Homebrew Cover Collections for Emulators With Cover Support

[mastershoes]

anyone have a clue about the password for these zipped files?

What? There's never been a password required.

 

[Tetsuo Shima]

I'll look into it. My guess is either 77 or 80. I just grabbed my folders of the harddrive, but don't have time right now. The blue set was one of my first ever, and I don't have my original template. The black 1053 set was made be @sion_zaphod so I don't have a template for that either. Which of the sets are you trying to add to? Also, this isn't really a "shrunken spine" set, it's a one size fits all set like the 1024's (Standard Wii cover). The shrunken spine sets are a macro that shrink the oversized standard spines that are too big for wiiflow's hardcoded box template to be able to be "re-stretched" out with the emuflows to try and maintain a better aspect ratio. I'm sure you know most of this, but if anyone else is reading maybe it'll add some clarity.

Hi Mastershoes and sorry for the (very) late response.
Here is my sg1000 set: https://www.dropbox.com/s/72noun20cf5g7ki/sg1000.rar?dl=0
It is the original set, not the custom one by sion zaphod. Some scans were very hard to find and there are a few games still missing.
Through some trial and error I found that the correct value for the spine is 59px (it had to be a odd number for the front and back covers to be equal in size). To achieve the correct proportions in Wiiflow I had to shrunk the original spines, so this is actually a shrunken set.
Some of the blue covers spines are left to be shrunk, I'm not able to use macros to automate the process, and doing it manually has taken a lot of time for me, and now I'm into another time-consuming project (a Wiiflow Lite theme). So maybe I will try to adjust them when I will have more time, or if you want to resize them with macros you're more than welcome

 

[FanNintendo]

Any updates to WiiFlow covers there some missing for USA on SNES

 

[Tetsuo Shima]

I'm currently working on a brand new set:
PC-Engine Japan jewel case

Reasons behind it:
-PC Engine Hu-cards did not come in boxes like Turbografx-16 games, but in Jewel Cases boxes (identical to CD cases)
-I was the one behind the PC-Engine CD-Rom set (which is my pride) and I think the PC-Engine deserves the same treatment as well
-No more fake custom TG-16 covers for the many Japanese exclusives.
-The japanese artworks were in many cases far better than the US ones.


It will feature:
-High quality scans
-Almost 100% accurate spines* (there was not a standard spine for Jap games, but several ones with slightly different graphics/colors/logos e.g. Namcot, Irem, Hudson etc.)
*The only difference from the real ones is that game titles will not be written in Kanji, and they will miss the Vol.# at the bottom.
-Accurate plastic case color like the originals (The PC Engine games were produced in black jewel cases until the end of '91, and then started releasing in white cases)
-Almost every game covered!

It's a very long work and I'm currently halfway through
Stay tuned and happy gaming!!

 

[Tetsuo Shima]

It's finally over and ready to be released!
PC-Engine Japan jewel case
[Shrunken Spine for Wiiflow] [214 covers]
download

Covers are divided into black case and white case
Reason is you can display them in Wiiflow with the right border color (black or white) for greater accuracy (see my previous post).
If you don't care about it, then just put all covers in the same folder and you're set.
Instead, if you want to see them with the correct border, follows these steps:
- Make 2 plugins .ini files for pc engine like this:

Spoiler: pce_black.ini

[PLUGIN]
magic=4d45434e
coverColor=000000
coverFolder=pce/black_case
fileTypes=.pce
romDir=PCEngine games/black_case
dolFile=retroarch-wii/mednafen_pce_fast_mod.dol
bannerSound=PCE.ogg
displayname=Mednafen PCE fast
consoleCoverID=sega
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}

Spoiler: pce_white.ini

[PLUGIN]
magic=4d45434f
coverColor=ffffff
coverFolder=pce/white_case
fileTypes=.pce
romDir=PCEngine games/white_case
dolFile=retroarch-wii/mednafen_pce_fast_mod.dol
bannerSound=PCE.ogg
displayname=Mednafen PCE fast
consoleCoverID=sega
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}

-Put your roms and covers in the respective folders (be sure that they match the ones specified in the .ini files)
-Edit your source_menu.ini adding both those magic numbers, like this

Spoiler: source_menu.ini

[BUTTON_#]
autoboot=
cat_page=1
category=0
image=PC_Engine.png
image_s=PC_Engine.png
magic=4d45434e,4d45434f
source=plugin

Enjoy!

Edit: Oh yes I forgot, if you haven't got a jewel case coverflow in your set up, you can use the Rhapsodii theme (or my Rhapsodii Shima edition).

 

[mccorkled]

Anyone know where to get more Wonderswan and WSC covers? I cant barely find them Googling.

Thanks!

 

[mastershoes]

Anyone know where to get more Wonderswan and WSC covers? I cant barely find them Googling.

Thanks!

There are WS/WSC covers in the handheld section.

 

[mccorkled]

There are WS/WSC covers in the handheld section.

And I appreciate them but there’s only 30 or so out of over 200 games total.

 

[mastershoes]

And I appreciate them but there’s only 30 or so out of over 200 games total.

I have at least a folder with 103 2D covers if you're interested. I can check my backup drives to see if i had anything incomplete/in the works.

 

[mccorkled]

I have at least a folder with 103 2D covers if you're interested. I can check my backup drives to see if i had anything incomplete/in the works.

That would be wonderful. They seem to be impossible to come by.

Thank you.

 

[mastershoes]

That would be wonderful. They seem to be impossible to come by.

Thank you.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0i2xwkfqa4h2tt7/WonderSwan_2D_Boxart_%5B400x495%5D_%28103%29.rar/file

 

[mccorkled]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0i2xwkfqa4h2tt7/WonderSwan_2D_Boxart_%5B400x495%5D_%28103%29.rar/file

Thank you again! If you happen to come across more please tag me.

