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TF's Nintendo Fusion Covers for UGC
TyrannicalFascist:
Sounds like a cool idea. :)
Well, I've submitted all of my covers (except for Star Fox 2, The Lost Levels and Vs. SMB)... Fingers crossed...
Velmeran:
I've you're thinking about taking a stab at it Apple; I've got a 6000x6000 .psd file with the setup used to do the stripes (just need to rotate it 60 degrees CW) I can send your way.
zakurowrath:
See, what I like about your covers is not just they are now starting to become uniform among NES, SNES and N64, but the fact that, there's a good balance of colour & there's artwork behind the main artwork. The N64 is my favorite system of all time and it's the one that I have the most games for, I honestly can't wait to see what all the covers are going to look like with your N64 template.
The vertical style N64 covers are nice but, there are certain problems with them that your cover style has corrected. One of the big problems is the main cover artwork is squared and cropped instead of rectangle and full, it makes me think of Pan and Scan with a widescreen movie. Another thing is, granted people have gotten creative with the backings, but there's so many different fonts, different preview squares, different backgrounds, the yellow tint is, well yellow, there's way too much red, the fonts are huge and it just seems blocky rather than uniform.
So I have high hopes for this template, and I can't wait to see where it goes.
AppleQueso, granted I would love to see how the Sega boxart would fare with this template and I may change my mind after seeing it, but most of the Sega boxart are vertical in nature and this template may crop it. The striped Genesis,32x,CD and Saturn style scream Sega to me. The Master System and Dreamcast are the only ones that don't conform to the striped style, however they are kind of like book ends to the Sega collection. :P
Most Nintendo boxart is Horizontal so it fits better. But none the less, it's all a matter of opinion, and we pick which template fits our likes and needs. ;D
roach47:
--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on April 10, 2012, 06:47:07 PM ---I was overdue for this one, and I've got two color choices for everyone to choose from:
Super Mario Bros.
Red, which might go well with the others, or black, which is reminiscent of the U.S. box colors. I'll probably leave the U.S. NES cover variation for someone else to do, particularly if they want to make a whole series of covers with the angled bottom to the art.
Added to the master list on page 1. I'll be doing a couple more SNES covers I want to tackle, and I'm still playing around with an N64 version of this template.
Any NES or SNES requests?
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These look great! Still looking for Metroid, Tennis and Metal Gear.
AppleQueso:
--- Quote from: zakurowrath on April 10, 2012, 10:55:46 PM ---See, what I like about your covers is not just they are now starting to become uniform among NES, SNES and N64, but the fact that, there's a good balance of colour & there's artwork behind the main artwork. The N64 is my favorite system of all time and it's the one that I have the most games for, I honestly can't wait to see what all the covers are going to look like with your N64 template.
The vertical style N64 covers are nice but, there are certain problems with them that your cover style has corrected. One of the big problems is the main cover artwork is squared and cropped instead of rectangle and full, it makes me think of Pan and Scan with a widescreen movie. Another thing is, granted people have gotten creative with the backings, but there's so many different fonts, different preview squares, different backgrounds, the yellow tint is, well yellow, there's way too much red, the fonts are huge and it just seems blocky rather than uniform.
So I have high hopes for this template, and I can't wait to see where it goes.
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I've generally been pretty happy with the vertical n64 template, but i can see what you mean. BTW, the covers are squared off so it's easier to crop off that red bar/only for sign. Covers made in the new template will be cropped too, but perhaps the composition might look a little better so who knows?
As nice as it might be to switch over completely, I still have a LOT of n64 covers that need to be done in vertical style as it is, and I imagine it'd be quite a while before all of these become available in the new style. I'll try and make some time to convert some of my covers, but until a good bulk portion of my collection/wishlist is converted, I won't be switching myself just yet. Same goes for SNES.
--- Quote ---AppleQueso, granted I would love to see how the Sega boxart would fare with this template and I may change my mind after seeing it, but most of the Sega boxart are vertical in nature and this template may crop it. The striped Genesis,32x,CD and Saturn style scream Sega to me. The Master System and Dreamcast are the only ones that don't conform to the striped style, however they are kind of like book ends to the Sega collection.
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Yeah, my early attempts at this didn't look too good. I think you'd probably end up having to just use new art entirely like with the NES covers here. I don't really have a lot of motivation to work on it, to be honest, considering I probably won't use it anyway (kinda prefer the retail cases for Genesis games). I just think it would look cool. I might give it another shot sometime, but I don't know. Maybe I'll pitch a mockup of my basic idea to someone else who might want to tackle this.
EDIT: WOAH WHEN DID I GET OVER 1500 POSTS? :o