4K Vertical Overlay Community Contributions

[Thoggo]

Mystic Marathon

MAME version

RetroArch version

Lo! Finally, it is complete
This lovely overlay
Another classic Williams game
For all of you to play

The story is about a race
Across meadow and stream
Told of in legends, long ago
As if it was a dream

Your goal is simple, dearest friends
Just run until you win
Or if by chance you fall face-first
Well, you can start again

The bezel for this game was lost
Now, carefully restored
Our thanks to Mr. Do and friends
Our mead for them is poured

(This game has its own rhyming verse intro so I couldn’t resist. I painstakingly restored this bezel, which I think you’ll agree is worth it for this lovely artwork. Please note, this overlay has two versions, the darker one on the right was designed to emulate a dark arcade look with a glow on the CPO. Thanks to @PapaShine for the CPO render.)

[ArsInvictus]

That is the world’s first arcade overlay poetry! A great day for history, and Mystic Marathon!

[ArsInvictus]

Shadow Dancer Update now with Control Panel render!

Here is an updated version of Shadow Dancer which incorporates a shiny new CPO render from @PapaShine. There are both full bezel with the CPO and a large screen version with just the bezel.

Alas, I am too tired to compose a haiku about this game, but I hope you enjoy it anyway!

MAME - Shadow Dancer

RetroArch - Shadow Dancer CPO

RetroArch - Shadow Dancer Large Screen

[benlogan]

Fantastic update to Shadow Dancer, Ars and PapaShine. I think you guys nailed the lighting on this one. Dark enough to be plenty “vibey,” but bright enough to bring out all the detail in the artwork. You two are genuine artists. Also love that links are presented right alongside the preview images. Top notch, fellas!

[ArsInvictus]

Updated Out Zone

Just a basic style update again here, though I did replace the marquee with a better copy sourced from @MrDo’s site.

This is another cab where it seems the CPO is very hard to find (though last time I said that for In The Hunt, @Briball found a decent photograph that we can use for a future CPO version).

MAME - Out Zone

RetroArch - Outzone

[ArsInvictus]

Updated Street Fighter III: Third Strike

In addition to the general graphic updates such as the plastic bezel and other trim from @PapaShine, I used a higher quality scan of the marquee from @MrDo. I also purchased and scanned the instruction cards used here.

MAME - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

RetroArch - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

[ArsInvictus]

GigaWing Control Panel Update

I’m really excited about this update to the GigaWing overlay, which features a fresh new 3D CPO render by @PapaShine. The control panel stickers for the joystick and buttons were recreated by myself based on a combination of reference photos, high resolution scans from arcade flyers I’d purchased for this game in the past, as well as other vectorizations I’d done for other Capcom games that used the same overall design.

So with this update, we have the complete set of GigaWing artwork on display, something which is extremely rare to find anywhere at this time. Hope any other GigaWing fans out there are half as happy about this one as I am!

MAME - GigaWing

RetroArch - GigaWing Control Panel View

[ArsInvictus]

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Control Panel version

Another Capcom CP 3d Render from @PapaShine, this time for Street Fighter! I vectorized the CP stickers again for this one and I believe this same sticker set can be used for at least 2 of the 3 SF Alpha series, but I haven’t been able to confirm that conclusively, given the amount of cross-pollination across the conversion cabs I’ve seen reference images of.

MAME - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

RetroArch - Street Fighter III 3rd Strike CPO Version

[ArsInvictus]

In The Hunt Control Panel Version

So, an hour after I said I couldn’t find the CPO anywhere and we’d likely never have a version of this game with the CP, @Briball successfully tracked down a clean enough copy to use for the render by @PapaShine.

Happy to have the full art set for this one too!

MAME - In The Hunt

RetroArch - In The Hunt control panel version

[benlogan]

Wow! Three in one day. Thanks so much, team. These look beautiful. I’m the Hunt is especially stunning!

[ArsInvictus]

Control Panel Version of Ghouls’N Ghosts

This overlay was thanks to the magnificent CPO recreation done by Lord Hiryu from the arcadecontrols forum, as he has generously shared this artwork back with the community. Thanks again to @PapaShine for the excellent 3D render as well.

MAME - Ghouls’N Ghosts

RetroArch - Ghouls’N Ghosts

[ArsInvictus]

Street Fighter Alpha: Warrior’s Dreams 4K Vertical Overlay

As near as I can tell, no instruction strips were released for the US version of the game, so the only art available is the marquee and the control panel stickers.

MAME - Street Fighter Alpha

RetroArch - Street Fighter Alpha

[benlogan]

Just noticed the texturing on the GigaWing bezel. Quite nice! Excellent realism here combined with that awesome CPO.

[ArsInvictus]

Thanks @benlogan! That plastic bezel is something @PapaShine rendered for the Neo Geo overlay series, but it’s a very standard bezel style so we can use it on a ton of overlays. I agree he did a great job on that texture, it’s the most realistic rendition I’ve seen of this style of bezel and just incredibly useful!

Thanks for all your continued encouragement and support!

[ArsInvictus]

Street Fighter Alpha 2 4K Vertical Overlays

There are 2 versions included in this one, a Capcom Big Blue view which is based on @Thoggo’s Big Blue design and a conversion cabinet view with the control panel.

MAME - Street Fighter Alpha 2

I’ve bundled both the Big Blue and CPO views into a single master zip file. Just unzip the main zip and choose which view you want for retroarch and then unzip that view under the RetroArch directory.

RetroArch - Street Fighter Alpha 2

[PapaShine]

These Capcom fighter overlays look amazing @ArsInvictus, loving the adaptation of @Thoggo’s big blue with that huge marquee too! Lovelly work on the vector recreations of the stickers, they really make a difference, some great CPO’s coming up. Also loving the GnG overlay, going to try and beat this when I have time.

Thanks @benlogan! Glad you like the work we’re doing

[ArsInvictus]

Street Fighter Alpha 3 Control Panel Update

This one right here is my favorite Street Fighter game and the only one I played enough to feel like I knew what I was doing, so I’m gonna get a lot of use out of this overlay myself.

In addition to the @PapaShine control panel here, I restored the high resolution instruction strips sourced from @mrdo.

MAME - Street Fighter Alpha 3

RetroArch - Street Fighter Alpha 3

[ArsInvictus]

King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest

Standard Neo-Geo overlay, but for this game I couldn’t find complete scans of the instruction strips available online but I was able to pick them up on eBay for inclusion here.

UPDATE - Apologies, but I used an older version of the overlay for this one and it had a smaller screen size than the newer version. I’ve updated the zip files to correct the issue.

MAME - King of Fighters '98

RetroArch - King of Fighters '98

[ArsInvictus]

Updated Ketsui

Thought I would mix it up a bit and refresh one of my old custom designs. This was assembled from high resolution scans I took from a Cave art book I imported from Japan. The overall thematic elements of the design were lifted from there as well.

MAME - Ketsui

RetroArch - Ketsui

[benlogan]

Look super cool. Original Ultraman color tones. Great design work, Ars. What’s the name of that Cave art book? Would love to track down a copy for myself.