Arcade Artwork

Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 12:13pm #1

I acquired a DVD full of arcade artwork and was wondering what's the deal with sharing it with all you good folks?

Do we have rules against it here?

A lot of it is some decent resolution artwork you could get printed professionally for your cab if you wanted to (high res like 8000x7000 etc)

If it's allowed I'll sort out some sort of download link or links or some other way to make it easy to get.

Mods???

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o1s1n · 07-09-2011 12:16pm

I am a mod and I say yes.

Oh wait.

Hercule · 07-09-2011 12:21pm

regardless of what the mods say - send me a pm with the details pls

edit: ah mod said yes

Optimus Prime · 07-09-2011 12:21pm

Want! :pac: is it copyrighted or something?

Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 12:23pm

keithgeo wrote: »

Want! :pac: is it copyrighted or something?

I don't think so.
It's one of those artwork DVD's you see around ebay every so often.

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Optimus Prime · 07-09-2011 12:26pm

Nice, would love to take a look at that.

vangoz · 07-09-2011 12:41pm

Sweet, can you PM me the details too, nice one.

Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 12:44pm

Will see what the mods say here and will post it in this thread if allowed.
No PM's please.

If I cant share it here I'll post it in "another place".
But would like to have it here so more people can benefit from it.

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Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 12:47pm

I think we need either CiDeRmAn or LoGiE to approve it as they are the mods for this section.

I think that's how it works anyway.

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Andrew76 · 07-09-2011 1:05pm

Cool stuff, I'll throw my name into the hat of interested parties. Thanks Steve.

07-09-2011 1:07pm

Hopefully you get the go, it would be a great help to myself as I've just built a cab and I'm looking at getting some artwork for it

Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 1:32pm

If I do get the go ahead how would people like to download it?

Direct download of the dvd (zip file or iso or something like that) or access to a folder with all the images so you can grab only what you want?

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Andrew76 · 07-09-2011 1:59pm

Steve SI wrote: »

If I do get the go ahead how would people like to download it?

Direct download of the dvd (zip file or iso or something like that) or access to a folder with all the images so you can grab only what you want?

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I vote iso please.

Optimus Prime · 07-09-2011 2:05pm

Steve SI wrote: »

If I do get the go ahead how would people like to download it?

Direct download of the dvd (zip file or iso or something like that) or access to a folder with all the images so you can grab only what you want?

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Id like to download the whole thing to be honest.

Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 2:08pm

Yeah, an iso/zip/rar is going to be the easiest and quickest to get uploaded as I can just stick it on my fast server and stick a direct link in here.

CathalDublin · 07-09-2011 2:30pm

4shared.com is good for hosting files, free too

Steve X2 · 07-09-2011 2:36pm

CathalDublin wrote: »

4shared.com is good for hosting files, free too

Yeah, 4shared is decent. But if I'm sharing a big file I normally just stick it on my own server as it's usually faster to download from and bandwidth isn't an issue(usually).

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LoGiE · 07-09-2011 10:40pm

I'm not familar with this type of DVD but If it's copyright material I'm afraid you can't post links. However alot of arcade game publishers have gone under over the years leaving cabinet art really hard to find. If you feel it can be put in the same bracket as abandonware then I have no problems with you posting a link.

Steve X2 · 09-09-2011 1:32pm

Ok, I'm just sorting out an ISO file of this DVD(about 2.5GB).

I'll upload it to a fast server and stick a link to it here.
Now, this is going to be sitting on my web server so it wont be there forever.
I'll leave it up for a couple of weeks anyway so plenty of time to get it.

It has the artwork on the disc and also Photoshop and Illustrator to view and edit the images.
These are just trials so are not pirated etc. Everything on the disc is as I got it from ebay, I've not added or removed anything so the disc is still auto starting if you have that enabled.
I did a scan for viruses and found none but as always its a good idea to scan it yourself as well.

I'll post the link a little later on today.

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Steve X2 · 09-09-2011 3:54pm

Have at it chaps:

http://bit.ly/arcadeartwork

The link should be as fast as your connection allows.

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Pyongyang · 09-09-2011 3:56pm

Thanks Steve SI, I'm going to grab this tonight. Would there be anything there to have professionally printed and framed?

Andrew76 · 09-09-2011 3:57pm

Very nice of you Steve cheers!
(NGB broadband my ass Eircom! Hurry the fug up.

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Optimus Prime · 09-09-2011 3:58pm

Thanks Steve! :pac:

Steve X2 · 09-09-2011 4:09pm

Pyongyang wrote: »

Thanks Steve SI, I'm going to grab this tonight. Would there be anything there to have professionally printed and framed?

I've not checked it all to be honest.
It has some pixel art and also some vector art that can be resized to whatever you like. You might find something.

Either way its good to have.

Steve X2 · 09-09-2011 8:10pm

For those not familiar with vector artwork you can basically increase them to a theoretically unlimited resolution with no loss of quality, as long as you have lots of memory that is.

Fantastic for printing as you can imagine and if you take a vector file to a professional printers they will be very happy indeed as they can print it at whatever size you like and it will look just as good.

A sample here(large 6mb image with a resolution of 9006x6992):
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/6086/capcomvssnk2logoconvert.jpg

I just created it from the attached .ai Adobe Illustrator file.

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