MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork: Official - Would it actually be a collaboration again?

> Piece of artwork for exchange, if it is of interest to Mame World.
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> You know my skills, if you are interested, I will exchange this restored art for
> others of my interest without restoring and, if possible, without even assembling. I
> prefer to restore everything from scratch by myself.
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> "Willow Bezel" (CAPCOM) arcade artwork scanned file in restoration process in Zona
> Arcade by Mikonos.
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> "Willow Bezel" (CAPCOM) arcade artwork scanned file in restoration process in Zona
> Arcade by Mikonos (screenshot 2).

First, I want to start on a nice note... hello again. Yes, you have excellent skills, this has never been a question over the years. Everything at your site has always looked like the highest quality, and the few things you did share 12 years ago came out really nice.

But...

The last time you and I had this type of exchange going on, I was left on the short end. I sent you scans of stuff that you previously didn't have access to... stuff which I paid for, and I spent the time scanning, and the agreement, was that when it was cleaned up, we would get a cleaned version of that artwork back, add it to MAME Artwork, and add you as credit for the cleanup. You would get a news post link about it when it was added, which you would also link back to on your site.

Then, you got upset at one point, because you thought someone from another website had taken finished versions of your work from my at the time shared drive, which I confirmed later that that wasn't the case... that other website did their own cleanup, separate from yours, on artwork that was already available. (I am purposely being vague here, and not posting details).

But things seemed to never be fixed after that. You accused me of treating you like a slave (which I didn't). Basically, you just simply ghosted me. You got access to all the "important" artwork, I feel, that you could at that point, and you simply stopped sending the finished work.

The part that sucked the most for me, was that I thought it was a collaboration... that we were two people sharing stuff with each other... so that we could mutually benefit from the different artwork of stuff that we both didn't have.

At some point, you presented the attitude that this was no longer a collaboration, that you were "in charge" of everything... you would send me stuff "when you feel like it," in regards to finished items of stuff that I sent you scans of. The way you sounded in later emails, you seemed to think that the only important thing being done, was you cleaning up the artwork. You made it seem like that was the only important part at that point, that the time and money I spent acquiring and scanning the stuff that you were cleaning up meant nothing... you were the most important part, because you were the one doing the cleanup. You seemed to forget, that all those things I sent you, you never would have had the opportunity to cleanup in the first place, if I hadn't spent my time and money on it.

I have so many more things here, that are still not public, and that you still have never posted about, so yeah, there is still a whole bunch of new stuff that can be had...

But... can I trust that this would actually be a collaboration again? Or would the whole thing go sour again, after you get all the stuff you want, and I get ghosted again?

To this day, I still never got anything back for:

-- Tempest Cocktail Bezel
-- Space Harrier Marquee (and we don't need this anymore... someone else was gracious enough to do it again).
-- Shadow Force Bezel (again, don't need this anymore... a different someone else cleaned it up).
-- Cosmic Alien Bezel (and again, we don't need this anymore... a third different someone cleaned this one up).
-- Shadow Dancer Bezel (and again... a fourth different person took care of this one).

And on top of that, there are other games that I saw pop up on your site later, that I'm pretty sure you got from me, when I opened up all access to you... you just didn't post about it right away... there are more than a few of those (for example, Stunt Cycle).

And specifically for Willow... don't need that one... that was cleaned up on our end years ago.

As you can tell, I haven't posted on my site for a few years... real life work has kept me very busy, and that part has made me unhappy. I've got a bunch of stuff cleaned up for a new release... just need to finish the write up. I hope to get back in to things soon. I also replaced my PC last year, so it is more up to date again.

And I've got a bunch more stuff sitting here, that I still need to scan... this would be a great reason for me to try and make time to actually do it.

As a gesture of good will, if you finally sent over a copy of the cleaned Tempest Cocktail Bezel, along with the set of Stunt Cycle artwork (since that "kind of" works in MAME now), I'd be totally cool with starting this up again, and would send you a list of the stuff that I have sitting here, to see what you are interested in.

And as long as things stay "civil" and are of mutual benefit to both of us, instead of like what happened last time, this can continue to go on as long as you want.

RELAX and just have fun. Remember, it's all about the games.