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No. Any overlay i may have used for these has been easily found elsewhere online, most overlay based middle images were already created too, the overlay creates the border and people who have made custom covers before me have slapped screenshots into them. I have just cleaned up and resized those for my template, so they can't actually be used as an overlay anyway. Theres no transparency on them either. I have't created any extra files other than these box fronts (apart from a small number of logos i created myself for these, also not going to share those). Most of the logos i may have created can be cut from the box fronts quite easily, most are hard edged. Its all going to be just this one front cover set. Now, Vectopia is next on the list... Must make some progress today

0 done today, after a little over 3 weeks doing them daily, a day off was needed. I started and finished the PS4 version of Dear Esther and played some Spiderman instead. Oh and watched a bit more Gangs Of London. Damn thats good... I will be back on these tomorrow. Home stretch, 29 to go plus some reworks.

Still 220 of 249, had to re-do this one twice. I messed up first time, then decided to do it a little differently second time. Ended up nice this one... PS4 time. More tomorrow.

220 of 249. More later.

215 of 249. More tomorrow.

210 of 249. Home straight.... More later.

First rom set i got, one of the Tosec collections, after filtering out dupes, clones, bad dumps and alternative (a) versions, it still included demos, and homebrew etc. It was 113 roms large. I thought blimey, thats a lot as only 35 or so commercial games were ever released. And hey, its Tosec, these guys collect it all... Now i'm at 249 unique roms, more than doubled since i started. I've travelled to both ends of the internet, saw Gollum along the way, but i think i'm pretty much done collecting the roms now. Hope so, it seems never ending. Every time i find a new rom, it means 1 more bloody cover to make... Almost there

204 of 249 (found another duped rom, The Star Wars Clone Demo is actually Star Seige, both the same rom by John Dondzila). I've just done a cover for it, and also the 3 star trek roms i have. Star Ship, Star Trek Motion Picture and Star Trek Debugged. All 3 are using the same middle but with different logos at the bottom. Middle section needed usual straightening and cleaning and the main top logos took a while. Heres the main two. More tomorrow.

Star Fire is the 200th to be completed. More later.

Halfway through doing image number 199 (Star Castle, struggling to find a good middle). I didn't quite make it to 200 last night. I decided to re-process everything this morning. The first 198 images have had their canvas size increased from 780x1014 to 800x1024. Theres no quality loss and the extra background squares are all added. 10 pixels per side, 5 pixels top and bottom added. Now when i view them they aren't scaled to fit my screen any more (my vertical res is 1024). I'm sure these more standard sizes will be a benefit in frontends and other things too. I've also now settled on the corners for the center areas, i added a couple of grey pixels to each one, which gives a slightly more rounded look. It's so minor no-one would probably notice, but i am very meticulous. I've had to paste in those extra pixels on all images of course, that took a while. But now i'm back on track, and should break 200 today. Heres the last one i completed (not a very exciting one image wise). Includes the new edits. The extra canvas balances it a bit more i feel, spacing is better.More later.

Found 1 dupe rom, "reactor" is actually the "Spikes Slam Pit Demo" rom. So now bang on 250. And i'm 4 away from hitting 200 done. Today i shall be 4/5ths done !! The logo took me bloody ages on this one... Had to crop it off the cartridge, size it up and clean it up and remake the revenge glow. The x-rated Spudsters Revenge game, unless he's poking her with a stick, in which case its a PG i guess for violence?

Thought i'd just quickly upload the one i just finished. Spike. 4 more done this morning, 190 of 251 complete.

Hmmm, poor show for today. 2 updated images and 5 new. Heres Snowball. The Isolation Edition. Got some new and updated roms today. Deleted 2, replaced 2, added 4. Images done, 186 of 251. Found the awesome "VectrexEmulator_0_2_6_Alpha" today too, liking it more than ParaJVE and its producing better screenshots to use. Glow colours and overlay use, and grabbing the screenshots is much better in this emulator. More tomorrow.

OK, had enough today. 20 done. 181 of 249 complete. Todays batch (low res, preview) More tomorrow.

Well i did hit 250 roms, but then found one dupe, so deleted it. Rom set now 249. Images complete currently 178. 17 new ones done today, almost 18 as i type, and i will be continuing after some food and tv. I'll post an overview image of what i've done later this evening after completing a few more. Been a good day after a slack 2-3 days.

Did a poor job on the Protector/Yasi cover, was not happy with the quality, and i decided to change the split line. This version is cleaner and shows more of the Protector gameplay. And even though i was supposed to be gardening (i did do some, the conifer is no more), i squeezed another 5 covers in too. Probably not going to be doing any more today. 161 of 231 completed. More tomorrow.

With some help over the last 24 hours or so from Alan McClelland i've updated the middle artwork on Karl Quappe and Release. Alan made the originals and kindly supplied them to me. I've also used Wayback Machine to find better images for Rockaroids Remix 3rd Rock and Nebula Commander, so those have been updated too. Also re-did Revector cover. Its still not the best, but its cleaner and sharper than it was and i tweaked the Protector/Yasi cover too. So, been a bit quiet, but 6 more are either updated or new. Chopped a conifer down today, burning that later and need to dig the stump out. So i might not get much more done today. However tomorrow should be back in full swing on the images. I've also grown the rom set over the last 24 hours or so and i might be getting a bunch more soon from a generous soul. Added 5 more, so now at 231 and i may hit 250 or so later today. I'll update again soon. Heres the Protector/Yasi one i did. Something a bit different...

No bin in that folder, i'll keep a watch, if the game becomes more i'll grab it and make a cover. Shout if you need one.

And another 5 done. Now 155 of 236. Rip Off took a while, the originals always do. More later.

Only 7 done today, had other stuff to do... Now 150 of 226.More tomorrow.

5 more roms added today. Total now 226 roms. Images completed today, 50 new ones plus 1 redone. 51 total, a good day. Total covers done, 143 of 226. More tomorrow.

Starbuck, sounds good. We can trade roms and fill each others gaps. I'll gladly upload roms to my googledrive along with the images. Came on to post progress, as i do... True to my word last night, this morning i've managed to blitz through 42 images. Total now completed 135 of 221, and its only lunchtime... Here are a couple from this mornings batch. More later.

Boring without pics though isn't it. Heres one of todays.

This is never ending... Managed to use Wayback Machine and grab The Profs previous years student work for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Grabbed the manual, rom, overlay (if exists) and screenshot for every game. Plus a couple of roms i'd missed elsewhere. So i ended up adding 46 more files today bringing me to 221 roms in library and in Launchbox. I did get 5 more images done in between car not starting, picking up shopping, and delivering a tv to my sister, so i'm now up to 93 complete. But thats not even half way any more Good news on the additions is that they all have a decent sreenshot to go with them, so covers for them all should be quite quick to make. I think i can blitz through 40 or so tomorrow. Thats my aim. I'll report back.

I keep finding more Vectrex roms as i'm searching for images, and it keeps leading me down rabbit holes... 21 more added bringing the rom count to 175. Only 7 new pictures done today (poor show old chap), so now at 88 covers done. I'll do better tomorrow, promise. Oh, and i'm ready to share it all, when done, on my googledrive. Thanks to Neil9000 for the suggestion.