Two more masterpiece gifts to the community. No need to ever apologize for something you’re creating in your spare time for free. The quality of overlay artwork that’s come from this forum the last few years is mind blowing. Thanks for the time, effort, and skills used to recreate the cabinets to our favorite games from a long time ago and decades far, far away…
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Awesome stuff, @PapaShine… I used your image to make a bezel for my horizontal layouts. Definitely not as cool as the full vertical look, but a huge improvement over the old low res images from picture that we have all been using for a long time. I couldn’t quite get it to fit the game screen as well as my old one, but I’m assuming it had to be stretched vertically to make it work for yours. I also had to slightly alter the inner frame area on both of them to make everything fit better horizontally. Anyway, here’s before and after screenshots for anyone interested.
Before (old art)
After (PapaShine art)
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That’s really lovely of you to say, as always I appreciate everyone’s feedback, glad they where worth the wait for you I’m loving having a propper 4k resolution overlay for these two, thanks for encouraging me to get them out the door!
Yes totally agree, the sheer volume and quality of the work on this thread blows my mind time after time, we’re so lucky to have so much talent working on this format to bring all of this amazing game art to life! 
it’s truly priceless.
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Hey… that’s awesome. Thanks. There’s still a lot of people using horizontal megabezel setups that, I’m sure, would love to have a nice basic copy of your great artwork to use for their setups. Any of your past ones that you want to post an un-doctored copy of, I’m sure, would be appreciated (no pressure at all). Thanks again for these.
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Yeah, that looks incredible… lol. If you can post that with a transparent background so people can use it with any background in megabezel that would be the ultimate resource for this game and ESB (for horizontal that is). Definitely looks awesome. 
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Thanks @Drybonz, Yes of course, i just don’t use the horizontal format at all anymore after i discovered vertical, but very happy for anyone to make use of this if they can! here’s the bezel on a transparent BG for you - thanks!
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Thanks! Looks great. Is there an original that isn’t as cropped/zoomed in (with the sensors/buttons at the top, etc)? I only ask because the megabezel users can zoom in or out as much as they want. If not, no problem, this looks amazing. Thanks again.
Here’s a look at @PapaShine 's horizontal, plugged into megabezel after lighting settings, etc… nice and crisp looking! This is how we have been wanting those plastic molded bezels to look for years. Great work, PapaShine! 
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If anyone wants to use the Mega Bezel with a vector type shader for this you could try Mega_Bezel/Presets/Variations/Vector/Vector-Color-HighResMode__STD.slang it’s especially set up to use fbneo’s high res mode
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Thanks, HSM. The pic above is using the MAME Current Hi Res option at 1080… not sure how it compares to FBNeo but it does make the lines bolder. The ones I posted before that were Hi Res with the 780 res… less bold but you can still see the vector dots at the corners, which tickles the nostalgia for me.
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Did you use one of my T molding assets? That’s awesome! It fits well!
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Ah, sorry I may well have done! I lifted it from the reference @Drybonz posted and bent it into shape 
yes, it works well, thank you for the use of it @Orionsangel - if I ever post it anywhere I’ll attribute the trim to you 
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I think I got it in with some stuff from P3st… it probably did come from Orionsangel originally. I use a lot of stuff from other packs, so I forget where it all came from. The background I’m using in those screenshots is from Duimon. Thanks to everyone who has contributed bits and pieces to my own personal theming.
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Yeah, MAME has a good emulation of the corner dots, which I think fbneo does not
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Thanks! I’ve been hunting T Molding assets for years, but if I can’t find any I just make them from scratch. I try not to always reuse them on different bezels, but at the same time IRL Arcade cabinets are reused like crazy for different games. They just change the artwork. So reusing T Moldings for bezels just falls in line with real Arcade cabinets.
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Alien Syndrome @papashine Style
I’ve finally gotten around to adding this one to the megabezel share:
MegaBezel Vertical Overlay Pack
It looks amazing @PapaShine! Thanks for sharing 
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Amazing work. You’re taking it to the next level.
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Thanks @ArsInvictus! So pleased you like the update, I love leaving this one running on my cab at the moment, those lights reflect beautifully onto the physical control panel. I’ve adjusted the MAME tech details for this to ramp up the screen gamma and dialled up the vignette quite a bit to punch up the contrast, it gives it some more atmosphere as it’s quite washed out usually, works really well!!
@Orionsangel, I really appreciate your enthusiasm, your horizontal overlays were the gateway into all of this for me
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Black Tiger Custom 4k Vertical Overlay (CAPCOM / ROMSTAR 1987)
I absolutely adore this bastard of a game, the first time I played (and died straight away, obviously!!) it was on my Amiga 500 and I loved the art on the box and the logo (along with the art for the arcade flyers) must have had the poster on my wall for a few years! When I finally saw the Arcade machine many years later I loved it but was puzzled by the choice of the artwork, the logo and how off-model the main character was, nothing like the game’s art!
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have a real soft spot for the original and usually like to keep things as authentic as possible but I decided to do a custom art overlay as an homage to that beautiful artwork so I can display it on my cab (I think I might put some fur on his hips to cover his butt )
This is still a bit of a WIP really, I’ve done allot of photoshop work to extend the art thats available and make it all fit on this, as well as keep it looking somewhat authentic to CAPCOM’s other cabs that came along a little later (Magic Sword etc) but thought I’d share it as it is - feel free to chime in if you have any comments.
And the PNG for the Megabezel HERE
Edit: Special thanks to @NeoKarnage for the original Cab Artwork set since I posted this earlier, I’ve updated the CPO with the stickers and will produce a full original artwork overlay with CPO as we don’t have one of those yet, long overdue! If anyone’s interested in any future versions of this I’ll happily share.
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