Homebrew Cover Collections for Emulators With Cover Support
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Y'know I'm half tempted to do a few Speccy* covers actually..... Not tried the plugin yet, in fact I've not even tried the emulator yet, but I'm still tempted!
* = ZX Spectrum
In the meantime, just starting my SNES pack 3. SFC in a PAL style like the ones from pack 1, only done a couple but here's a preview of one I can't decide on:
Akumajou Dracula, aka SFC version of Super Castlevania IV.... couple of notable changes in the SFC version if you didn't know, the main one being Level 8 (the Dungeon level) which had blood, instead of green slime stuff on the Western version (the blood seemed a bit too watery anyway if you ask me - more like raspberry pop!). Not sure if that qualifies this cover to be classed as an Alt to the western version or not.....?
Secondly, and just out of interest - which do you reckon is the best cover pic for the game - Jap or Western? I can't decide.... which is surprising for Konami when you look at the Western SNES Mystical Ninja box released around the same time - what an abomination that was!
* = ZX Spectrum
In the meantime, just starting my SNES pack 3. SFC in a PAL style like the ones from pack 1, only done a couple but here's a preview of one I can't decide on:
Akumajou Dracula, aka SFC version of Super Castlevania IV.... couple of notable changes in the SFC version if you didn't know, the main one being Level 8 (the Dungeon level) which had blood, instead of green slime stuff on the Western version (the blood seemed a bit too watery anyway if you ask me - more like raspberry pop!). Not sure if that qualifies this cover to be classed as an Alt to the western version or not.....?
Secondly, and just out of interest - which do you reckon is the best cover pic for the game - Jap or Western? I can't decide.... which is surprising for Konami when you look at the Western SNES Mystical Ninja box released around the same time - what an abomination that was!
Update 07-01-14:
SNES Vertical Update. Thanks to all the great artists at TCP who put these together. Here's the breakdown of what's new:
New USA - 28
New Europe - 1
New Japan - 1
New USA Alts - 3
Cleaned/Updated USA - 2
All links and folders have been updated. Have Fun!
SNES Vertical Update. Thanks to all the great artists at TCP who put these together. Here's the breakdown of what's new:
New USA - 28
New Europe - 1
New Japan - 1
New USA Alts - 3
Cleaned/Updated USA - 2
All links and folders have been updated. Have Fun!
Please, add this cover to the MAME rom covers.
It is for Battletoads.
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It is for Battletoads.
btoads.zip.png
Yet another pack of covers!
This time I took the effort to make custom covers for the BS Zelda titles:
BS Zelda - Third Quest
BS Zelda - Fourth Quest
BS Zelda - Ancient Stone Tablets.
Enjoy!
To whoever is in charge:
Please, add these covers to the SNES Horizontal covers pack!
Thanks!
This time I took the effort to make custom covers for the BS Zelda titles:
BS Zelda - Third Quest
BS Zelda - Fourth Quest
BS Zelda - Ancient Stone Tablets.
Enjoy!
To whoever is in charge:
Please, add these covers to the SNES Horizontal covers pack!
Thanks!
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Let's add some more covers to this list!
I will now add some popular NES hacks in honor to the Year of Luigi!
These covers are:
Super Luigi Bros.
Luigi Bros. (Arcade game)
Donkey Kong - Luigi Edition
Those three games appear in some form in the NES Remix games
Also, I edited the NES cover for Earthbound Zero to make it say "Mother" (like it should)
And one final cover, this one is for the Gameboy Color, Konami Collection Vol.4
Person in charge, please add this 5 covers to their corresponding packages
I will now add some popular NES hacks in honor to the Year of Luigi!
These covers are:
Super Luigi Bros.
Luigi Bros. (Arcade game)
Donkey Kong - Luigi Edition
Those three games appear in some form in the NES Remix games
Also, I edited the NES cover for Earthbound Zero to make it say "Mother" (like it should)
And one final cover, this one is for the Gameboy Color, Konami Collection Vol.4
Person in charge, please add this 5 covers to their corresponding packages
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ShadowOne333 your BS Zelda Fourth Quest cover is mirrored, basically backwards i guess. Maybe u can provide a fix or was that intentional lol?
lol yeah, My mistake.
Here is the correct cover for BS Zelda Fourth Quest.
Sorry for the inconvenience. XD
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Sorry, I am not familiar with those ones.
Can you give me an example of a Standard Spine cover?
In this post Look at the difference between "Mother" and all the other covers. "Mother" is the standard size. (The correct aspect ratio before it gets "squished" for wiiflow.) Changing them into "shrunken spine" takes no time time or effort with a photoshop macro. However, to go from shrunken spine to standard spine requires a complete rebuild of the spines and takes a lot of time.
A lot of people contribute Shrunken Spine covers only, and it drives me nuts. If they would just make them standard size (would require the same exact effort), i could easily add them to both shrunken/standard sets. I don't really understand why nobody gets that.
Either way though, the efforts are always appreciated, and even if i don't add covers to the sets, they're always still available in the thread, and i guarantee you there are going to be people downloading them.
A lot of people contribute Shrunken Spine covers only, and it drives me nuts. If they would just make them standard size (would require the same exact effort), i could easily add them to both shrunken/standard sets. I don't really understand why nobody gets that.
Either way though, the efforts are always appreciated, and even if i don't add covers to the sets, they're always still available in the thread, and i guarantee you there are going to be people downloading them.
