NES Covers Request

[jeffsgames]

I just went through printing all of the covers for my collection and I am short the following after searching through the forums for a few hours:

After Burner
Arkanoid
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
Fisher Price: Perfect Fit
Impossible Mission II
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
Q*Bert
Shooting Range
Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup
Super Sprint
Tecmo Baseball
World Games
Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen)

I'm not great at image editing but would like to help in any way I can.  I just have loose carts so sorry no raw scans to clean up.

If you know of any of these that are already done but not uploaded, please let me know.  If not, I'm just going to make up some crappy ones to fill my cases until good ones are created.

Thanks!

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I'm going to give others time to respond to this. I'm sure a lot of these covers exist on the forums. If by Monday, a lot of these covers haven't popped up for you, I'll see about making them.

[Arseen]

I just went through printing all of the covers for my collection and I am short the following after searching through the forums for a few hours:

After Burner
Arkanoid
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
Fisher Price: Perfect Fit
Impossible Mission II
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
Q*Bert
Shooting Range
Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup
Super Sprint
Tecmo Baseball

I'm not great at image editing but would like to help in any way I can.  I just have loose carts so sorry no raw scans to clean up.

If you know of any of these that are already done but not uploaded, please let me know.  If not, I'm just going to make up some crappy ones to fill my cases until good ones are created.

Thanks!

Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup is available, lemme search for it.

Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing & Q*Bert I might have seen, but not sure.

Others mentioned I'm virtually 100% sure does not exsist.

[Arseen]

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Mediafire bugging, here is text link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?4wgdrc2e0gr4472

[WolfAlmighty]

I've got a CI of Arkanoid coming, and since Arkanoid never came in a standard-sized box it would have to be custom made.  It's a fairly simple design so I was planning on putting together a custom of sorts.  I'm looking for scans for Q*Bert myself because I need a cover for that as well.  Beyond that, I don't have any of those games myself so I won't have covers available until I pick them up some time down the road when I try to grab a boxes for them as well.

I'm going to give others time to respond to this. I'm sure a lot of these covers exist on the forums. If by Monday, a lot of these covers haven't popped up for you, I'll see about making them.

When you say, 'making them', do you mean you have boxes available for scan or are you going to remake them from scratch?

[jeffsgames]

I've got a CI of Arkanoid coming, and since Arkanoid never came in a standard-sized box it would have to be custom made.  It's a fairly simple design so I was planning on putting together a custom of sorts. 

One thing that would be awesome would've a pair of Arkanoid covers.  One for the game and one for the controller.  I was fortunate to have bought this BITD but I no longer have the boxes for any of my original games.  DOH!

Thanks for all of your help!

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After Burner: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?lm8n60gah8fa17g

[WolfAlmighty]

After Burner: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?lm8n60gah8fa17g

Again, I ask, do you have scans for these games sitting around or did you create this from scratch? Either way, fantastic work, but it just makes me wonder if you have this ability would you be able to recreate the harder-to-find titles we've been looking at getting scans for like F2 and Gun Nac?  I noticed the screenshots you used are different than the box shots (and the font they used for the game description text on the back of the retail box is called Kabel, if you're interested),  but the front looks great and it'd be easy enough for me to replicate authentic screenshots and text typing if you can do the dirty work of getting the artwork right.  Sneak is working at getting scans for some of the rarer games,  but it'd be nice to know if this is something you would be able to help out with if his plans fall through.

Great work, mate!

[mojoeskateco]

Covers for Gun Nac and F2 would be saweet!!

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After Burner: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?lm8n60gah8fa17g

Again, I ask, do you have scans for these games sitting around or did you create this from scratch? Either way, fantastic work, but it just makes me wonder if you have this ability would you be able to recreate the harder-to-find titles we've been looking at getting scans for like F2 and Gun Nac?  I noticed the screenshots you used are different than the box shots (and the font they used for the game description text on the back of the retail box is called Kabel, if you're interested),  but the front looks great and it'd be easy enough for me to replicate authentic screenshots and text typing if you can do the dirty work of getting the artwork right.  Sneak is working at getting scans for some of the rarer games,  but it'd be nice to know if this is something you would be able to help out with if his plans fall through.

