SFC, SNES NTSC-U & PAL, DC & Wii U Covers - Taking Requests - All on 1st Page

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

It looks amazing!!! If there is any way I can thankyou for your work let me know. I'm hoping to do some touch ups for my Sonic Wings cover this weekend. Can't wait to have the cases for these two games 

Excellent! really glad you like it man.........I spent all morning, pixel by pixel carving out the game logo (with the little Japanese text underneath it as well) for the spine.

Re-arranged some things to give it more coherence and also prepared the alternative front cover a little more.

Now, just have the back and then Im done! I shouldnt say this but..........I will DEFINITELY have it finished tomorrow for you!........barring some kind of meltdown from my Mrs regarding one of the varying things she can create drama out of, which unfortunately is not beyond the realm of possibility. lol.

Anyway, see you back in here tomorrow! 

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Yeah............I really shouldnt have promised to finish it by today. 

I am currently HAND DRAWING in every single Japanese letter and symbol on the back cover, and needless to say it is taking its sweet ass time.

If I had better scans to work with it would not be this labour intensive..........but it will hopefully be worth it, as it will essentially be flawless once Im done, and being able to create a near flawless cover from not very good scans is a challenge and achievement I am and WILL enjoy once Im done.

I shall keep going until I can take no more tonight and then finish it tomorrow for sure. 

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Ohh..............my...............god. 

NEVER again will I try and make a great quality cover out of not great quality images.............I am using the ONE PIXEL brush to re-draw every single Japanese letter and symbol AND THEN having to go back over everything to colour over all the distortion.

Its painful.........literally!!! my thumb and shoulder are killing me. lol.

Nearly there though.......

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Ok, so..........the moaning is over!!!!!! 

Finally finished this beast and I have to say, I........am NEVER working with such a low res scan EVER again! lol. I also have to say, this might be my best ever cover because of the level of work I had to put into it.

With my standards now and lack of ability to accept anything less than Arseen levels of perfection, I cannot put myself through the thumb destroying level of clean up I had to do with this cover.........I have literally never worked so much and so hard on a cover previously.

So I hope you like it Antwon! lol.......if not, and there is anything you want changed or removed, then let me know and I will do........but you have 2 choices here! one with some custom art I found but both with the added images I chose to put on the front.

And just to re-confirm, I literally re-drew ALL the Japanese text on the back, and not just re-draw over every letter and symbol but then had to BACK over it all to clean up the heavy distortion that was left around all those letters and symbols.

Man.........I need a break from covers for a bit. 

*Request Filled for Antwon* - KiKi KaiKai - Nazo no Kuro Mantle (Pocky & Rocky)



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[Antwon]

These are awesome!!!
Thank you so much, I'm thinking about trying to make a reversible cover so I can use both of them.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

These are awesome!!!
Thank you so much, I'm thinking about trying to make a reversible cover so I can use both of them.

Excellent! so glad you like them after all that work!!

I am watching a copy of the game on Ebay right now as it has inspired me to finally pony up the cash to get it........hopefully it wont break my wallet too badly (typically is costs about $65-85 in my region).

Thats a cool idea about the reversible, never thought of that before........I assume, depending on what method you print them, it would just be a case of sizing and printing one, doing the EXACT same for the next one and just re-inserting the already printed one the other way round in the printer tray?

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Did this awhile but keep forgetting to re-post.............but I am slowly going back over my older covers to make improvement to the frankly embarrassing level of errors and mess I had many of my covers pre-discovering more Photoshop functionality (they all look fine from a normal viewing distance but when you zoom in, you see how crude my work with these was back then).

So I will be revisiting many, if not all of my covers to do clean up and generally bring them in line with my new standards and capabilities.

First up are my Contra III covers (the spine image is now fully integrated into the cover and it has ALL been cleaned up to a very high standard now)

Contra Spirits - Conta III: The Alien Wars



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[ack-ack-ack-ack]

Would you be willing to take a crack at this Super Donkey Kong 3 box? It looks like the uploader tried cleaning up the crease/discoloration on the front/side of the box but didn't do such a great job of it. If it's too much of a pain in the butt to clean up, don't worry too much about it. Here's the scan: http://imgur.com/NCOFSkh

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Would you be willing to take a crack at this Super Donkey Kong 3 box? It looks like the uploader tried cleaning up the crease/discoloration on the front/side of the box but didn't do such a great job of it. If it's too much of a pain in the butt to clean up, don't worry too much about it. Here's the scan: http://imgur.com/NCOFSkh

Not got a lot of time on my hands at the moment Im afraid Ack but I just had a quick go at this before I head to off to bed.

Thanks to Alvein who sent me his own scan, which was better quality than the one you have given me there, still had a clear dark line down where the spine folded of course but much easier to work with than the hack job the person tried to do with the scan you had.

Did a few other little clean up areas but there is quite a bit left.........if you want it all done nice and proper, I may have some time once I finish a few other requests people have asked me to do.

For now, see if this helps =

[ack-ack-ack-ack]

wow, that looks a lot better. i'm in no rush so it doesn't matter if it takes a little while to clean up a cover... i can wait for months if necessary, i'm focusing more on collecting than casing my collection at the moment. anyway, looks good so far.

[AlveinHero]

Look at what Mel did for me. I asked him to scan the Japanese cover of Tiny Toon Adventures Buster Busts Loose.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/238uddrb5neg2/sfc

[mpau25]

Love your covers, have you ever made one for Final Fight?  I must admit that I've picked up some games just so I could also print out a cover!

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Love your covers, have you ever made one for Final Fight?  I must admit that I've picked up some games just so I could also print out a cover!

Thanks Mpau, didnt I make some for you before? Super SFII and Turtles in Time right?

Also, LOL at the specific buying of cart only games, Ive done the same thing since getting into designing my own............not that I would ever turn down a bargain for a CIB games but I do often find myself debating whether its worth the extra money when I would actually enjoy making a cover for *that* game! 

Final Fight (I assume you mean the first yeah? as I have FFGuy on the first page) is on my list and I think I actually started on it a while back............Ill check where I got with it and see if it wouldnt be too much to finish.

Although, a lot of the guys here will probably tell me off for saying this as we have been discussing for a week or so now how over whelmed I am and that I need a break from making covers..........I guess this is my first test for resisting the urge to respond to requests!............and I guess I sort of failed already. 

Ill get back to you later on.

[OhhNoYouNintenDidnt]

Found the one I was working on before Mpau, so finished it off for you.

Pretty damned happy with it, got the scan/cover from here actually (one of Mel's creations I think) but to be honest it still needed quite a lot of clean up all over when you zoomed in (sorry Mel, not criticizing, just saying what I felt I had to do to make it as perfect as possible).

Also, I didnt like how the characters on the lower half of the back had been clearly over coloured with white when whitening the surround area, so I decided to seek out another scan that preserved the original character detail and just whiten around them.

Yeah, just generally cleaned the whole thing up, extracted the logo from the front so I could use it for the spine and back, gave it my little "Capcom" extended black bar across the whole thing and job done.

Hope you like it!

*Request filled for mpau25* - Final Fight

[mpau25]

damn, you're good!