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| ShaggyB:
--- Quote from: WolfAlmighty on September 04, 2012, 09:53:48 AM --- --- Quote from: ShaggyB on September 04, 2012, 07:52:12 AM ---that would more likely be the quality of the box itself. Its pretty good, but it isnt perfect by any means. I like yours though as it fixes a few of the issues i had in mine. Discovered the size thing yesterday evening as well. (But as I said... I like yours better as youve managed to preserve the bottom right corner) --- End quote --- Well I'm glad to hear it'll work for you. Regarding the blur, I checked the manual and the cart yesterday and the picture on the front seems to have the same focus issue. The background I can understand being that way since it's meant to be out-of-focus, but even Rambo himself seems that way so I don't think there's much anyone can do even with a scan of a minty box. That's just the way the cover was designed, so maybe blurry actually IS retail (again, this IS an Acclaim game we're talking about here)! ;D --- End quote --- Exactly. Rambo's original box wont stand up to the tests of this site. I say we amend the rules for this cover as its not exactly of the highest quality to begin with. Even the pics on the box look grainy to begin with. Im sure we could replace them via pics of an emulator or something.... but retail is grainy as can be. |
| BudgetGameCases:
--- Quote from: ShaggyB on September 04, 2012, 09:58:38 AM ---Exactly. Rambo's original box wont stand up to the tests of this site. I say we amend the rules for this cover as its not exactly of the highest quality to begin with. Even the pics on the box look grainy to begin with. Im sure we could replace them via pics of an emulator or something.... but retail is grainy as can be. --- End quote --- Couldn't we rebuild the original cover with the production stills that are out there? it'd be a real pain, but I am sure it's possible - all the pieces exist. |
| ShaggyB:
--- Quote from: BudgetGameCases on September 04, 2012, 11:17:33 AM --- --- Quote from: ShaggyB on September 04, 2012, 09:58:38 AM ---Exactly. Rambo's original box wont stand up to the tests of this site. I say we amend the rules for this cover as its not exactly of the highest quality to begin with. Even the pics on the box look grainy to begin with. Im sure we could replace them via pics of an emulator or something.... but retail is grainy as can be. --- End quote --- Couldn't we rebuild the original cover with the production stills that are out there? it'd be a real pain, but I am sure it's possible - all the pieces exist. --- End quote --- You already did that according to the post you made after i posted the scans. The original production shot is pretty grainy itself. I think our best bet is to take new back screens and call it a day. Sadly, the quality of the original box art is so poor that it wont pass inspection here. |
| WolfAlmighty:
--- Quote from: ShaggyB on September 04, 2012, 09:58:38 AM ---Exactly. Rambo's original box wont stand up to the tests of this site. I say we amend the rules for this cover as its not exactly of the highest quality to begin with. Even the pics on the box look grainy to begin with. Im sure we could replace them via pics of an emulator or something.... but retail is grainy as can be. --- End quote --- Definitely a question for one of the admins, but it does bring up a good point. If the source material is bad, even when its at its best, there's really nothing that can be done. My guess is that Acclaim just used a really cheap material for the box instead of what the other companies were using at the time. I'm not sure what games you have in your collection, but if you check out Alien 3 or WWF King of the Ring you'll notice that the quality of the label on the cart is worse that most other games (compare it to, say, one of the Capcom or Konami/Ultra games). It's much lower quality and is very easy to scuff and mar. It's not very glossy and from what I've read they're prone to having the glue on the label bleed through and show up as grey marks on the white parts of the label. These are both LJN games produced while owned by Acclaim, and both of them use the Acclaim-made NES cart shells. So I guess it would stand to reason - cheap, crappy materials on the cart label so cheap, crappy materials used for the box as well. So, I guess in our case when we're trying to put together a cover for one of their boxes, the old adage holds true; a ventriloquist is truly only as good as his dummy. ;) |
| BudgetGameCases:
--- Quote from: ShaggyB on September 04, 2012, 12:10:41 PM --- You already did that according to the post you made after i posted the scans. The original production shot is pretty grainy itself. I think our best bet is to take new back screens and call it a day. Sadly, the quality of the original box art is so poor that it wont pass inspection here. --- End quote --- I meant rebuilding the retail cover based off of the production still, black borders and all. Sorry if that wasn't clear. |
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