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#854

Here’s another peak at my progress. :innocent:

V.Smile_WIP
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This is turning out to be one of the toughest graphics I have done yet. (Part of me wonders why I couldn’t leave it well enough alone. :grin:)

It is coming along just fine, with plenty of room to satisfy my need for OCD passes. :wink:

One of my design choices makes it a little bottom heavy. Still not sure I will do anything about it. (Although if I don’t, my OCD may not let me sleep at night. :upside_down_face:)

Things always look better as details are added, we’ll see how I feel later on in the process.

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#855

I think it’s pretty close! :grin:

V.Smile_New_WIP
V.Smile_New_WIP1920×1080 433 KB

V.Smile_New_WIP_Night
V.Smile_New_WIP_Night1920×1080 379 KB

I’m fairly happy with it, though I think there’s room for a good and thorough OCD pass. :innocent:

I also think this proves it is a worthy effort to make use of some MAME Software List machines, to fill some holes in the RA cores.

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#856

Are any VSmile games actually playable through Mame? last time I checked the system was supported but no games were known to run.

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#857

I’m playing one in the screenshot. (Alphabet Park Adventure (US))I have 19 US roms that work and there are many working titles in other languages. It seems they add more with every MAME update.

The creation date on my raster graphic is 2019/03/10 and all 19 games worked at that time. :grin:

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#858

Away for real life stuff for a bit and came back to some really nice updates! Thank you for the Neo CD, Atari and Game Gear overlays; they look great!

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#859

absolutely not my prefer system but your v-smile is awesome!

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#860

I took a deep OCD dive into this. :grin:

V.Smile_New_WIP2
V.Smile_New_WIP21920×1080 513 KB

V.Smile_New_WIP2_Night
V.Smile_New_WIP2_Night1920×1080 377 KB

I tweaked the main body highlights and shadows, did some fine detail highlights and shadows etc. on the edges of the body trim, and cleaned up the source a LOT.

Most of the real OCD work was on the d-pad and enter buttons… they are supposed to be shiny plastic and were very flat. They are flat no longer. (I spent a LOT of time on them and made many changes.)

I am extremely happy with the result. :partying_face:

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#861

Hey! @lilbud

V.Smile_New_WIP
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With the next version of the shader the controls will be on separate layers, one for the blue and another for the orange. So they can be swapped using parameters. :grin:

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#862

Hey! At the request of @RetroFanZ I have started a new project. It will be a collection of cartridges for all cart based systems. (Actually he only requested two carts, I expanded the scope.)

Here is the SNES SGB graphic.

SGB_SNES
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I will be going at this slowly because they take as much time and effort as a console graphic and this project has priority. I have started a Launchbox forum thread pointing to my new repo and showing off some of my other works, along with HSM’s awesome shader.

The cartridge can be found in a new “Front-End-Assets” repo on my GitHub. I will be doing a Game Boy next to occupy the top slot. The final assembled PS template will have a smart object that, combined with an included PS script, can be pointed at a collection of images to create output for any number of games. Instructions for the script are also include.

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#863

Very cool! Launchbox is my favorite front end :smile:

Excellent graphic for the cartridge too! :star_struck:

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#864

Big Box is very cool. Down the road I plan on creating a Kodi theme for Big Box to emulate my favorite Kodi skin, Aeon MQ7. (Maybe Aeon MQ9 if it ever gets completed. :grin:)

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#865

This is MY FAVORITE FRONT END! and thx mate for your incredible job sincerly thank you;)

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#866

I will probably do the PAL version and the Game Boy, just to show the LB forum that I’m serious, then return to work here on this project. I’m also excited about putting the smart object script to work for everyone and that will require at least the Game Boy graphic.

FYI the script only works in PS but I have seen mentions of Affinity macros so maybe @HyperspaceMadness and I can talk about an alternative option for the community.

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#867

@RetroFanZ

:grin:

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#868

Hey @Duimon, do you plan to do a NeoGeo AES?

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#869

Yes. :grin: The NeoGeo handhelds are next on my list, perhaps I will just complete the set.

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#870

Hello!

I’ve used some of your overlays in my Retropie/Recalbox overlays pack: https://github.com/cosmo0/retropie-overlays

Let me know if you want me to remove them.

Thanks for the great work :slight_smile: :+1:

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#871

@cosmo0 Use them, change them, enjoy them. They and my source are free to use without credit.:grin:

I’m happy you considered them worthy of your pack. Is there anything I haven’t done yet that you would like to see sooner than later?

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#872

Cool, thanks! I credited you of course, I always do.

I had a lot of missing systems, but I just found out Recalbox has made a pack with a few of the missing ones: [Recalbox 7.x] - Overlays complets | Recalbox Forum so I’ll check them and get back to you if I’m still missing systems after that :smile:

Thanks a lot!

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#873

Ok I’ve updated the list and I’m still missing these ones: Find overlays for generic ones · Issue #9 · cosmo0/retropie-overlays (github.com)

  • CoCo
  • Daphne
  • Dragon 32
  • GX 4000
  • Macintosh (no Libretro emulator so no rush)
  • Oric Atmos
  • MO/TO
  • Ti 99
  • TRS 80

If you ever do overlays for these ones, let me know :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot!

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