32X covers

[irvgotti452]

 ;DI'm excited! Lol

[xelement5x]

Lol, seeing this pop back up on the main page reminds me that I have a copy of Blackthorne I've been meaning to scan.  Once I finish up the basement and clean out my office to organize all the games I try to get it in, if it doesn't show up otherwise

[djshok]

Don't worry about the Blackthorne scan
I just got a folderfull of hi-res 32x scans, so I'll be making a lot of these over the next few days  


UGC cover: http://www.box.net/shared/0zh31jhirp
Sega clamshell cover: http://www.box.net/shared/tx005pg7sk

[irvgotti452]

Dude use this template:



more orangy lol

[BadChad]

Agreed, the cover looks great but the yellow is too light.

[djshok]

Ok, I gotta ask, as it's really starting to bug me.  What is it with this site and the orange 32x stripes?  Everywhere that I've posted these covers and people I've shown them to seem to agree that the 32x covers were in fact fairly light.  Some games were darker to a certain degree but not nearly as dark as the colours in the the template.

Here are some pics of original boxes to compare.









Also when you print the covers they always come out a little darker than they look on screen, which makes the lighter ones look about spot on and the darker more orange version just plain weird.  

Worst case scenario I can make 2 versions or each cover if you guys really like the orange ones that much.  I just find it odd that everyone here seems to like the orange stripes so much more...

[Arseen]

What is it with this site and the orange 32x stripes?

I think it's just that the higher powers agreed on the colorscheme, and want everybody to use the agreed shades so the covers look consistent. They could have agreed on lightwer shade in the beginning, but now it's too worksome to change, as the older covers would have to also be changed to match the new shade.

[AppleQueso]

I think that on many printers, the lighter stripes end up coming out as one solid yellow color, so the darker, orange looking stripes were probably added to increase the contrast and emphasize the separation.

[SonicAdvDX]

I think that on many printers, the lighter stripes end up coming out as one solid yellow color, so the darker, orange looking stripes were probably added to increase the contrast and emphasize the separation.

This happens with the Sega CD stripes for me. 

[djshok]

What is it with this site and the orange 32x stripes?

I think it's just that the higher powers agreed on the colorscheme, and want everybody to use the agreed shades so the covers look consistent. They could have agreed on lightwer shade in the beginning, but now it's too worksome to change, as the older covers would have to also be changed to match the new shade.

I can understand and respect that, but at the same time the templates get updated all the time as the site grows and we improve our methods.  The Sega seal has been updated several times as have the 1 and 2 player symbols.  Also, it wouldn't be that much work to update the 32x section, that whole system only had about 35 games released, and we don't even have covers for all of them.  Also, I could volunteer for a massive 32x updating project since I just came into the possession of a large number of high quality 32x scans on which I will be working over the next few days. I literally have scans for most of the 32x library.

I think that on many printers, the lighter stripes end up coming out as one solid yellow color, so the darker, orange looking stripes were probably added to increase the contrast and emphasize the separation.

I think printers have trouble differentiating between certain similar colours. I know that some of the older Genesis covers printed as one solid colour.  However I've printed a few of these 32x covers on different printers and you can definitely see the separation between the stripes.  I can provide pics if needed.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything.  I just think that perhaps we should consider updating the 32x template.  (Also the blue MD one, but that's another conversation).

[shenske]

I made the template more "orangey" because i wanted separated colors when they are printed out.  My initial SegaCD & Genesis stripes blended the colors into one solid stripe so i decided to exaggerative the colors for the covers on the site so when they are separated when printed.

If anyone would like me to update the colors on the current template let me know and i will do so.

[djshok]

Understandable, but you can still get a nice stripe separation without exaggerating the colours to such degree.  I'll post a pic of the ones I have printed out when I get home, and you can decide. 

[shenske]

I'll post a pic of the ones I have printed out when I get home, and you can decide. 

Please do, that would be nice to see a printed out version. Can you also specify what type of printer you are using? Just saying LaserJet or InkJet would be sufficient    Thanks

[xelement5x]

Would it be that difficult to update the template to have both versions of the stripes?  I'm assuming most people use that when building the covers, and it wouldn't be that hard to just make two versions for each of the covers if you're just showing/hiding layers. 

[shenske]

Would it be that difficult to update the template to have both versions of the stripes?  I'm assuming most people use that when building the covers, and it wouldn't be that hard to just make two versions for each of the covers if you're just showing/hiding layers.  

No it would not be too difficult to add it but i'm against it.  I don't want to purposely divide the section into different colored templates.  It would be better to decide on a color or come up with compromise colors for the stripe.  That may alienate some people who have already printed covers but i think it would help a greater amount of people in the long run. We'll see ...