This was originally just an email to Gilles, but I want to keep it here so this stuff is transparent. I'd like to see what ideas if any the community comes up with.....
Hey Gilles,
You ever think about what I posted in the thread for the missing Boxart project?
I'm really thinking we need something like this for all of the systems because there are certain categories that just don't have any boxart and a very small amount of licensed games that there just is no boxart for.
I was thinking having boxart that is generic as possible, with the style of the system's boxart like this:
(IMG:
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4931/smbprotoype.jpg)
I think it would be even better if we removed the Mario picture and just had a white border with a black background with the words inside of it.
I was thinking that we need boxarts that say the following for most systems:
"Prototype"
"Unlicensed"
"Original Homebrew"
"No Boxart Available"
We wouldn't need one for "Hacks" because I've been using the original game's boxart for all hacks.
I would then add the appropriate image to every game in the Xtras so we never have a blank space while scrolling through our roms. I would then update the Boxart packs one final time with these new images.
We really need something like this because it will greatly improve the look of the Xtras sets. I know you made those images in the skins, but with the different sizes of the images, we'll see that background on the edges of images that don't take up the entire box (example: The Japan SNES boxart).
Thanks man. I hope you agree and come up with something great like you always do.
Later,
~Rx