New NES overlays

backstander · 19 Apr 2017, 04:11

Donkey Kong Classics overlay for lr-fceumm:

I made this using artwork by rongs1234 named "Donkey Kong Classic":
http://rongs1234.deviantart.com/art/Donkey-Kong-Classic-433963609

I also made a split box art cover:

UDb23 · 20 Apr 2017, 21:55

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

I was thinking in the boss name, main weakness and optional weakness

This is a first draft for Mega man 6; Robot bosses (8) fit the screen and are available in good resolution. The other bosses are just very small images and I don't see a possibility to make those also fit with their texts.

Note:Bosses Names and order are correct; Weapon, Pri Weak and Sec Weak just dummy text so far (just to check spacing).

What do you think ?

Even if overlay would be Scale Integer, gaining some extra space at the cost of gaming area, would not be enough to make all bosses fit...

meleu · 20 Apr 2017, 23:57

@UDb23 OMG! It's getting really cool! Some remarks:

there's no need for that "Wpn" field (the weapon MegaMan gets after defeat the boss).
The weaknesses can stay in in the same line, example for Plant Man: "Wk: Blizzard Attack / Flame Blase". If this text becomes very long, you can use the weapon boss name, example for Plant Man: "Wk: Blizzard / Flame"
the weakness of the Mr. X and Dr. Willy castle bosses is an important info. Maybe with just one line for weakness you can put them in the overlay.
If those castle bosses images aren't usable, ~~I can hunt better ones and let you know~~ you can use those I've put in the next post.

Thanks again!

meleu · 21 Apr 2017, 00:29

@UDb23 better images for other bosses:

Mr. X's Castle

'Rounder 2

Power Piston

Metonger Z

X Crusher

Dr. Wily’s Castle

Mechazaurus

Tank-CS2

Wily Machine No. 6

Wily Capsule

Didn't find a dedicated image for Wily Capsule, but maybe you can cut a decent one from one of these:

UDb23 · 21 Apr 2017, 05:36

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

Some remarks

Understood. Will create an updated draft accordingly.
Nice new images !

Have to do some tests to find out what's the smallest readable font size.
It also depends on monitor/TV size of course. What are you using ?

meleu · 21 Apr 2017, 06:12

@UDb23 said in New NES overlays:

It also depends on monitor/TV size of course. What are you using ?

The smallest TV I use for console games is 32". :-)

UDb23 · 21 Apr 2017, 17:29

@meleu Ok, then we can further squeeze that text ;-)

space cadet · 21 Apr 2017, 18:54

Maybe a Tombs and Treasures overlay?

backstander · 21 Apr 2017, 19:25

@space-cadet
I've actually never played Tombs and Treasures but I put together a split box art overlay/bezel:

I didn't have time to test it but let me know if it works!

space cadet · 21 Apr 2017, 19:27

Thanks man! Yeah it's a point and click game. One of my favorites!

UDb23 · 27 Apr 2017, 21:52

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

the weakness of the Mr. X and Dr. Willy castle bosses is an important info. Maybe with just one line for weakness you can put them in the overlay.

Updated Draft: graphics resized & repositioned; all bosses now included.
Please let me know if layout is ok and if text still readable.

If so I'll finalize the overlay by creating transparent background (replacing white) for Bosses
and optimizing text and images alignment and spacing.

meleu · 27 Apr 2017, 23:42

@UDb23 will test on my 32" screen and give you a feedback. Thanks!

meleu · 28 Apr 2017, 07:03

@UDb23 OK man! Tested here and looks really fine! As you said you will optimize the text, I think it'll look even better!
Huge thanks dude!
(by the way: regarding the resolution stuff, I use FCEUmm and QuickNES. Unfortunately Nestopia doesn't work with retroachievements.)

UDb23 · 28 Apr 2017, 14:25

@meleu My NES overlays so far are created for lr-FCEUmm resolution and so is the Mega Man 6 one. Should therefore fit your needs. The "overscan"setting issue does not impact actual overlay resolution as far as I know.

Going to optimize text and make Boss images transparent this evening ;-)

UDb23 · 28 Apr 2017, 20:39

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

I think it'll look even better!

Mega Man 6 complete Art Pack available now in the Ovl Repo!

Overlay:

Launching image (w carbon background):

ES Detailed View image ("scrape image"):

Have fun!!

UDb23 · 28 Apr 2017, 20:43

@meleu Was able to slightly increase font size; from 10 to 11.
Images and text realigned for better readability.
All Bosses with transparent background now.
;-)

backstander · 28 Apr 2017, 21:04

@UDb23 Wow! This is awesome!

This might make @meleu sad but I never got into Mega Man on the NES. I remember renting one of the games but I just didn't like it. Now I have a reason to give them another chance!

A good friend of my back from my college days wrote a program in BASIC that can generate passwords for just about every Mega Man game from NES, GB and SNES. Here's the site but the download link doesn't work anymore:
http://megadog.dogsoft.net/index.html?page=17