Great work, mate!

I'm creating the covers from scratch. I'm looking at low res boxes and mimicking them. They aren't 100% replicas as I can't get the exact fonts and images. I can make harder to find covers. It just takes time. On one of the threads I posted, I displayed how I restore cover art and I used the Streets of Rage series as an example. No one has request F2 or Gun Nac from me so... I'm sorry, I didn't see your original question. I can help you.

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Also, I can get perfect screenshots but I'm too lazy. One would have to play to the desired place in the game via emulator and take a screenshot. This can also be done via Youtube. The way I do it, is I find an HD video of someone playing the game (usually a walkthrough), make the video full screen, forward to the desired area and take a snapshot.  It just takes too much time. So I just find similar images that are in the png format and resize them.

[WolfAlmighty]

I'm creating the covers from scratch. I'm looking at low res boxes and mimicking them. They aren't 100% replicas as I can't get the exact fonts and images. I can make harder to find covers. It just takes time. On one of the threads I posted, I displayed how I restore cover art and I used the Streets of Rage series as an example. No one has request F2 or Gun Nac from me so... I'm sorry, I didn't see your original question. I can help you.

Oh no worries, I hope I didn't sound pushy (reading through my post again I did sound kind of pushy, sorry! ).

Regarding screenshots, I can definitely put official ones together and slap them onto a cover.  It's a tedious task, but one I'm fairly well-suited for since it really doesn't require any talent per se, just patience (patience I have, talent not so much ).  There's a list of about 20 or so games I have for NES with boxes that are difficult to find and/or are extremely expensive so getting scans from them is quite cost prohibitive.  Like I mentioned, Sneak has been working at getting the scans from various people on other forums, but there's no guarantee they will have all the games we lack.  The rest of the games we're missing are easy and cheap to find so I just grab the boxes when I buy the games and make covers at that time, but if you'd be willing to help out making artwork for some of the harder ones, that would be fantastic!

Gun-Nac and F2 are at the very top of my list for this (and looking at mojo's post I'm not the only one ), and both have box arts available on GameFAQs:

Gun Nac
F2

Obviously, these are too low-res to use as scans that would be suitable for covers, but if you could work your magic and recreate the artwork and just send me the blank template, I'll be more than happy to get the text and screenshots together.  I don't know we'd be able to make it site-worthy, but I have no doubt they would be at the very least high-quality placeholders until (if ever) we can get good high-quality scans for them.

Also note that we DO have a version of F2 on the site, but as you can see it was done based off of the PAL version.  Dunno if that would help with any artwork or not.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[lumberjoof]

As long as we are making requests, Stinger is at the top my list.

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Ok, listen. I don't think I've ever explained this on the forums or to the cover project members. I owned a video game store for many, many years. It's been over a decade since I sold it. However, through my old store, I've meet an enormous pool of die hard gamers that I consider close friends to this day... who happen to have disgustingly large game collections. My good friend also bought my old store. For many of my requests, I can get the original boxes. It takes time because I have to visit friends, borrow boxes, bring them to work and scan them. I've already created close to 100 covers for the cover project since I joined 5 months back. 40% of the covers I've created, come from the original box covers which I've borrowed from friends. The other percent mostly comes from manual scans (more often then not, I have to recreate the front for covers from scan of game manuals which are easier to obtain).

I'd say that the odds are pretty good that I can get real scans. However, I need this list. Everything takes time because I only borrow a few games at a time to scan. Post your list here: http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=11578.0

It will be easier for me to keep track of things on this tread. I'll start working on it.

[lumberjoof]

Sounds good. I will post some NES requests there. Don't worry about time, though. You do awesome work and any help is appreciated.