4K Vertical Overlay Community Contributions

[ArsInvictus]

Yeah, it’s a matter of priorities I guess. At 4k there is enough resolution to still give a nice approximation of the CRT look (and this is coming from someone who has an arcade with 6 original cabinets with CRT’s in his basement and a JVC D-Series CRT hooked up for console gaming) but the artwork does a lot to recreate the original arcade experience that is just really immersive. And I’ve not had one person come to my home, see the vertical arcade and comment about the subpixel emulation or mask orientation, but everyone seems to love the overall experience with the artwork in place.

On the 55 inch TV I’m using I measured the size of the space for the CRT and on a typical horizontal game I’ve still got the equivalent of a 27-inch screen, so the overall impression in terms of size is really analogous to an actual cabinet as well.

[ArsInvictus]

Eco Fighters 4k Overlay

This is one that I’d basically finished but had not published as I was planning to create an instruction card for it. I thought I’ll just share it out as is for now and I can revisit the instruction card on a lazy Sunday. The marquee here is just a high quality photograph I took at Galloping Ghost arcade here in Chicago. Many thanks to Doc Mack for allowing me to do this.

Eco Fighters MAME artwork

I’m just including the MAME file for now. I still need to work out the integration with @HyperspaceMadness’s megabezel.

@HyperspaceMadness, I do want to experiment with how we could use your shader to illuminate other portions of the overlay such as the control panel using your shader if it’s possible.

[Cyber]

Looks awesome and impressive as usual! I guess if you use something like a Lottes Mask (which might also be technically inaccurate as it is a rotated slot mask pattern), then rotate that vertically, with the use of a rotated bezel, that should provide a fairly accurate shadow mask pattern you know.

Ever try that?

If using HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader you can try my Computer Monitor Sharp or Computer Monitor Smooth Presets if you want to do a quick test without having to get your hands dirty. Those won’t look right with Mega Bezel Reflection Shader version 1.7.0 though, you might have to use 1.6.3 or set Mask Bloom to 0 and Deconvergence Scale Mode to Absolute to have it look as intended on 1.7.0.

Then you might just have to rotate the scanlines to horizontal and voila!

They were updated to work with HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader V1.7.0 today.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@ArsInvictus

@HyperspaceMadness, I do want to experiment with how we could use your shader to illuminate other portions of the overlay such as the control panel using your shader if it’s possible.

Yeah we should definitely work together on this , I’ll have to add an additional feature to do this, but I was always planning to. We might be able collaborate with @PapaShine for cp assets which react to the light as well.

[ArsInvictus]

Thanks @Cyber! I will gave that a shot. I do tend to favor the Lottes Masks in general, just from a personal preference standpoint I feel like it looks more like my actual arcade CRT’s.

I’ll gave your suggestions a shot soon. I just got the TV mounted today so I can actually start playtesting my overlays again

[ArsInvictus]

Thanks @Antijebus, I probably did release it then. It wasn’t showing up in my dropbox share so I’d assumed it wasn’t published. Sounds like it was probably just an issue with my dropbox directory. I haven’t done this stuff in a while so I’m a bit unorganized here.

[ArsInvictus]

Absolutely, DM me when you would like to collaborate on it!

[ArsInvictus]

3 Wonders Overlay coming soon…

I’m setting up my machine and workflow to use the HSM Mega Bezel shader for the Retroarch version of the overlays, and it will take a little time to get that configured properly. But I’ve also been working on some overlays and really like how 3 Wonders came together. I was never able to find a good scan of the original marquee (or CPO) so I created a custom marquee in this case. The CPO I recreated in vectors based on a decent photograph I found online.

Hope to have this packaged up soon but here’s a preview:

[ArsInvictus]

Many thanks to @NeoKarnage for finding a reasonably clear copy of the original Three Wonders marquee. Thanks to the power of AI and about 4 hours of tedious editing I was able to bring to a usable state for an overlay. Hopefully someone will find a really nice copy of this marquee and provide the scan but this will do until then.

Here is what @NeoKarnage sent me tonight:

And here it is after my upscaling, sharpening, editing:

I’ll try to get it incorporated to the overlay tomorrow and hopefully published in a few days on GitHub.

[Drybonz]

Awesome… you do nice work, ArcInvictus.

[NeoKarnage]

Outstanding restoration. I can’t wait to play using the completed overlay.

[darkand]

Do you have a big blue and cruisin usa psd for me to edit and a generic one like the one in the image?

[ArsInvictus]

I don’t have a Cruisn USA but I have Big Blue and can send you that and the Vampire Savior PSD’s.

I’m heading out for a while now but will message you later this evening.

[Boz1978]

Awesome work fella

[walter.farmacia]

@PapaShine

was digging around my old project files and found this which was pretty close to completion, it’s a whole bunch of layered PSDs with buttons and various control sticks including their shadows in multiple locations, all with alphas and some lit textured surfaces for the CPO surface I was sorting for @ArsInvictus, @Briball, @Thoggo and anyone else that might have needed them. Its a few hours from completion but would anyone be interested in me finishing this up and supplying them here? I notice a lot of people have cut out what they need, but this would give accurate reflections and lighting across the whole CPO if needed.

I am interested in contributing, send it to me if you can

[ArsInvictus]

Here is the overlay with the updated marquee:

And here is a link to the png files for now, as I still need to set up my GitHub for future distribution. There is a coin door version in the directory as well:

3wonders

[darkand]

Breakers

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ndCxpTBB0pryAldEYPdOgIeoPoppSKfb/view?usp=share_link

Street Fighter The Movie

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fTA8hXyy5LdoLDKXJXtKo4bt58GZoA_7/view?usp=share_link

Burning Fight

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rjrf2zmDh09ELqaIwhGaN8TG1--V9qiv/view?usp=share_link

Street Fighter Ex2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cx_ch4LmqKum5UXMrUHGFKaIZVMbAjPx/view?usp=share_link

Marvel vs Capcom

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qvotS3kl6BSsDN3BDXVpbANWSPcWLexH/view?usp=share_link

Marvel vs Street Fighter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zkXjDMA_9IOaNQHJYaWGqwSrdb1Drp0/view?usp=share_link

Super Street Fighter 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kvnpntot-QrBz23DNch-gTikBhlbc79-/view?usp=share_link

[ArsInvictus]

Awesome contributions @darkand! Thank you!

[darkand]

Guys, could someone help me. I have these images in high definition of the candy machine Taito Egreet II. If someone can make the machine so that we can have a default candy, that would be great. Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1APG6CzaVykrl_n74QNOBrOem_8PaeZF_/view?usp=share_link

[PapaShine]

I have one of these in wip, I’ll try and get on it soon, 2023 was meant to be a quiet start but it’s been a wild ride so far!! Will jump on it soon