Homebrew Cover Collections for Emulators With Cover Support

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WOW, this is really great work!
Can i download a higher res, (not resised) somewhere of PS1 and Dreamcast DVD covers of your sets ? (for print)
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WOW, this is really great work!
Can i download a higher res, (not resised) somewhere of PS1 and Dreamcast DVD covers of your sets ? (for print)
p.s. sorry for my english (
Not all that are available in this thread, but thecoverproject.net has a lot of high res covers made specifically for re-printing covers. Wonderful artists, and the majority of the covers they do have hosted are used in the sets here.
 
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Officially done with round 1 of the new Atari 2600 set. Sorry though, it'll still be a bit before release, I plan on doing some re-tweaking too many of the covers yet (Whee, round 2!). I can tell you this, the set will be 600 covers plus 100+ Alts. If you're thinking about downloading the current one, I'd hold off!
 

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Officially done with round 1 of the new Atari 2600 set. Sorry though, it'll still be a bit before release, I plan on doing some re-tweaking too many of the covers yet (Whee, round 2!). I can tell you this, the set will be 600 covers plus 100+ Alts. If you're thinking about downloading the current one, I'd hold off!
Will this include:
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Awesome!
I finally try to step over to wiiflow.
Hopefully I will get things running.
I will start with adding my personal favourite roms/games etc.

atm, I am having problems with missing covers form the CPS and CPS2 games.
I thought these were complete sets?
I will try posting these games asap.
Also I am trying to figure out how to hide games, I am missing the "hidden" option in m catagories....
 

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atm, I am having problems with missing covers form the CPS and CPS2 games.
I thought these were complete sets?
I will try posting these games asap.
You've said this one before haven't you Hielkenator...... like was said last time, ms has got the complete set of CPS1 & 2 there, the game(s) you're 'missing' covers of will be clones, or child roms as they were called back in the day.... simply grab the cover of the parent rom and copy/paste/rename. etc, and if you're after a unique cover for your SFII CE Rainbow Edition or whatever then get busy with *insert fave paint program here* ;)
 

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The Atari 2600 Update is Live!!!

I don't even know what to say.. a lot of flippin' time into this one... A LOT.

This update includes 400+ new covers, including contributions from @mike1 , @Pepois , and TCP Artists. I would like to thank them all, as I'm sure they all put a lot of time in as well. The set now sits at 600 covers and 113 alternates. There is a separate folder in the Alts folder that contains TCP style variants (it's clearly labled). If you prefer that style over retail, you can just copy the 73 covers that are in there and paste them into the main set. I left off the "(Alt)" tags on those covers to make it a little easier to do so.

So basically in my process, I started by separating all the covers by company (same cover formats), and creating little mini templates of the same style covers, so i could clean them up the best i could, and bring a uniformity about. Every cover was done one by one, a lot of text re-done from scratch, spine's completely re-worked, and a lot of cleaning was done. If I were to think of every detail that was involved, i'd probably want to vomit, so i'll leave it at this....

HAVE FUN! I really hope you enjoy the new sets!
 

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The Atari 2600 Update is Live!!!

I don't even know what to say.. a lot of flippin' time into this one... A LOT.

This update includes 400+ new covers, including contributions from @mike1 , @Pepois , and TCP Artists. I would like to thank them all, as I'm sure they all put a lot of time in as well. The set now sits at 600 covers and 113 alternates. There is a separate folder in the Alts folder that contains TCP style variants (it's clearly labled). If you prefer that style over retail, you can just copy the 73 covers that are in there and paste them into the main set. I left off the "(Alt)" tags on those covers to make it a little easier to do so.

So basically in my process, I started by separating all the covers by company (same cover formats), and creating little mini templates of the same style covers, so i could clean them up the best i could, and bring a uniformity about. Every cover was done one by one, a lot of text re-done from scratch, spine's completely re-worked, and a lot of cleaning was done. If I were to think of every detail that was involved, i'd probably want to vomit, so i'll leave it at this....

HAVE FUN! I really hope you enjoy the new sets!
Great work Mastershoes!!! You sure are a very committed person and your work is really the best! Warmest regards!
 

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Update 07-16-15

Added A Few Game & Watch Covers from TCP in anticipation that the new retroarch-wii update will include Game & Watch support!
I love these covers but my one issue is where can they be used? The libretro team have not released a Game & Watch Core for the wii and I doubt they intend to. My point being that AFAIK wiiflow,gx,and cfg are the only loaders capable of displaying full covers. So as lovely as they are, on what system will we get to use them?
 

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I love these covers but my one issue is where can they be used? The libretro team have not released a Game & Watch Core for the wii and I doubt they intend to. My point being that AFAIK wiiflow,gx,and cfg are the only loaders capable of displaying full covers. So as lovely as they are, on what system will we get to use them?
Well like he says, maybe we'll get the GW core on the Wii someday.... (though I doubt it, unfortunately) and hey, he's got Neo CD, 32X and Dreamcast covers up, and there's people that seem to use these for things other than Wii as well so.. get a fake setup going - I recently showed my kid bro an 'Xbox360' plugin with half a dozen covers I chucked up, just for shits n giggles :D (but as he's 35 years old now he didn't fall for it!)
 
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Well like he says, maybe we'll get the GW core on the Wii someday.... (though I doubt it, unfortunately) and hey, he's got Neo CD, 32X and Dreamcast covers up, and there's people that seem to use these for things other than Wii as well so.. get a fake setup going - I recently showed my kid bro an 'Xbox360' plugin with half a dozen covers I chucked up, just for shits n giggles :D (but as he's 35 years old now he didn't fall for it!)
Looks like i've been :ph34r:'d! That about sums up what I was going to say. :)
 

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Update 07-27-15:

Update to the Famicom set. I went hunting and found a bunch more Famicom covers over at TCP (Set was at 29 covers, is now at 68 + 6 Alts). There were a few different styles, so I grabbed Shenske's template, made a few changes, and boom, for the most part a uniform new set. Thanks to all the artists at TCP not only for there hard work, but for providing the templates, which are invaluable!

Have fun everyone :)
 

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Mini Update 08-03-15:

Had to do a quick fix to the recent Famicom update. Thanks to @mightymuffy for pointing out a few things. So...

-The Famicom covers are now separated into 2 folders - "Famicom Disk System" and "Famicom NES".
-Spine Logo's have been replaced for all "Famicom Disk System" covers. (See the preview pics in the opening post).
-Removed the Final Fantasy alts I had put together, as they were made to the wrong template. (Whoops!)

All-inclusive .rar's and individual download folders have been updated.
 

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