SNES List of Games Which Do Not Have Horizontal Retail-Style Covers Yet

[Azarkhel]

Nah you boys are right, I indirectly went mental with the filtering on this one. Pretty much just left it automated.

Here's something a little more conservative, light moire reduction, some retouching scratches/dust and a little level correction.



Just wanted it done quick  I guess, spent 2.5 hours on this compared to the 15-20 on Bomberman. Did not want to get into one of "those" covers again haha, should be fine now. Take a look and let me know.

[banisher]

Thank you, I hope this one is up to the standard of this website because I really hate it when someone spent that much time on a cover and never got posted to the website. Thanks.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Nah you boys are right, I indirectly went mental with the filtering on this one. Pretty much just left it automated.

Here's something a little more conservative, light moire reduction, some retouching scratches/dust and a little level correction.

Just wanted it done quick  I guess, spent 2.5 hours on this compared to the 15-20 on Bomberman. Did not want to get into one of "those" covers again haha, should be fine now. Take a look and let me know.

  ..........yeah, lets never have another Super Bomberman level of clean up required again!! thats one haunts my very soul.  

That one is better in terms of the filtering but for me there are still too many imperfections/scratches/bits of dust.......or "sand" all over there.  

Thats just me though and the stickler for pixel perfect level of perfection kind of person the cover admins have turned me into! ha ha.

I started going over it last night and got about half way through removing EVERYTHING I would not be happy with, so Ill finish that later and we can have a look at them both to see where we are.

Sorry man, I really hate this doing this......especially with people who are much more experienced and long standing than I am (and with someone who has taken over covers from me because I couldnt handle them!!).......just please do not take my interruption and attempts to "take over" as anything more than trying to help and get this one done for the list here.

[banisher]

Then I guess we need to clean that cover a little bit more. Thanks.

[Azarkhel]

Man go for it, I can't tell what's supposed to be there and what isn't without a decent reference image. Just be careful though, I checked it against a couple of other images online and a lot of that "dust" is actually detail that's in the original painting. Same goes for the scratches, a lot of those are thick brushwork. Particularly the more vertical ones.

[banisher]

Let see the revised cover later. Thank you for everyone helping out on this thread. Thanks.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Man go for it, I can't tell what's supposed to be there and what isn't without a decent reference image. Just be careful though, I checked it against a couple of other images online and a lot of that "dust" is actually detail that's in the original painting. Same goes for the scratches, a lot of those are thick brushwork. Particularly the more vertical ones.

Absolutely man, I am just making decisions over which parts of the "distortion" or "marks" appears to be natural or potentially scratches and what not.

So I am generally taking out the harsh looking marks and stuff but preserving the detail in those areas where it is clearly part of the detail left by the painting technique.

I am having the same issue with the Ultima II cover I am making at the moment as well, where it is/was a painting and so having to make decisions over what to smooth over and what to preserve as part of the original texture of the image.

Thank god for clone stamp!! lol, this is always what takes me so long as I go every pixel of the front images at 200% zoom, making decisions over what needs to be smoothed out and what is part of the original image.

Ill post it in a bit and see what we think..........who knows, I might go too far here and clean TOO much! 

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Right, so have gone over and removed/smoothed anything I see as being un-natural and generally done it as I would any other from scratch.

See what you guys think, I may have removed too much as far as you guys are concerned but perhaps it is a happy medium.

If this is deemed as the optimal version and makes the overall cover now up to standards then I am fine for it be credited to Azarkhel of course, up to you guys.

[tiktektak]

Watch out on a front like this. It was handdrawn and in this case it should look NOT smooth and there should be pencil strips. The front I posted needs some more cleaning as I did this pretty fast but not much more filtering and smoothing. That front shouldn't be smooth and uniform. Otherwise the artist will rotate in his grave.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Watch out on a front like this. It was handdrawn and in this case it should look NOT smooth and there should be pencil strips. The front I posted needs some more cleaning as I did this pretty fast but not much more filtering and smoothing. That front shouldn't be smooth and uniform. Otherwise the artist will rotate in his grave.

LOL, well, I did look at the one your posted and thought it looked way too grainy so would have been rejected on the basis of not being smooth enough! 

I guess there is a happy medium somewhere between Azarkehl's "over smooth", my "medium smooth" and the one you posted as for me "not smooth enough" ha ha.

[banisher]

Watch out on a front like this. It was handdrawn and in this case it should look NOT smooth and there should be pencil strips. The front I posted needs some more cleaning as I did this pretty fast but not much more filtering and smoothing. That front shouldn't be smooth and uniform. Otherwise the artist will rotate in his grave.

So tiktektak, which version can be posted to this website? Thanks.

[tiktektak]

I'll tell you,when I'm back from my vacation.

[banisher]

I'll tell you,when I'm back from my vacation.

Thanks.

[banisher]

Hello Everyone,

I am wondering who is willing to help on this thread because it seems like it is just me, OhhNoYouNintenDidnt, Azarkhel and Spiden are working on this thread. Especially OhhNoYouNintenDidnt is the one who work on most of them. I've personally spent another thousand dollars on another batch of SNES raw scans, but I cannot just post it yet because last time when I post the Legend raw scan, the owner of Retro Game Cases just snatch it and post it on his website. If anybody is willing to help, please reply and I can send you the raw scan through PM and once it is done, we can ask one of the admins to double check the quality. So far OhhNoYouNintenDidnt and I are working as team and it seems like OhhNoYouNintenDidnt quality of work is up to this site standard.

I just don't want to put all the burden on one user. So any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Just to add to what B is saying there.

It would help massively at the moment if anyone could assist us as I know I am annoying Banisher with how slow I have to be with these at the moment due to my insane real world life.........I keep feeling like I have time, take one or two, and then madness just descends on me, I have to push their completion a bit longer and then I feel like I am constantly letting him down. 

Once the end of August comes, I will be free as a god damned bird to go nuts on these but until then it will be sporadic little bits here and there from me............so help me keep Banisher happy and not concerned that he has spent all this money just for me to one every week or so!