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Yes the DS love is nice to see. I am still going through many of the North American titles for DS. There are close to 1700 games (a lot of them are hardly games tho, like the LEARN COOKING WITH A DS STYLUS or MAKE-OVER DIVA 27!. lol DS is fairly recent, you think Nintendo learned its lesson with the original NES and bloatware games. I am creating logos when and where I can. But of course I always search out clear logos on the games db first, and www.steamgriddb.com will have logos if the game is fairly recent and popular. And also a google image search. The thing that sucks about DS is there was never a completed 400x175 wheel art set back in the Hyperspin days. I wanted to show off the last logo I made, and it was a logo with swirlys which I am never good at. The logo in the games database is there, but its kinda crappy and its the wrong color. I made this and it was fairly easy. It looks acceptable, but under a microscope its probably awful. lol I didnt add the drop shadow or the sparklies, which I dont like included in any logos. I feel like the end user can add those later if desired pretty easily. That was a simply Magic Wand Tool job, but of course the logo was upscaled first, and then the image size taken down a bit which hides a lot. I always disliked and dreaded making clear logos, but I am getting slightly better at it. I'll never be a level 99 Master like most these logo creators in this thread.

the swirly star part was probably the hardest part to do, so I vote keep it in. Its very easy to remove manually in PS or gimp. I did it for you.

this is a request only forum, but if you insist! I actually have 2. Again, both are DS games with no logos available in the database or elsewhere. The first one is Power Play Pool, and only the euro logo is in the database I think (the games database is down right now so I can't confirm), which is completely different than the North American version. I tried doing this one myself but I got frustrated and moved on. I have trouble with logos that have swirlys and script: and the other request I have is half done, Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head: I actually made a clear logo for the american version of the game which is just called Shaun the Sheep, so here is the logo for that you can use: the "Off With His Head" part looks really annoying. I didnt know how to go about it. Do I remove the comb and the hairs? You can do just the text, looks like a basic Futura Bold? maybe. I don't know but it looks frustrating. Anyway, no pressure to get these done. If you got that Shining Stars: Super Starcade logo done, I know you can do any logo thrown at ya lol. And I still have hundreds of DS games to go through so I am sure I'll request more as I go along. But I have been doing a lot on my own, and its rewarding when they turn out nice, but I am no where near the level of you and seaview and nanbeam.

I dont think this game logo can be done, because there really is no decent source material, but every time I say that one of you logo wizards gets the job done. Its a DS game called Shining Stars: Super Starcade. I found only 2 source images and both loogos looks different. I dont think this is the official box. I found this crappy picture on ebay: both are pretty terrible to work with, but its all I could find. The logo in the database is a very badly cutout from a low res title screen, Thanks to whomever can help, if it no worries.

This Biker Mice logo is supreme. A few weeks back I found this hi res logo on steamgriddb, but it didnt have the cool flames and the "MARS" text was in black. Here it is for anyone that wants an alternative.

so crazy! who requested this? I just made this logo last night, but its not as nice as this. it looks like you used all individual circle balls to make the letters. I just used a quicky magic erase and attempted to hide the flaws with a slight glow. your version is way better. Did you find a font for the subtitle? I couldnt find a font and just cut that too. I am going through all of Nintendo DS one by one, and this system is one of the most clear logo neglected by far. I've made many clear logos and box arts for this system so far, but no where near as good as your work and seaviews. I guess DS is neglected because its annoying to emulate. You really do need the stupid stylus for most games. And speaking of games, there are well over 2000 games for North America alone, and 70% of them are awful. Ubisoft went nuts with all the PETZ games. Anyway, great work on that Sprung logo. I'll prob request many more DS logos as I go through.

yeah wtf. How do you get it so crisp and sharp. Especially the subtitle and swirly parts. Incredible work as always.

Another DS game request. I made some progress doing this myself, but I got annoyed with the swirly bookend parts of the logo. they are so blurry. Thanks to whomever can help out.

The Terminator 1 logo for the movie and NES/SNES/Sega CD games are identical. I think the SNES box provided is just highly saturated and edited. The Terminator logo used for Sega Genesis/Game Gear/Master System is completely different tho.

I used this for logo launchbox, and I used seaviews to make a spine image for the game. Great work on both fronts.

lol omg you are a legend. I tried Ai'ing it too, but it turned out all funky and weird. Thats more than adequate. The front box has a really annoying logo anyway. Great work!

ok this request may be impossible without a complete redraw. Add to the fact that there are no hi res source images of the front box, not that it matters because the box logo is useless to work with. I will show in a minute. The only decent image I could find is a small cartridge image for the game, but even that is super low res. Its a Nintendo DS games called Mechanic Master 2 (The North American version). As you can see, this logo is complete chaos and I see why none was ever made. The Cartridge has a better logo, but its junky resolution: I dont think this logo can be done without better source images (and I looked everywhere) or without a complete redraw, but I thought I'd request it anyway. I am putting together a Nintendo DS box set, and its frustrating because a lot of dinky DS games have crappy logos and bad box scans. 30+ year old systems like the original Game Boy have more art images to work with. DS also has like 90 million games!

I had the same exact issue with 13.23. I rolled back to 13.22. I don't know if the error is video related. It was happening too often that I had to rollback, so not enough time to find a prime cause. But it only occured in Launchbox, and only when going through gamelists and editing games.

Fantastic work, logo wizards. I have a tip for all of you. There is a neat free utility program that compresses all image files to 90% WITHOUT quality loss. I have used it on all my image files in launchbox and saved GBs of space. Its called Caesium Image Compressor, and its free and you dont even have to install it. There is a portable option. It compresses all the known image types, including webp (does not support avif). It is updated regularly. Highly recommend.

Another DS logo request. This time a strategy game History Great Empires: Rome: to save a little time I found a "History" logo:

Hell yeah! I am not too much of a logo snob, but the logo that was in the database looked like a badly magic erase of a low res title screen image. I added a bit of a white outer glow to yours, and its perfect. Its a stupid little girls game that will get lost in the mix anyway lol. Thanks a lot, keep up the good work! You did quick work of that without a total redraw. Very impressive.

can this logo be done? I tried its really hard. Its a DS game. The logo thats in the database is complete poo, idk why its even on there.

those are perfect! Thanks launchretrogirl2562. Fast work too!

Amazing how long this thread has been going. It started in August of 2016 (almost 10 years!) Incredible seeing the great seaview59 actually requesting logos on the first page. How far he is has come. lol. I have a request for 2 games today, but half logos I guess since I will provide a quality logo for the main part of the game: Star Wars - The Clone Wars - Jedi Alliance and Star Wars - The Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels. The are kinda the same game, just different platforms. Here is the Clone Wars logo main part you can work with: And the subtitles for these two: Thanks to all you clear logo wizards. Keep up the great work!

I've had this one, I think it's from the games db. I suppose it can be chopped and trimmed to look like the cart logo.

I had this same problem, it will only work if you change Region or Type (which is going to mess up scraping if that is done).

This Nintendo DS game doesnt have a decent accurate logo: Nickelodeon Team Umizoomi & Dora's Fantastic Flight

I tinkered with the Video Playback settings in Big Box (don't adjust it in Launchbox itself as described above) and switched to Windows Media Player. The locking up issue went away, but switching to Windows Media Player has its drawbacks. Firstly, static screenshots will not display in the video box, on any theme. Also, .webm videos will not work. So switching to WMP will not be a permanent solution. I am sure devs are hard at work fixing the issue. But is does seem the 13.19 update messed up the VLC settings in Big Box for some reason. Having the VLC option in regular Launchbox causes no issues.