More cleaned up media!

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G&W Pinball logo recreated from scratch (took way longer than expected)

 

 

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Pinball Japanese variation (text only)

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To Do list now looks like:

• micro vs. systems - the black on the controllers seems to have depth shading
• Table Top - finish replacing French for English on units
• All LCD's - maybe layer mask the grey backgrounds for consistent background colour
• Maybe Re-cut "G&W", "Multi Screen", "Wide Screen" and "Panorama Screen" logos

Edited May 22 by EASTWOOD2002
Strikethrough items are complete

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Mario The Juggler (logo re-cut)

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Tackling the backs now. Here's BALL, MANHOLE and PARACHUTE (I'll not post every one I do here....don't want to bore people with all the backs).

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Pretty much there on the (tall) MULTI SCREEN box backs (Pinball back example below). Slow progress as all the letters in the text need spacing differently.

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Still working through the box backs. Mario's Cement Factory and Manhole (both the New Wide Screen series). The little cartoons are tough...took hours to re-cut them.

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I happened to be updating my MAME set when I noticed ClrMAMEPro update an svg file...

I couldn't believe it...the LCD files are in the MAME game files! When I did my PowerPoint recreation in 2021/2022 I checked the MAME Artwork files and couldn't find the LCDs - and I never thought they'd be in the game files (I thought they were dumps only). So to date I've been running MAME, changing the video options to screen only, doing a screen capture, modifying the screen shot then vectorising it.

Whilst a tough call, I decided I needed to go back through my 2026 Photoshop recreations over the last 6 weeks and re-do the LCDs again using the proper MAME svg's. It is very annoying TBH - I had already completed the 60 fronts and 40 backs. On the plus side, I noticed on the Wide Screen series that a few of the game box fronts have parts of the LCD backgrounds in front of the LCD...so I've just completed working through that.

So the Silver Series, Gold Series and Wide Screen Series fronts are now re-done (again). Need to re-do the Wide Screen series backs, the Multi Screen Series (that'll be tough) and the rest before I'm back to where I was last....definitely put me back a week or more.

Anyway, a quick example of Octopus unit re-done below (that took me a whole day!):

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Quick update on first pass (2nd pass to start after tops, and really is my chance to look at each game individually and "eye ball" that I think its OK):
 

• Fronts - complete (inc. re-doing all the LCDs / LEDs all over again, and re-working the backgrounds to more closely match the original box artwork)
• Backs - complete (I've had to use a little AI on the Crystal Screen cartoons, but hopefully looks OK...noting there are not really any good scans out there)
• Sides - complete (had to re-create the Crystal Screen boxes in full in Photoshop to get the continuous shading across the sides and - still to be done - tops)
• Logo's complete (all 4000PX wide - taster below)
• Tops - to do
• 2nd Pass - to do
• Submit "MAIN" fronts / backs / sides / tops / logos
• Start on the variants (French, German, Australian, UK and Argentinian boxes...possibly look at re-creating the Time Out North American versions of the Silver Series)

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Example Crystal Screen back:
 

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Example Crystal Screen side: