Whatscheiser

Hello,
This is box art I have done for my own selection of SEGA CD games. There are 20 total that includes box-front, box-spine, and box-back images. The games are as follows...
Batman Returns Demolition Man Earthworm Jim Ecco The Dolphin Ecco The Dolphin The Tides of Time Final Fight Formula One Beyond the Limit Loadstar Lords of Thunder Mortal Kombat NHL '94 Pitfall the Myan Adventure Road Rash SEGA Classics Arcade Collection (5 in 1) Sewer Shark Silpheed Snatcher Sonic CD Soul Star The Terminator Most of these box-front and back images are sourced from SEGA Retro scans that have been cleaned up and upscaled with Topaz-AI. After running them through that process I then scale them back down closer to their original scanned resolution and do any necessary re-touch work to clean them up to where they look acceptable to my eye. For example with the Earthworm Jim cover art, the text did not fare well at all with the AI upscale process. So I tracked down the font (or as close as I could approximate) and re-did all of the descriptions and legalese for the back of the box.
The Spines and the blue "candy cane" art was redrawn by me using a Sega Retro Scan as a pattern guide. The SEGA CD logo is from Dan Patrick's platform logo pack. A lot of publisher logos and what have you's are pulled from PNGs found online and re-integrated into the original artwork to clean things up. A couple of the artworks (Loadstar, SEGA Classics, and the box back artwork for Formula One) contains some bits augmented by or straight up ripped out of artwork done for The Cover Project by Vt102.

In my media collection I keep movies and games side by side. Presenting that can be a bit of a hassle given different form factors for video game boxes. I find stuff like SEGA Genesis, SEGA CD, and NES all present pretty well in terms of image aspect ratio when compared to other media such as movies and tv shows...
However things like SNES, N64 or in this case, Sony Playstation 1 tend to stick out a bit and break up the over all presentation. (or I'm just a bit ridiculous which is entirely possible).
At any rate sites like https://www.thecoverproject.net/ can be a great resource given many of their covers look to standardize games to something like a DVD case or universal game case. Using this website almost exclusively is how I got artwork for my SNES and N64 games. Unfortunately the PS1 titles were not as well represented.
This collection I've put together tries to re-imagine 76 games from the Playstation 1 as if the long box format is what was used by Sony exclusively.
So I've labeled this as "Whatscheiser's PS1 Cover Artwork" but honestly this thing is all over the place. Some are original cover art that have been painstakingly altered by me taking time to resize assets and do a bit of work to paint things into perspective. Some of these covers have some reused assets of versions found on the cover project. Some of these have been fed through AI upscalers such as https://letsenhance.io/. Some that were a bit too challenging for me to extend were even fed to DALL-E for some image extensions... which didn't work out too badly. (Mainly the Tony Hawk game covers as well as Quake II.)
The initial template I put together made use of the Platform logos released to the community by Dan Patrick. All of these box arts should line up precisely in terms of logo placement and over all dimensions.
 
I've been turning out several of these a day over the last couple of months. So the burnout is here. I don't have plans to add many more titles if any. It'll kind of depend on if I feel like expanding my own collection. I'll make an effort to get these onto the LaunchBox games db as well.
Hopefully some others can get some use out of these. Thanks!