Author Topic: where are the GOOD marquees? UPDATE (Read 3348 times)

Magnet_Eye · « **on:** February 14, 2004, 07:10:55 pm »

I remember someone on here was redoing a bunch of marquees...I still have all the old ones and alot of them really suck!

Where to get the good ones?

-matt

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2004, 11:59:19 pm »

Paige gathered alot of marquees and it was upped as a bit torrent a long time ago. Unfortunately, I think the torrent is down now.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #2 on:** February 15, 2004, 12:35:30 am »

Actually he didn't gather marquees... at least not many... he made his own. While I think this is pretty cool I would never ever use a "fake" marquee myself.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #3 on:** February 15, 2004, 02:52:57 am »

ok, so where do you guys get your marquees from?

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2004, 09:37:07 am »

I remember they were available for a short time using bittorrent to distribute. I tried to get a hold of them, but it was not meant to be.

Here's the old thread

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2004, 09:54:55 am »

well, yeah.. if you notice i was the last one to post stating the torrent was dead!

anyway...i gave up at that point and would like to find some better marquees....

so if someone has them, i am willing to host them for a while. until my bandwidth starts going overboard..but i have 20 GB worth just wasting away. so someone give me the darn things!

mahuti · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2004, 11:29:41 am »

I've been starting to collect 'additional' marquees that aren't in any of the sets that I have (and control panels as well)

Anybody that wants to help, let me know.

I can start giving you the new marquees if you want. After I get that taken care of, I'll start looking for 'better' marquees to replace the current ones.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2004, 06:43:42 pm »

What size is the Paige's Marquee archive?

If someone could split it into a few rars and post it to alt.binaries.emulators.mame it would give a lot of us a chance to get hold of it.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2004, 07:16:44 pm »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on February 15, 2004, 09:54:55 am

well, yeah.. if you notice i was the last one to post stating the torrent was dead!

anyway...i gave up at that point and would like to find some better marquees....

so if someone has them, i am willing to host them for a while. until my bandwidth starts going overboard..but i have 20 GB worth just wasting away. so someone give me the darn things!

PM me to remind me to check when I get home. I think I have the marquees from the original post although I'm not sure it's them: how do I tell that what I have is what you're asking for?

Just in case I have the right stuff, let me know in your PM how I can get the archive to you, ideally I'd rather FTP it to you, it's more than likely too large for email and I can't host them at this time. I've downloaded stuff using bit-torrent but I don't know how to setup a tracker and seed a torrent...

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2004, 10:20:21 pm »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on February 15, 2004, 06:43:42 pm

What size is the Paige's Marquee archive?

If someone could split it into a few rars and post it to alt.binaries.emulators.mame it would give a lot of us a chance to get hold of it.

The zip I have is 195 MB. Unfortunately, I dont have access to newsgroups. Otherwise I would post them.

Goz · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2004, 11:31:59 pm »

If you ftp them to me, I will host them.

PM me if interested.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2004, 06:35:31 am »

ok, if you guys actually have them, PM me, i can host them too. We can set up a couple mirrors, which would be good...

-M

soslo · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2004, 04:33:47 pm »

I can host them too...

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2004, 05:50:53 pm »

I uploaded them to Magnet_Eyes FTP a few days ago. I think he is planning on sharing them so just sit tight.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2004, 07:59:47 pm »

Yes, I have the Marquees. I am going to split the file into smaller files, then post them on a page for people to download. Since I do have a limit on bandwidth, anyone else that can host them should download them and do so. If you email me links, I will add them to the webpage (coming soon).

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #15 on:** February 22, 2004, 10:22:07 pm »

Great to hear... contact stuzza, he may be able to host them.

Btw I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but paige was going to make "real" neogeo marquees based on my restored mvs marquee image and the inserts you currently get with the official mame packs. This way they take up the usual space. I don't think he ever got to it.

Thinking on it now I can probably make a small utility that could auto generate them for me. It's not a big priority right now but I'll look into it. The good news is when i do it it'll take a day instead of a few weeks to convert the whole batch.

stuzza · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2004, 12:21:23 am »

I can host a mirror to the files if you guys need it.

Talking Octopus: I've PM'ed u with my FTP details.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2004, 10:29:43 am »

so have these gotten hosted anywhere yet? im interested in them also

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2004, 07:58:47 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on February 23, 2004, 10:29:43 am

so have these gotten hosted anywhere yet? im interested in them also

Ok, I put together a simple webpage, and am in the process of uploading the files right now. Mirrors would be useful. PM or email me with mirror links!

The link to the marquees is: www.starchicken.com/mame

The files will be available in about in hour.

-M

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2004, 12:47:16 am »

magnet... your first pack isn't working.... it's because you have a "#" in the name of the zip....

Big no no as your webbrowser thinks it's the beginning of some script.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2004, 01:01:25 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 24, 2004, 12:47:16 am

magnet... your first pack isn't working.... it's because you have a "#" in the name of the zip....

Big no no as your webbrowser thinks it's the beginning of some script.

oops!

FIXED IT!

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #21 on:** February 24, 2004, 03:33:14 pm »

cool thanks....

btw there are some marquees you need to remove.... there are several "blank" mvs marquees in there they need taken out as they aren't even close to looking official

not to worry though, i'm in the process of fixing all the neogeo marqs.

