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Reproduction of Japanese Galaxian artwork
« on: November 20, 2020, 02:10:01 PM »
Hello!

I'm trying to recreate the Japanese version of Galaxian to create a version for MAME animated artwork but it's hard to find good references. I don't have experience with design, I do have some awareness about Gimp and Inkscape however I'm still a novice.

It took me a full month to recreate this Japanese instruction card, I do speak some Japanese however I don't read or write kanji, imagine how hard this was to be recreated, this is the best I could do:



The button it's not perfect, it's a rendering to be displayed on screen based on this picture:



Thanks to Etienne MacGyver design this is the result:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLSZ_EKvXUw

I'm looking for better references to polish this a little bit, I think the bezel color it's off, the buttons sizes and position, etc.

As Etienne did, how can I give this back to the community?
Is there a place to upload the files?

Thank you.

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Re: Reproduction of Japanese Galaxian artwork
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2020, 05:25:18 PM »
Looks great thank for the hard work, much appreciated by the community. The only server i know that hosts artwork is Etienne’s server.

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Re: Reproduction of Japanese Galaxian artwork
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2020, 11:22:24 AM »
Nice Job !

As for kanji, look for "KanjiTomo" (https://www.kanjitomo.net)

It helped me alot with finding the Japanese characters.

I did host some of the artwork, but i dont offer it as a service.
VectorLib is a good alternative to host stuff

Zorg is also on this forum i believe  (http://vectorlib.free.fr)


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Re: Reproduction of Japanese Galaxian artwork
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2020, 04:28:36 AM »
Thank you Laszo and Etienne!

I'll polish a few things then I can make the files available here.

Thank you Etienne, I couldn't make this without your work.

Best regards!

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Re: Reproduction of Japanese Galaxian artwork
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2020, 08:27:32 PM »
Sorry it took this long, I had to deal with some personal issues.

I'm done with the japanese instruction card, did my best to try to reproduce it the best I could. This is the text:
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スペースロケートを操縦して
エイリアン(異星人)を撃墜してください。

3回破壊されるとゲームオーバー。

5000点でスペースロケットが
機追加されます。

一気に高得点を!!

攻撃中のエイリアンを撃墜すると
得点がなんと2倍·········

高得点のミステリーポイントも
あります·········

得点

待機中
攻撃中

1人 / 2人
100円

This is the final art.

This are the vector files created with Inkscape
http://www.mediafire.com/file/r7pnwhqwq0uuqe8/Galaxian-japanese-instruction-by-wtu-11252020.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nz8ikbz7ab7ljxk/Japanese_galaxian-by-wtu-02122020.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/rmm73o1wf4ou6kq/namco-button-by-wtu-25112020.zip

And this is what I did with it so far:

Italian Galaxian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsWezZIrhgg

Japanese Galaxian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olI1L44aPWM

Midway Galaxian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Ru1jKqx8g

Puckman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTf8BY8PHfw

Ms. Pacman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sT-lYotfSQ

Jr. Pacman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryouc-M4aKw

I'll try to make a Namco Rally-x, this one it's had to find.
Thanks.