 

[Wiimpathy]

Mame covers

It's a big archive of about 400 covers. Not all are sorted, there are duplicates etc...

 

[mastershoes]

Update 03-25-19 - Added a complete no-intro wonderswan set.

Put a lot of time into this one the last couple of weeks. I used Lumberjack42@TCP's template as a base and modified it a little bit (added top bar & product codes). There are still a few that i cannot for the life of me find a back cover for, so for those I slapped together a mock back with a title & screenshot. I searched all over for the best art i could find, and converted a bunch from weird angle photos as well. Regardless, there are still some that I would love to upgrade the art for (mostly back covers) so if anyone ever comes across better quality scans/photos please send them my way! Also a shout out to RetroNi@emumovies who created a great set of wonderswan game logos. I still had to make some, and changed a few, but it was a huge help finding those. And thanks also to @mccorkled who somehow got me going on this project, lol.

OTHER RANDOM NOTES:

-I am currently working on a complete no-intro Wonderswan Color/Crystal set. Hopefully done in the next month-ish. Need a couple days off after finishing this last set.

-I'm also a good ways into a nice BBC Micro cover set. Currently up to about 130 covers, but I'm planning on finishing the other couple hundred before I release it. If someone really wants them though, i can post what i have.

-I still have a LOT of other projects that are halfway done, I can't even think of everything that is in process.

-Also planning on adding @Tetsuo Shima 's PC Engine Jewel Case set and @Wiimpathy 's MAME to the OP eventually.

-HAVE FUN!

 

[Chris2055]

This is awesome. I haven't had time to read through all the posts so I might have missed something, but does anyone know if the following covers exist for SNES? I may have missed some under alternate names but these appear to be missing from the US shrunken spines set:

BAZOOKA BLITZKRIEG
CHAMPIONS - WORLD CLASS SOCCER
CHESSMASTER, THE
CHESTER CHEETAH - WILD WILD QUEST
DIRT TRAX FX
ELITE SOCCER
F1 ROC
F1-ROC II
FATAL FURY SPECIAL
FIFA INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
FULL THROTTLE - ALL-AMERICAN RACING
GREAT WALDO SEARCH, THE
GUNFORCE
HAMMER LOCK WRESTLING
HARDBALL III
HEAD-ON SOCCER
HYPER V-BALL
IMPERIUM
INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR SOCCER
JIM LEE'S WILDC.A.T.S. - COVERT-ACTION-TEAMS
JIMMY HOUSTON'S BASS TOURNAMENT U.S.A.
KID KLOWN IN CRAZY CHASE
LOST VIKINGS 2
MADDEN NFL 98
MARK DAVIS' THE FISHING MASTER
MATH BLASTER EPISODE 1
METAL MARINES
MICHAEL ANDRETTI'S INDYCAR CHALLENGE
MIRACLE PIANO TEACHING SYSTEM, THE
MR. NUTZ
MUSYA
NATSUME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
NCAA FINAL FOUR BASKETBALL
NEWMAN-HAAS INDYCAR FEATURING NIGEL MANSELL
NFL QUARTERBACK CLUB
ON THE BALL
OPERATION EUROPE - PATH TO VICTORY 1939-45
OPERATION THUNDERBOLT
OUT TO LUNCH
POWER PIGGS OF THE DARK AGE
REALM
REN & STIMPY SHOW, THE - BUCKEROO$!
RIDDICK BOWE BOXING
STEEL TALONS
STREET RACER
SUPER BASES LOADED 2
SUPER BASES LOADED 3
SUPER BUSTER BROS.
SUPER PLAY ACTION FOOTBALL
SYNDICATE
TIMECOP
TNN BASS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
TOP GEAR 3000
WEAPONLORD
WHERE IN TIME IS CARMEN SANDIEGO
WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES - LILLEHAMMER '94
WORLD HEROES
WORLD SOCCER '94 - ROAD TO GLORY
YOSHI'S COOKIE

 

[mastershoes]

I do have a bunch of those in my pending update folder, but not sure when I will get to it.

 

[Wiimpathy]

Here's a Snes pack containing covers collected in this thread and other sources, some are custom. It's unsorted, quality vary from very low/draft to high quality. It's mostly pal and a few are french.
The 'Scraped_Unsorted' folder has vertical and horizontal mixed. Some needs resized and most needs renaming. Anyway here it is:

SuperNes Missing pack

 

[Chris2055]

Here's a Snes pack containing covers collected in this thread and other sources, some are custom. It's unsorted, quality vary from very low/draft to high quality. It's mostly pal and a few are french.
The 'Scraped_Unsorted' folder has vertical and horizontal mixed. Some needs resized and most needs renaming.

Thank you for posting these!

 

[Wiimpathy]

Here are more packs.

NES_Missing

MSX_Missing

ATARI-ST_Missing


This one is huge. Around 2500 full covers in 4 GB.

DOSBox

https://www.mediafire.com/file/nluszg2za5c3k8b/Dosbox_Missing_#-D.7z/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4el3i81vg1cekcp/Dosbox_Missing_E-K.7z/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0vv8vr46hs5ebl2/Dosbox_Missing_L-R.7z/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/y5c3bsom3y78pa7/Dosbox_Missing_S-T.7z/file
http://dommagemais.free.fr/Covers/Dosbox_Missing_U-Z.7z
http://dommagemais.free.fr/Covers/Dosbox_NoBack.7z

 

[hiberto]

I can't seem to find a Genesis 2D box cover art pack anywhere. Does anyone know where to get one? I don't want the 3D box covers. thank you!