I don’t have a 4k vertical setup but zooming in on your sample picture looking at the 3d areas looks awesome. This must look really great on an actual nice 4k screen in vertical!
That animated after burner (video sample) looks great as well.
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Thanks, really appreciate that feedback! Do you have an HD set up? these look great, regardless, but you’re right in 4K they totally come to life! I’m sure most of the artists on here will agree that beyond just being a wrapper around a game we are all preserving the visual impact integrity of these original machines like pieces of art, many of which most of us never got to see firsthand, or have become long, lost memories and I really think all those details elevate them, even the most obscure titles from some random retro game emulation to a living piece of history - I can’t tell you the number of games I’ve discovered and enjoyed using the amazing contributions of @ArsInvictus, @Briball, @Thoggo, @walter.farmacia @K-rnivoro (and anyone else I’ve missed out as it won’t let me tag more than 5 user names!) beautiful work!
I still remember in lockdown when I started falling down, the rabbit hole of vertical overlays and stumbled upon @ArsInvictus work which blew everything else out of the water, totally transformed mame gaming for me and i haven’t looked back since!
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Thanks for the lovely comments @PapaShine! I remember when you first posted on this thread years back, offering to chip in, and the amazing uplift your skills and talents provided to this project from day 1. It all started with those gorgeous coin doors! 
The contributions you made in things like the 3d renders for the bezels, coin doors, trim pieces etc are still the foundation for almost every overlay in the collection today.
Also, from a personal standpoint, thanks for patiently teaching me so many techniques in both PS and Illustrator, it opened up a whole new dimension to what I was doing with this and has become a hobby in itself for me! I am deeply grateful.
So happy to have you still chipping in here.
And speaking of obscure titles, here is the Acrobat Mission overlay I said I would put together from original artwork:
I put together a marquee and instruction strip from art I scanned that included with the original pcb in Japan:
Unfortunately in this case I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the gameplay. Sometimes I find games like Metal Black that I’d never heard of but really enjoy, and I keep going back to that one as it’s really grown on me. But in this case I doubt it will get much play time…
But in any event, the game now has a higher quality marquee and English instruction set, and it may still find some new fans :).
@PapaShine I will be out today visiting my daughter at school but I’ll try to get Space Harrier added to the megabezel collection tomorrow. Looking at the reference picture this looks like a game that fits the MB look well! And I’ll see about getting you an example to experiment with real time lighting around the bezel.
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I totally agree. I’m at the point where I don’t even want to play the game if it doesn’t have a vertical overlay. Would be great to see full overlays with control panels for Kung-Fu Master, Vigilante, Karate Champ, Time Soldiers, Shinobi, Elevator Action, and Xevious at some point. Xevious might be the most annoying trying to fit all the art into a vertical frame.
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Looks awesome as usual. Your artwork contributions to the community are greatly appreciated.
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@PapaShine, I love your Space Harrier Overlay. I think it would be cool to have a Reflection mask image to use with HSM-MB, so those plastic side walls can be used for reflections too. If you or somebody can make it, it would be glorious!!
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Thanks @ArsInvictus, that’s really lovely of you, it’s been my absolute pleasure and very happy to have made a meaningful contribution - I love to see all of the joint efforts and collaborations being used in so many ways, every time someone brings something new and can re use an element someone has worked on getting just right it only helps to level up the quality and diversity of the overlays which is part of what makes this group work so well!
That NeoGeo bezel we built for your NeoGeo project has been a real benefit, I’m always thrown by how real it looks on every overlay it’s used for! Completely forgot about the Coin mech project seems a shame not to do any more of those, feels like it needs completing 
Btw, that new Snow bros overlay is beautiful, keeps getting better and better 
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Hope your daughter is having a great semester at collage!
@NeoKarnage absolutely, it’s a total game changer! I have Shinobi on my short list and about 80% compete for over a year I’m pretty sure those have all been done in one shape or another by now, might take a look at vigilante too, love all of those .
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@PapaShine, if you do want to work on Vigilante, @neokarnage passed some good control panel assets along to me a while back, I just haven’t gotten around to constructing an overlay for this one yet. Sort of fell off my radar. But here is what I have:
If you start working on it let me know so we don’t duplicate efforts 
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There are overlays for Elevator Action, Shinobi, and Vigilante without the control panels. Kung-Fu Master, Karate Champ, Time Soldiers, and Xevious don’t have any vertical overlays available in this forum. Just curious what do you think of the rendered cabinets in Arcade Time Capsule (VR Arcade)?
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A gift for you @NeoKarnage, there is now a Shinobi overlay with control panel out on the drive. There is a version without the bezel instruction card as well, in case you prefer without. It’s duplicative of the instructions on the control panel, but I included it for sake of completeness:
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Ah, Very nice! I knew there was a reason I gave up on it!
I have a group of friends coming round next weekend for some arcade and pinball to celebrate a birthday and Shinobi is his favourite arcade game of all time, that will go down nicely! 
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@papashine, you built a virtual pinball cabinet I think? How did that turn out, happy with it?
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Yes, I built two - 2nd one I’m very happy with, the emulation is phenomenal. I have a 4k OLED screen as the playfield and especially the latest tables are just incredible to look at, I also have a virtual reality headset hooked up to it now and being able to lean into the table and see all of that glorious work in 3D and real time is mindbending!
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Oh wow, thanks that looks fantastic. Shinobi is one of my favorites as well. I have two minor suggestions. A black ball top for the joystick and the button labels should mirror. So the “Ninja Magic” and “Attack” buttons/labels should be swapped on the left side. Either way it’s another one checked off. Thanks again.
The color of the joystick and buttons plus the layout are from the instruction manual. I prefer your placement of the player start buttons.
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I took a shot at modifying it myself. I hope you don’t mind.
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AuP-HfEK4kOUoip2b9JEkgm2VROx <-- Full Resolution
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Thanks @NeoKarnage! Good observations, and I wasn’t aware of the standards in terms of the colors, etc. @papashine and I were talking about an improvement to the texture for the stickers as well (they were originally a shiny metallic material), once we figure that out we can incorporate these changes as well!
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