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TF's Nintendo Fusion Covers for UGC
Seraph Man:
How about a picture of the word Wii bowing, like in the original advertisements? That way it won't look too similar to th words up top.
zakurowrath:
--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on April 05, 2012, 01:29:39 AM ---Good luck! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Time for two of the "lost sequels" to Super Mario Bros.
Here's one I've had ready for a while, except for the cover art. This version is a simpler approach, akin to the alternate Lost Levels cover I made. Generally I won't be making covers for repro/hacked games, unless they are ports or recreations of real Nintendo games (Lost Levels, Star Fox 2, this, Super Mario Bros. Special). I don't know a lot about Vs. Super Mario Bros., but from what I gather it was an officially licensed arcade semi-sequel to Super Mario Bros. that incorporated levels from both the original and 2/Lost Levels. Since it's kind of a "lost SMB game", I think it deserves a cover. I originally wanted to use some kind of old Super Mario Bros art from a book or something, so that it matches the art style of the old NES game art, but until I find one, I'll release this one. http://www.mariowiki.com/Vs._Super_Mario_Bros.
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Here's a WIP look at what I'm experimenting with for Super Mario Bros. Special. This is for a repro cart for a hack of SMB that attempts to recreate Super Mario Bros. Special, an officially licensed Super Mario Bros. game developed by HudsonSoft. It had unique levels and even introduced enemies and items not found in the original, like the hammer from Donkey Kong. The hack appears to at least recreate the levels, though it would be nice if someday someone made a more faithful hack that actually included the new enemies and items, and even the color palette, but without the weird screen-scrolling. http://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Bros_Special
For the cover art I found a pretty decent image of an old Super Mario Bros. board game by Milton Bradley, that had art that fit the style of the time. It's not finished yet, but this is an idea of how it's looking. I still need to replace the text, screens, add back character art, and cleanup the front cover art (maybe add clouds), and I'll probably change the background art & spine color some.
AppleQueso, if you get a chance to try recreating the "Special" logo, you can now see where I intend to put it on the cover.
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Did you ever get to finish the Super Mario Brothers Special cover or is AppleQueso still working on the "Special" logo? I actually wanna play that game now, it's like a new Mario game for the NES, that should have been included in the All Stars collection. Also can't wait to see the N64 template up and the updated NES and SNES with controllers, etc labels :)
TyrannicalFascist:
@Seraph Man - That could work. I'll wait and see what Wiggy comes up with, but that's a good option.
@zakurowrath - It's almost ready, save for the Special logo. I imagine AppleQueso just hasn't gotten around to it yet. If anyone else wants to take a stab at it, please do.
Does anyone know of any old Mario art that could work for VS. Super Mario Bros. in the same way as I used the Milton Bradley board game art for SMB Special? The images of Mario and Luigi are newer, so I'd like to make an alternate with art that it might have had back in the NES days. Something old and a little obscure like this would work (high res needed):
I'll be getting the N64 template up soon.
CommunistGamer:
I would really think this were even awesomer is there were sega and atari covers for this style too.....
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TyrannicalFascist:
Well, at long last, here is the N64 Template.
Thanks to rgc for cleaning up and organizing it for me. I've added it to the first post, and set up all the templates and cover links like the CD Poly Case thread is set up. I also added a link to the font I use on the back text of my covers (AvantGarde Medium BT).
If you want to start making N64 covers, be sure to look at all the Number of Player and Attachment icon choices to see what's available. With any luck the NES and SNES v2 templates will be finished up soon and I will finish a few in-progress covers and update all my old covers.