Rolling Thunder - Atari Ireland Marquee

[Dazza]

Bruno,

I was reading through your thread where you picked up an Atari Ireland Rolling Thunder machine from Jason. Well I have "potentially" got my hands on one too!

Unfortunately the CPO has been replaced with a US version, so 4 - 5 inches of art is lost, but I can live with that. However, the marquee has also been replaced with a cut down US one. The irish one is much better and has additional art, an enemy, whereas the US one looks really squashed on the irish cab.

Anyway, I wanted to get an irish repro one made but MameMarquees only do the US one:

http://www.mamemarquees.com/rolling-thunder-marquee-p-890.html

They do however, do "custom" ones. I can't find any other places that do that marquee or find any files on the web of the marquee and there don't seem to be any for sale on EBay.

If I manage to get this machine would it be possible for you to do a high res scan of your one, as it looks in fantastic condition, so I could get a custom one reproduced?

Cheers
-Dazza-

[DarthNuno]

You're lucky Daz' 

 

- My Rolling Thunder is still accessible in my game room
- My Scanner A3 is still plugged

 

So here we go :



The setup are : 300dpi - no resizing - PNG files :


[right click for saving the high res .png file (32MB)]


[right click for saving the high res .png file (32MB)]


Now the best option would be to make a vectorization file (there are some specialists here and there for a such job : Dexter, Zorg or Nickos69 by example ).

I hope you'll catch the game 

[Dexter]

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while, but I am on holidays as of after work today and I am flying out and won't be able to Vector this till I get back 

I've quickly joined it so you can see :-)

[DarthNuno]

 

[Dexter]

This is from Vector Magic:

[Dexter]

I 'MIGHT' have some time this afternoon to clean it up. We'll see 

[DarthNuno]

I 'MIGHT' have some time this afternoon to clean it up. We'll see 

Jesus Christ  The marquee could be available *before* Dazza got the game ?   
Anyway, the arcade community has to got this one available too 

 

[Dexter]

Jesus Christ  The marquee could be available *before* Dazza got the game ?   
Anyway, the arcade community has to got this one available too 

That's what we are here for Bruno 

I am happy to help out in anyway I can 

[polaris]

Jesus Christ  The marquee could be available *before* Dazza got the game ?   
Anyway, the arcade community has to got this one available too 

That's what we are here for Bruno 

I am happy to help out in anyway I can 

applause from me too, i'm someone with no skills to help the community , i really appreciate the selfless work people do for others.
 

[Zorg]

This is from Vector Magic:

please no vector magic or auto tracing stuff.

[Dexter]

This is from Vector Magic:

please no vector magic or auto tracing stuff.

I so know that 

It was to show a crap version of a Vector, till I trace the other one and make a 'REAL' vector 

But I am not back till the 3rd of January to do it

[Dexter]

applause from me too, i'm someone with no skills to help the community , i really appreciate the selfless work people do for others.
 

For me, helping out is what it's ALL about. I've been looking for artwork for some games for years and this is the reason I got into creating vectors or artwork that people are after, and I make it available to all for FREE !!!

Just giving something back, gives me a lot of pleasure knowing I am helping others keep the dream alive 

[Dazza]

Oh my god! That was quick!!!!  

Bruno, you are a star! Always looking out for the fellow arcade enthusiast.  

If someone could do a vetor version or cleanup that would make my day, actually make my year! As can be seen when the images are put together you can see the join, there is a discolouration in the top yellow bar. Funny though because the rest of the image I could probably get away with  

Again most gracious thanks for the quick responses....  

Cheers
-Dazza-

[DarthNuno]

Well in fact the scan was the easy job  ...

The big work is the vectors specialists  They are THE men 

 

[Dazza]

Was wondering whether I should have a go myself. I'm quite a dab hand in paint shop pro 

What software do the expects here use? Are there any tutorials online?