My Remastered NES Covers

[darknior]

Hi and thanks a lot @screech

@screech said in My Remastered NES Covers:

You are notified as the "source" (I put "Darknior@Retropie", just put you mouse over the small [i] just after my name ;) )

But i already have an account from last year, it is better than "Darknior@Retropie" lol
https://www.screenscraper.fr/membreinfos.php?membreid=1248
If you don't use my account i gain no point, and i will always stay a bad member of your site and i don't like the idea :(

I'm a very very good friend of @duff one of your Super Modérateur
https://www.screenscraper.fr/membreinfos.php?membreid=608
He take all his N64 stuff from the site where i'm working before Emuxtras.
For the other system they also have some good stuff, some time better than your's, but not really easy to auto import on ScreenScraper.
Because he explain me you have some BATCH import system, to make mass import in your database.
And it is what i plan to ask you later, to have access to make Mass Import too and complete your database.

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When i work on a system with our best of rom set, i make all at 100% with no errors if possible, but i stay a simple human :p

1. I create the best of with @Gilou9999 @waal @naxxi
2. I scrap it with your Universal Scraper and mix stuff with https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/#s scrap by @waal
3. I verify one by one all the games to complète and correct the stuff by hand. Using also some EmuXtra Stuff

On NES :

LOGO, i replace almost 50% of them.

• Bad size, bigger or lower than 400 pixel
• Bad colors, bad quality
• Bad logo, other game with same name or different version
• Or you don't have it, or only in US and not JP

COVER, here i share only some of them.

• I replace many of them with better quality
• Restaure many of them ... some scan are dirty, with bad colors, stripes, corners damaged, sometimes labels, advertising texts etc ...
• Create all the Japanese one that you don't have.

VIDEO, i found 95% of them on Emumovies, where i have an account from many years,.

• And i capture all that no one have. But just 35 sec of Game-play, i don't take the time to put the title at the end.

XML informations :
For this, i have many help from @Gilou9999 .

• number of player We try all the games one by one to complète this for real. And add the most important in multi player, the type : Vs, Coop, Alt (ernative)
• All the other informations from most of part : http://www.mobygames.com and https://www.gamefaqs.com ang GOOGLE
• Fix many Publisher inverted with Developer.
• Add release date
• Fix many genre that are wrong, but we only use your list of genre !
• And we write all the Description by hand in french. A very long work to do and translate ...

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It is why i have think to use the BATCH mode, to update all these informations. And not only the covers.
When i will finish the NES i will share here a link with the FULL PACKAGE.
I must do it quickly for the systems already finished.

• Panasonic 3DO
• NEC SuperGrafx
• NEC PC Engine CD

@screech said in My Remastered NES Covers:

(If you want, you can do it yourself ^^ just submit them as "Box Front" ^^ but I offer you to do it, it's easier ;) )

I'm agree to you help me to upload all my stuff on your site, i want it from the beginning, and i don't have the time to do it myself.
Just, i want to be credited for my work, and win SUCCESS.
We can speak about all of that by Mail, it will be better than here : darknior@forgez.com

We already finished, @Gilou9999 , the first pass on 4 other systems ... i will work on them after the NES.

• All videos
• All covers but from web, i don't have the time to restaure them
• All logo, same
• All informations finished 100% for each games

Systems :

• Genesis / Mega drive
• Master system
• SNES
• N64

[screech]

wow ^^ Great :D

Sorry, don't know you already have an account on ScreenScraper ^^ (so many users :p )

For information :
I just upgrade your account to "master submiter", so you have access to the Mass Proposal function.
https://www.screenscraper.fr/propositionmassmedias.php
You can now connect with your best FTP client (like WINSCP, it's the one I use) to the massive deposit function, and very quickly submit your work under your name ;) (what is totally normal)

Don't hesitate to ask me directly on the new ScreenScraper Forum, on IRC or here ;) I will be happy to help you ^^

(sorry for the 3 first submit I test... I will delete them so you can resubmit them under your name :D it was just a test so you can see what is the result ;) I just want to help you not wasting time to submit 1 by 1 your great work ^^ I prefere you work on what you are really good at ^^ creating Nice cover :D )

[darknior]

@screech Ok thanks :)
I will try it quickly on my first 3 systems.
But if i understand fine it works only for MEDIA : Logo, Cover, Video.
I can't also upgrade your database with my text stuff. All the descriptions and informations ... so bad :(

[Used2BeRX]

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[darknior]

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[Used2BeRX]

Move along.

[Used2BeRX]

Nothing to see here.

