Covers & fanart for myEmulators (1 Viewer)

[hulkhaugen]

Hi!

I figured we could try to collect some coverart for games and consoles in this thread. I'm been working on a few covers, but if you got some, post them and i'll include them in this first post. I think we should use the aspect ratio 2:3, which is what DVD uses. Preferably 500x750, but many old games are hard to collect good coverart from, so you can use sizes like 400x600, 300x450, and minimum 200x300. Same rules goes for N64 and SNES, but their resolution should be 640x450 or at the same aspect ratio. Well here's the list so far:

Fanart (1280x720)

Sonic The Hedgehog
Street Fighter
Super Mario Galaxy poster
Tomb Raider

Commodore 64 covers

-- None yet --

Nintendo 64 covers

Super Mario 64

Nintendo covers

Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers
Ghostbusters
Lemmings
Mega Man (EU) | Mega Man (US)
Mega Man 2 (EU) | Mega Man 2 (US)
Mega Man 3 (EU) | Mega Man 3 (US)
Mega Man 4
PacMan
RoboCop
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Tetris

PC Games covers

Rise of Nations - Gold Edition | 2
StarCraft - BroodWar
The Secret of Monkey Island - Special Edition
TrackMania - Nations Forever

Sega MegaDrive

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic 3

Sega Master System II

-- None yet --

Super Nintendo covers

Donkey Kong Country
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario World

So, i guess you get the idea, i'm to lazy to put it all up now, i'm just presenting it and hoping someone out there will help me out a little bit. Personally i used Photoshop to make the covers look better. And the Emulator covers, well, i think they look ok in such as StreamedMP, which btw isn't finished yet, lol. If you have some skills, please make better Emu-thumbs

 

[hulkhaugen]

BUMP! Nobody has anything to comment about this? anything thay're missing, let me know. Or is there some automated solution out there already which i don't know about?

 

[croser]

all on the web...

hi,
how about checking out:

CategoryNES game covers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NES Games Covers
Cover Browser

millions of covers all set up and ready to be integrated, still we should think about an automatic import for all the emulator games you have installed...
j!

 

[hulkhaugen]

Well yea, there was a lot of covers there, especially at wikipedia. coverbrowser.com was missing a lot of games like maro etc, what's up with that? There was a lack of eu-covers though, mostly us covers on wikipedia, and i like to have the covers i'm familiar with from my youth, kind of a nostalgic experience, hehe.

But we can collect good fanarts here. A automatic system goes beyond my capabilities, but it would be great, absolutely...

 

[Atreides]

I am working on collecting covers right now for all the systems that I have. The only difference is that I am scaling all the box scans to a square shape. (all the dimensions are different) I already have alot of playstation, dreamcast, sega saturn, sega CD, and Playstation 2. I can upload all of them into rar packs if any one wants them. let me know.

 

[incy2k]

Atreides i'd be very grateful for the rar of your images as currently i've been getting them individually from wikipedia and amazon and its taking ages. its a shame their is no automatic retrievel like in my-tvseries or moving pictures or the ability to import genric databases as that way you could upload your rar with images and info...

 

[hulkhaugen]

well, i don't know much about it, but i think it's possible to export .xml's with all the data, and then you could also include covers in i pack i guess...

 

[Atreides]

To: incy2k I can upload what I have right now, or you can wait and I will upload all the images when I get down with them. That would be Nintendo (super, 64, gameboy/advanced) Sega (master, genesis, 32x, CD, saturn), Playstation 1&2, Dreamcast, Turbo Grafx. Now I wont have every game for all of the consoles I listed, but I do have MANY of the nintendo/super/64, sega master/genesis/32x, and turbo grafx. The others are sparse but I think it could help. It would be really cool to start a database that myemulators gets its info from, like tvdb for my tv-series, I would gladly upload everything I have to it. I also agree that it takes FOREVER to do this. I am trying to find the image of the box scan and then if it isn't square I bring it into Photoshop and make it square. I have kinda hit a wall at genesis, but when I get done with it all I have left is Nintendo, Sega Master, and Super Nintendo. So if you want me to upload now I can, but if you want to wait I will be working on it till I get done. Let me know if there is talk or actual formation of a data website that these could go into. I would be very interested.

P.S. I have also made console pics of Saturn, PS2, and Dreamcast if you want me to upload those as well.

 

[Atreides]

Alright guys I just finished sega genesis and I figured that SNES, NES and SMS would take awhile so I am going to post the ones I have right now. I hope you all get to use them, they are square dimensions and the resolutions vary from what I had to pick from I always tried to not go below 200 but with some of the turbo grafx and such that was pretty impossible. If anyone has anything to contribute to these than feel free when can start a big rar package that them all or something to that accord. I am going to start working on SMS next and then SNES and then the big daddy NES. I will post those when I get done with them, and then I have all I need...until I decide to add another emulator. I know I want to add gamecube, and possibly the ataris. If anyone has or is working on those than they should post them here.

 

[Atreides]

I have to space out the files so here are the others.