Laminated Move sheets for Games?

[NatasNJ]

I was playing my NEW MAME machine last night for the first time.  Well I released I don't know how to do most of the moves in Most games.  (aka MK2/3, Darkstalkers, Xmen/Capcom SF, etc...)  

So What I figured would be a nice thing to have is a nicely organized 8"x11" piece of paper that I could print out ALL the moves/tricks/tips of EACH game and then laminate it.  

Have one of these for the SF2 series.  One for MK series, etc..   ANyone do this yet?  Or have all the move lists in some kind of word documents/excel?  

I know www.gamefaqs.com has some good lists for game info.  So I assume I can track down most move lists from there in most games.  Just going to take some MAJOR time to format that all into documents.  

THoughts?

[crashdmj]

The guy who did the "Neverland" cabinet did that same thing but for puzzle fighter i believe, turned out nice.
Good luck
derek

[AlanS17]

Look for "minifaqs" whenever possible.

I used to take these things into arcades. With a small font you could print everything on half a sheet of paper.

[NatasNJ]

Anyone have any of these sheets to share?

And Minifaqs?  I guess I should do a web search for that?

[AlanS17]

Yeah i haven't done that in like 7 years. It's been a while. You'll just have to look around. You might have to compile your own.

[grafixmonkey]

There are sites all over the place full of lists of moves and hints and stuff for games.  There isn't going to be anything that's already exactly what you want and all you have to do it print it.  

Just find one of those "random symbols" fonts that has directional arrows for some of the characters, or maybe use a graphics program to make them.

As a third option, I'm at least slightly interested in having the same thing myself...   so if you send me information about the title of the game and what the moves are that you want on there, I'd take maybe $4.00 per sheet, do the graphics for you, and send you .PDF files.

[NatasNJ]

The info is SUPER easy to get.  The website listed above has all the moves and stuff.  The graphics/fonts would be easy also.  If you even went that route.

You could always say QCF == Quarter Circle Foward
(aka Ryu Fireball)

The real trick/work is formatting in such a way that it looks NICE and EASY TO READ, etc...

$4 a page?   Seems high to me.   Maybe $4 per series of games.   Or just design 1 master template for use with all games.  THat is it.  1 template.   And then anyone can cut & paste the info in there. THen We can all share on this forum.  EVeryone can do one-two games.  By end of weekend we can have EVERYGAME available.  YOU ALL IN?

[grafixmonkey]

I've done some freelance graphics stuff before, and I'm guessing that after the initial effort of constructing template graphics, the arrangement of the stuff on the page itself, and the inevitable re-make because the person doesn't like something about how it looks, it would be a $4 a page job.  

But, I'd rather do it $3 a page than not at all, so how about this:

either $4 a page for the first game in a series and $1 for each page of each additional game in the series, 'similarity discount',

or $3 a page, straight, for any game.

Plus, since I don't know the moves myself, and I don't want responsibility to make sure I'm working from a perfect comprehensive list of moves, someone's gotta send me the move list info or a link to the info they want, for each game, and I'll put it to graphics.  (reason is, those move lists get complicated!  Some of those MK games had moves that could only be performed in certain circumstances, like 'has never used a kick this fight', had to be standing a certain distance, etc. and I don't know all those games well enough to do it without a resource.)