Zathras · « **Reply #22 on:** February 24, 2004, 04:09:18 pm »

I guess I'll join the bandwagon and mirror them too.

http://www.thatinter.net/marquees/

(uploading is complete and they are good to go for now)

I don't think bandwidth will be an issue (it isn't limited and I'm sitting on several multi-homed T3s) but if the site slows down for some reason (if the server itself runs into a problem) I may be able to move it somplace that might handle it a bit better.

For now I'll even leave the .tar file of them all if you just want to try grab them in one big chunk.

Share and enjoy

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #23 on:** February 24, 2004, 11:13:26 pm »

Ok guys... the mvs marquees are properly converted. Anybody want em as a supplement?

Zathras · « **Reply #24 on:** February 25, 2004, 02:34:29 pm »

Howard - I'll take them if ya got em

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #25 on:** February 25, 2004, 05:11:56 pm »

please post when they're available

XtraSmiley · « **Reply #26 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:15:01 pm »

Just replying to say thanks guys. So what is a "FAKE" marquee anyway? Does it not look real? X

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #27 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:27:21 pm »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on February 25, 2004, 05:11:56 pm

please post when they're available

You can get the Neo Geo MVS Marquees on my site: www.starchicken.com/mame

I think I am going to repack the existing Marquee Files with these, but also still leave this file available for those that want to just replace them. I also have the MVS inserts by themselves which I will make available soon...

-M

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #28 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:39:15 pm »

Quote from: XtraSmiley on February 26, 2004, 05:15:01 pm

Just replying to say thanks guys. So what is a "FAKE" marquee anyway? Does it not look real? X

There are marquees that have been unavailable,. Peale made his own, so they are missing in your FE. Some of them seem to be made from flyers, some from screen shots of the game. As time goes by, hopefully we can replace them with the actual marquees.

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #29 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:41:23 pm »

Quote from: XtraSmiley on February 26, 2004, 05:15:01 pm

Just replying to say thanks guys. So what is a "FAKE" marquee anyway? Does it not look real? X

There are a lot of missing marquee's in the offical marquee pack. The missing ones from the official pack are bad if you are running a front end because the marquee image will be blank. Paige replaced many of the missing marquees with marquees he created. A lot of them are title screens. Now there are fewer missing marquees

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #30 on:** February 26, 2004, 06:05:56 pm »

Quote from: XtraSmiley on February 26, 2004, 05:15:01 pm

Just replying to say thanks guys. So what is a "FAKE" marquee anyway? Does it not look real? X

What the others said. Unfortunately I don't think this is such a good idea. The "fakes" look really nice, but some look so nice that people might mistake them for the real thing and thus won't be on the lookout for the originals. With everyone's permission, I'll try to sort out the "fakes" later on so that they can be available in a seperate pack. This way it will be easy to have a definative list of missing marquees so everyone can periodically check ebay and google for the missing artwork.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2004, 10:58:36 pm »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on February 26, 2004, 05:27:21 pm

You can get the Neo Geo MVS Marquees on my site: www.starchicken.com/mame

Your NeoGeo link is pointing to the 'mamemarquees_w-z.zip'

I've got a little excess bandwidth to spare (about 3gigs a month). I think mirroring all the packs might put me over my limit, but I'll see if I can mirror a few and see how the bandwidth goes.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #32 on:** February 27, 2004, 01:13:34 am »

I actually DID manage to locate somewhere around 100-200 previously unavailable original marquees.

The rest (the fakes).

Are either

Modified title shots (extremely easy to spot these).

Scratchbuilt using graphics from flyers, sideart, console versions, or whatever else I could find to use. These range from easy to spot to almost impossible to spot. Some I spent seconds on, others I put quite a bit of time on. A few I was able to find an unusable marquee image (too small, and angled, etc), and was able to mostly reproduce the darn thing.

Then there are a few that are simply the plain title in the Atari font (easy to spot).

Finally, one game (Qwak, or Quak, or whatever it is), has a marquee from a different game with that same name.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #33 on:** February 27, 2004, 04:48:06 am »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on February 26, 2004, 10:58:36 pm

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on February 26, 2004, 05:27:21 pm
You can get the Neo Geo MVS Marquees on my site: www.starchicken.com/mame

Your NeoGeo link is pointing to the 'mamemarquees_w-z.zip'

I've got a little excess bandwidth to spare (about 3gigs a month). I think mirroring all the packs might put me over my limit, but I'll see if I can mirror a few and see how the bandwidth goes.

OOPS! I blew it again! Sorry! Ok, I fixed the link...

Uh, as far as your mirror.. I can tell you I used up 3GB in bandwidth in about 1 1/2 days of this posting! I am going to run out fast...that's why I am asking for mirrors! I don't think your 3GB will help too much. Unless you host only one small file.

Anyway, sorry about the screw up with the MVS link, and ENJOY!!!!

PS - I just realized I am a jerk...Paige is the man!


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Author Topic: where are the GOOD marquees? *UPDATE* (Read 3348 times)

Author Topic: where are the GOOD marquees? UPDATE (Read 3348 times)