Rook's Collection O' Splash Screens

[Rookervik]

Also have a few random videos. Here's a Nintendo one I made at a higher resolution from the original author.

Download Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60872572/Forum Topic Files/RetropieNESProgressBar.mp4

[Rookervik]

And a Carbon video Splash.

Download Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60872572/Videos/RetroPie_Carbon_SplashVid-02.mp4

[Rookervik]

And a Sonic the Hedgehog "SEGA" intro Video and wallpaper.

Download Link: https://db.tt/QJwkpGzk

[meleu]

@Rookervik It would be really usefull for us, your fans, if you had a github repository (or something similar). So we can download your work directly in the raspi with a simple git clone command.

[Rookervik]

@meleu

Herb says that all my wallpapers are already available on the Retropie downloader and he even created a viewer so you can preview splash screens. Just look for wallpapers called "Rookervik".

[edmaul69]

@Rookervik this is some super awesome stuff. you had me at punchout...

[mediamogul]

@Rookervik

They're all fantastic, but my favorite is definitely the 'Revenge of RetroPie' Shinobi splash. It's totally rad and makes me want to gleam the cube, electric boogaloo style.

[Rookervik]

Not sure why this one took me so long. Only took about 30 minutes to do today. I was trying to make an HD one but painting the characters was a pain. :D Anyway, StarFox for SNES.

[lilbud]

@Rookervik You wanted to do a video splashscreen if I remember correctly

[Rookervik]

@lilbud Yeah I got this far.

[Rookervik]

Wow, I thought this would have been an easy one. Just finished "Perfect Dark" for N64.

[lilbud]

@Rookervik Do you ever use premade fonts, or is made custom?

[Rookervik]

@lilbud

If I'm doing a HD splash screen I'll use pre-made fonts any time I can. This one I used Illustrator and copied some of the actual letters, and made up the rest. They were all angular, so I didn't even check to see if there was a Perfect Dark font. Just started vectoring. :D

The pixel ones are all dot-by-dot custom. It's a lot of work.

Here is the outline in Illustrator. Lemme know if you ever have any questions. Tho, don't know how to get in touch, there's no PM on this forum.

[lilbud]

Typically, I will find a font that looks similar to what I need, and manipulate it to my needs. I am no artist, so if I try custom, it will not look good. Look on my thread for a failed Mega Man one.

[Rookervik]

@lilbud
Mega Man was quite hard. You saw mine, I actually ended up using the Rockman font rather than Megaman just because it was easier to replicate. (Rockman is Megaman in Japan)

[lilbud]

@Rookervik I tried Mega Man 2. Had to do it pixel by pixel. Tedious work.

[edmaul69]

@lilbud thats how i do all my pictures. I also do pixel art for homebrew intellivision games. Lucky for me the graphics for the intellivision arent too complicated. I lost all of the art from a hard drive crash but i recreated all the levels of super mario bros. i am thinking about trying the mega man pi screen. I have tha patience of job and nothing but time on my hands so i might try it out.

[edmaul69]

@Rookervik @lilbud opinions?

Edit: Replaced with good imgur pic

[meleu]

@edmaul69 said in Rook's Collection O' Splash Screens:

I know you didn't ask my opinion, BUT I LOVED IT!!! Sure I will use it!

[edmaul69]

@meleu i just edited my pic for an error. please re-download the image