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I've had a list or two sent to me of missing roms/images, mostly via Facebook. I've scanned through them and the upshot is, 13 more roms added. This means 13 new images to create. These are... 3D Demo (2000) (Christopher Salomon) 3D Vector Space Cab (2017) (Fell^DSS RiFT TRSi) All Your Base (2001) (Manu Parssinen) Berzerk Ultimate RC1 (2019) (Christopher Salomon) City Bomber (2007) (Andrew Coleman) Doodle v1.0 (2015) (Chris Malcolm) Monster House (1998) (Garry Grierson) Philly Classic 3 Demo (2002) (Christopher Tumber) Quick Shot v1.01 (2016) (Chris Malcolm) SinZ (2015) (La1n) This Is Just A Non Playable Demo (1999) (Martin Balazs) Very Vectight (2014) (Pex Mahoney Tufvesson) V-Theremin v1.01 (2015) (Chris Malcolm) I'll be starting these images tomorrow and uploading to my googledrive updates folder as usual. If i get to 20 update files then i will re-zip them into a v1.1 pack and reupload here as well. So.... More tomorrow.

Hi neil9000 - All Vectrex roms are freeware to my knowledge, MB and GCE released all the commercial roms for free use and everything else is homebrew and released for free. So these links should have been okay ?

A search on google for "Vectrex Tosec" should lead you to a collection on Archive.org. Thats got a ton in it. Thats the first set i grabbed. It has a lot of junk though, dupes, bad dumps, clones etc. So needs filtering a bit. Link Removed There is also an online emulator that has a great rom set behind it. Following that emulator to its github page lets you get at the individual roms too... This is probably the largest collection i've found, lots of homebrew and weird and wonderful stuff and very up to date (but not quite). Link removed These 2 links should see anyones collection hit 200+ HTH

Dragon57, thanks so much for the review. I'm in 3rd place on the leaderboard !! What do i win ?

Another update added. YMusic #1 added to my romset, so a cover is made. Its on googledrive in the updates folder.

Well i uploaded 2 updates already to the googledrive... KnightEx and Oregon Trail. KnightEx, i found a larger source logo, so re-cropped it for my cover and made it slightly larger. Not a major update. Oregon Trail though, that now has a proper logo and looks much nicer. Worth grabbing that one at least. I'll catch up again tomorrow.

A 53mb zip of all 260 images is now uploaded to the forums "Downloads" area. Looks like its showing up okay for people, so you can jump on these now. File is here... I've also uploaded the zip, all 260 singular files, and the readme, to my googledrive. That can be found here... https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hK-FLANqWD_dLclT82UpYACHikdX4X4f&fbclid=IwAR2InXZyjOWCFOAWEif0pH9TzmyKktyXhkXQgD745ansUhg6rUJt-euD2cs Please check the readme, especially if you've been following along and enjoy the files. Simon.

Vectrex 2D Front Cover Box Art - By Simon Quincey - View File Vectrex 2D Front Cover Box Art - By Simon Quincey - hitt.man@ntlworld.com So i added all my Vectrex roms (113 at the time) to Launchbox, i let it do its "thing" and the artwork it downloaded was horrendous. Different sizes, wildly different qualities, some real, some custom and a whole load missing. Like 70% missing! Every rom needs an image, they should all be the same size and style too. I know, i'll make my own set using anything i can find online. 113 roms, how long can it take? If theres no artwork online i'll just use a screenshot from emulation. Every search for more images, lead me to more websites, more information and more roms. I joined a very cool Facebook group on 28th April, to learn more and find more artwork and there were plenty of helpful people there. There were also more roms... From the "Vectrex Fans Unite" Facebook group i would like to thank everyone for the encouragement and support. And particular thanks to these guys who provided much needed original artwork to complete this cover set. Graham Toal Chris Malcolm Jacek Selanski David Flemming Tony Holcomb Alan McClelland Manu Parssinen Steven Salter John Blythe If you helped me out and i missed your name here, sorry, but i do thank you. Also, from the Launchbox thread i started and did my daily progress updates to, i would like to thank... Lukeyboy67 Starbuck Dragon57 ...for the ongoing support. I started at 113 roms but ended up with 260! Seemed never ending but i've finally done it. So here in this pack are 260 unified images, all following the same design template, same resolution (1024x800) and (as much as possible) the same quality level. I have done the best i can with the online artwork i could find. I've used original box scans where possible, i've used other peoples custom box artwork at times, i've upscaled some, cleaned others, totally dumped and rebuilt others. I've used various emulators to capture screenshots and built totally new logos for some. Its been a lot of work and after about 6-7 weeks or so, i'm done... for now... Although this set of images was selfishly only going to be for myself to begin with, after sharing what i was doing it seemed there were others who were interested in using these. I was asked if i would share them, so thats what i'm doing. Of course, they are free to use, i don't own any of this. This set should now be uploaded to the Launchbox website/forum as a pack/zip and to my own GoogleDrive too. My GoogleDrive will also hold these as individual files and i'll have an area for new and updated files. The link to my GoogleDrive will be shared to both the Launchbox forum and Facebook group. Updates to this pack, error fixes, new covers, cover requests etc. may only be uploaded to my GoogleDrive. So if you have read all this waffle and you are using these images, please check there for new files. I will take requests for covers, if i've missed a rom and you still have artwork gaps after adding this set, just ask. I will fix any errors you spot too. All i ask is you request by email (top and bottom of this text), and if its for a rom i don't have, you send me that rom. I will update covers too if you have improved artwork, you just need to send me it. Comments, roms, requests, fixes, artwork etc. to... hitt.man@ntlworld.com Have fun. Simon Quincey. v1.0 - Initial release, 260 images v1.1 - 15 new images + 6 updated - total 275 New - 3D Demo New - 3D Vector Space Cab New - All Your Base New - Berzerk Ultimate New - City Bomber New - Doodle New - Monster House New - Philly Classic 3 New - Quick Shot New - SD - Untitled New - Sinz Demo New - This Is Just A Non Playable Demo New - V-Theremin New - Very Vectight New - YMusic #1 Update - Alley Anxiety - Font size fix Update - Berzerk Bugfixed - Better logo, matching Berzerk Ultimate Update - Frogs N Flies - Clearer screenshot Update - KnightEx - Logo created from higher resolution source and made slightly larger Update - Oregon Trail - New logo Update - Vaboom + Vectrace - New logo v1.2 - 3 new images + 3 updated - total 278 New - Blitz Action Football - US version of Blitz American Football (alt cover) New - Soccer Football - US version of Heads Up Action Soccer (alt cover) New - Web Wars - US version of Web Warp (alt cover) Update - Blitz American Soccer - File renamed (to Football, added UK), subtitle updated Update - Heads Up Action Soccer - File renamed (added UK) Update - Web Warp - File renamed (added UK), top logo adjusted, bottom logo replaced v1.3 - 2 new images + 7 updated - total 280 New - Xandoz New - The J-Game Update - Stevedore - Added subtitle Update - Birds Of Prey - New logo Update - Hexed - New logo Update - Omega Chase - New logo Update - Top Gun - New logo Update - Vec-Fu - New logo Update - Vector 21 - New logo Submitter hitm4n Submitted 05/23/2020 Category Game Box Art  

