NES case art

[tiktektak]

...Actually I redid the entire cover from scratch. It was a good bit more than just "cleaning up the front". The only thing I didn't replace on the Balloon Fight cover were the screenshots. Everything thing else was made from the ground up. Text was retyped, seals/logos were replaced with hi-res ones, etc. The cover already on the site looks well enough however the front looks grainy and fuzzy. I completely redrew the cover art pixel by pixel, so in my opinion it's a huge improvement.

Maybe again I had a wrong version??? I'll take a look again!

[WolfAlmighty]

I was looking through the raws on the site and saw that akrate had a raw for John Elway's Quarterback uploaded but no-one had yet made cover for it, so I thought I'd try and see what I could come up with.

http://www.mediafire.com/?n39qweexo8b70ga

Well, I will say that I have an even greater respect for the cover artists here, that's for sure.    I ended up redoing the entire back from scratch with the exception of the screenshot and the drawing of Elway next to the arcade machine.  The back, I think, turned out okay.  The front, on the other hand, not so much.  I have a few questions for those who are experts at this:

1) When you have to retype text, are you ever able to find an exact font that matches the original?  I retyped all the text on the back but I had to use fonts that were *close* to the originals as I couldn't find any that matched them exactly.  I couldn't even find the proper font for the barcode, although I did recreate the proper barcode from scratch after researching how to dissect a UPC-A barcode on Wikipedia. 

2) While I can clean up solid colours or produce even gradients without much hassle, what do you do if there is something that's a drawing or picture (as in the aforementioned Elway standing next to the arcade cab)?  Bear in mind my artistic ability borders on the Neanderthal so I'm guessing you either need to have far more skill than I or simply better scans?

3) Since the size of an NES box is smaller (skinnier) than the front of a UGC, how do you get the front cover to fit properly?  I can get away with it on the back by just adding a border, but how do you do it on the front?  I couldn't rightly stretch the image or poor Elway would look like his face were made of silly putty, I couldn't centre or left-justify it because then I'd be forced to try to draw the rest of Elway's hand left hand and I can promise you that isn't in the realm of possiblity.  So I ended up right-justifying it and extending the green field and yellow tag.  How do you guys normally go about making a skinnier cover fit on a larger area?

At any rate, it's not great, but it'll hold me over until someone else gets around to giving it the proper treatment.  At first I thought it would be fairly quick to do, but it ended up taking me several hours.  With the quality of work you cover gurus produce it must take you ages to get through a cover, but I have an even greater appreciation for your efforts now, let met tell you.

[taigr81m]

try IDAutomationSOCRb for upc numbers. Download the barcode linear fonts > ttf for windows demo pack. the word demo replaces numeral six but that's just a reversed numeral nine.

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http://www.idautomation.com/fonts/

[Arseen]

I was looking through the raws on the site and saw that akrate had a raw for John Elway's Quarterback uploaded but no-one had yet made cover for it, so I thought I'd try and see what I could come up with.

Thanks I needed that cover.

[WolfAlmighty]

Thanks I needed that cover.

lol, well great, but...any response to my concerns/questions? 

[Arseen]

lol, well great, but...any response to my concerns/questions?  

OK I'll try to answer, or what I do.

1) When you have to retype text, are you ever able to find an exact font that matches the original?  I retyped all the text on the back but I had to use fonts that were *close* to the originals as I couldn't find any that matched them exactly.  I couldn't even find the proper font for the barcode, although I did recreate the proper barcode from scratch after researching how to dissect a UPC-A barcode on Wikipedia.  

I usually just use as close alternate as possible, but there is a site that has masters of tracking correct font. I think it was called what's that font or something really close to that.

2) While I can clean up solid colours or produce even gradients without much hassle, what do you do if there is something that's a drawing or picture (as in the aforementioned Elway standing next to the arcade cab)?  Bear in mind my artistic ability borders on the Neanderthal so I'm guessing you either need to have far more skill than I or simply better scans?

1. Good scans are best start.
2. I think Photoshop has dust and scratch removal  tool.
3. Last option is painstakingly fixing the image dot by dot.

3) Since the size of an NES box is smaller (skinnier) than the front of a UGC, how do you get the front cover to fit properly?  I can get away with it on the back by just adding a border, but how do you do it on the front?  I couldn't rightly stretch the image or poor Elway would look like his face were made of silly putty, I couldn't centre or left-justify it because then I'd be forced to try to draw the rest of Elway's hand left hand and I can promise you that isn't in the realm of possiblity.  So I ended up right-justifying it and extending the green field and yellow tag.  How do you guys normally go about making a skinnier cover fit on a larger area?

Depends on cover.
Options are either streching, add-drawing (like you did) or enlarging and cropping.
In  many cases all three.

[WolfAlmighty]

Ah okay, sounds like I'm kind of on the right track, then.  Thanks Arseen!  There's still a couple of things I see that I can touch up on the Elway box which I'll do before I print myself out a copy.

Now I just need to find a nice scanner so I can scan in my Krion Conquest box and have a cover made for it.

[akuma632]

This is the NES case/box art I'm in need of:

(I know I already posted this in another thread but I thought it should be posted in here in case someone was planning on working on any of them. Or in case people never saw the other posting

Little League Baseball: Championship Series

Shooting Range

Rocketeer, The

Q*Bert

Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates

Sesame Street: 123 (Astro-Grover / Ernie's Magic Shapes)

Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival

Road Runner (Tengen black cart)

[Arseen]

It's better to keep the requests in the request forum or Wiki-site as this is topic for showing ready covers, besides requests here will get lost as nobody knows to look them from here.

[larryinc64]

This is the NES case/box art I'm in need of:

Sesame Street: 123 (Astro-Grover / Ernie's Magic Shapes)

I just bought a CIB copy of this, I'll post a cover as soon as I can.

[Lumberjack42]

Here are some more

Astyanax



(I know there is one here already but the quality is a bit iffy.)

Gold Medal Challenge '92



Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf



Super Jeopardy



Lumberjack42

[Arseen]

2 more off the list!
Thank you!!!

[BadChad]

(I know there is one here already but the quality is a bit iffy.)

Replacements are always nice!

[jprogram]

For Astyanax, How come the middle screenshot on the back of the box is reversed?

[BadChad]

As funny as it is, thats how it is on the box.