On the Game and Watch Mickey Mouse, I do not see all the artwork. Example: the chicken coops are not visible. Is it my error, or is there still some updates for this artwork? For instance, the attached file has what I would consider the full artwork, including Disney info on bottom, but I am not seeing this in MAME.
Thanks!
> SITE UPDATE - January 22, 2019
> In-Game Artwork: 28 new sets; 5 sets updated
> Game & Watch is fun! I am trying to figure out how I was an '80s kid, but I never
> had a Game & Watch. In fact, I had not even heard of them back then, that I can
> remember (though I do remember the Tiger LCD games that came out around the same
> time).
> Today, we add artwork for eighteen Game & Watch games:
>
> Black Jack, Boxing, Climber, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong II, Egg,
> Green House, Lifeboat, Manhole, Mario Bros., Mario's Cement Factory, Mickey Mouse,
> Mickey & Donald, Oil Panic, Super Mario Bros., Squish, and Tropical Fish
> Thanks go to Sean Riddle, hap, Ryan Holtz (MooglyGuy / Just Desserts), algestam
> (hal3000), ICEknight, and ChoccyHobNob for donating, scanning, and cleaning up those
> scans
> Thanks to Lee Robson (hydef) for additional scan cleanup on many games, and
> recreating the beautiful outer cases for these games
> Thanks to Ryan Holtz and Magnus Nyström for donating and scanning instructions for
> those games where they were included (for now: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong II, and Mario
> Bros)
> Full credits for each game are in its individual LAY file
> Note that Black Jack, Lifeboat, and Manhole were completed after MAME 0.205 was
> released. You will either need to wait for MAME 0.206, or track down the necessary
> files to play those games early
> And there is still more to come: in the time putting this update together, Rain
> Shower has already been completed (for purposes of this site, it will come with the
> next artwork release)
> Additional Note: people requested that there be an option of not having the "3-D
> Shadow Effect" on the artwork for these games, and Lee Robson has obliged; for each
> game above, there are two views: the default view has the shadow, but there is also
> an optional view where there is no shadow on the backdrop
> Additional Note 2: Lee set things up right the first time, in regards to being able
> to display things how you want: turn off the backdrop layer, to get rid of the white
> background that fills the screen; turn off the bezel layer, if you want to see just
> the game with the backdrop and no case. For the dual-screen games, we have added an
> extra view, that is backdrop only, so that the screens will be closer together
> (compared to if you simply turn off the backdrop and bezel)
>
> On the arcade side of things, I am still playing catch up:
>
> Comboman finshed artwork on some games:
>
> Cosmic Alien, Cosmic Monsters, and Cosmic Monsters II now have bezel artwork, thanks
> to bezel scans by TrevEB and header scans by Sam Grech
> Cosmic Avenger bezel is courtesy of rohan
> The backdrop for Dark Planet has been added (note to Stiletto; do you know where
> this came from?)
>
> One more from Comboman:
>
> Solar War was a planned sequel to Atari's Video Pinball, but was never widely
> released; only five prototypes were created
> Comboman found some good pics, and created bezel and backdrop artwork for the game,
> and uploaded it to the forum back in 2015, during my "hiatus" time
> When I finally got around to looking at, I noted that some things needed fixing
> before it could be added here, but at that time, I did not have the time
> During last month's release, there were some users that posted, rather than saying
> thanks for what was recently added, instead complained inquired about stuff that was
> not yet added
> So I figured, why not, let's look at Solar War again; the following items have been
> corrected
>
> Fixed the playfield perspective, so that all elements of the video screen line up
> correctly over the backdrop, based on videos of real machine gameplay, and multiple
> play-thrus in MAME; video screen perspective also fixed to proper 3:4 ratio
> All of the lamps in the LAY file have been correctly identified based on multiple
> play-thrus of the game, details on the backdrop, and instructions listed on the game
> bezel
> The current MAME driver only had 28 lamps identified in the driver; thanks to hap
> for updating the MAME driver, all lamps will work correctly in MAME 0.206
> Redid the CREDIT, MATCH, etc. text at the bottom of the playfield, so that things
> lined up correctly on the left and right of the screen
> Fixed the text for "3 TIMES BONUS"
> The red circle in the kickback lane at the top-left of the playfield is not a lamp;
> this has been corrected
> A lamp was missing above the Advance Bonus section, to notate the "5000 when lit";
> this has been corrected
> Found a better picture of the top part of the bezel; used that plus Comboman's
> existing work to redo the outer bezel
> Spruced up the file for the lighted lamp, so those look a bit better now
>
> And now... I like this game even more than the original Video Pinball; a shame that
> it was never widely released; compared to VP, this games feels much more like a real
> pinball game, with the drop target completion bonuses, advancing bonus multiplier,
> advancing reward on the top kickback, etc.
>
> We have a new member that is helping to work on artwork cleanup: alexs; his first
> contribution is the bezel for Capcom's 3 Wonders. Embarassingly, I do not remember
> who originally submitted this, I just know I was not the one who scanned it, and I
> cannot find notes in older emails or PMs about this one. If it is you, please let me
> know.
> From udb23, Strato Fighter has bezel and marquee artwork now, thanks to scans from
> the BYOAC / CAG Artwork
> Thank you to haynor666 for letting me know about the error in ncombat. Seems I must
> have edited the file at some point, and deleted a line, causing the game to crash in
> MAME if you had the bad artwork file (a bug was even filed on MAMETesters about this
> error at one point). This is now fixed.
> While going through Solar War, I revisited Video Pinball, and noticed that a couple
> things were not set right in the LAY file, causing the backdrop and video screen to
> not look as nice as they should; this has been corrected, and the nicer lighted lamps
> have also been added
> Happened to be watching videos of Sea Wolf on YouTube; noticed a couple things that
> were not displayed right in the current artwork (how the explosion lamps flash, and
> the color of the overlay); these have been adjusted
> Not sure when this changed in MAME, but artwork file ddpdoj has been renamed to
> ddp3, since that is now the parent file
>
> And finally, a few more LCD Handheld updates:
>
> Realized that what I was trying to do with the artwork for tsharr2 and kblades was
> the wrong thing to do, so converted them back to how they should be displayed on
> screen
> And then, Lee Robson decides to create a bunch of cases for the Tiger line of LCD
> games currently in MAME. tsharr2 is added for now; the rest will be in the next
> update.
> Nu, Pogodi! is a Russian clone of Nintendo's Game & Watch Egg; thanks to Igor, we
> have backdrop artwork for this game
>
> So this was nice... two artwork updates about a month from each other, like the old
> days. I may have finally found the work/home/MAME balance I need to keep all three
> things running smoothly. Cross your fingers.
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