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(COMPLETED!) Request: Dreamcast DVD style cover (all white spine): Cannon Spike

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OhhNoYouNintenDidnt: --- Quote from: cojack16 on March 27, 2015, 10:33:34 PM ---To Update: I could still use an all white DC cover spine for Mars Matrix (plus Border Down and Under Defeat if anyone has them). Hey OhhNo, I appreciate the gesture and those covers all look awesome (I wish I had started with the orange tab on the spine) but what I was requesting is a cover of Mars Matrix that had an all white spine (no orange tab) for a dvd style cover. Is there one that already exists? The link you gave me went to the default search for Mars Matrix. I already checked it but it didn't have exactly what I wanted. We probably do have similar taste in gaming. I've always loved shmups but I'm not as well versed in them as I'd like (I just originally loved Raiden 3 back in the day on the arcade- it rocked my socks off). You'd recommend Under Defeat and Border Down? Never heard of them, are they on the DC? Based on your recommendation, could you (or someone else) help me with making that small alteration for those 2 game's covers so I can get them and slap covers on em? I have tried using gimp before to try and make my own changes but I'm not very good at it and I don't do as good a job typically, which is why I make requests. What other games would you recommend for the DC (shmups or no)? I could recommend you some too perhaps --- End quote --- Sure man, I understood what you were after but I was not sure how well versed you are in adapting already finished covers yourself with the little tweaks you need. On that, I (and many, if not all, here) use Photoshop........never even heard of Gimp to be honest, lol, as Im not some "graphical artist" type person, I have just learnt this and do these for fun and this site. I currently have 4 separate covers I am working on for people (from requests) but more than happy to re-work these spines for you, just want to get these others done first as I have been working on them for awhile and promising to have them done soon for those guys. As for Under Defeat and Border Down???.......man, I would say outside of Giga Wing and the king of the SHMUPS Ikaruga, for me, they are actually the best SHMUPS on the system!!! Under Defeat also got a HD remake on the 360 which is also awesome and can be had really cheap (in my region at least, which the UK). As for other games (mostly SHUMPS but some others) for the DC.......basically my favourites = Castle Shikigami II - Cool SHMUP Chaos Field - Awesome SHMUP Gunbird 2 - Even BETTER SHMUP Hydro Thunder - Cool speed boat racer Ikaruga - As mentioned......the all time pinnacle of SHMUP'ness for me. Jet Set Radio - Super fun skater game which essentially invested the cell shaded graphics style. Karous - Japanese exclusive SMHUP, pretty good. Psyvariar 2 - Another fine SHMUP. Radirgy - Very inventive and diverse SHMUP. Zero Gunner 2 - Fantastic SHMUP. Yeah, as you can see.......I love my SHMUPS! lol, and the DC sure is the place for them! I do enjoy a lot of other games on it but those are so obvious they perhaps werent worth mentioning (Sonic, Res. Evil and the plethora of amazing fighters). You should look into the homebrew scene as well man (if you havent already) as they are some incredible games made for the DC, including many great SHMUPS, and is a development scene still very much active. Anyway, I shall try and whip up those white spines for you tomorrow.  :P

OhhNoYouNintenDidnt: Actually.............as I was beginning to fall asleep at the Photoshop wheel here, I was closing everything done in preparation for heading off to bed (Im in the UK, so its 00:50am right now, lol) I thought F it and just made up the white spine for you. I actually did Border Down as well for you (first for some reason) but then realised I hadnt changed the bottom white box on the back cover, so I instead of doing that I decided to do the one you ACTUALLY wanted from scratch instead.  ;D Will post Border Down and Under Defeat for you tomorrow. Anyway, here you go = Mars Matrix White Spine - This is my cleaned up version, not the ropey when zoomed in one we have hosted on the main site.

