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General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 02:31:50 PM

Title: Arcade Marquees
Post by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 02:31:50 PM

Not sure where to post this, so i put it here  :oops:

Where do you guys would go to find (free) high quality images of your favourite marquees? I wanna put an OutRun marquee on my generic racing cab, but i dont know where to find a good quality file...

Thanx! :-*

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: level42 on March 23, 2010, 02:41:36 PM

http://artwork.joymonkey.com/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&page=inline&id=2172&catid=13&limitstart=37

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 02:45:41 PM

Excellent, thanx!

EDIT: man, i noticed that all the marquees on that site have the name of the site in transparency... do you know if there's a link for marquees without "additional graphics" ?

thanks, very appreciated ;)

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: Sonic 1992 on March 23, 2010, 03:51:57 PM

Photoshop it out!  ;)

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 03:54:54 PM

Hmmm, sure it's a solution but time consuming  ;D

Don't say that there are no sites with good and un-scarred marquees!  :ghost:

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: level42 on March 23, 2010, 04:09:38 PM

Maybe, just maybe, you should read the first page of that site.....

AFTER (and only AFTER) that you should maybe click on "Join us!"....

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 04:12:26 PM

It looks like the home page was the answer  :evil: :D

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: level42 on March 23, 2010, 04:18:17 PM

In this visual age, we tend to loose our focus when it comes to texts.  ;D

Read ALL about how this became available here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=61616.0

As you can see I pretty much launched the idea of the groupbuy that made it possible to get the goodies :D

A lot of people chipped in 50 bucks to buy the artwork package and get a harddrive big enough (those were still very expensive then, hence some suggested distribution on DVD's....now we laugh at the price of a 1 TB Harddisk. And we "only" needed HALF a Terabyte.... :D

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 04:36:24 PM

Unfortunately that site is blocked by the firewall of the firm i work for... anyhow, even if i cannot read the full story, its a matter of fact that all the people that put efforts on keeping the arcade culture up deserve full respect  :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: baritonomarchetto on March 23, 2010, 09:23:11 PM

Level42, i sent you a pm but some connection issues dont let me know if it has arrived (everytime i send the pm, my connection fails)...

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: level42 on March 24, 2010, 01:00:27 AM

Got your PM. I can help you tomorrow evening.

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: ckong on March 24, 2010, 09:09:30 AM

That is so cool, a group of arcade 'friends' who don't know each other in person, but don't hesitate to spend money and to organize a way of sharing, in order to save a great artwork collection for the entire arcade community. Makes me almost cry. I'm so happy to say that I just donated something also to cover hosting costs etc.

Title: Re: Arcade Marquees
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on March 24, 2010, 10:25:34 AM

I just donated too there, like erik says, its a cool thing that somebody is taking the effort to host this resource, and the fee is not so much, and defenetly worth it !