Primal Rage
Another entry in the fighting game genre today, Primal Rage! No control panel render for this one yet, but we hope to provide one in the future.
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Updated Dragon Breed
Some small changes, updated the bezel and marquee lighting effect. Main purpose was to provide packaging for MAME and Retroarch:
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Killer Instinct
The marquee here was sourced from @MrDo, which I cleaned and restored. The instruction strip was created by Malenko on the arcadecontrols.com forum.
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Blood Brothers 4K Vertical Overlay
This was a new game for me but I loved the art on this one so wanted to get an overlay out for it. It’s from the same developers as Cabal and is a spiritual successor to that game. I imagine it might be more well known today had a SNES version gone to market, but the game designer on that version had a stroke during it’s development and the project was sadly cancelled.
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Guerrilla War 4K Vertical Overlay
I never played this back when it was released in 1987, but it’s a follow up to Ikari Warriors that used the same rotary joystick controls. Follow Che Guevera and Fidel Castro (as they are called in the Japanese version) as they fight to free a caribbean island from a tyrannical dictator 
There is a bootleg version of this (gwarb.zip), which lets you control using Commando style controls. I tried it out and it worked really well.
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Ikari Warriors 4K Vertical Overlay
Going back to the genesis of this breed of games in the SNK line-up, Ikari Warriors. There is a bootleg joystick hack variation of this one (ikarjpb.zip) and it also works well. I played this game quite a bit on the Amiga (and the arcade at the time) so there’s a lot of nostalgia here for me.
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Looks good! I played this a lot on the Nintendo, but it was way more fun in the arcade with the rotary joystick.
Thanks for mentioning this, I just did some googling and there’s similar hack for Midnight Resistance (midresbj).
I was very sad the last time I tried to play Midnight Resistance with a regular joystick without the bootleg hack.
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Yeah, it seems like quite a few of the rotary games have joystick hacks available, it’s still not as nice as a real rotary stick, but at least it plays similar to the console versions.
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Victory Road (a.k.a. Ikari Warriors II) 4K Vertical Overlay
Sadly there is no joystick hack that I was able to find for this game, though you can still bind the left and right turns to a couple buttons as a fairly clumsy workaround.
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Ikari 3: The Rescue
This completes the Ikari series. Sadly, no joystick mod is available for this one either.
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nice work,where can i download these bezels?
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Hi @Halloallemaal,
Glad you like them.
The MAME versions can all be found here: MAME Files
The RetroArch files are here: RetroArch Files
Note that these are all the most recent vertical overlays (I’m not doing horizontal overlays anymore), we’ll be packaging the other overlays up over the coming weeks. We are also working on a new web site which will provide a visual catalog of all the overlays that will be easier to navigate and will have the download links too. Hopefully not too much longer before that is opened up.
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Updated! Big new features on VerticalArcade.com
Hey friends, I just pushed live a new update to the site that has been in the works for a while, which adds a lot more new overlays from the team here (@ArsInvictus, @PapaShine, @Briball and myself primarily) and great new ways to find them. The centerpiece is a new interface on the Vertical Overlays page (shown below) that allows you to easily browse all the overlays, sort and filter in numerous ways, learn more about each game, link to pages with information and overlays from specific manufacturers and genres, and of course, download the entire collection. Everything is available for both MAME and RetroArch, though the MAME overlays often include more options.
Though I’ve tested the site quite a bit on various platforms, these new updates are still somewhat in beta and I will be continuing to tweak things. Please let me know if you come across anything that’s broken, missing or seems odd. Most of the recent overlays have already been posted in this thread, though there are older ones you may not have seen, as well as related content, so please check it out! I hope you like it.
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