[darknior]

I don't really like the PIXEL covers for US Classic games :(

I began to remaster the EUROPEAN one :p
They use the JAPAN cover image and it is really better i think :)

Balloon fight (USA)

Donkey Kong (World) (Rev A)

Duck Hunt (World)

Excitebike (Japan, USA)

Gumshoe (USA, Europe)

[darknior]

I have create this one, because it doesn't exist any European version :(

Gyromite (Europe)
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Hogan's Alley (World)

Holy Diver (Japan)

Ice Climber (USA, Europe)

Kung Fu (Japan, USA)

Lagrange Point (Japan)

[darknior]

Easy to found the USA Zelda covers, i restaure the first one.

Legend of Zelda, The (USA) (Rev A) [T-Fr by Lyssal v1.0]

And create one for the second that only exist on Famicom Disk System.

Zelda II - The Adventure of Link (USA) [T-Fr by Wild Ham v1.1]

Like ever i made the LOGO too, all will be upload on ScreenScrapper at the end ;)

[A Former User]

These are excellent.

Are you taking requests at all? Looking for a remastered Armadillo.

[Used2BeRX]

@livefastcyyoung

Here's the best one I could find. Maybe darknior could tweak it?

[Used2BeRX]

@darknior Hey bud,

I was wondering if you or Gilles could do me a huge solid?

Years back, Gilles made "Generic Boxarts" for all of the systems. These were used for any games we couldn't find artwork for at the time. All these years later there is actually a lot more artwork available, so we really don't need any for official releases at all, but we still need them for categories like Pirates, Unlicensed, Homebrew and a few others. Unfortunately, the images that Gilles made were only around 292x400 pixels, which was fine on an SD XBox, but won't hold up well against all of these larger and improved images we're going to be using for our new sets.

I was wondering if you guys could redo some of these for the systems as I work on them. It's taken me about 6 months of near full-time work just doing the NES, so I don't think I'm going to be pressuring you too much about it :)

Here's the ones we're using for the NES now:

Here's the ones for the FDS. Just a few adult games and the Famimaga collection:

They don't have to be the same images, but just maintain the same feel. I really like the images that Gilles used for these, but they might not be easy to find, or in high enough quality to use for larger images. Actually, if you guys would do this for me, just let me know and I'll see if I can find the images so you don't have to waste time looking for them.

Also, I know you like making the images only 700 pixels, but I was hoping you'd make them larger for me? I really am trying to build this new collection with the future of tech in mind and don't want to have to be asking somebody to upgrade these again in 10 years. :)

If you guys do this for me, you're upgrading the presentation for around 200-250 games by just making 7 Boxes.

Thanks man.

[chelochelini2014]

[darknior]

@livefastcyyoung said in My Remastered NES Covers:

Armadillo.

Thanks for this game i don't know, and thanks RX for the Cover, it looks excellent.
I will do it too :)

@Used2BeRX i understand and i will try to found time to do them, but i 'm already overbooked lol
NES covers, Dapphne set + covers, ScummVM engine test and game vonfiguration, PSP source code fix ... i have only two hands lol
I write it in my head for later.

@chelochelini2014 said in My Remastered NES Covers:

Maybe he can help you, because his cover is excellent :)
I like the PIRATE SERIES logo on bottom :p

[Used2BeRX]

@chelochelini2014

Wow dude. That's awesome. Did you make that? I'd be honored to feature your work in the set if you did.

I wanted to get as close as possible to the originals I posted, but I really love what you did there. I agree with @darknior that the "Pirate Series" logo is great.

I'm going replace the old one from my collection tonight and add that for any games that need it. Right now, 46 out of the 60 Pirate games in the collection are without actual covers, so you just upgraded the Box Art for 46 games. :)

Thanks again!

EDIT:

I just added them and realized that I also had 7 Pirate carts that have been translated as well, so unless I add more games that single box just upgraded 53 boxes in the set. :)

[chelochelini2014]

Yes, I take part of the lunch hour to check the forum and make that cover to colaborate, i used some internet resources, here is another , images is from world heroes screenshot

[chelochelini2014]

Edited: new cover

[Used2BeRX]

@chelochelini2014 Awesome man! These are excellent!

One thing though... Could you change the "Pirate Series" for the Prototype image? I wonder what a "Prototype Series" icon should look like?

It's fine for the Pirate Fighting games since they're Pirates that I just split off into a different category because there are so many VS Fighters that came out of China.

Maybe for the Unlicensed box the "Unlicensed Series" icon could be a sillohette of a drivers license with the "no smoking"/"ghostbusters" sign around it? :)

I'll let you know how many games these upgrade when I integrate them. I might not be able to do that until tomorrow, but know that this work is greatly appreciated!

[darknior]

@chelochelini2014 great work :)
If you use Photoshop, how to you do to enlarge your little NES image, without smooth and with all the pixel perfect and square ?
I search for this option.