In this post Look at the difference between "Mother" and all the other covers. "Mother" is the standard size. (The correct aspect ratio before it gets "squished" for wiiflow.) Changing them into "shrunken spine" takes no time time or effort with a photoshop macro. However, to go from shrunken spine to standard spine requires a complete rebuild of the spines and takes a lot of time.
A lot of people contribute Shrunken Spine covers only, and it drives me nuts. If they would just make them standard size (would require the same exact effort), i could easily add them to both shrunken/standard sets. I don't really understand why nobody gets that.
Either way though, the efforts are always appreciated, and even if i don't add covers to the sets, they're always still available in the thread, and i guarantee you there are going to be people downloading them.
So only the Mother cover I uploaded is the correct Standard Spine?
All others are shrunk spine?
So, let me see if I got it...
I should reupload all the ocvers in the correct Standard size (taking Mother cover as a base) and then Re-size them in the same aspect ratio or resolution as that same cover?
Did I get it right or am I missing something?
Please, let me know what I can do so I can reupload all of them in Standard Spine
I believe it is because they are using them for Wiiflow, which as is, can only use the shrunken spines. I too am unsure as to what you hope to achieve with the standard spines. Sure, the shrunken spines have less resolution, but they look fine in Wiiflow, and I'm pretty sure proper cover dimensions per console isn't something very high on Fix94's priority list, if that's what you're holding out for. :/In this post Look at the difference between "Mother" and all the other covers. "Mother" is the standard size. (The correct aspect ratio before it gets "squished" for wiiflow.) Changing them into "shrunken spine" takes no time time or effort with a photoshop macro. However, to go from shrunken spine to standard spine requires a complete rebuild of the spines and takes a lot of time.
A lot of people contribute Shrunken Spine covers only, and it drives me nuts. If they would just make them standard size (would require the same exact effort), i could easily add them to both shrunken/standard sets. I don't really understand why nobody gets that.
Either way though, the efforts are always appreciated, and even if i don't add covers to the sets, they're always still available in the thread, and i guarantee you there are going to be people downloading them.
Have to agree, though I suppose it's nice to have them available IF Fix does the change, standard spines do seem a bit pointless for what is essentially a Wiiflow topic for both effort and bandwidth space... Also I'm a bit unsure about resolutions with standard - we've got 1090x680 on most, which equates to 515, 60, 515 width on shrunken, then on standard I'm not too sure.... THEN there's different resolutions on different formats too (I remember the problems with my Amiga covers for example = originally one resolution, then I got that wrong, then you changed to a diffferent resolution anyway -
Personally ms I'd like you to do as little work as possible with any covers I send - you're busy enough as it is! - I will do standard spines if you like but really would like a post giving us the exact pixel size we're working on for front/back & spine...
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All that said, I've stopped for a bit anyway! My laptop's on its last legs, and in this current heat starts cutting out - the last 2 attempts at cover making went tits up with my soddin machine shutting down - 90% finished on the cover last time too, argh! I've only got 10 sfc covers done, in shrunken spine format
, will edit this post in a bit with a dl link to them, and hopefully any future ones will be in standard spine format if and when I get dimension sizes....EDIT: Sod it it's only 10 covers, I'll attach/spoiler them:
Akumajou Dracula (Super CV4)
Alice no Paint Adventure
Bahamut Lagoon
Bakumatsu Kourinden Oni
Bounty Sword
Burai.... (not retyping all that lot again!)
Dai-4-ji Super Robot Taisen
Elfaria II
Final Fantasy V (US covers Toddy did are basically customs too, not done IV & VI as there's official US versions)
Ganpuru - Gunman's Proof
Alice no Paint Adventure
Bahamut Lagoon
Bakumatsu Kourinden Oni
Bounty Sword
Burai.... (not retyping all that lot again!)
Dai-4-ji Super Robot Taisen
Elfaria II
Final Fantasy V (US covers Toddy did are basically customs too, not done IV & VI as there's official US versions)
Ganpuru - Gunman's Proof
More covers!
This time they are all SEGA related.
I uploaded the following covers:
This time they are all SEGA related.
I uploaded the following covers:
- Sonic & Tails (Game Gear)
- Sonic & Tails 2 (Game Gear)
- Sonic Blast (Master System)
- Sonic Chaos (Master System)
- Sonic The Hedgehog (Master System)
- Sonic The Hedgehog (Master System)
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First off, thanks for all the hard work and time put into this. This was a HUGE deciding factor in me chossing wiiflow. Now onto my issues.....Where should I post about renaming issues I am having? I have everything setup, but when I used the fuzzyrename program, it renamed all the .png to the name of the roms, but left out the .zip at the end of each one. Should I extract all the roms, because they work just fine in .rar format...but I dont want to go rename all the rom covers to "_.rar.png" if that makes sense. Thanks for any hints
EDIT: I think I may have figured it out. I was checking the include ext box, but I was doing it after it searched for rom names, so it wasnt applying it to the rename. Thanks
EDIT: I think I may have figured it out. I was checking the include ext box, but I was doing it after it searched for rom names, so it wasnt applying it to the rename. Thanks
Hi
Ive got wiiflow running with some emulators but I dumped so low quality artwork into my box art folder. I have since replaced all the covers with the high quality small spine versions, but a lot of the old box artwork is still showing in wiiflow, I have refreshed the cache many times but it hasn't changed.
could someone advise me on how to fix this please.
Many thanks
Ive got wiiflow running with some emulators but I dumped so low quality artwork into my box art folder. I have since replaced all the covers with the high quality small spine versions, but a lot of the old box artwork is still showing in wiiflow, I have refreshed the cache many times but it hasn't changed.
could someone advise me on how to fix this please.
Many thanks
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