Amazing work. Some links are off like TMNT etc. Thanks
Atomic Boy (1985) (Memetron)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/119vCeY1Qs-ycI0q8PcHZ9BzYCdqzEDMj/view?usp=sharing
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Thanks, But no access rights to download 
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My tribute to the gods of 4K vertical overlays. This is a rather rushed artwork and I’m still finalizing. It needs a lot of improvement. Thanks for the inspiration and love all the overlay masterpieces. Hope you guys will give us more cpo updates or new overlays. More power!
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Nice one, Care to share it with a link?
These look amazing! Do you by chance have a repository of all of your custom marquees?
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WOW Someones on a roll 
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Welcome @bradbradbrad, the closest thing to a single repository is the website I maintain, which is verticalarcade.com – it’s still missing a lot of the more recent overlays here, I hope to get it up to date soon.
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Hey @jackowacko, thanks for your contributions! I think your stuff looks nice, a couple of things I would suggest would be the same things we learned as we continued developing these over time, among which are to consider darkening the bezels and control panels somewhat to simulate a darker arcade (the screen and marquee should ideally be the brightest things you see, but our own work varies and there is no “right” amount of brightness), and to continue to evolve your techniques for simulating backlit marquees.
@ArsInvictus has some great marquee techniques, but even things like adding a highly feathered/blurred white oval over the marquee art and setting it to Overlay at a relatively low opacity, and then making the art pretty dark underneath, can help you get a more lit effect without resorting to adding blur/glow to the art (so it’s pretty sharp, but still looks backlit). What you have is not bad, some are already pretty close I would say. Your control panels look great!
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Thanks for the advice @Thoggo. Really appreciate the feedback. Like this tail gunner for example, is this dark enough? Or do I need to add more dark or shadow effects?
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To my eyes, that’s fine – some people like them very dark, others don’t. Often I will have multiple variants within MAME using a translucent black PNG overlay, so you can choose how dark you want it, but that’s not essential.
Great to see you tackling a lot of older (late 70s/early 80s) games! @Briball has done a number of those as well, I gravitate more toward the mid-late 80s/early 90s myself (and I own 5 games from that era) so I’m glad you’re covering areas we haven’t done as much.
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