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For a long time, I thought it would be great to have quality arcade cabinet images for my favorite frontend, Launchbox.  What else, lol?  I think that the artwork and images of these cabinets should be preserved. These have transparent backgrounds to maximize their use in themes, especially now that we have the wonderful Community Theme Creator (Thanks y2guru!).  These cabinets have been resized & cleaned up, where feasible.   I will upload the higher resolution copies of these to an FTP.  They can be added to the Launchbox database if someone feels up to doing it. This is YEARS in the making, so I hope you enjoy.

I originally strived for accuracy, as far as region goes.  I could not determine if the some of the U.S. cabinets were the same in other regions.  So, I kind of gave up in the middle.  You may have to copy/rename some to your liking.  I was going to spend more time going through them but at this point I thought I would just share them.  I'm a little burned out at this point anyway.

If you would like to help out to make this project continue/better, I could use the following:


  - finding images on the net or if you live close to an arcade or go to shows you can take high-resolution shots (the higher the better).  If you can take super high-resolution images that would be perfect.   Full cabinet at an angle, not partial or blocked (minimum 1600 pixels high, preferably much higher). Additionally, straight on shots can be added also.  You can see what I'm looking for by checking out the images in the packs.  Maybe you have friends at KLOV or other forums and can get them to take pictures.  
   

  - Cleaning & cutting out images. Quality cutouts and cleaning only.  I'm trying to create the ultimate reference for these cabinets.
 

  - Identifying region.  Anyone with knowledge of the cabinets.  It would come in handy.
 

  - Errors.  See something wrong.  I forgot something.  
 

  - Thoughts.  I would love feedback.  Do you like the sizing?  Should they be bigger?  Smaller?  Ideas to make this project better?
 

  - Thoughts on making a thread on one of the forums so people can upload their images?  Maybe a forum category?


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Teknoparrot, Dice & Daphne packs on the way......

I have high resolution control panel packs just about ready for release. They look great.  I'm going to release them at 1200 pixels wide.  Thoughts on size?  If you are taking pictures, take a bunch of the control panels straight on at different heights.  Side art also.  

Feel free to PM me.

I hope you like them.

Tony (AKA Antny)
 

Edited by Antny


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TrailerVert

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

Hell yea! These are sweet!

CodaBroda

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

Another legendary and impressive undertaking and result by Antny; very clean and integrates well with Pause themes that display cabinets (Hands-On Pause Theme is a great showcase for this awesome work). Absolutely worth downloading.

Mr. RetroLust

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Amazing work as always! 🤘🕹️

Muskillogemi

· Edited by Muskillogemi

  

Thank you very much, my friend. That's a great contribution. I have one of the latest ROM sets on Retrobat for MAME—about 4,500 different machines—and I realized that my game collection was missing a lot of machines; I added yours, and there were still many missing. There are many variations that are essentially the same machine because there are different ROM sets or clones; in total, there are about 7,500 files, but there were still nearly 2,500 machines missing. No online collection has all the actual arcade machines from the MAME games, so I've decided to complete it—or at least get as close to that as possible while maintaining good image quality.. I have a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription, and right now I have several agents running simultaneously with ChatGPT Astra, doing work that’s pure gold for collectors like us. I’m searching for high-quality images of all the missing machines. In the image, I’ve included a sample of some of the work done so far; Each machine undergoes a thorough validation process before the image is selected to ensure it matches the game in question 100% and to avoid false positives. This is followed by an in-depth online search to find the best image in terms of quality and perspective among the available options, after which each image is precisely cropped and saved as a PNG with a transparent background. Even with GTP Astra working with multiple agents in parallel, the task will take several days, but once it’s finished, I’ll publish the complete collection. If you give me your permission to do so, of course, I'll also give you credit for your contribution. Otherwise, I'll just post the images of the missing machines. In my collection, I have 4K-resolution artwork for each MAME game, and the videos integrate seamlessly into each one, emulating the real machine. I modified this theme using Codex to customize it to my liking and place the artwork and videos in the center and the machines on the right. I'm Spanish, so I also translated all the game synopses using ChatGPT Sol Astra, using the MAME game list from Retrobat.

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Response from the author:

I'm glad you like them.  I will be releasing a massive update in a week or so.  I'm going to release the images at full size.  I have been quietly adding/upgrading arcade images to the DB.  I'm approaching 5500 additions (cabinets, control panels and a few misc images).  So, look for new downloads soon.  I also have handheld images I'm going to release new packs.  

I've added in insane amount of pinball images also. cleaned up and made transparent.  Hopefully these will enhance your experience. 

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