Re-Scan of N64 Covers

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Arseen:

--- Quote from: AppleQueso on June 13, 2010, 08:34:51 AM ---I'm with ShootHimNow on this honestly.

The way I'm reading this is:
Upload a cover with a blurry front logo: "Sorry, we have strict quality standards and this won't pass"
Talk about re-scanning covers which no longer meet the site's quality standards: "You jerk you're being disrespectful"

Everything I've seen in these forums about this site has been about its quality standards. I don't think what ShootHimNow was asking is at all out of line or even remotely disrespectful. If anything I'd say TheValeman was being disrespectful.

I feel kinda bad for ShootHimNow right now, his time on this forum hasn't been totally pleasant and it's not really any fault of his own. First he gets accused of being a pirate and now he's getting griped out by an admin for asking us to help up the quality standards of a few games in our NTSC n64 collection, a request that's perfectly in-line with the site's goals.

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You asshole, how dare you take side of one person and mock the other.

::)

No, honestly I agree with you. What ShootHimNow asked is reasonable, as some covers are not top quality.

I was at work, laughing hard while watching this "conversation" progressed.

Please Valeman, if someone politely asks (as he did) that the existing covers that are low quality to be updated, don't take it as an insult.

It is much appreciated that you and others have spend money and provided scans for the site, but some of the covers were not done as well as they could have been done.

KaiserWAVE:
I think this is getting out of hand :)

It's true, as this site progressed the quality standards were raised and some of the covers that made it to the site would have been rejected or would have needed additional work to pass now. So asking for rescans if available is understandable.

But you have to understand where TheValeman is coming from. He did the majority of the N64 covers we have. The vast majority that is! He spent A LOT of money to get the boxes. In a lot of cases he bought them solely for the purpose of making covers. He didn't even own some of the games he bought boxes for or bought boxed games that he didn't want at all. All that just to contribute to the project. Then he cleaned the scans and made covers for them. So just think of the time and money(!) he spent to get us to where we are right now.

If you take this into consideration, it's understandable why he felt a bit snubbed, don't you think?

So why don't we all take a step back, take a deep breath and start from scratch?

If anyone has N64 scans and you think they'll result in a better cover than what we have, then please upload them the the raw scans or send them ShootHimNow's way.

wshbrngr:
I totally agree,
If anyone of you have better covers than the ones we were able to purchase/get our hands on back in the day, I say go for it.
If you don't, then feel free to get your photoshop out and correct any defects on the covers.

I believe you could remove any stickers and recreate the cover with some effort, you could also remove any black marks and reconstruct the barcodes.
You could even cut and paste a clean barcode from a good cover, but then someone would notice that the barcode was for a different game and complain about that. (Already seen that in the past).

The beauty of this site is you can customize the covers anyway you like, they are all scanned at 300dpi.

Believe it or not, the quality standards have not changed much since we started this project. The problem is we used the best available boxes we could, get our hands on.
Several covers were deleted when better boxes and scans became available. (ask me how I know this and how much it cost me ;) )
and nothing says that cannot happen in the future as well.

When you say re-scan the covers, surely you do not mean to re-scan our boxes again, because I still have all my original scans (600dpi). If the boxes we originally used could have been scanned better, we would have done it at the time. (we had people rescan covers several times)

What you are really saying is - hey, go get different boxes and create new scans.
Absolutely nothing here stops you from getting new/better scans, creating covers and posting them.
We did not scan the flaps since we did not need them for the way we decided to create the covers, I will be more than happy to scan the flaps of any boxes I have that you want when I get home. (Working out of town right now)

Couple of things.
1. Believe it or not, not every box sold for the N64 has retained the same color pigment over the years, so, if some appear a to be a bit darker than others well, that is how they looked when we scanned them. I am not even sure every manufacturer used exactly the same pigment originally. I have several original boxes and they do not match 100% with each other.
Some of these boxes are about as collectible as the games, and they can get expensive - especially to just buy them, scan them and toss them.

2. Vertical vs. Horizontal? There was a LOT of discussion early on as to how we were going to scan/make the covers.
The idea was to basically get them to look close to having the original boxes sitting on a shelf. Sorry if that looks like crap to some, but that is what we decided to do.

Again, I am not complaining or flaming, I agree that not every cover is 100% perfect, but we created what we could with what we had.
Some (a lot) of the people that provided the original scans are no longer here.

I agree with KaiserWAVE, please upload better scans.

BadChad:
I have a few N64 boxes I can scan when I have time.

- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Mischeif Makers
- Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
- Worms Armageddon

tiktektak:
Some people here should really have a little more respect towards people who have been here so much longer and did so much more for the coverproject than they have been or will ever do!

I'm all for replacing lower quality scans with higerh qual ones BUT still show some respect and appreciation for so much work and so much time some people put in this!

If not then get the fuck out!

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