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  1. 7 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:

    Interesting to read. I'll take a look around. I see that the USA version of Metal Slug is on your missing list. I found the below image on eBay and wondered what your thoughts were? It's low resolution but with a bit of manipulation (including warping it back into the correct dimensions) it might be passable? I'd be willing to give it a go if you thought it was the correct cover and suitable resolution. 

    https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iFkAAOSwlo1cwl3a/s-l1600.jpg

    It's higher resolution than the KoF 02 scan I included. I don't really know how to use the warp feature of Photoshop to make it look right but others who are more talented than I are more than welcome to give it a go.

    2 hours ago, PaDeMoNiuM said:

    -1 :) kof96 in attached file pdf version

    I don't know if it can suit you but I just finished designing a fairly huge MVS pack (see my personal status), where I restored a good part of it and even animated it.

    I even had fun animating the marquee. I can try to find you the others. and posted them here to see even the restored completely in 4000X4000 :)

    Here an animated  version of samurai shodown

     

     

    kingoffighters96BBNC.pdf.zip 6.4 MB · 1 download

    I appreciate it but MVS isn't what I'm try to cover. Besides, MVS doesn't really have box art. The games came in brown cardboard boxes with no real art. Any MVS shockboxes you've seen are fan art. I have no problem with that, of course, but it does mean there's no such thing as "official" box art for MVS games. Unfortunately, the KoF 96 art you've sent here is also fan art. The box pictured below is what the English AES KoF 96 box looks like. 

    kof96ns.jpg

  2. Thanks for asking! I didn't really do much editing. That's kind of the point. Some of the files of the "classic style" inserts on neostore.com needed to be cropped but that's really it. I unfortunately couldn't allow myself to have a minimum standard of quality or there would be far, far fewer files. I think the smallest one is probably KoF 02 and you can't even read the back text on that. I'm struggling to get the covers to look right on the clamshell models because the settings for spine width on a full scan don't seem to change anything, but the crappiness of some of the files ironically makes it look a little more like it's on a real box and reflecting ambient light. eBay isn't a great source because people don't scan the inserts there so the best I'd be able to do is use photoshop to try to warp certain images back into rectangular shape but I lack the knowledge of how to do that and I doubt it would look right anyway. I haven't emailed collectors because the Neo Geo collecting community reacts with suspicion and hostility to people who ask about box scans for the reasons I've given. I honestly can't blame them. I've even seen forum members react with hostility to people asking for the proper measurements of an insert printout. Basically the most common response I've seen is you should just use fan art from southtown homebrew if you just want your shelf to look pretty, and it's usually said in a much less friendly tone than that. It is what it is and hopefully one day a compromise can be reached. 

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