R4DS/DS Simply Skin Competition

[spokenrope]

Wii Clouds
By: .TakaM
Download: here
Preview:

Simply Vista Pack
By: GCTonyHawk7
Skin Thread: here
Download Pack: here
Preview:

Blue Flow
By: mflo
Download: here
Preview:

DS Menu
By: Akotan
Download: here
Preview:

R4DS Skin
By: kiruyama (Edits by everybody and their mothers, including mflo, katalyst, and Mavis)
Download: here
Preview:

Nippon Sunrise
By: mflo
Download: here
Preview:

Simply Duotone/Plasma Packs
By: GCTonyHawk7
Duotone Skin Thread: here
Plasma Download: here
Plasma Skin Thread: here
Plasma Download: here
Preview:

Applish
By: Nif
Download: here
Preview:

Xeoset
By: marth989
Download: here
Preview:

R4PSP Pack
By: Katalyst
Skin Thread: here
Preview:

Megaman Battle Network Pack
By: kikoexe
NET NAVI Download: here
PET V5 Download: here
Preview:

Horrible Mutation
By: poloman
Download: here
Preview:

Zelda: TP Skin
By: larrylje
Download: here
Preview:

Black & White Pack
By: Kahn
B&W Download: here
B&R Download: here
DS Download: here
Preview:

 

[spokenrope]

Here you go, guys. The top 14 nominees from the previous thread. Thanks so much to all who participated. Now go vote your little hearts out!

Oh, and since I was a day or two late with the creation of this thread, I also took the liberty of making a collection of every skin that's currently being voted on. That's every version/color of Simply Vista/Duotone/Plasma, R4PSP, every iteration of kiruyama's original skin, and everything else that you can currently vote on.

Problem is, I have no way of hosting files, and I have a great disdain for sites like megaupload and rapid share. Would anybody be able to host this? The folder is a little bit over 30 megs, unzipped. PM me if you can host it for a while. Thanks!

 

[[M]artin]

Wow, a ton of great skins here!

I had to go with .TakaM's Wii Clouds, however. I'm a proud owner of a Wii myself and it just seems to click as an R4 skin. It's crisp, clean, and omfg, it matches my Wii. The calming clouds, sleek Wii channel style, and throwback to Mario's glory days are a much appreciated bonus

 

[spokenrope]

I voted for the Simply Vista Pack. It seems flashy and simple at the same time. Plus, it reproduces the Vista interface faithfully enough that I can convince some of my dumber friends that I've got the newest version of Vista DS installed.

 

[bobrules]

Simply Vista Pack is the best here, although these skins all look good. I love how the pictures are clear, and they look extremely nice at max brightness. I put all 7 or was it 8 on the r4 monthly skin, so i can see new ones every month. Love how the pictures looks.

 

[blade85]

Clouds and Ds Menu came close but i picked DS Menu

 

[marth989]

Hi, this is actually a link to my final skins for Xeoset the one displayed was kind of a beta so i could get feed back

http://www.mavisxp.com/r4/skins/1175440886_Xeoset_skins.zip

Enjoy, taka.M for first

 

[thegame07]

im not really a fan of zelda but i liked the skin

so i voted for zelda

 

[spokenrope]

Far more people seemed interested in the nominations thread than this one. I guess I should have started this in the R4 area instead of the polls one. Oh well, live and learn.

 

[simpson17]

i voted for GCTonyHawks simply duotone skin, if i could id vote for his vista skin too ^^

 

[Sinkhead]

Mmmm... Zelda

Yeah, you can guess which one I voted for (and use)
- Sam

 

[Mehdi]

wii clouds for the win

 

[lanleague]

Gotta show my Wii Clouds love.

 

[suprneb]

simplicity ftw!!

(i chose the black/white one)

 

[sirAnger]

I'm quite partial to the R4DS skin.

 

[spokenrope]

Well, the voting on this thread has gone on for a little over a month now, and it looks like we have our winners.

1st place - DS Menu by Akotan

2nd place - Wii Clouds by .TakaM

3rd place - Simply Vista by GCTonyHawk7

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everybody who participated. But of course, the real winners are all of us that got a DS full of quality skins out of this process. Hoo-ray!

Do you guys think that this is something that you might want to see again in the future? The R4 and DS Simply keep getting firmware updates that make the skins need little tweaks here and there. For example, lots of people seem to be adding a "no cheat found" icon into their skins, as well as frames for the GBA screen.

Maybe 'round the beginning of June we can have another go at this.