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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: MikeW on April 02, 2003, 09:05:28 am
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Hi all,
Been lurking and learning for some time now. I started building a cabinet from scratch based on the Ultimate Arcade from the MAMEroom about a month ago. I am basically finished with it at this point but have one small issue. I built it to accomodate a 27" monitor but I am not sure if I want to limit myself to 640x480 so I am using a 21" XGA monitor for now with a Happ 19-20" bezel. This leaves an awful lot of black around the monitor and generally just does not look very good.
I want to find some small graphics and characters that I can print out on my Epson photo printer and sandwich between the Happs bezel and the 1/4" polycarbonate that I cut to use as the glass overlay. There are lots of places with marquees and side art, which I already have, but I have not found any place that has some of the smaller characters like Pac Man etc..
Also, I am not very talented/creative when it comes to Photoshop or anything like that so I was hoping to find graphics that are ready to print and then cut out.
Any ideas where I could go?
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BYOAC member Chris kindly put his great bezel artwork online here: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/celamantia/mamecab/bezel.htm (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/celamantia/mamecab/bezel.htm).
He has made the original artwork available to me, however since it's quite large, he has not linked it from his website. However, a polite IM on this forum was all it took for him to kindly reply with the link.
Hope this helps,
Paul
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Wow! What a great design for that unused space.
Thanks for the reply!
I actually wanted to put some of the more popular character graphics on the bezel rather than text, i.e. the Donkey Kong character, a small Pac Man dude, a fighting guy etc...
Any other ideas?
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Like this guy:
http://www.geocities.com/draftcardofwar/mame1.jpg
This is almost exactly how my cabinet looks! Same side art and marquee as well (: Too funny!!!!!