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Title: 54 Requests (Down to 41!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 11, 2018, 09:21:49 PM
Looking for retail covers as the topic says. These games are also missing from the site, so contributing would be helping out here. The games are as follows:


Please, NO special editions! Thanks in advance to any uploaders!
Title: Re: 54 Requests - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: Jl3legend on July 12, 2018, 07:40:26 AM
I have crysis 3, but it's hunter edition unfortunately. Xbox 360 is my smallest folder of scans so I can't be of much help here
Title: Re: 54 Requests - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: Bear78 on July 12, 2018, 09:27:32 AM
These are all raws and need to be cleaned up.

BioShock 2: https://app.box.com/s/e0ph4rjp2fb6knuj76ra
Borderlands 2: https://app.box.com/s/ijfdfht2dyms9v7dqeqn
Deadspace 3: https://app.box.com/s/w74hkpd8sqwv72z31owh5my1ni79gxiu
Far Cry 2: https://app.box.com/s/cgkq5vby7x6rdrpptc5b
Mirror's Edge: https://app.box.com/s/t9argt0hud04pt41tnsi
Portal 2: https://app.box.com/s/zw5jlazbs97rmu5ec41y
Star Wars Force Unleashed II: https://app.box.com/s/67khkjpsa8yiopi91yrn

I'm pretty sure a lot of the other ones you have listed have been cleaned up and posted before.  You just need to do some searching on the forum.
Title: Re: 54 Requests - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 12, 2018, 01:52:15 PM
Cheers, my dude! Thanks for the covers. I'll add them to the actual site as well as check them on this list.
Title: Re: 54 Requests - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: Bear78 on July 12, 2018, 02:03:25 PM
Quote from: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 12, 2018, 01:52:15 PM
Cheers, my dude! Thanks for the covers. I'll add them to the actual site as well as check them on this list.

No problem. 

Just FYI, you won't be able to add them to the site as 1, they are not cleaned and 2, the upload is currently broke.
Title: Re: 54 Requests - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 12, 2018, 02:05:11 PM
Awe, that's a shame. How long has it been broken for? I feel like if it's been a long time that might be why I'm not seeing some of these covers on the site.
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 48!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: Bear78 on July 12, 2018, 03:46:21 PM
It's been broke for a few months now.  Uploads are always a little slow around here since it's all community ran in peoples free time but the broken upload made it worse.
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 48!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 12, 2018, 04:12:53 PM
Is the site admin ever going to fix it?
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 48!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 15, 2018, 11:05:09 PM
Included in this post:


https://imgur.com/a/GNVKbW1
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 41!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: breakmanexe on July 16, 2018, 08:45:42 AM
Imgur tends to badly compress images. Please try to upload to Mediafire or Box (both free services).
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 41!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 16, 2018, 04:24:46 PM
They don't seem compressed to me.
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 41!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: breakmanexe on July 16, 2018, 10:33:46 PM
Well then let's put it this way: what DPI did you scan & save your covers at? Because the covers for Army of Two (both of them), Fable II, Skate 2 and Borderlands that I just downloaded from your Imgur link ended up on my hard drive as 72 dpi. Here is a link which will illustrate the difference in quality between an image that is 72 dpi and the same image that is 300 dpi. (http://www.chicagonow.com/the-photo-ninja-blog/2010/10/the-difference-between-72-dpi-and-300-dpi/) Most of us strive for higher quality 300 dpi (minimum) cover images because it just plain looks better on a printed, final product.

Imgur is a quick, simple, free service that processes extremely large volumes of images. Most people just want to get an image up fast and turn around and re-share it fast. Concerns over image quality is a secondary concern for Imgur's usual clientele, and in the case of hastily-posted memes and gifs of cats, the fact that the image is there at all is good enough for most people. Imgur compresses the image quality to give itself an easier time in the long run.

As an example of what happened, take a look at this.

This is a Sonic Adventure cover that has been sized for DVD cases, straight from this website. (http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cover_id=9560)

This is the exact same cover, saved to my hard drive and re-uploaded to Imgur. (https://imgur.com/a/xZm4SwY)

At first glance, they seem identical in quality. So I saved a copy of the Imgur file to my desktop and compared the file properties of the two files.

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e92b/nhline9dyhk7ykb6g.jpg)

As you can see, the two files now have different dpi values, and the only thing I did was upload it to Imgur. But just to further illustrate, here is a direct example of how this degrades the image quality:

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/eae3/wd1yi26litunloi7g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?wd1yi26litunloi)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c344/8k48a3rb6e1l8pa7g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?8k48a3rb6e1l8pa)

Feel free to open those images at full size and compare them for yourself. The top image shows the original file straight from TCP. The bottom one is the Imgur copy. Notice the artifacting around the text on the cover's spine, and especially around the Dreamcast logo. Imperfections like that will most certainly show up when you print the image, which is why we strive for 300 dpi covers. If you're going to the trouble to print out a replacement cover in the first place, why not make it look as nice as you can?

Also, all of the covers in your Imgur link are also different sizes. Most cover creators try to keep the finished images a uniform pixel size per physical media format so that every cover fits into their cases the same way every time. Most DVD case covers here are 3225 x 2156, though not everyone agrees on cover dimensions all the time. Just try to make sure that your covers are uniformly-sized and, more importantly, that the finished product fits into a case properly in the end.
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 41!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: ybbradvgHxOD61d on July 17, 2018, 08:15:43 AM
Right, I see what you mean now. The difference is minute, but I can imagine how this translates to when you're printing out the covers. Unfortunately, I wasn't the one that scanned these. I was just looking online and found a decent-sized resolution of the cover that was correct to the description of the topic and uploaded them. I had no idea that people were this specific about their covers. My mistake.
Title: Re: 54 Requests (Down to 41!) - Xbox 360 - NTSC/U - Retail
Post by: breakmanexe on July 17, 2018, 09:36:46 AM
I don't mean to demean. I just wanted to give some hopefully useful info as to why I originally said what I said. This comes from a place of wanting to help. The more people we have making covers the better off we all are, so it would serve no purpose for me to try to publically shame another user who was also just trying to help. So if my wall of text came off that way, then I apologize.

But honestly, having a nice image resolution is important. That's why I highly recommend using a file storage service like Mediafire or Box.