MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: MAME Artwork Update

Great work as always.

> SITE UPDATES - October 31, 2011
>
> Mr. Do's Arcade: Site update in progress
>
In-Game Artwork: 8 new games; 8 games updated
>
Other Arcade Artwork: 50 new games; 31 games updated
>
>
> Finally...
> I've been wanting to update the site for quite a while, actually. Finally got around
> to doing it. On the outside, it may just look like new colors and a slightly
> different design, but on the backend, all the code is cleaner, and it will be easier
> for me to add and update stuff now (which was the big thing for me). If anyone
> notices if I "broke" anything, let me know.
> More than five months since the last artwork update; sorry about that. Part of that
> was due to the site update, and part due to "other stuff." Anyway, it's here now, so
> let's get started:
>
> Mikonos from Zona Arcade brings us some more goodies. Today, we have Prehistoric
> Isle and Dyger from the BYOAC / CAG artwork, Juno First, and the Journey bezel has
> been updated to the real thing (the last one had the bottom cut off). Thanks to Gene
> at Vintage Arcade Superstore for loaning that one out.
> TrevEB noticed that the bezel for Us Vs. Them is almost identical to M.A.C.H. 3. So
> with photo evidence in hand, he took the current artwork for M3 and adjusted it for
> UVT.
> Trevor also scanned the bezel for Warp Speed some time ago. Antny took it upon
> himself to complete the task, and even started working on it before the game was
> added to MAME.
> Roberto Fresca added some new roulette games to MAME over the past few months that
> work better with artwork, so he created it. Grab the files for re800v1, re800v3, and
> kas89.
> Thanks to inspiration from kelly, I gave the Mr. Do bezel the proper treatment. I
> taught myself how to use the pencil tool properly in Photoshop, and based on the scan
> from the BYOAC/CAG artwork, and various photos, I'm finally happy with the end
> result. We also learned that the original Mr. Do bezel had a pink border around the
> screen; the blue border version is for conversions. This updates the files for mrdo,
> docastle, sraider, and jjack. Mr. Do also includes the marquee, which is based on
> zorg's vector work, the BYOAC/CAG version, and photos, to make sure that I got the
> colors and alignment on the inside of the marquee correct. I'll add the control panel
> and instruction sticker later, once I finish them correctly.
> Grab the files for Seawolf and Seawolf II. I took the uncropped artwork from the
> "other" page and stuck them in there, for reference.
> Earlier this year, code was added to MAME for marquees and control panels. Metal
> Slug 2 has been updated to finally use this, so you can see what kind of plans I have
> for this. It includes every piece of artwork on the cabinet (except for sideart).
> Default is all artwork on. If you wanna just use the normal bezel view that has
> always been around, simply turn off marquees and control panels. There is also views
> included that only show the marquee, control panel, and instruction card. These are
> there for people that have a second monitor to display this info to, or if you just
> wanna pause the game and read the instructions, they are now available. I plan to
> also have moving sticks and buttons on the control panels later, so stay tuned.
>
> On to the other artwork... back in February, hatefulgravy pointed me to this site
> here. With the advent of widescreen monitors, everyone's always heard complaints of
> the gamescreen not taking up all space on the monitor. Well, here was a guy that
> wasn't happy that the artwork wasn't taking up the whole monitor, so he took
> exisiting arcade artwork, and created custom widescreen artwork for 80 of his
> favorite games. After downloading everything and checking it out, I thought it was
> pretty cool. I contacted hausjam to ask his permission to add it to the "other
> artwork" page, and he agreed. So head on over to the other artwork page and check it
> all out.
> So back the the site update now... I don't ever want to go six months again without
> an update. Mostly, it's not fair for contributors that finish artwork to have to wait
> so long before artwork is officially "released." So now that the update is done, I
> think it's safe to say that I will now be able to "release" artwork soon after it is
> completed, instead of letting it pile up and having to do a whole bunch of it at once
> (which kills me).