is your apostrophe rotated 180^o?

Artistic preference.

[PL1]

buy white plastic everything then dye it all together to the same shade of pink, then take a sample of that to the paint store/hobby store and have them scan it and give you a pantone color code and use that in the graphics then have it match printed at a sign maker.

Looks like a good process.   

Added to the Color Matching Parts wiki page with the blame credit assigned to you.   


Scott

[jaharr01]

Actually Malinko I like the marquee that is teal and pink, the first one you did. I may do it like Lechuck said do the cab in white and trim it in teal and pink.

[Malenko]

Actually Malinko I like the marquee that is teal and pink, the first one you did. I may do it like Lechuck said do the cab in white and trim it in teal and pink.

Well I like the idea of Pauline being the hero, so I just recolored the last one:
(click for full size!)

There IS artifacting from the JPG compression, but you get the gist.

[JDFan]

Here's a quick recolor of the Bezel (also with Pauline as the hero instead of Mario) - I had made one for the pauline edition running on my machine to be used as the Mame Artwork was using Pink and Orange so just recolored it with the teal and pink instead.

[Malenko]

you have some not quite deleted text next to the "C 1981 Nintendo of America Inc." , you also missed some line recolors near every edited character. (orange near the love DK's arm , red between pauline's arm and dress on all 3 paulines, yellow near nose picking DK, and red near "double farting" DK's left leg. There also seem sto be a lot of artifacting, while thats not a problem for a MAME bezel, its something to consider for a print.

I do like the over all look, and looks like I was close on my colors

[JDFan]

you have some not quite deleted text next to the "C 1981 Nintendo of America Inc." , you also missed some line recolors near every edited character. (orange near the love DK's arm , red between pauline's arm and dress on all 3 paulines, yellow near nose picking DK, and red near "double farting" DK's left leg. There also seem sto be a lot of artifacting, while thats not a problem for a MAME bezel, its something to consider for a print.

I do like the over all look, and looks like I was close on my colors

I used the colors from yours when changing it so they should match -- was doing it quickly so missed some of the recolor (noticed after posting) -- can clean it up if he wants to use it (this was just a quick edit to show the concept) Only used the quick selection tool to select the colors to change rather than zooming in and cleaning up since I wasn't sure if he's want it or not (also figured he might want the pink and teal locations switched.

[Malenko]

ahhhh I thought you meant that was the art you used,lol 

[JDFan]

ahhhh I thought you meant that was the art you used,lol 

This is what I had been using -


Had to go back and clean it up some after you mentioned it - This one should be much better ( Used the color selection tool with contiguous turned off so it selected all of the color then just deselected the unwanted areas of that color with contiguous back on so should make for much better selection rather than using the selection tool with contiguous on the first time and selecting all of the areas (which makes missing some easy !! 

[jaharr01]

You guys are great especially you Malinko. Those colors look great. I love the idea of pauline saving mario. This whole process will be much easier

[JDFan]

Forgot to post the larger version of the Instruction bezel that was changed for Pauline also  :

EDIT : Was bored so also recolored a copy of the sideart I had It had to be changed to 150ppi for this forum but will post a copy of all 3 in a zip to my dropbox and add a link in a minute.

EDIT 2 : OK here is the dropbox link with fullsize png versions ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwc3kp93iqg5kci/Pauline%20art.zip ) It's about 5MB for the 3 images - sideart is 8.5x11 @300PPI since I was planning on printing it at home so you might need to resize depending on what size bartop you are building.

[Malenko]

They have Pauline side art where DK is carrying Mario and Pauline is chasing DK.

[jmike]

Jahharr,
           you're in good hands with Malenko and JDFan. Those guys got some skills!
Now I know where to turn if I decide to build one for my baby girl.   


 

[jaharr01]

They are great. I am excited to build it. I want to thank you guys again. 

[Le Chuck]

On topic but off topic last night I tried to do the Pauline rom build, followed the directions, but couldn't get it to work.  Checked the DKong rom was working in .144(I think) first, worked fine, unzipped it, ran the change, rezipped it with 7zip back to DKong and nada - missing chd error in MAME. 

Anybody got any tips on which rom version I need to be using (if that's the issue)?  Also, Jaharr, you get yours running yet? 

[jaharr01]

I'm running .144 version of mame.

[Le Chuck]

I'm running .144 version of mame.

And were able to do the Pauline build without issue? 

[JDFan]

On topic but off topic last night I tried to do the Pauline rom build, followed the directions, but couldn't get it to work.  Checked the DKong rom was working in .144(I think) first, worked fine, unzipped it, ran the change, rezipped it with 7zip back to DKong and nada - missing chd error in MAME. 

Anybody got any tips on which rom version I need to be using (if that's the issue)?  Also, Jaharr, you get yours running yet?

I'm using 0.149 and Mameui on win 7 64 bit and have it setup and working but it replaces my original DK set1 rom ( and had to add the original files that the Pauline edition changed to the rest of the rom sets zip files so they didn't change also - so use set 2 if I want the original ) since Mameui doesn't support the pauline rom name. It does give the Checksum error but you just hit OK (or spin the joystick) like the other rom Nag screens and launches and runs fine.

Here's a short vid of it running - ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUewMW-sGCM&feature=youtu.be ) As you can see I get the warning but it launches fine -- It did take a couple tries using the tutorial IIRC - If you can't get ti going PM me and I'll send you a copy of the files I have if you want.

They have Pauline side art where DK is carrying Mario and Pauline is chasing DK.

Ahh man I forgot the one I had wasn't changed and only changed the color scheme -- I'll see about changing them and reupload tonight.

[JDFan]

OK -- FIxed the sideart so that pauline is chasing and mario is held by DK

Here's a new Dropbox link to the set with the fixed sideart ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwc3kp93iqg5kci/Pauline%20art.zip ) Let me know if you need any adjustments.

[Malenko]

yay less work for me 

[Le Chuck]

Mario needs to be more biggerer JD

[JDFan]

Mario needs to be more biggerer JD

How Much Bigerer ?? I always figured Mario was a Short Heavy set Plumber  (figure they are in layers in my psd version so easy to change ! ) - Is this betterer ? ( Dropbox link to bigerer mario version - https://www.dropbox.com/s/q6587kt0e7jhngh/Pauline%20SideartLrgMario.zip )

[jmike]

 

I know you guys are just edited images that were already done but did anyone else notice Pauline's eyes on the side art?   

[JDFan]

I know you guys are just edited images that were already done but did anyone else notice Pauline's eyes on the side art?   

LOL - Yeah it is a pretty messed up  pic of her but was the one that had been used (searched for some others but changing it for the side art would mean it no longer matched the Bezel etc. and most of the others that come up in Google are topless edits which wouldn't be too good for a 6 year olds cab ! ) - I had already fixed her a bit to get rid of the awkward posture she has in the one they are selling but missed fixing the face !

[JDFan]

Here's a quick Fixed version that looks a bit better :

A a new Dropbox link for that version PNG ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/rvy5ukjl8oddggq/Pauline%20SideartLrgMarioFixedEye.zip )

[Malenko]

most people flip mario to face the other way in DK's paw, and they cut the foot and put it it above the paw for an illusion of "depth"

[JDFan]

Good Idea ! Something Like this :

And a new Dropbox link to the new version ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/13sjif93k4wwotx/PaulineEDITED.zip )

[yotsuya]

You going to keep "Donkey Kong" on the sides, or change it to match the Marquee?