Classic Arcade Graphics Price Drop THREAD IS NOW: GROUP PURCHASE N0:2

[BobA]

Thanks for opening it up for more members.  Donatied today.

[fixedpigs]

Cavalry 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with OneTouch Back-up Software

$90.85 shipped after rebate and coupon...

the 7% off coupon lasts until july eighth...

[Level42]

The REALLY funny thing is that the guy who first suggested this groupbuy still doesn't have the files (But that's completely his own fault  )

I can wait a bit more, if 500GB is around the 50 bucks, I'll jump in, I have no need for the files now....just don't forget me guys

[ChadTower]

I'm in that same spot with the price of the drive and I was in on the first buy.   

[RandyT]

Cavalry 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with OneTouch Back-up Software

$90.85 shipped after rebate and coupon...

the 7% off coupon lasts until july eighth...

The Cavalry externals seem to be good drives, and co-exist nicely on a USB bus with other drives.  It's the one I, and at least one other individual, ended up using.  Both times things went without a hitch and that's a great price.  I spent about $50 more on mine, but I guess that's to be expected the way storage prices are falling.

RandyT

[Disturbed013]

Can anyone in US who is willing to copy to HDD for me shoot me a PM please?

To make it fair, I will donate the said $20 to the ROM Dump Project or whatever you had to pay if you were on first round buy.

Thanks

[divemaster127]

I would be willing to do the same donate $20.00 to the rom project if someone would copy the files onto a hard drive for me, or whatever the price is, just shoot me a pm
dm

[ChadTower]

That wasn't the current offer, BTW.  The offer was $10 for access to the website.  The contents of the website are not the original source materials, they are JPGs of high enough quality to print from.  Asking for the original source material is a different matter.

The price on the first group buy was $50 but it was limited to the required number of people to meet the seller's asking price.

Now, I'm not saying no one will help you with what you want.  I'm just making you aware that what you are asking is not what JoyMonkey is offering.

[shardian]

The total size of Joymonkey's website is ~40 gb.

[ChadTower]

Cool.  Very cheap and would give printable JPGs of many things.  Wouldn't give the source material for making custom stuff using the material or anything like that, though.  I doubt you could do that very well using the JPGs as the original source.

[Disturbed013]

Thanks Chad, I understand the website offer.  I can't speak for DM, although I suspect our interest is the same.  I'm actually looking toward future projects and preservation of the material so I was looking for someone who got in on the first or second group purchase to get the source material.  I have no plan/intent/desire to sell/publish/post any of it.  Just personal use on restoration projects (and of course helping out members here).

If anyone is willing to do the copy, I'll pay/donate whatever they paid or feel is fair,  $20 or $50.  I'll cover the postage both ways too, just need a few minutes of someone's time, and I can try to offset that cost too...

Anyone???

[BamBam]

Eventually most of the artwork will be available to the BYOAC community in one form or another. Right now most of us that originally donated have access to the artwork, but as a courtesy to Classic Arcade Graffix we'd prefer not to turn around and give his product to the whole community for free straight away; doing so would completely devalue the artwork that he's put a serious amount of time and effort into and wouldn't be fair on him, or others that have bought the artwork as business investments (like MameMarquees).
I'm putting together a web-gallery with low/medium resolution versions of everything, so everyone gets to take a look at the artwork.

To add to what I posted in the other thread, here's the site I've been putting together:
http://artwork.joymonkey.com

Uploading everything is pretty tedious, but eventually everything will be up there and people outside of the original group buy will be able to browse through low-resolution versions of everything, then request the specific pieces they're looking for in full res.

The way I see it, it's better to have a quick look at a piece of sideart and decide if it's what you want that to download a 2gb version of the same image only to see it's not what you had in mind.

Again, none of this is going to happen overnight, but eventually I hope it will work out in everyones favor without stepping on anyones toes.

Joymonkey,

I took a break from this web site for the past few months and came back to see this post.  I visted your web page and made a donation.  This seems to be the best solution to the problem.
I am extremely grateful for your hosting of the files.  I can't wait to dig and see what is there.
Thanks again.  The site is extremely well done and very organized.

John

[JoyMonkey]

I just sent Guru's ROM Dumping Project another $113.46 of sign-up donations from the Artwork Site. 

There's still lots of bandwidth available on the site if anyone else want access to the full-size artwork files.

[SavannahLion]

Got the drive yesterday.  My contact must have had the patience of Job. I'm sure it was frustrating to him when my drive just wouldn't play nice. Sorry about that.

In any case, I ran MD5Summer against the drive. If anyone out there is willing to do the same so we can compare the results and validate the drive contents. It would be much appreciated.

Some of the files I looked at appear to have some minor corruption (The Hang-On marquee for example). I don't know if it's an artifact from the original or symptoms from the problems my drive exhibited during the copy process. Even though my source checked file sizes and existence it would settle my mind if I had some MD5 checksums to validate against.

The MD5 validation takes a long time. I clocked in almost five hours through the USB drive. 

(.zip file of the MD5 checksums will follow tonight).