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April 19, 2010, 09:21:07 AM
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Out Run (PAL/E.U/Custom)



A front like the Mk III version had. All of these will be re-sized to fit in MS/MD cases too as there's more of a demand for that now.

April 19, 2010, 05:11:39 PM
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Sonic the Hedgehog (PAL/E.U/Custom)



I allways fancied doing a total conversion to a cart based game and have made a few cart labels for this purpose before. But the sticking point is allways the manuals. MS manuals managed to hit a new low in quality: tiny text and multi languages not to mention colour free (blue text on white page) for us Euro's to put up with. So i started to try and build a JP style multi-coloured manual from scratch for Sonic. It's a first attempt and judging by the time it has taken ( at least 30 hours of solid work), a last one too. Its in PDF format and if it all looks ok, should get posted at sometime. Theory is as long as its printed correctly, it should just need a couple of staples and its done. Well that's the theory... ;)

I have used AXMAG to make a working 'flipbook' of how it should look and stuck it in a zip file in my box.net account. If anyone would like to take a look, grab it, unrar it, and run the SWF file via your browser (could,nt find a suitable host for it elsewhere). Works for me that way. Here's the link:

http://www.box.net/shared/8kla3mgyia

I might make one or two small alterations to both manual and cover, so they are kind of W.I.P. And here's a cart label for the game too.


April 19, 2010, 06:07:13 PM
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Damn, your going all out now! Looks fantastic. Great work.

April 20, 2010, 04:23:45 AM
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Damn, your going all out now! Looks fantastic. Great work.

T.Y :)

April 21, 2010, 05:24:04 AM
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Rastan (PAL/E.U/Custom)



....and label too.


April 21, 2010, 12:33:37 PM
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mate - if MS games looked this good retail, i'm sure they would have sold twice as many - you really do have me on the verge of going all blue!

April 22, 2010, 12:51:31 AM
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T.Y  :)  The Rastan front is from the Speccy version. On an unrelated topic, i saw a box l of about 15 Speccy games at a carboot last weekend and was tempted to offer the lady a fiver for the lot, but did'nt. Some real old gems in there too. Beach Head, Tir Na Nog and Knightlore spring to mind. :D

April 22, 2010, 03:50:04 AM
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I have to say the more of the blue MS games you make the more I like the style....

Wasn't there a Rastan Saga game on the Genesis as well?
2 + 3 = 23

April 22, 2010, 03:54:35 AM
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Yup, Rastan Saga II.

April 22, 2010, 04:15:15 AM
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Yup, Rastan Saga II.

...and on PC Engine and it sucks a bit. :)

Im seriously thinking of switching all my MS games to blue and if i do, i will of course make up the originals for site use.

April 22, 2010, 10:37:45 AM
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mate - if MS games looked this good retail, i'm sure they would have sold twice as many - you really do have me on the verge of going all blue!

Cheers Matey.  :) I had a crack at a  custom manual for Sonic as well but they take SERIOUS time. Dunno if i would do it again.

April 22, 2010, 11:32:16 AM
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wow really great idea these blue MS covers! Love the look.

The PAL Wolfchild art is so much better than the US one....
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April 23, 2010, 04:31:24 AM
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wow really great idea these blue MS covers! Love the look.

The PAL Wolfchild art is so much better than the US one....

T.Y  :)

April 23, 2010, 12:03:41 PM
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Alien Syndrome (PAL/E.U/Custom)



So i would have liked to use the NES art for this, not that its that great but as you can imagine good, useable 'Alien Syndrome' scans are pretty rare. However, dont ask me why but the MS game is one player only and is quite different from the arcade original. I would have thought if the NES could handle the game 2 player (and Speccy, C64, Amstrad etc), surely what was Sega's flagship hardware of the time could manage it !?. And so the NES cover with its warriors, guns-a-blazin on the front is not pertinent to the MS version and an alternative was needed. Hence this piccie from a collectors card in the JP only PS2 game i have.



Relavent label too.

April 23, 2010, 03:29:24 PM
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I would like to see peoples responses now to "the blue doesn't seem to look that great".  I will over time (thinking of joining this location... $125 for a full year of whatever I wish to print) print out more covers, but need to find a better printer atm