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Title: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: 80sarcadegames on February 17, 2017, 10:07:49 am: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php (http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php) website worth it?

Does anyone want to admit they paid the $30 to get artwork from it?

I know I am going to get a ton of hate replies to this thread because you guys hate how places like
http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php (http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php) are charing $$$ for art work you can find for free
by Googling, but I'm just curious if anyone admits to using it and what they think about it
if all I want is high quality artwork and NOT manuals etc.
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: yotsuya on February 17, 2017, 10:56:20 am: Why don't you pay the $30 and answer the question for us?
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: 80sarcadegames on February 17, 2017, 11:07:48 am: Quote from: yotsuya on February 17, 2017, 10:56:20 am
Why don't you pay the $30 and answer the question for us?

:cheers:
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: yotsuya on February 17, 2017, 11:10:17 am: Quote from: 80sarcadegames on February 17, 2017, 11:07:48 am
Quote from: yotsuya on February 17, 2017, 10:56:20 am
Why don't you pay the $30 and answer the question for us?

:cheers:
I don't honestly know anyone who has paid for it, so you'd be a trailblazer... :cheers:
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: JDFan on February 17, 2017, 11:10:55 am: Quote from: yotsuya on February 17, 2017, 10:56:20 am
Why don't you pay the $30 and answer the question for us?

^ this -- since unless you pay the $30 annual fee upfront they do not allow you to view any hint of what specific items they actually have available - so no way to tell if they have a specific item you are looking for or what kind of quality any of the art actually is !
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: velcrobomb on February 17, 2017, 11:23:02 am: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=140495.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=140495.0)
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: CheffoJeffo on February 17, 2017, 04:00:45 pm: Answer would depend on the source of the artwork files and if it is Classic Arcade Grafix dump that a number of vendors picked up on back in the day. If you get access to that (and probably more), $30 doesn't sound like a bad price. Back when a number of us paid $50 just for the CAG files.

Of course, there are vendors who also provide printed artwork from that same CAG stash, so if you are looking for a particular piece of printed art, you may be better off elsewhere.
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: 2600 on February 17, 2017, 04:41:11 pm: It's the arcade boneyard, I would expect that most of it is scraped from other sites. I personally would never support the arcade boneyard, but that's just my 2 cents.
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: pbj on February 17, 2017, 04:57:34 pm: I've bought parts from him, he's fine.

The PDFs are probably the same ones that were passed around... 10? years ago as Cheffo mentioned earlier. Those were pretty good quality.
Title: Re: Is the http://theboneyardpdflibrary.com/index.php artwork website worth the $30?
Post by: Le Chuck on February 17, 2017, 05:09:29 pm: I've got access to joymonkey's. Not 100% of everything I've ever needed it's pretty good. Wondering how this wourldn mearsure urp.