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This is a collection of full scans for the inserts to AES games for both English and Japanese releases. Admittedly, most of these images are low res and low quality, but they ARE official. If you've ever spent any time trying to find official AES art you know it can be a real headache and full scans are even worse. Since LaunchBox is now using 3D models I wanted to get ahead of anyone carelessly using the first images they can find for a collection.
 
You see, Neo Geo games are notoriously expensive, so there are a few bootleggers out there who try to rip off collectors by making repros and selling them at full price as authentic AES games. As a reaction to this, the Neo Geo community has made it very hard to find high quality official scans. You can find PLENTY of fan art for people who just want shelf candy, but as a result of this, a lot of fan art winds up being used instead of official art including here on the LBDB as well as the art on EmuMovies (virtually all of the spines on there are fan art). Sometimes it looks convincing at first but comparing it to photos of the real boxes will reveal tiny differences. Most of these come from Southtown Homebrew. Unfortunately for those of us who want virtual shelf candy in LaunchBox, this means we can either use fan art boxes or go crazy searching for the official scans.  I chose the latter, and this is the result.
 
Unfortunately, some games are extremely hard to find. Whether it's due to the community circling the wagons to fend off scammers or just the severe rarity of the game in question, certain boxes do not seem to have full scans available online. Believe me, I looked. This means this collection is incomplete. Some of the games that are missing are very popular titles which is frustrating but I don't know of a way to solve that problem right now. Here is a list of missing scans:
US:
Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior
Bang Bang Busters (this game was released in 2010 so whether or not it's official is debatable)
Baseball Stars 2
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors
The King of Fighters '95
The King of Fighters '96
The King of Fighters 2003 (I found the "classic" variant and included it, but the original art was not available when I searched)
Metal Slug
Metal Slug 2
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug 4 (I found the "classic" variant and included it, but the original art was not available)
Metal Slug 5 (I found the "classic" variant and included it, but the original art was not available)
Mutation Nation
Ninja Master's: Haoh Ninpo Cho
Rage of the Dragons (I found the "classic" variant and included it, but the original art was not available)
Samurai Shodown III
Sengoku
Soccer Brawl
Spinmaster
Stakes Winner
Street Slam
Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory
The Super Spy
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
Japan:
ASO II
Bang Bang Busters (this game was released in 2010 so whether or not it's official is debatable)
Fighter's History Dynamite
Ghost Pilots
The King of Fighters 2000 (you will also notice this game is missing from the US releases. This game came out during that awkward bankruptcy phase for SNK and never got a US AES release )
The King of Fighters 2003
King of the Monsters
Metal Slug 4
Metal Slug 5
Rage of the Dragons
Raguy
Samurai Spirits Zero
Sengoku Denshou
Sengoku Denshou 2001
Shin Gouketsuji Ichizoku: Toukon Matrimelee
Top Player's Golf
 
At some point in the future I might revisit this collection but right now I don't see much use in driving myself up the wall just to find one or two more results. I do, however, hope that others might find this useful and maybe someone else will feel motivated to find the other official scans. These scans are from neogeosoft, neostore and videogameobsessions. There are a few more that I don't remember finding, nor do I remember the source of, but no claim is intended.

Started a project a while ago to create a complete set of stylistically coherent banners.  And when I say complete i mean complete.  I used the LB platform list as a starting point and branched out from there, covering every platform I could think of, and made a few up for my own use.  I went with a "nebula" style background since it seems like that's what kids are into these days and searched for high quality assets.  Obviously this means the starting point was Evan Amos's photos and THK's logos, but I used many other sources as well and quite a few of the logos were just not available in decent quality online so I actually made a bunch of both company and platform logos by hand.

This collection is US centric so American names and images are given priority above international counterparts.  I'm already working on a set of Euro-centric banners though, so don't feel left out.  After that I might begin working on a Japanese-centric set if I feel up to it.  We shall see.  Comments and advice are more than welcome.  If you notice any glaring mistakes or omissions, please don't hesitate to point them out.  These are actually pretty easy to edit and replace.  Suggestions on changes needed for the European set are also quite welcome.  Anything outside of the obvious (Mega Drive, blue swirl for Dreamcast, different SNES, different Vectrex logo, different 7800 controllers, etc.) is something that I'm likely to miss.  I'm aware that not every one of these platforms is emulated yet but I'm less concerned with that and more concerned with getting as many platforms included as possible.  Please enjoy!

