Really, I'm happy if my cover look very similar to the originals. However, I've noticed your attention to detail (which is well beyond my own standard). You go as far as trying to the get the gameplay screenshots as exact as possible as well as the font. So, to me, you set the standards. I tried harder this time around to get my screenshots to be as identical to the originals as possible but... Plus, you go as far as making two versions of your covers. I almost did so but then became too lazy.
Well, thank you for the compliment! I actually don't get new screenshots on most of my covers, though, but obviously for ones like Gun Nac and F2 where the back was created from scratch there was no other option. A few others I made new screenshots for were Ms Pac Man and Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat because in both cases the screenshots on the back were scuffed or messed up beyond normal repair (and if I redo one screenshot, I'm going to redo them all or I'll feel as though I just half-assed it
). Beyond that, and the SMB3 and LoZ screenshots I made for Shenske, I don't think I've redone any screenshots.
The font thing, though, yeah I do try to get the font as close as possible. Sometimes it's just not feasible to get the EXACT font used for whatever reason (for example, I used Lubalin Graph on most of my SNK covers, but the actual font they used has slightly shorter stems on the ascenders than Lubalin Graph) but I try to get as close as possible. The ones that piss me off the most are the ones that use variable kerning on each line because I have to adjust each line individually instead of as a block. Thankfully, most covers use one of only a handful of different fonts (and nearly all of them use Helvetica for their legal text) so it's uncommon for me to have to spend a lot of time getting the correct font, and at this point it's easy for me to recognise the common ones at a glance. Still, I feel bad if I don't do whatever is within my power to clean and recreate a cover, so it's nice to know my attention to detail doesn't go unnoticed.