cojack16: Wow, thanks dude. I just saw your recent post. It's funny because I thought you didn't understand exactly what I wanted but now I realize I didn't understand what you were trying to help me with. I don't have photoshop (you have to pay for it I believe) so I tried using gimp (a free thing). I'm not very good at it since I'm self taught but I managed to do some n64 covers before. It was time consuming though. I wish someone would teach me how to use photoshop (can't learn from the youtube videos, don't have very good hearing so I wouldn't be able to listen to the people on it). How expensive is photoshop anyway? You cover of Mars Matrix is cool. Now that I've printed out like 10 dc covers in all white spine, I feel like I can't go back and use other spines (need uniformity!). Totally understand about you fulfilling other needs first. I can wait but I definitely will print as soon as I receive them! I'd do them myself but like I said, I don't really know how. So, you're a fan of Giga Wing, also? If you had to rank the DC shmups, 1-10 or whatever, what would your rankings look like? 1. Ikaruga, 2. ? , etc. I like Shmups but I never played them much as a kid and am going to try and get into some now. I'm guessing you can burn games for homebrew? Most of my DC games are all real copies (I have 19) but I didn't realize until recently that burning them was so easy and that it made getting "rare" titles much easier. It's funny you mentioned them because I already have Hydro Thunder and Jet Set Radio for the DC. Some other titles I have and love for the DC are: Crazy Taxi 1/2 Skies of Arcadia Grandia 2 Sonic Adventure 1/2 MvsC2 They are pretty obvious though to anyone who is well versed with the DC. Skies of Arcadia is my favorite rpg ever (was the first I ever played). Can't recommend that enough and Grandia 2 is also great.