Final 2 are done. 260 of 260. Huzzah. I've done my last check through as well and found 8 images i want to improve on. Two of those are done already so just 6 left. I hope to get these done today and the whole lot uploaded today too so keep an eye out. I will upload these here as a pack, need to read the forum a bit and figure out proper procedure. I shall also be uploading to my googledrive and sharing a link, i think as a full zip and as individual files. I may create some folder structure for additions or update packs and requests etc. I will need to write up some blurb and "thank yous" to some people too and then i'm done... Right back to these last 6.

Hand pixelled an entirely new version of the Zantis logo. Took a while but looks great, i hope you agree. Final 2 to do, then one last check through them all. Final news tomorrow i guess.

LAST 3 !!!!!

Ended the day at 253 of 260. I reworked a couple more. I found a PDF with a nice Anim Action logo on it, although it was a re-created one in black and white, so i had to colour it in, but the end result is even better than the real box logo! Web Warp is also using an overlay based screenshot rather than the box image as its actually nicer. Chris (Binary Star) supplied some original artwork to get a couple more done too (including the halloween logo below). The reworks that needed the Lightpen hand replacing are finished and look way better than my original attempts. These were among the earliest ones i did and i've gotten much better since i started and much stricter with myself on what is acceptible. So... 7 left to do and then one final check through for errors or improvements i can make. More tomorrow. Here is "Every Day Is Halloween". I particularly like how this ended up.

All reworks completed. Final 8 to go. Gained 1 rom today, so we are at 252 of 260. Sooooooooooooooo close now. Web Wars is next.

8 left to create. 6 left to rework.

8 left to create. 10 left to rework.

8 left to create. 20 left to rework.

7 new ones done, 2 updated and Spiderman on PS4 is now finished... The sunshine is now my only distraction. 249 of 259 done. The last one completed just now was Warrior. Here it is...Just 10 left to create! I've gone through all the images done so far to see how many reworks i want to do, see which ones i'm unhappy with. It's 23. Not too bad, some will be an easy fix, some will take a bit more work. I'm chipping away at those as well as making the new ones. I'm getting there and feel i'm on the home straight...

Were you waiting for this one?

6 more today so far in between bouts of Spiderman and lazing in the sunshine. Vectrexians was the one just finished. 243 of 259 done. 16 to go + reworks.

As long as i can make covers faster than people make games i'll catch up eventually... Which hasn't been the case the last couple of days, i've been lazy on these. Today more will happen again though. Yesterdays rom additions were all of Ralf Kornmanns releases. They are all from this year. And there will be Professor Peer Johannsens 2020 class to add next if any of those get completed. That could be 6 more games. I did do 1 more cover last night before going back to Spiderman and TV. I re-added the rom for Vaboom and the Abyss Demo. Where possible, when a game compilation like Vecmania or All Good Things has released games in singular form, i had decided to keep only the compilation version. However, many of these games have differences, tweaks and remixes. So i've decided to keep all the standalone releases as well now. It only meant re-adding those two, but covers had to be done. Vaboom has never had its own release or artwork, so its another title and screenshot creation. So currently... 237 of 259. And more later.

10 more roms added and 9 more images done today. Gotta be honest, been playing PS4 Spiderman a lot. Nothing was done yesterday on these due to web slinging. None of the images in todays batch are very exciting either, all just logos and screenshots. Total now 236 of 259. Just 23 to go plus some reworks i simply must do... Almost there. More tomorrow.

And another 4 done. Now 227 of 249. Quite happy with this one for Vectorblade, deserves someone to do some proper arty farty artwork for it. I'm sure closer to the games proper release something more official will appear, but this will do for now. More later.

Just to show a little progress has been made this morning, 3 more done. Heres one i made a logo for as well. More later.