EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 This marks the end of my Nintendo Game & Watch Logo phase 92 logo's revised covering the main 59 games What next? Now I have upscaled / revised logo's and cartoons - I may revisit my Game & Watch Box reconstructions 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 New Wide Screen (Nintendo G&W) Balloon Fight Climber Super Mario Bros Reconstructed Box Backs. I had already uploaded Balloon Fight, but the other two really don't have any good pics of their cartoons online....so I've taken the best pics I can, tidied them up and AI upscaled them. At least this completes my V5 reconstruction of the boxes from two years ago. For V6 - I'll look to improve the Logo's and Logo Cartoons. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goofers Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 8 hours ago, EASTWOOD2002 said: This marks the end of my Nintendo Game & Watch Logo phase 92 logo's revised covering the main 59 games What next? Now I have upscaled / revised logo's and cartoons - I may revisit my Game & Watch Box reconstructions Great job on these buddy have a rest this weekend 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 Yakuza Fury (PS2 - black and white variants) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 29, 2023 Author Share Posted July 29, 2023 Something slightly different... Nintendo Game & Watch Spines! I had created 55 of the G&W spines - i.e. all but the ones for the Crystal Screen series and Zelda about two years ago, but - for whatever reason - Big Box stretches the spines so that the depth looks incorrect (too deep). I've taken all the spines (inc. Crystal Screens and Zelda - which I've created this weekend) and "squished" them proportionately so that when you run Big Box - they now look correct I'll zip them up and put them in the downloads section soon along with my Nintendo Game & Watch reconstructions: Full reconstructed front & backs Front & Back revisions (i.e. some of the G&W had 2 or 3 artwork revisions) Alt country versions. I recreated the covers that UK, France, Germany, Belgium (I think), Argentina and Australia had The "squished" spines In the meantime - some pics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goofers Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 35 minutes ago, EASTWOOD2002 said: Something slightly different... Nintendo Game & Watch Spines! I had created 55 of the G&W spines - i.e. all but the ones for the Crystal Screen series and Zelda about two years ago, but - for whatever reason - Big Box stretches the spines so that the depth looks incorrect (too deep). I've taken all the spines (inc. Crystal Screens and Zelda - which I've created this weekend) and "squished" them proportionately so that when you run Big Box - they now look correct I'll zip them up and put them in the downloads section soon along with my Nintendo Game & Watch reconstructions: Full reconstructed front & backs Front & Back revisions (i.e. some of the G&W had 2 or 3 artwork revisions) Alt country versions. I recreated the covers that UK, France, Germany, Belgium (I think), Argentina and Australia had The "squished" spines In the meantime - some pics Nice clean Set man! Working on cleaning up All the Game Gear Artwork and completing it and will upload the set next. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 29, 2023 Author Share Posted July 29, 2023 18 minutes ago, goofers said: Nice clean Set man! Working on cleaning up All the Game Gear Artwork and completing it and will upload the set next. Thanks... Re Game Gear - that will be great to see . Are you doing just North America or Europe covers too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goofers Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 11 minutes ago, EASTWOOD2002 said: Thanks... Re Game Gear - that will be great to see . Are you doing just North America or Europe covers too? All Missing Artwork got so many projects to complete only a few missing from each set tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 29, 2023 Author Share Posted July 29, 2023 Final obscure update for today X (Game Boy) Just the cart...this was the only one I didn't have in Launchbox - so I used the fan art one and added the X label. Not hightest resolution - but the same as the rest now Interesting game "X" - it was Japanese only but started out as a 3D tech demo on the Game Boy by Argonaut who later went on to develop Star Fox for Nintendo! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 Pinball and Game & Watch Artwork uploaded... Pinball Logo's: Game & Watch Artwork: Enjoy! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 Korg DS-10 Synthesizer (NDS - black and white versions) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge (multiple consoles. AI upscaled and tidied up logo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 LEGO Racers (multiple consoles. AI upscaled and tidied up logo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (most of the entries in the Db were low res) LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (most of the entries in the Db didn't have a logo without the orange flare) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Super Mario Bros. Special Edition (G&W) Front, Back, Spine and Fan Art Logo (to distinguish it from the other 2 versions) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 On 8/2/2023 at 6:35 PM, EASTWOOD2002 said: Super Mario Bros. Special Edition (G&W) Front, Back, Spine and Fan Art Logo (to distinguish it from the other 2 versions) Just caught up and your G&W work is beautiful, and then this was the cherry on top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted August 5, 2023 Author Share Posted August 5, 2023 1 minute ago, zetec-s-joe said: Just caught up and your G&W work is beautiful, and then this was the cherry on top Thank you @zetec-s-joe - very kind of you to say so. Really glad you like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 What next? I've started looking at Dreamcast. I had the European console on day 1 release which really did feel like a generation step up from the PS1 (it even left me feeling underwhelmed by the PS2 and didn't have the jarring interlacing effects that the PS2 had). I collected primarily the EU boxes, then the US exclusives, then notable JP games. For the EU games: Whilst there are some great scans in the db (and at Sega Retro), the majority of the back covers include the spine in the same scan...so I'm starting to split them into backs and spines. Where the EU boxes were deeper than a CD case, there are notches in the right top/bottom of the back to accommodate the hinge. Until such time that the good developers here at LB create an EU 3D case that is the correct depth (+ hopefully a PS1 EU case too ), then I felt that filling in the notches was a good idea I'm trying to level the colours of the scans a little - by eye - as some of the scans are too dark a blue, or too saturated etc. For Shenmue and Shenmue II - I've recreated the wider spines in PowerPoint as I've over-ridden the default 3D case for a box. I've used the inner case pics as the outer case had a cut out for being able to pull out the 2x game cases - so it just looks cleaner For Xeno Crisis - I couldn't find a good back cover pic - the only one out there appears to have lens flare - so I've corrected that as best I could and AI upscaled it I have tried a few approaches to AI upscaling the covers, but the printing at the time was more "fine dots" than photo quality so AI seems to struggle with them quite a lot (even if you blur the images first) For the US games: I've really not done a lot with these. There's a lot of good scans in the db - for both front, back and spines and the backs do not have "notches" like the EU ones do I have however sourced - or recreated spines in PowerPoint - where they are missing in the db For the JP games: I don't have many of these - but like the US ones I've sourced - or recreated spines in PowerPoint - where they are missing in the db There are a few games that must have been released in a DVD style case - so I've kept with those dimensions. Most notably Last Hope: Pink Bullets (I've used the DVD case override and the "force case background cover" colours to R=235 , G=67 , B=158 to get a pink DVD case) For SSFII For Matching Service - I've upscaled the back cover as the only pics online are tiny. Overall it does look better - but the Japanese text did get garbled in the AI upscale Anyway - I naively thought I could get this done quite quickly - and while I've done around 200 of 285, this is going to take another 3 or 4 weeks to complete (or longer if I tackle the logo's too). It won't be perfect - but it will be a lot better than you can currently achieve from the pics in the db. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goofers Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 I did a Template for the Dreamcast before you are welcome to have a look over it and change it to suit your needs I have psds somewhere still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EASTWOOD2002 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 (edited) 23 minutes ago, goofers said: I did a Template for the Dreamcast before you are welcome to have a look over it and change it to suit your needs I have psds somewhere still. Hi - I'll gladly take a look Edited August 6, 2023 by EASTWOOD2002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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