Super Famicom covers

[Jigsaw]

I didn't get any feedback on my WIP on a Super Famicom template, so I'll take it no-one had any complaints about it then. Anyway, I put some finishing touches on the template, and then used the SFC scans available on the site and made a few UGC covers with them. Not all the scans were the highest quality (300dpi scans meant I had to upscale a few slightly, and there are some raster artifacts), but I think they should all look at least decent printed out. I'm having a friend scan a whole bunch of SFC boxes for me to make UGC covers out of, so you should see more stuff in the coming weeks. Of course, if anyone has any SFC boxes to scan I'd be happy to do those as well.  Most games don't require a whole lot of work - it's not as straightforward as Megadrive or NES covers, but easier than converting CD covers to DVD cases, I think. Anyway, here's the first batch of covers.

Akumajou Dracula

This game originally used a horizontal-style cover, so it required a lot of custom work. The front cover is a piece of art from an official guidebook for the game, I think it worked pretty well. The back uses art from the original back cover, but almost completely redrawn, with new screenshots and retyped text.

Rockman X

This was a little difficult to fit without cropping the artwork in a bad way (it'd be really bad to lose more of Chill Penguin or more of Rockman's legs), but I think it ended up looking OK. The back was straightforward, I just replaced the turqoise border with black since without the turqoise trim around the whole case it just looked out of place.

Rockman & Forte

Pretty straightforward altogether, just "zoomed in" more on the artwork and pasted the logo on top of it.

Star Ocean

Like Akumajou Dracula, this was originally a horizontally oriented cover. I couldn't use the front cover illustration, so I recreated the logo from scratch and pasted it top of a stock space background. The back uses elements from the original back cover, but rearranged (there was no room for the screenshot captions, but I think it still looks good).

Super E.D.F.

Same as Rockman & Forte pretty much, a very simple cover to put together.



I don't think a lot of people are really itching for Japanese Super Famicom covers here, but I hope at least someone will get use out of these! If nothing else I enjoy making them, so I'm happy all the same.

[MasterJSP]

They look pretty awesome especially the Star Ocean cover. I don't suppose you can make covers for Do-Re-Mi Fantasy and Hamelin no Violen Hiki? 

[Grumbleduke]

Its all good...nicely done

[shenske]

I thought i commented on your template in the template discussion thread, it must not have went through.

anyways ...
I think the covers look really good and the template meakes it look nice and uniform. 

[satoshi_matrix]

Personally, I like vertial cases much more than horizontal. It works for evrything. I'd like to see an effort made to make all the SNES covers we have made vertical.

It's because of the nature of the overwhelming majoirty of covers that I've custom and Japanaese games to conform to the horizontal standards set here. I'm in full support of vertical cases, but only if there's major efforts to convert the horizontal ones we currently have to the new standard.

[Jigsaw]

MasterJSP: If I get raw scans, I would be happy to make them. I know I can get scans of Hameln no Violinhiki, but someone else would have to provide scans of Do Re Mi Fantasy.

satoshi_matrix: Yeah, I agree completely. The rotated SNES covers just look weird to me, and the fact that the spine ends up being on the "bottom" of the box feels odd to me as well. Unfortunately, I don't think converting western-style covers to a vertical template (well, this one anyway) would be very easy. I think very few games would have art on their US or PAL boxes that would be easily used on this template; even when the art could be cropped and resized I think logos and stuff would be tricky. Obviously, for many games you could just use the Japanese cover (which 9 times out of 10 looks infinitely better than the US one anyway), but there are many US games that don't have JP releases, and I'm sure others where the cover art just wouldn't work all too well. If there is interest though, I could easily make NTSC-U and PAL versions of this template.

[tiktektak]

Personally, I like vertial cases much more than horizontal. It works for evrything. I'd like to see an effort made to make all the SNES covers we have made vertical.

It's because of the nature of the overwhelming majoirty of covers that I've custom and Japanaese games to conform to the horizontal standards set here. I'm in full support of vertical cases, but only if there's major efforts to convert the horizontal ones we currently have to the new standard.

How about doing it yourself....? Ever thought about this...? If you want all the covers vertical so desperately why not do it yourself?

I personally think a cover should be a as close as possible resemblance of the original box as it can be in sleeve form... Which means vertical for vertical covers and horizontal for horizontal covers....

[shenske]

Personally, I like vertial cases much more than horizontal. It works for evrything. I'd like to see an effort made to make all the SNES covers we have made vertical.

It's because of the nature of the overwhelming majoirty of covers that I've custom and Japanaese games to conform to the horizontal standards set here. I'm in full support of vertical cases, but only if there's major efforts to convert the horizontal ones we currently have to the new standard.

i have a few ideas for a vertical template, i'm working on it right now.

i don't have the time to convert all the SNES covers though.
i'll just have to see if the template i'm making is even worth it anyway.

[satoshi_matrix]

I can understand that. If you come up with a good template, I'll be sure to use it to convert as many covers as I can.

[shenske]

I can understand that. If you come up with a good template, I'll be sure to use it to convert as many covers as I can.

like this ?
(iposted it in the template discussion thread)

here is my idea for a Vertical SNES Template.
It turned out better than i had originally planned.
It has the three regions (NTSC-U, NTSC-J, PAL)

The front "canvas area" is still horizantal so most of the original artwork can be used in a conversion to the vertical template.
i used the konami logo to show where the developer's logo goes.

NTSC-U


NTSC-J (wip, need to change legal info and ratings logos)


PAL (wip, need to change legal info and ratings logos)



Feedback is deffinately appreciated for this one so please tell me your opinion!

[thecpoc]

How about doing it yourself....? Ever thought about this...? If you want all the covers vertical so desperately why not do it yourself?

I personally think a cover should be a as close as possible resemblance of the original box as it can be in sleeve form... Which means vertical for vertical covers and horizontal for horizontal covers....

Well, I think vertical cases work better, personally. Horizontal is all well and good for a cardboard box, but I think it is kinda awkward for a plastic case. And quite honestly, converting that many cases to vertical is too big a job for one person to do by him/herself. So I'm willing to help out the cause as much as possible.

[shenske]

And quite honestly, converting that many cases to vertical is too big a job for one person to do by him/herself. So I'm willing to help out the cause as much as possible.

When i get the template prepared and all ready i'll let you as well as everyone else. 
I will announce it in the Template Discussion thread when i do.

I'm also going to attach a readme file to the template with suggestions, guidelines and reminders (not exactly a tutorial but this should be sufficient)
That way all the covers are consistant no matter which artist decides to use the tempate.

[Jigsaw]

I noticed there were a bunch of SFC covers already on the site, but without much of a coherent design. I started adapting them to my template, cleaning stuff up and changing a thing or two along the way.

Super Mario World

Cleaned up a lot of small details, mainly tweaking the outlines of the main illustrations. I also retyped most of the text on the back as it was a bit blurry. Finally I fiddled around a bit with the logo to make it fit the spine better.

Pilotwings

Tried something new with the spine this time around, I think it works pretty well for this cover. Other than that there was a lot of cleaning up, just getting rid of dust and spots, and making the blue backdrop look smooth and uniform.

[Jigsaw]

Here's the next one.

Dragon Quest V

[Lumberjack42]

Really digging your template Jigsaw, it's simple and not too busy.

I really like the Pilotwings cover and my small suggestion would be to continue the front cover color to the spine on your other covers like you did here. Really makes it stand out.

Kudos on a job well done!

Lumberjack42