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(GB/GBC/GBA) 3DS Cases for Handheld Game Carts
Head of Desserts:
--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on May 18, 2013, 02:29:55 PM ---Thanks for the feedback. I'll respond more in depth later where I'm at my computer. I'll reiterate though that my covers are merely adapted from available covers on the site, I only make the spines. So a lot of the little minor things you pointed out are not something I can fix myself. In addition some things are creative choice. I make custom covers, not retail. As for the Zelda spines, I respectfully disagree. I made them to match my other series like Donkey Kong and Mega Man with the semi transparent gray bar behind the titles. I've printed them out and they look great to me.
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Thanks for your response, and yeah never apologize for your work for it is yours and yours alone.
TyrannicalFascist:
No worries. I may make alternate versions of my spines at some point, since I have the DK/G&WG/Mega Man/Zelda/MMPR style with the gray bar, and then the simpler stand-alone ones like Pokémon and Star Wars.
For any of the problems with the fronts or backs, I can redo them if there's a better cover or scans available. Like I said, most of them are taken from covers on the site. For the ones that are customs that I have adapted, I add the creator's name to my file, like Shenske for his Pokémon covers.
--- Quote from: Lord Karnage on May 18, 2013, 05:34:40 AM ---Corrections & Suggestions
@Tyrannical
Why do you have duplicates 2a/2b of each of your Wario covers?
Wario Land II (GBC) (Both covers) = The central spine is missing the shadow-wavy effect. Why put the black Super Game Boy logo in the front? That’s not on the official box. The Nintendo Quality seal on the back is not correctly shaped like the front one.
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The 2a version features "Wario Land II" on the spine, and 2b features "Wario Land 2". It's to give an alternative if you don't like the random switching between arabic and roman numerals when lined up. Apparently the "2" version is what they used in Japan. The Super Game Boy logo was part of the PAL cover that I used for the red-orange version. I may replace that with the US version of that logo. What shadow-wavy effect are you talking about?
--- Quote ---Mario Tennis (GBC) = Did you use the cover we have in the official database? It’s bad quality; the images and text come out fuzzy when printed. The front cover has a lot of color saturation.
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Yeah this was one of the first I did when making 3DS case covers, so I'll be redoing it with a custom spine once a better cover is available.
--- Quote ---Pokémon Fire Red (GBA) = Charizard on the spine is a dark orange compared to Charizard on the front.
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Thanks for catching that, I'll add that to my to-do list.
--- Quote ---Are all your Pokémon covers using that new fancy format that Shenske created?
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Yep! I really liked his new covers because they were essentially re-created as a fusion of the original box art and the style of the newer Pokémon entries. I'll most likely convert all of them. (I'll be adapting his Emerald and more GBA hacks when he does them)
--- Quote ---Game & Watch Gallery 1 (GB) = Why did you decide to choose DK and Mr. G&W for the spine, looks good, just wondering.
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Well I found that art of all the characters for the series and lined it up so that it would showcase them on the spines while minimizing their faces being split in half by the separation of cases. The area next to DK was pretty bare, so I added Mr. Game & Watch, since they are Game & Watch games, and he's essentially featured in all of them in Classic Mode.
Head of Desserts:
Look at the spine where it says Game Boy Color, compare Wario II with Super Mario Deluxe for example, see how Super Mario Deluxe has shadowing and grey blotches on the spine, Wario lacks that.
TyrannicalFascist:
--- Quote from: Lord Karnage on May 19, 2013, 01:50:31 AM ---Look at the spine where it says Game Boy Color, compare Wario II with Super Mario Deluxe for example, see how Super Mario Deluxe has shadowing and grey blotches on the spine, Wario lacks that.
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Oh you're talking about the actual "Game Boy Color" part at the top of the spine. That's actually intentional. Larryinc64 created two versions of the Game Boy Color logos in the template - one for the black cartridge Game Boy Color games that are backwards compatible, and one for the regular non-backwards-compatible games. The backwards compatible games use the Game Boy background with the faint lines on the front, back and spine bars. All the games I've made covers for have been made with that in mind - see Game & Watch Gallery 2 and 3, and Link's Awakening DX. Take a look at the first post in this thread and you'll notice the 2 GBC images he posted. Subtle, but I think it's pretty clever of him.
I've added Shenske's Pokémon Emerald, and updated Pokémon FireRed with the Charizard on the spine color corrected to match the front. Just need to do "Frigo Returns" to complete all the covers he's done so far (which Pokémon is on the front? I'm not familiar with a lot of the newer ones).
I'm also going to be doing some cleaning house in my Box folder to better reorganize things, so if anyone finds any of my links in any thread to be broken, please let me know.
DarrienEmerald:
--- Quote from: larryinc64 on May 16, 2013, 05:31:25 AM ---Megaman World is the Japanese version of the US Mega Man GB games.
Speaking of that, I have the font Nintendo used on most GBC and GBA games, maybe you could use that.
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Okay, finally got them all redone. Had a migraine for a couple days, and couldn't look at the computer screen longer than a few minutes at a time. On the plus side, got a lot of old-fashioned reading done that I'd been putting off for a while, and some writing for other stuff as well. Anyways, uploaded all the "fixed" ones to my Box. I changed the background gradient map a little, then dropped the exposure to -1, and added a little more stroke to the background text, all to make it stand out a little better. Also, the font I used is actually heavily based on the font used in-game in the NES Mega Man games (specifically the latter half), so I kinda like it, but if others don't and you'd rather use the retail styled one, just send it my way or point me to a link. I also put the Capcom logo on the side, changed the text color for the copyright, and updated them to match the retail box for each one, with the exception of 5. I believe 5 was actually published in the US by Nintendo, but I went ahead and added all the stuff to make it appear as a Capcom-published game anyway to match everything else.
Clicking the picture link will take you to a bigger preview you can zoom in a little. All five covers are up on my box, here.
As for the title choice, personally I hate when two games that are different share the same name, so it's always bugged me that they were just called "Mega Man II" etc. There is also evidence that Capcom at least considered calling them Mega Man World officially, as you can find graphics tiles to spell out "World" in the old time "Mega Man" NES logo style in the game's code. So I went with it. If it's really bothersome, I can prolly easily enough drop the World part, but I don't plan on using any other logo, so if someone wants to do so, I can upload my Photoshop files (which are a mess, by the way, but functional at least... I don't like working linearly, I guess)
Anyways, let me know if I missed anything that I didn't catch, I'm sure there's something missing or just plain off, but I can't find anything off hand.