Great work guys, btw do the TMNT games have had some 4K vertical love?
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Awesome, Briball. Thanks so much! I’ll try it tonight.
EDIT: Yes! Successful fix of that little white line next to the illuminated start buttons. 100% immersive now. Love the way the flashing start buttons reflect in the glass. Wonderful work. And you were correct: I’m not on 4k monitor (someday, I hope!). I’m on 1440
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Legionnaire (TAD Corporation - 1992)
This wasn’t a game I was familiar with but the marquee came as a bundle with the Raiden Fighters marquee I picked up so I put this overlay together for it. In addition to some light clean up on the marquee I found a photo of the instruction strip and recreated it in vectors.
The game is a fairly typical beat-em-up in the vein of Final Fight and was one of the last games produced by TAD before the company dissolved. For a while this was considered a lost game but the MAME team was eventually able to dump the ROMS and preserve it. So, I’ve done my part in preserving the artwork as well.
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Raiden DX (Seibu - 1994)
This is an enhanced version of Raiden II (akin to how Metal Slug X was based on Metal Slug 2) and considered by many to be the best in the series. Additional replay value has been added by including three different courses that can be selected at the main menu. Along with the courses there were a number of changes to the scoring mechanics, remixed music and in the non-japanese region versions a third button was added for Auto-Fire.
I recreated the instruction strip for this from a grainy reference image I found on-line. It is basically the same as the Raiden II strip but with the DX game title and the addition of the third button for autofire. The marquee is also a new scan from an original marquee which I cleaned up.
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Raiden Fighters Jet (Seibu -1998)
This is the final game released in the Raiden series, and with this overlay I’ve completed the set. The marquee and instruction card for this have been impossible to locate, so I created a custom marquee that is similar in style to the original. Hopefully the art for this will turn up at some point and I can come back and update the overlay.
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Thank you so much! 
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You are welcome @Rion! It was a great suggestion, I wasn’t that familiar with the Raiden series until now and it’s become one of my favorites too, and this set is an awesome addition to our overlays collection
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Heated Barrel (TAD Corporation - 1992)
This is another mostly forgotten title from TAD Corporation (better known for Toki and Cabal) and it was their last game before folding. I got this marquee as part of the bundle for Raiden Fighters so felt I should put an overlay together for it despite it’s obscurity. The instruction strip is another recreation from an extremely blurry photo (I couldn’t even make out the text, so that may be incorrect) and images from the arcade manual.
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Toki (TAD Corporation - 1989)
Keeping on with the TAD games, here is Toki. The marquee here was purchased scanned and restored by RaspBear/UDB from the MameWorld art forum.
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Star Wars:The Empire Strikes Back (1985) (ATARI)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZsrp_qyF8QPCc4hi-zi7-LRx0NtxU5r/view?usp=sharing
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Updated Ninja Baseball Bat Man (IREM - 1993)
This overlay has been updated with a new marquee and control panel overlay.
I found an interview with Drew Maniscalco, the original game/character/art designer for this game where he mentioned that he had a copy of this very rare artwork. I reached out to Drew and he generously shared a high quality scan of the marquee. Drew is the current IP owner for both the game and artwork so this is in the free and clear. Many thanks to Drew for both sharing this artwork and for creating this amazingly creative piece of arcade gaming history!
For the control panel, I had heard mention of a generic black IREM logo CPO that was used for a number of their games, but had never seen a picture. I recently stumbled on a nice clear photo of this one on the KLOV forums and vectorized it.
There are both full bezel and large screen versions of this overlay.
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Magic Sword (1990) (CAPCOM)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUZQVCothUmNocwl2wU9SVT4QbZ8ithy/view?usp=sharing
Good Afternoon!! Here is a classic Arcade, I used this amazing marquee from @ArsInvictus Thank
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Beautiful job here, Ars! Way to reach out to Drew. Great story behind this one.
Art style is so adorable here, I stuck with it for a while tonight – just playing casually as an interactive cartoon without worrying about gameplay mechanics. Totally fun experience for the wonderful art design.
Thanks so much for the fantastic gift.
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Thanks @benlogan! Yeah, Ninja Baseball Bat Man has really become known as a cult classic over the years. It’s unfortunate that it was developed and released after fighting games had displaced pretty much every other genre in the industry. Only about 40 or so copies of this game were distributed in NA when it came out, so the art itself was rare to start with.
But the game is a fantastic beat 'em up, with colorful, quirky character design, huge sprites and lovely pixel art, as well as smooth and responsive controls and play mechanics. So it’s great that it has been able to get some recognition via emulation and more people have had the opportunity to play it.
Battle Circuit is another example of an excellent beat 'em up that many people have never heard about (and one of my personal top 3 in the genre). It was the last beat em up produced for the arcades and never released in NA but it’s also one of the best beat 'em ups ever produced and even incorporated some elements from the fighting genre into the combat. It was included in the recent Capcom beat 'em up bundle and that’s the first time it was released in any format for NA, and how I first discovered it. I created some custom art for that overlay based on the game flyer and I’ll be updating that overlay with a CPO version soon too.
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Strider (Capcom - 1989)
The art here was all provided via @mrdo. There are both full bezel and large screen versions included.
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Truxton (Toaplan - 1988)
This is just an update of the previous overlay for this game including a new control panel I recreated using assets from the bezel by @MrRetroLust. Thanks again @MrRetroLust for providing the raw art files so I could put this together.
UPDATE: 12/19, tweaked the black levels so it looks more like actual vinyl/paper for the CPO/bezel, rather than floating in total blackness.
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Nice I was hoping a new incarnation of Strider would come!!! 
Definitely one of my favorite games, running down that Siberian mountain felt so epic!
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Commando (1985) (DATA EAST / CAPCOM)
Happy Christmas!! Here is a classic Arcade, I used this amazing marquee from @ArsInvictus Thank!!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12YlYGcWm_emW0zolHoKmIUB86CcSzBmB/view?usp=sharing
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