Mel's request topic

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Gaiares: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?89fomij37o3fb85#

I will say this. About 50% of the time, one can find high resolution box scans online. Half the work of making custom covers is obtaining good scans. To anyone that wants custom box art, find scans, post links and then ask for custom box art. There's a better change of someone doing the work for you. I would say that the average box takes one to two hours to make. Sometimes longer.

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Oh wow, that looks amazing.

You should submit all the box art you made in this topic for the main web site, the quality is outstanding.

If I want to make another request, what are some good sites I should be looking up box art on?

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Oddly, I've submitted all my work to this site. However, it's largely been ignored. I started a thread on this site where I post most of the work I do.

http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=11578.0

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There's a few websites that have scans. When requests are made, I usually check a pool about 3 sites but... There really isn't a great place for scans. This is the best site but it doesn't have everything. Sometimes if one surfs google or bing, a nice scan can be found. Sometimes, it's taken me hours to find a good scan but they are out there. I only joined this site about two months ago. However, I've been making custom box art for years... for myself. Since I've joined, I try and do one custom box a day. I look for requests and see which is reasonable.

[wingzrow]

New Requests: All Retail

Sega Genesis:
Caliber .50
Super Nintendo:
Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition
Operation Europe
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
Full Throttle All American Racing

I'm going to office depot right now to print out the Jpe & Mac case, should have a picture soon.

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There's no good scans for any of those titles.

[wingzrow]

Damn, well I guess those haven't been added to the main site for a reason, either because boxed copies are too rare, or from lack of interest.

[Arseen]

Super Nintendo:
Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition
Operation Europe
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
Full Throttle All American Racing

Added these to the to buy at some point -list.

[wingzrow]

Why not flintstones too?

It was made by taito, and aside from one BS jump with a leva level, it's a really solid platformer.

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Why not flintstones too?

It was made by taito, and aside from one BS jump with a leva level, it's a really solid platformer.

Buying SNES games at the momrent.

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Ok, here you go! Flintstones. I did the best I could with what I could find. This is the original artwork for the Genesis/Mega Drive.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?53ljbexax3855zg#

[wingzrow]

Is there a way for you to make it more closely match the original case? I don't know if I'm asking too much. The work you did on this one case alone would take me all day. I understand if you don't feel like doing it.

Here's a picture of what the original case looks like. Taito pretty much used the art you found, and added a bunch of logos. No idea what the back looks like though.

PS: where in the world did you find the original artwork unaltered? I would love to have that.

Example Front of Flintstones case

http://i46.tinypic.com/1z1y1dv.jpg

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Retooling or recrafting the original cover is easy if you have a good scan. I think I spent days looking for an image of the cover that I could use. I ended up using part of a Mega Drive Cover, and part of a low resolution image, and lots of ugly tricks to hind pixels. It isn't an unaltered cover. The Megadrive cover has the logo's at the top, the genesis has them at the bottom, It's a fustion of both covers. I did a lot of painstaking photoshop to erase and clean it up.  It amounted to hours of work to get something that semi-acceptable. If I have time, I'll try and make it look like the original cover. I have a poor image of the back.

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WolfChild: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?myfiles#lkiwkrz99gnga5z

[wingzrow]

Any luck with Dune, or the SNES titles?

If Not I have other requests if anyone has the time.