PLATFORMS INCLUDED (254 total):

 
MASTER LIST
CONSOLES:
3DO - 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Amstrad - GX 4000
APF - MP 1000
Apple - Pippin
Atari - 2600
Atari - 5200
Atari - 7800
Atari - Jaguar
Atari - Jaguar CD
Atari - XE Game System
Bally - Astrocade
Bandai - Datach
Bandai - Playdia
Bandai - Sufami Turbo
Bandai - Super Vision 8000
Camerica - Aladdin
Casio - Loopy
Casio - PV-1000
Coleco - Colecovision
Commodore - Amiga CD32
Commodore - CDTV
Emerson - Arcadia-2001
Entex - Adventure Vision
Epoch - Cassette Vision
Epoch - Super Cassette Vision
Fairchild - Channel F
Fujitsu - FM Towns Marty
Funtech - Super A'Can
GCE - Vectrex
Interton - VC 4000
Leapfrog - Click Start
Magnavox - Odyssey
Magnavox - Odyssey^2
Mattel - Hyper Scan
Mattel - Intellivision
Microsoft - Xbox
Microsoft - Xbox 360
Microsoft - Xbox One
NEC - PC-FX
NEC - Super Grafx
NEC - TurboGrafx 16
NEC - TurboGrafx CD
Nintendo - Nintendo 64
Nintendo - Nintendo 64DD
Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo - Famicom Disk System
Nintendo - Gamecube
Nintendo - Satellaview
Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo - Wii U
Nintendo - Wii Ware
Nintendo - Wii
Ouya - Ouya
? - PC-50X family
Philips - CD-i
Philips - Videopac+ G7400
RCA - Studio II
Sega - 32X
Sega - Sega CD 32X
Sega - Sega CD
Sega - Dreamcast
Sega - Genesis
Sega - Master System
Sega - Advanced Pico Beena
Sega - Pico
Sega - Saturn
Sega - SG-1000
SNK - Neo Geo AES
SNK - Neo Geo CD
Sony - PlayStation
Sony - PlayStation 2
Sony - PlayStation 3
Sony - PS4
SSD - XaviXPORT
Starpath - Supercharger
Tsukuda Original - Othello Multivision
View-Master - Interactive Vision
VM Labs - Nuon
VTech - Creativision
VTech - Socrates
VTech - V.Flash
VTech - V.Smile
WOW - Action Max
Zapit - Game Wave
COMPUTERS
Acorn - Archimedes
Acorn - Atom
Acorn - BBC Micro
Acorn - Electron
Amstrad - CPC
APF - Imagination Machine
Apple - Apple-1
Apple - Apple II
Apple - Apple IIGS
Apple - Apple III
Apple - Lisa
Apple - Macintosh (68k)
Apple - Macintosh (PowerPC)
Apple - Macintosh (Intel/OSX/modern)
Atari - Atari Home Computers (2 versions, one saying 8-bit Home Computers and the other saying 400/800/XL/XE as many box stickers did)
Atari - Atari ST
Caputers - Lynx
Coleco - Adam
Commodore - Commodore 64
Commodore - Commodore 128
Commodore - Amiga
Commodore - Max Machine
Commodore - PET
Commodore - 16/Plus/4 (the picture and platform logo are of the Plus/4 though both machines are part of the same family)
Commodore - VIC-20
Dragon Data - Dragon 32/64
Eaca - Colour Genie
Elektronika - BK 0010
Enterprise - Enterprise 64/128
Exelvision - EXL 100
Exidy - Sorcerer
Fujitsu - FM Towns
Fujitsu - FM-7
Jupiter Cantab - Jupiter Ace
Lviv - PK-01
Matra - Alice
Mattel - Aquarius
Memotech - MTX
MGT - Sam Coupe
Micronique - Hector
Microsoft - MSX
Microsoft - MSX2
Microsoft - MSX2+
Microsoft - MSX Turbo R
NEC - PC-8801
NEC - PC-9801
Ohio Scientific - Challenger 1P
Ohio Scientific - Challenger II
Philips - VG 5000m
Radio - Mikrosha
Schetmash - Vektor 06TS
Sega - SC-3000
Sharp - MZ-2500
Sharp - X1
Sharp - X68000
Sinclair - QL
Sinclair - ZX Spectrum
