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.
Oh man, you may have just opened Pandora's Box, mate!
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!
