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Bonus marquees,snaps,titles, cabinets, & panels above & beyond the usual artwork
jasonbar:
What I lack in computer & MAME skills, I can sometimes make up for with brute force & patience. I went on a mission to fill in gaps in my artwork for my FE (flyers, marquees, snaps, titles, & cabinets).
Marquees:
I found that there were many marquees missing from my MAME PC's art files, and they weren't to be found on a trip through MAWS. For many of these games, I did, however, find cabinet shots and/or flyer shots. From these images, I used Photoshop & cropped & skewed & tweaked to get marquee images (of varying quality, from laughably pixellated to darn good).
Snaps:
Some were wrong, not so good, or not at all on my MAME PC. I made my own snaps from MAME. In the case of Kozmik Kroozr, I didn't like the MAME F12 snaps that didn't show the background artwork, so I did a PRT SCRN & made a prettier snap.
Titles:
Again, many weren't to my liking, or missing, or showed the incorrect parent/child instead of the one that I actually wanted, so I grabbed my own title screens in MAME (I later learned that MAWS had many of these already...oops...). For the laser disc games, I dug around Google & also took photos of my laptop running Daphne for those that I couldn't find on-line. Note that I have custom filenames for my Daphne games...all part of my "tricking MaLa into thinking that they're MAME ROMs to put them all in the same game list" a la SGT's guide in the MaLa forum. Ditto Kozmik Kroozr comment from "Snaps:" above.
So, I've attached 3 zips, which are the marquees, snaps, & titles that I needed to fill in much of my missing art. Feel free to download & use whatever you want. This is all quite unofficial, so use as you wish. I welcome any feedback.
If the forum's download feature is still funked up, PM me & I'll e-mail you the files.
.........hey, the "Additional Options" link below no longer even produces an option to attach a file...OK, let's put them here (no guarantees on how long I'll keep them up...e-mail me if the link doesn't work, please).
http://infernolab.com/forsale/vids/
Enjoy.
Thanks,
-Jason
jasonbar:
Howdy-
I powered my way through cabinet art creation this week.
I pored through MAWS for flyer images for any game for which I (and MAWS) didn't have a cabinet image. I opened up each such flyer image & looked to see if there was a cabinet picture on it. If so, I downloaded the high-res version from Arcade Flyers, did some Photoshop work, & spit out a decent cabinet image.
I sized most cab pictures to be 320 pixels high, for a nice small file size (around 100k each). This zip archive might also have a few extra cabinet images where I did some cleanup work (vs. pulling them from a flyer image). I also got a couple of laser games in there, too, if you're running Daphne.
Forum attachments are still busted, so I'll add this to the following directory, w/ the existing FE artwork I put up recently: http://infernolab.com/forsale/vids/
Download & put into you cabinets directory & you should have some more completeness in your front end. Hooray.
Next up: control panels!
Thanks,
-Jason
saint:
Let me know if you need somewhere to host it. I can manually put it online until they fix the attachment bug.
jasonbar:
Thank you very much, Saint. I can keep them on my infernolab.com link indefinitely. It would be nice to incorporate these into some of the "official" (or semi-official archives) so people won't have to duplicate this labor.
I'll point the MAWS folks to these posts, if they're interested in using the files.
Thanks,
-Jason
Mr. Do:
Very cool!!
I would like to incorporate these into the official packs, if that's okay with you (and of course, full credit goes to you). But first, to help make it more complete...
How would you feel if I uploaded a few hundred more non-flyer pics for you to sort through and crop? Most are named correctly, so shouldn't be too hard to sort through.
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