OhhNoYouNintenDidnt: --- Quote from: cojack16 on March 28, 2015, 08:01:15 PM ---Wow, thanks dude. I just saw your recent post. It's funny because I thought you didn't understand exactly what I wanted but now I realize I didn't understand what you were trying to help me with. I don't have photoshop (you have to pay for it I believe) so I tried using gimp (a free thing). I'm not very good at it since I'm self taught but I managed to do some n64 covers before. It was time consuming though. I wish someone would teach me how to use photoshop (can't learn from the youtube videos, don't have very good hearing so I wouldn't be able to listen to the people on it). How expensive is photoshop anyway? --- End quote --- No problem man, glad you like it and also get that I wasnt trying to FORCE you into adopting my black and orange spine preference! lol. Photoshop costs A LOT of money yes, typically around £250/$370 new.........BUT..........like most things digital, it can be downloaded for free via torrents and such but I wont go into that in case it breaches forum rules or something here. You could pick up and older version of Photoshop a lot cheaper though, I actually still use an early version of Photoshop CS3 which I think came out over 10 years ago! and it serves my purposes exactly. Plus, and linked to your thoughts about learning it, as you probably gathered it is not an easy thing to get to grips with at first but in all honesty, if you have any kind of creative bones and are even vaguely proficient in using computers, then anyone can pick it up and become good with it. It just takes time really, I dont think anyone would learn how to properly use it from a Youtube instructional video (maybe little functions and what little tools within it can do)........as with most things in life, for me you just have to dive right into it and learn as you go! just can be and is quite daunting at the start. I have been casually messing around with it for a couple of years but only really in the last 6 months have I really knuckled down to becoming better with it and I have improved a lot (thanks to feedback/pointers from people here via covers I made at the start and having them point all the flaws I need to address and focus on! lol). So my best advice is to try and get hold of a cheap older version of Photoshop and just stuck into it! noone can teach it to you as far as Im concerned, and if they did it would be teaching you THEIR way and that might not fit with how you want to use and learn with it. --- Quote from: cojack16 on March 28, 2015, 08:01:15 PM ---You cover of Mars Matrix is cool. Now that I've printed out like 10 dc covers in all white spine, I feel like I can't go back and use other spines (need uniformity!). Totally understand about you fulfilling other needs first. I can wait but I definitely will print as soon as I receive them! I'd do them myself but like I said, I don't really know how. --- End quote --- Man, totally understand about uniformity! lol, I am precisely the same........you should see my various collections, I dont even order them alphabetically but by production company logo as I simply HAVE to have the uniformity of seeing "Capcom" and "Konami" etc. all lined next each other! So with these DC covers, not only could I do that but I could also ensure that every colour scheme of every spine matches and is uniform, hence why I have spent time adapting and re-doing perfectly usable covers to suit what I WANT..........whats the point of collecting and displaying the games you love if you cant also enjoy the ordering and displaying of them as well!!?? thats pretty much what this site is all about.  ;D --- Quote from: cojack16 on March 28, 2015, 08:01:15 PM ---So, you're a fan of Giga Wing, also? If you had to rank the DC shmups, 1-10 or whatever, what would your rankings look like? 1. Ikaruga, 2. ? , etc. I like Shmups but I never played them much as a kid and am going to try and get into some now. I'm guessing you can burn games for homebrew? Most of my DC games are all real copies (I have 19) but I didn't realize until recently that burning them was so easy and that it made getting "rare" titles much easier. --- End quote --- Man, tough to rank my DC SHMUPS, so many great ones but a tentative go would be = 1 - Ikaruga 2 - Giga Wing 3 - Giga Wing 2 4 - Border Down 5 - Under Defeat 6 - Gunbird 2 7 - Zero Gunner 2 8 - Chaos Field 9 - Radirgy 10 - Karous But that can change a lot depending on how Im feeling but that top 5 is pretty much constant. Ohh and another thing, you have to get yourself a arcade stick for the DC!!! not many choices but thankfully, the official (Hori or Agetech made) stick is one of the best sticks of all time (for me) and is an absolute MUST for any SHMUP fan, especially as the standard pad for the DC is one of the worst of all time (again, for me, lol). Also on the burning of games..........ohh yeah! most of these are burnt due to the popularity and expense of their real counterparts, so being able to play and have a physical copy of a game I could only have if I forked out £60/$95 to buy! makes the DC and its ability to play burnt games, un-modified in any way, such a great console (for us, not Sega! lol). Oddly though, most of the really great homebrew games (including pretty much ALL of the best new SHMUPS, that would feature heavily in my top 10 if I could play them) are actually only obtainable via the purchasing of the physical copies from the homebrew developers!!! lol So yeah, these are people who exploiting the DC's ability to effectively be hacked right out of the box due to a lack of DRM.......but then when THEY produce an awesome game that people want, they DRM the f*ck out of it so it is not able to be copied and put as a digital download! So, although I cannot get hold of those awesome games (will save those for another post as this one is long as hell already, lol) as they go for a lot of money too (like £50/$75).......I have to respect the fact that these "hackers" so to speak, are putting in measures to ensure their games are not "hackable"........whilst they hack a system to make the game in the first place!  ;D ;D ;D --- Quote from: cojack16 on March 28, 2015, 08:01:15 PM ---It's funny you mentioned them because I already have Hydro Thunder and Jet Set Radio for the DC. Some other titles I have and love for the DC are: Crazy Taxi 1/2 Skies of Arcadia Grandia 2 Sonic Adventure 1/2 MvsC2 They are pretty obvious though to anyone who is well versed with the DC. Skies of Arcadia is my favorite rpg ever (was the first I ever played). Can't recommend that enough and Grandia 2 is also great. --- End quote --- Cool games their yep, not an RPG fan at all to be honest (Zelda is as far as I go and even with that I get annoyed by the requirement to talk to people and read a lot of text! lol)........SHMUPS are my favourite genre simply because they are pick up and play, no bull shit, high adrenaline, and requiring of fast reflexes and skill. I do like a lot of other types of games, as long as they have a steady pace to them, so many platformers, adventure, racing and action games are good for me.......probably the furthest I go into RPG territory whilst still loving a game would a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night kind of thing, of Metroid games, where there is a lot collecting of items and exploration but not a real linear narrative, so lots of choice and crucially not a lot of dialogue and talking to people involved.

sheep2001: Pretty sure you can get photoshop cs2 free from Adobe website. https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads

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