Damn, hell of a couple weeks indeed. How are you doing now? I hope all is well and you make a full recovery.
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Yeah, it will be a while before I’m fully recovered, but if the treatments for my heart work I could be in much better shape in 6-12 months.
My eyesight is back to normal (I’d lost vision in one eye from the stroke), but still dealing with headaches and fatigue. I’m going to be focused on rest and rehab for a while.
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That’s a hell of a few weeks for anyone, so grateful you survived it!!
I hope you get all the rest you need and you’re able to the very best recovery possible in the next few months - as you say the meds are incredible now 
I hope you are able to live as stress free as possible and find some time to enjoy this hobby while you rest up, enjoy some of these beautiful overlays and play some of those cabs you’ve been building! It’s like you’ve built the perfect recovery space for this! 
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I’m so sorry to hear about your health misfortunes. I hope you are able make a full recovery! Hang in there, and one day at a time.
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Just thought I’d share out some updated and new designs I did for someone on here who requested them for an actual arcade cabinet he’s putting together. This is an updated Ketsui bezel formatted to fit a Dynamo HS-5 cabinet as well as some new marquee variations also sized for that cabinet:
I’m planning to update the overlay for this game with this artwork, and I’d like to come up with a Cave branded control panel overlay to go with all the Cave game overlays as well.
Full size PNG images can be found here:
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Thanks for sharing, Hope your health is doing well! Hoping to contribute some more myself soon.
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Yep, doing better every week! I’d love to see some more of those videos you were posting to YouTube again too 
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Yeah I’ve been slowly building back my motivation and interest for it. I recently got heavy into local AI LLM experimentation. Adding AI to NPCs for PC games and stuff. It’s been really fun! Learning some Python along the way has been interesting. That Youtube channel is getting slammed with request for more tutorials haha. I sorta opened up myself for it I guess SMH
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I’m following LLM’s closely for my own work too, it is crazy how fast it’s evolving. I’m using a lot of AI for this stuff too now, the latest upscaling models from Topaz are insane, and the Photoshop gen AI feature is also incredibly helpful for filling in or extending areas to fit art into a particular format like these marquees.
Maybe just throw out one new video a week or so, too keep the channel lively but not too much of your time? 
I’ll get back to regularly producing more overlays soon.
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Mystic Riders 4k Vertical Overlay
Finally got around to finishing this one up. A lot of custom art for this one as it never had a worldwide release. I used ripped elements from the game title screen for the clouds on the marquee, hand vectorized the title logo and recomposed and colorized the original instruction card for the instruction strip here.
It’s available here in the horizontal subdirectory: Vertical Overlays MegaBezel Pack
Full print resolution materials are available here:
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Great to hear your recovery is going well.
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Just thought I’d share some art I’m cooking up for a future overlay:
I vectorized the logo for this one too:
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Here’s some bezels for Gradius II/Vulcan Venture:
Not sure if I will bother with a CPO for this or just release as a coin door overlay for now.
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Amazing as always! I love the colors! This should have been an official Arcade bezel back in the day! Curious, I know Gradius was also called Nemesis, but I had no idea the sequel had a different name too. Why is Konami always confusing us? 
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I know, this game series had the most confusing titles I’ve seen. There was another game, totally different from this one released in Japan on the MSX also called Gradius 2, which was released in Europe as Nemesis 2. So they were all over the place, and two completely different games were called Gradius 2 
Feel free to use this bezel as always. Let me know if you want the higher res PNG files, etc.
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My head is spinning 
Thanks friend!
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Gradius 2/Venture Vulcan 4K Vertical Overlays
Coin door version overlays available now on the google drive:
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Butasan/Pigs & Bombers 4K Vertical Overlay
One more overlay for this weekend. This one falls into the hidden gem category and is one of Jaleco’s better titles. This is another game that I don’t believe had a NA release, so I used the flyers to create this artwork:
I posted the custom marquee a while back and here is the accompanying bezel:
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Nice job! I’ve never even heard of this game.
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Same here, saw it on some random retrogaming stream and found out it’s a cult classic
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