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NES Covers Request
WolfAlmighty:
--- Quote from: segamer on January 04, 2013, 03:14:26 PM ---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.
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Oh man, you may have just opened Pandora's Box, mate! ;D I'll post my 'bucket list' of games that I need covers for in the other thread, then. Ideally if you could just get the raw scans I'd be more than happy to work them up and make the covers (plus that would save you a ton of time, no doubt!), but alternatively if you need to recreate the artwork I can fill in the text and screenshots.
Thank you so much for any help. My New Year's resolution for this year is to get my remaining NES games cased (this includes all the ones I will be buying this year), and things are looking good so far! :D
Sneak:
--- Quote from: WolfAlmighty on January 04, 2013, 02:22:37 PM ---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 ;D ), 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.
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Figured I'd also point out Wolf, that there are (slightly better) images for Gun-Nac (from GameCaseWorld) - http://www.gamecaseworld.com/nes/nes-gun-nac 800x800 pixels, 96DPI
Not meeting the sites standards still, but they look better than the ones from GameFAQ's.
larryinc64:
I know a Fisher Price Perfect Fit cover exists somewhere, I posted scans a while back.
WolfAlmighty:
--- Quote from: Sneak on January 04, 2013, 03:40:00 PM ---Figured I'd also point out Wolf, that there are (slightly better) images for Gun-Nac
Not meeting the sites standards still, but they look better than the ones from GameFAQ's.
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Figures. It's too bad some people only know how to take and don't know how to give otherwise everyone would win. But that's a story for another thread I suppose.
Anyway, hopefully between you and Segamer we'll be able to get scans for all these hard games! Then, everyone WILL win! :D
dhennick99:
Can we get a better cover for The Empire Strikes Back on the nes? I tried to clean it up, but the scan it was made from is too far gone.