Game Artwork Scans?

[RetroRepair]

I have been looking around for artwork to add to my cab when I get it and cant find much.

Is there an archive anywhere for this? I want artwork that is able to be added to japanese cabinets like move strips etc.

[yosai]

What game(s) are you after or just something that looks nice?

[RetroRepair]

Shmups mainly but some Street Fighter (3 and 4) games would be nice too. Looking for Mushihimesama Futari, Espgaluda 2, Death Smiles, Raiden IV etc.

Looking around at whats out there, not that theres much, it's all for American/European cabs.

[yosai]

The SF4 move strips are/were on the official Capcom site. There is a link in the SF4 thread somewhere.

Third strike move strips were on www.localarcade.com before it went down, I'm sure someone must have them still.

Don't know if the newer Cave games have been scanned but all the older ones, Ibara and before, are on http://www.world-of-arcades.net/

[RetroRepair]

Yeah they seem to be all but the ones I want on world of arcades haha

I'll look for the SF4 stuffs thanks

[calium]

http://www.world-of-arcades.net/Cave/cave.htm for cave artworks. but no death smiles there... i got some time ago the normal and mbl artworks from someone here, but don't ask me where i have those now... i think it was the member "chi" i got those from but not sure... too long ago

[RetroRepair]

Really

I'll give him a shout, maybe he still has them someplace.

[dieKatze88]

Http://www.katzepower.com/Arcade

I've scanned most of what I have.

[Genjuro]

Where abouts do you guys go to get this stuff printed out? I'd like to have some copy artwork and flyers done but have no idea where to go.

[jonny5]

i get it done at kinkos....printed on card stock(thick like business cards) you can do a full color marquee for like 2 bux(canadian)....i did one for guwange last weekend...looks amazing

[GaijinPunch]

http://www.gamengai.com"

Instruction cards & flyers. Not sure if it's print quality.

[calium]

Where are there flyers?

[Jodo]

http://www.world-of-arcades.net/Cave/cave.htm for cave artworks.

+1 for this link! Thanks so much - *exactly* what I was looking for.

Question please: Does anyone know the exact sizes of the Progear instruction header and move strip for printing purposes?

Thanks in advance,

Phil.

[RetroRepair]

Just print without scaling it's the right size.

http://www.gamengai.com

Instruction cards & flyers. Not sure if it's print quality.

Sadly not quite

[GaijinPunch]

Where are there flyers?

Flyers->Arcade (the menu bar at the top)

Question please: Does anyone know the exact sizes of the Progear instruction header and move strip for printing purposes?

The instruction sheet is A4. Not sure about the other one

Sadly not quite

What's print quality exactly? I've resized them there to "fit" in the screen... and also bandwidth issues. I can probably sort out a few though.

[calium]

death smiles + MBL hires scans

all credits go to chi!

http://rapidshare.com/files/369224160/D ... L.doc.html"

[calium]

thx gaijin but those are useless (for me). if you need flyers go to arcadeflyers.com and get what you need, for example the cave-flyers, in a much bigger resultion.

[RetroRepair]

Print quality is 300dpi. Whatever the resolution was when you scanned it, if you printed that again it'd come out the same size as the original (without scaling/cropping on).

When you resize the image it will lose DPI to the point of being unsuitable for print again.

You can use jpg to compress your original files however and still maintain a good image quality, check the files on world of arcades, some are a huge 4000x2000 resolution but only a few megabytes and still 300dpi.

If you right click on the image in windows and look at the detail tab, you will see the dpi there.

Move strips would be nice too

[GaijinPunch]

thx gaijin but those are useless (for me).

The flyers are? Might I ask why?

if you need flyers go to arcadeflyers.com and get what you need, for example the cave-flyers, in a much bigger resultion.

I admit some of my scans aren't awesome, but I think I've gotten rid of any that are color corrected and for the ones I've deemed "worth it" I've Photoshopped out any blaring creases. As arcadeflyers.com has tons of stuff, seemingly from an array of sources, there's an unfortunate array of quality.

Print quality is 300dpi.

I was actually more interested in what's the lowest acceptable print quality. This is what I save just about everything in (PNG) but obviously don't just stick everything up there, mainly due to bandwidth.
You think a flyer at 300 DPI is big? Try a B1 poster.

Move strips would be nice too

Gotta draw the line somewhere. The main purpose of the site isn't for downloads, but for viewing. So, I kind of decided to not bother with move strips from the get go. Almost all of them require mending two photos together, and my plate is already quite full.

[RetroRepair]

Print quality is 300dpi.

I was actually more interested in what's the lowest acceptable print quality. This is what I save just about everything in (PNG) but obviously don't just stick everything up there, mainly due to bandwidth.
You think a flyer at 300 DPI is big? Try a B1 poster.

Move strips would be nice too

Gotta draw the line somewhere. The main purpose of the site isn't for downloads, but for viewing. So, I kind of decided to not bother with move strips from the get go. Almost all of them require mending two photos together, and my plate is already quite full.

300DPI is the generally accepted print standard, 240DPI is acceptable by some. It's like MP3s, some swear by 320kbps at the minimum (which I agree by) but most are fine with 128kbps.

A B1 poster would be quite large, though you wouldn't want to skimp on quality if you were intending to print it again, at that size you'd definitely want to go with 300, it'd be pretty noticable.

That's cool if you just put them there to view, it's good of you to do so, but you linked to them asking if they were good enough to print and they weren't. If I were to print your Contra marquee for example it'd come out at 3x5cm.