About This File
A collection of posters I curated for the various Toaplan arcade boards. Should cover all the main titles, but might miss some minor titles/editions. It just covers what I have in my personal curated collection, but it should be sufficient for most people as well I think. I exclude adult and mahjong titles, for example. For Toaplan specifically, I also don't have Gulf War II as it's basically a modification of Twin Cobra.
All art has been modified to fit a unified 750x1000px size. This was generally easy to do, but in some cases I may have made slight alterations, e.g., moving text/logos so it would not be cut off. In some instances the modifications were a bit more pronounced, if there was a lack of official fitting art.
For one title (Guardian aka Get Star), I tried my best to get proper artwork but the sources were just lacking, so I used some AI refinement.
┌──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ROM │ Title │ ├──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TOAPLAN UNIQUE BOARD │ ├──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ snowbros │ Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ wardner │ Wardner / Pyros / Wardner no Mori │ ├──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TOAPLAN SLAPFIGHT BOARD │ ├──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ alcon │ Slap Fight / Alcon │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ grdian │ Get Star / Guardian │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ perfrmanu│ Performan │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ tigerh │ Tiger Heli │ ├──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TOAPLAN TWIN COBRA BOARD │ ├──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ fshark │ Flying Shark / Hishou Zame / Sky Shark │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ twincobr │ Twin Cobra / Kyukyoku Tiger │ ├──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TOAPLAN VERSION 1 BOARD │ ├──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ demonwld │ Demon's World / Horror Story │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ fireshrk │ Fire Shark / Same! Same! Same! │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ hellfire │ Hellfire │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ outzone │ Out Zone │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ rallybik │ Rally Bike / Dash Yarou │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ truxton │ Truxton / Tatsujin │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ vimana │ Vimana │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ zerowing │ Zero Wing │ ├──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TOAPLAN VERSION 2 BOARD │ ├──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ batrider │ Armed Police Batrider │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ batsugun │ Batsugun │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ bbakraid │ Battle Bakraid │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ bgaregga │ Battle Garegga │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ dogyuun │ Dogyuun │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ fixeight │ FixEight │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ghox │ Ghox │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ grindstm │ Grind Stormer / V-Five │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ kingdmgp │ Kingdom Grandprix / Shippu Mahou Daisakusen │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ kbash │ Knuckle Bash │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ snowbro2 │ Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves / Otenki Paradise │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ sstriker │ Sorcer Striker / Mahou Daisakusen │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ tekipaki │ Teki Paki │ ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ truxton2 │ Truxton II / Tatsujin Oh │ └──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Sharing here just in case it might make other people happy as well. Arcade can be such a mess to find proper art for, which is a shame because--as with this collection--beautiful art has often been created for the titles.
In case anyone is wondering, the screenshot is of my personal ES-DE setup with the 'Canvas' theme, which I modified a bit and added custom systems for Toaplan and others.
Some sources I used to gather the art:
https://glitchwave.com
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com
https://db.hfsplay.fr
https://www.romstation.fr