Sinclair - ZX81
Sord - M5
Spectravideo - SV-318
Tandy - TRS-80
Tandy - TRS-80 Color Computer
Tandy - Color Computer 3
Tangerine - Oric
Technosys - Aamber Pegasus
Texas Instruments - TI-99/4A
Tomy - Tutor
VTech - Laser 2001
Zavod BRA - Apogey-BK 01
HANDHELDS
Atari - Lynx
Bandai - WonderSwan
Bandai - WonderSwan Color
Bit Corp. - Gamate
Entex - Select-A-Game
Epoch - Game Pocket Computer
Gamepark - GP32
Hartung - Game Master
Leapfrog - Leapster
Leapfrog - Leapster Explorer
Milton Bradley - Microvision
Nintendo - 3DS
Nintendo - DS
Nintendo - Game & Watch
Nintendo - Game Boy
Nintendo - Game Boy Color
Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
Nintendo - Pokemon Mini
Nintendo - Switch
Nintendo - Virtual Boy
Nokia - N-Gage
Palmtex - Super Micro
Sega - Game Gear
Sega - VMU
SNK - Neo Geo Pocket
SNK - Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sony - PlayStation Portable
Sony - PlayStation Vita
Sony - PocketStation
Sony - PSP Minis
Tapwave - Zodiac
Tiger - game.com
Tiger - R-Zone
Tiger Telematics - Gizmondo
Time Top - Gameking
Watara - Supervision
Welback Holdings - Mega Duck
ARCADE PLATFORMS:
Arcade (general)
Stone Age (for era based playlists that I use)
Golden Age
Silver Age
Dark Age
Bronze Age
Modern Age
American Laser Games (for company based playlists, let me know if you'd like more)
Atari Games
Atari
Capcom
Cave
Data East
Irem
Konami
Midway
Namco
Nintendo
Sega
Taito
Technos
Williams
Laserdisc (Daphne/Singe) (Based on platforms, often needed due to specific emulators being used)
Capcom - CP System
Capcom - CP System II
Capcom - CP System III
Namco - System 22
Namco/Sega/Nintendo - Triforce
Sammy - Atomiswave
Sega - Chihiro
Sega - Hikaru
Sega - Lindbergh
Sega - CG Board/Model 1
Sega - Model 2
Sega - Model 3
Sega - Naomi
Sega - Naomi 2
Sega - RingEdge
Sega - ST-V
Sega - System 16
Sega - System 32
SNK - Neo Geo MVS
Taito - Type X
OS/INTERPRETER/OTHER
Apple - iOS
byuu - MSU1
Digital Research - CP/M
Google - Android
Infocom - Z-machine
Interactive Fiction Interpreter
Lightgun Games
Linux
Microsoft - MS-DOS
Microsoft - Windows (original)
Microsoft - Windows 3.x
Microsoft - Windows 9X
Microsoft - Windows (modern)
Elecbyte - MUGEN
Open Beats of Rage
Pinball
ResidualVM
ScummVM
Web Browser Games
Zinc

This is my first ever attempt at making a theme.  It's based on the song select screen from Dance Dance Revolution 5th mix (with some elements from a few others for good measure).  Since I couldn't quite match it exactly I split the difference between a text list view and a wheel view.  Since it copies the overall style of the UI it's very busy looking while not giving quite as much info as most other themes do.  This was by choice to mimic that early aughts design sensibility. To really give it an authentic touch, I changed the community ratings system to the old "foot rating" used for difficulty in DDR and changed the max from 5 to 10.  It's the same rating multiplied by two.  I'd love to get some feedback and maybe even make some improvements!
It comes with a (freeware) font that you'll need to install.
 
Created using y2guru's COMMUNITY Theme Creator.