Topic: Wide Icons For Our ROMs (Read 2315 times)

FrankMorris · « **Reply #105 on:** April 20, 2009, 03:27:00 PM »

Yep. I will never upload some 2xSai filter shit on here.
Some of the logos have been even double-sized (200% of original with no quality or ar loss)
Bigger pixels means better quality.

Horscht · « **Reply #106 on:** April 20, 2009, 03:35:00 PM »

Those are REALY sweet. Too bad i don't use .cut files realy. If i did, your icons would be those on my box

PS: Emulator filters suck!

pure unfiltered ftw!

ressurectionx · « **Reply #107 on:** April 20, 2009, 05:04:00 PM »

BLADES OF STEEL!

FrankMorris · « **Reply #108 on:** April 20, 2009, 09:44:00 PM »

QUOTE(BillyBobX @ Apr 21 2009, 02:44 AM)

Those NES banners are nice, but I have a question:

What is the origin of this 844x125 resolution? Why can't 758x140 work for HD too? I'm all for higher quality/resolution but 844x125 isn't even the same aspect ratio as the XBMC wide icon standard...

844x125 is the exact size, when viewing "big wide." in 720p. Or am I wrong? I tested it with Programs root menu (press white and choose thumbnail). I'll make some more tests when possible.

ressurectionx · « **Reply #109 on:** April 20, 2009, 09:47:00 PM »

All of my banners (with the borders) are sized at 662x122. Most of the icons i was already going to use were that size, so I made my other ones that size too.

I consider individual emulated games and XBox games to be different though, so they won't have borders and the size doesn't matter (as long as all icons in the folder are the same size).

I've heard lots of talk about an XBMC wide icon standard size, but nobody ever went by it. I have icons that range at least 10 different sizes.

Horscht · « **Reply #110 on:** April 21, 2009, 08:45:00 AM »

thetvdb.com also uses 758x140, i think that is what we should stick with!

ressurectionx · « **Reply #111 on:** April 21, 2009, 09:27:00 AM »

I'm easy.... I just figured out Adobe CS (the basics, anyways) so I'm all set. It's real easy to change things in there if I need to.

I do agree that for game titles there should be a standard size though. It's easy to get away with no standard on emu/homebrew/category/genre type icons (now that I've used the borders to make everything completely uniform and looking great). But who wants to edit through hundreds or thousands of possible game icons to get them the same size?

Good luck getting the standard to stick guys. I've been trolling through 4 different wide icon threads to make my pack and though they constantly brought up a "standard", nobody ever went by it. I know you guys say there is a "standard" size, but after looking through 3 or so years of threads on the subject, it's obvious that nobody ever really followed it.

~Rx

ressurectionx · « **Reply #112 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:46:00 AM »

They look great man!

Any chance you could make an icon for Pyros aka Wardner?

ressurectionx · « **Reply #113 on:** April 21, 2009, 04:48:00 PM »

I'm a bit fuzzy on the math.... how does 844x125 ratio to 662x122. Probably not too good... huh? That's what all the "Border" icons in the pack are. I'm cool with that because that's the resolution I used for all of those types of icons, with the borders. For the XBox games I use the icons at mediaicons.org (I think that's the site) and for the games I'm going to use the boxarts from the Xtras. I think I'll devote a section to my own personal favorte games using icons like FM has made. Hopefuly we get good icons for the favorites for all the systems like that style.

Main point is that I think there definately should be a standard created now for any emulated rom icons, across all systems.

~Rx

ressurectionx · « **Reply #114 on:** April 21, 2009, 09:53:00 PM »

If you wanted to match them to the Xtras names, that would be cool. That's what I did with them anyways when you posted your first 40

BillyBobX · « **Reply #115 on:** April 22, 2009, 07:40:00 AM »

FM: Great explanation of why 844x125 is what you're going with. It all makes sense. I'm using XBMC with Slate theme and Big Wide Icons view on a 4:3 display (arcade cabinet) so 758x140 is prefect for me.

ressurectionx · « **Reply #116 on:** April 22, 2009, 07:48:00 AM »

Is there any way to get them all in one zipfile?

ressurectionx · « **Reply #117 on:** April 22, 2009, 08:18:00 AM »

Wow.... that is a lot. Looking forward to them.

Darkangel754 · « **Reply #118 on:** April 26, 2009, 11:06:00 AM »

Here is a complete set of icons for Final Fantasy 1-9 + Tactics that I've made:

Note: They have white backgrounds that blend in with the background of these forums.

IPB Image

I'm no pro or anything but I thought someone might want to use'em

ressurectionx · « **Reply #119 on:** April 26, 2009, 06:53:00 PM »

I think they look great. The images were always very "white" originally, so it doesn't detract from the icons as much as it would otherwise. I do agree that it would be nice to have a little more "balance" with these.

I will have to try to use the border on them. I think they will look great with the border there and it will really serve to balance out the blank space well.

Thanks for sharing Darkangel754.

~Rx

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