Mr. RetroLust

Filters are nice to work quickly but basically you can do everything yourself if you know how, there is always something to learn in photoshop (or other software like photoimpact as I use for a very very long time now) if you search for tutorials on glow/diffuse glow and such.

Vectorizing the lightning bolts from the existing mame bezel and adding them to the project with blown up reference photo of the marquee.

Thanks, I really like the Wii U marquees you made, my pc isn't capable of emulating Wii U sadly but to me your skills seem above entry level! Hope to see you continue to make more marquees man! For the the glow aspect of most of the marquees I used an old free photoshop filter named: "Diffuse Glow v1.1" by Richard Rosenman, you can still fiddle with the results of this filter by adding more gaussian blur, saturation and stuff like that. If you ever need help or advise let me know, would be glad to help out.

Thanks! Yeah me too i'm suprised others didn't apply a night/lit mode earlier in their graphics, since an arcade is mostly dark and light plays an important role therein. In the future i'll start on bezels with lighting effects as well, will be a 5 year plan all in all perhaps lol but it's worth it.

Finally seeing the finish line (phew), all that's left to do are the lightning bolts and the spiral behind the logo.

Recreating the original The Irritating Maze marquee.

Arcade Marquee Wallpapers View File Arcade Marquee Wallpaper/Fanart images 119 Cut-outs from high quality marquee images, can be used as desktop wallpapers and/or to be used as fan-art backgrounds for example, all up to you Ranging from 1080p to Ultra HD resolution and any resolution in between, all images in 16:9 aspect ratio. Arcade_Marquee_Wallpapers.zip Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 04/20/2018 Category Game Media Packs

Restoration full size marquee, from the arcade museum database a very low quality image. https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6930After remake, Day Mode: Night Mode:

Deleted v1.0, working out v2.0, what's coming, exclusive to Launchbox. Optimized marquees without scratched texture overlay for deeper colors and contrast Cleaned up artwork Exclusive Day mode / Night Mode (unlit/lit) for every marquee. Further working out about 153 Neo Geo game marquees total, double that with night modes and full version marquees (lol) Including exclusive official full marquee artwork for certain Neo Geo games revived/restored to Ultra HD resolution, not to be found on public internet or perhaps anywhere else for that matter (see examples below: 3 Count Bout & Double Dragon) Optimized dual mini-marquee layouts for full screen 21:9 marquee monitors Examples below in low res 1280 pixels width, original resolution 3840 pixels width.

It absolutely shows! Love the details of all the characters. I know all to well about clients from hell I hope you want to make art for the community as well in the future, especially for marquees there are a lot of marquees in desperate need of a professional artist, as a custom replacement or restoration. Working on a new complete Neo Geo marquee collection myself, though I'm not an illustrator.

Friggin awesome dude! Oh the fun that will be had with this! Congrats on a job well done Are you an artist btw? I bet you can make amazing marquees as well

Mr. RetroLust's Capcom Play System I - Complete pack of 33 carts (High Quality) View File Capcom Play System I - Complete pack of 33 carts (High Quality) As far as I could see this should be the complete CPS1 collection, if you find any carts that are missing let me know. Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 04/06/2018 Category Game Cart Images

Cool thanks man! I don't know if you'll like these but I uploaded the marquees I mentioned before, I might make some more in the future during the collecting frenzy road.

Mr. RetroLust's Arcade Marquees (Missing, Rare, Custom etc.) View File Missing, rare, previously unavailable & custom Marquees. Be sure to follow (button above) this thread as I upload it regularly with new Marquees. I try to find, restore, clean up, vectorize & color correct the marquees as best as I can and in max 3840 pixels wide (ultra HD) pixel dimensions. Some times I'll add custom made marquees when there isn't any marquee available made from official artwork and flyer sources, I'll mention it when they are custom made. Submitter Mr. RetroLust Submitted 04/05/2018 Category Game Marquee Images  

Ah ok, i'm sorry should have read past posts better, now I see you've even been working heavy on mame marquees, awesome work btw! I'm very interested in your marquee collection, if you could share it somehow I would be very thankful!

Awesome! Wouldn't be complete without a cat Love those 8bitdo controllers as well, still waiting for these to be released in my country.

Thanks people

I'm still relatively new here and build this cave within a few weeks, behind the screens I'm also helping out in moderating for the game database everyday and creating/photoshopping graphics for future releases as well as working on a theme, bezels and collecting data to expand my collection for Big Box. The cave is still not finished yet, have to do some sweet black/UV-light and arcade/retrogaming artwork from Etsy to finish it off. Today I finally finished my mini gameroom (check it out @jaceroni), the square (check carpet boundaries) inside the small room is about 2x2 meters lol. I just installed and setup my last addition; the marquee screen. I was a bit nervous it wouldn't work out as I hoped it would but it did. My pc has only a HDMI and VGA port so I had to use the VGA port. It's a bit of a risk as the screen (the cheap 21:9, LG 25UM58-p) native resolution is 2560x1080, not possible through my VGA. I got a VGA-HDMI converter from Startech which outputs 1920x1080 max through VGA which is very nice but to get a good aspect ratio on 21:9 in 1920 you'll have to set (in my case I had to hack the registry for the old AMD HD 7660) the resolution to 1920x810 and it friggin worked! At this distance I can hardly even see the difference between 2560 and 1920 as the screen is pretty small. But for the future I'm set when switching to a different system which will support the UHD 49 inch screens resolution and the 2560 on the marquee screen. The carpet was cheap, the recliner was a second hand for 40 euro as was the media cabinet. Behind the 49 inch I placed 2 cheap led strips to get a bit of that Philips ambiance vibe. On the screen you'll also see a theme/project I'm working on which is based on Futurestate by @Hexxxer whom very kindly gave me permission to release it in the future. It's still in a very early beta stage and I'm planning to release the theme with custom and cut out high res arcade cabinet images, as well as cut out arcade carts/pcb's and more. I'm still thinking about the theme's name, something like 'Futurestate Neon Deluxe'. I think that covers it I guess I can't say it enough, everyone should have a marquee screen, it looks amazing with those beautiful high res marquee artworks out there, it really adds to the experience, there's some amazing bezels out there as well which will make the experience even more complete in my opinion, ofcourse a real cabinet is even cooler but I'm not that handy so this is my alternative path, I'm in heaven now lol

Links to check out (still doing research) that will set you back a few kilobytes http://kdo-perso.info/medias/46/marquee/mame/ http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=148204.0 https://www.arcadepunks.com/marquees-digital-marquees-cab-2/ https://www.arcadeartwork.org/index.php?/category/37 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7hRdDVO-K2_Q3hQbVBYTDlPemM?resourcekey=0-lCaLv7eTIIVd3yGjPh-_Eg&usp=sharing