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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator
      last edited by

      Nice work !

      feel free to use them in your builds and/or spread them around to the proper channels. maybe one day we'll even be able to scrape them :)

      Did you submit them to ScreenScraper ?

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      • chipsnblipC
        chipsnblip @mitu
        last edited by

        @mitu hey, thanks! i haven't submitted them yet, but plan to eventually. truth be told, i was putting it off because i find the site ux there...off-putting :)

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        • quicksilverQ
          quicksilver @chipsnblip
          last edited by

          @chipsnblip said in Custom 240p Test Suite Box Art (nes/snes/genesis/megadrive):

          i find the site ux there...off-putting :)

          I fully agree

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          • RionR
            Rion
            last edited by

            @chipsnblip These look professional made. Great job!

            If you wouldn't mind a have a few system to request when you find the time.

            Sega CD/Mega CD
            PC Engine/Turbo Grafx-16
            CD-ROM2/Super CDROM2 (PCE Duo/Turbo Duo)
            Sega Dreamcast
            Neo Geo MVS/AES and CD
            Sega Master System
            Playstation

            I'm a member of screenscraper.fr so if you would like i can submit the ones you have already made and give credit with link to this thread?

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            • chipsnblipC
              chipsnblip @Rion
              last edited by

              @Rion sure, i can work on some more systems but i work slowly (be prepared to wait a good while). feel free to submit them to the scraper or anywhere else, don't need credit i just hope they are of use to someone :)

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              • chipsnblipC
                chipsnblip
                last edited by

                i tried going to screenscraper.fr but just get a white page, is the site down? tested in both firefox and chromium browsers.

                anway, had some free time today and finished the tg16/pcengine covers:
                240p Test Suite (tg16)

                240p Test Suite (pcengine)

                regarding the pcengine cover, i don't know Japanese so just input "Test Suite" into google translate, if that's incorrect let me know and i will fix it :)

                and a quick update, i made a small change to the genesis cover which had a minor design flaw (oversight):
                240p Test Suite (genesis) [update]

                link to the full album: https://imgur.com/a/8bh5Jem

                also these are a work in progress and i'm open to suggestions, so if anyone has criticisms please let me know what you're thinking :)

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                • chipsnblipC
                  chipsnblip
                  last edited by

                  couple new ones (segacd & megacd):

                  240p Test Suite (segacd)

                  240p Test Suite (megacd)

                  think next i'll work on the playstation and dreamcast versions.

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                  • chipsnblipC
                    chipsnblip
                    last edited by

                    dreamcast & psx:

                    240p Test Suite (dreamcast)

                    240p Test Suite (playstation)

                    the next one i'll work on is the mastersystem, which uses some different art assets: https://www.smspower.org/forums/17116-SMSTestSuiteWorkInProgressHomebrew so it will take a bit more time to come up with something. suggestions are welcome :)

                    if there are any other templates for these systems you would like to see, different layouts, colors, etc. let me know. after i'm done with a few more systems, i will put together a source file (gimp's native .xcf format) so anyone can make changes, or add more systems in the future.

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                    • RionR
                      Rion
                      last edited by

                      @chipsnblip

                      These are so great!
                      You could even print these and use on real cart/cds that how good these look!

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                      • WeirdHW
                        WeirdH
                        last edited by

                        Is that an SD Snatcher reference?! Man, that takes me back. MSX2 with FM-pack and SCC cartridge, iirc.

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                        • chipsnblipC
                          chipsnblip
                          last edited by chipsnblip

                          thanks Rion! finally finished the mastersystem cover:

                          240p Test Suite (mastersystem)

                          this one took longer than usual, because i wanted it to look as close to an original box as possible. matching the font/kerning, and smoothing the pixelation on gillian was an interesting feat.

                          i wasn't satisfied with inkscape's automated bitmap tracing results, so i took a different route and used libretro's Imageviewer core with a shader (pretty sure i ended up using xsoft+scalefx-level2aa+sharpsmoother.glslp). after that it took lots of cleanup and manual painting in gimp to achieve the final result.

                          i'm almost tempted to go back and re-render all these covers using the smooth version...

                          stay tuned for more covers :)

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                          • RionR
                            Rion @chipsnblip
                            last edited by Rion

                            @chipsnblip

                            Nice work!

                            I like the pixelated look on the covers, but then again I'm a sucker for 240p 😁

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                            • chipsnblipC
                              chipsnblip
                              last edited by

                              yeah, same here -- so i'll just leave them as-is:) actually, that's probably the last of the covers i'll do for now. i was considering making covers for neo-geo, but after realizing it's not called 240p Test Suite (it's Neo Geo monitor test tool), i decided to leave that up to someone else for the future.

                              last step now is to get all the assets sorted before sharing the source.

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                              • chipsnblipC
                                chipsnblip
                                last edited by chipsnblip

                                ok so maybe not the last one, but after these i'm burned out with this project ;)

                                160pTestSuite(gb)

                                160pTestSuite(gba)

                                inspiration for these came after i stumbled on https://github.com/pinobatch/240p-test-mini so i used some graphic assets from that tileset. the gus character was vectorized/traced with inkscape. i've included the 160/144p wheel art in the main album as well: https://imgur.com/a/8bh5Jem

                                and finally, the gimp source file is located here in my google drive:
                                https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E85rfxH--jIObyyn8Cz4INOaP6JKgLa2?usp=sharing

                                note the xcf file uses features from GIMP 2.10 and won't be readable by older versions.

                                @Rion, are you still planning to add these to the screenscraper site? let me know if you need help with anything.

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                                • RionR
                                  Rion @chipsnblip
                                  last edited by

                                  @chipsnblip This is more than anyone could ask for. On behalf of the retro community and myself.

                                  Thank you!

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