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ressurectionx

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« Reply #120 on: April 28, 2009, 01:40:00 PM »

I know you didn't mean nothing by it nate...  cool.gif

Nothing wrong with some constructive critisism.  

Just to show what it looks like with the border, I put one up on imageshack...

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I think the border and gradient serve well to balance out the "blank" space.  


Great icons Darkangel,
~Rx
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« Reply #121 on: April 28, 2009, 02:26:00 PM »

Yes, these do look great, darkangel smile.gif

Rx, does this mean that you will be putting these boarders on all of them? This makes these (especially) look even better.

I am hoping to get into the whole wide icon thing, very soon. I downloaded your beta pack Rx. I did see any for Xbox games. (maybe they were there?) If not, will you be including these in later releases? Or , where can I find these. Someone once showed me a link to a pack put it was dead.


Oh, and, Props, to BillyBobx, as well. Those are awesome, too! biggrin.gif

Thanks

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« Reply #122 on: April 28, 2009, 02:44:00 PM »

There's actually a site for XBox games that is more thourough than I'd ever care to be with the actual XBox games.  Check out Media Icons.

I don't have a lot of XBox games, and actually except for a few like Fable and Bard's Tale I'm really not that interested, so I won't be collecting these much.  Everything you need in that regard should be on that site though.

Yeah... I was going to put the borders on all of them and release them in (both the originals and the borders) in the next update.  They're a bit tricky though, since the images and text dance so close to the edge.  I will have to modify the settings I normally use to make borders to compensate for this, so I just sent the first one here to show how it looked.
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« Reply #123 on: April 28, 2009, 04:43:00 PM »

I'm glad to hear all the positive feedback on my icons  happy.gif

When I made them I was planning on putting something in to fill the left hand space, like game art or something.

I'm liking the boarders you made ressurectionx  wink.gif

I made a few quick versions of how I had planned to originally do them, I might go ahead and do the whole set in a day or two.

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I think they look a lot better than my original ones.
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« Reply #124 on: April 28, 2009, 04:59:00 PM »

Very nice...

That definitely fills the blank space..  cool.gif


My only suggestion would be to make the color blend from the image on the left to the stark white background.  It's really only noticeable in the 3rd image, but you can see it a bit in the first one as well.
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« Reply #125 on: May 02, 2009, 08:34:00 AM »

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Apr 28 2009, 10:51 PM) View Post

Very nice...

That definitely fills the blank space..  cool.gif
My only suggestion would be to make the color blend from the image on the left to the stark white background.  It's really only noticeable in the 3rd image, but you can see it a bit in the first one as well.


I'm not really sure what you mean, can you explain it differently  ohmy.gif (I'm dumb tongue.gif)



I got a picture for all the other icons, I'll probably need to fix them up a bit though.

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I don't really like how FF2 turned out so I think I'm going to try a different picture. I thought most of the others turned out pretty good, but any advice is welcome  happy.gif
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« Reply #126 on: May 02, 2009, 08:56:00 AM »

Those look f-ing great man!

No more blank space now  cool.gif

I'd like to see what you come up with for an alternative to II as well.  You're right... there is something missing with that one that the rest of them seemed to capture.  It's just so different and out of place.  

I was thinking maybe change Tactics too, but then I thought about the game and looked at the picture again and it just seems to work perfect for it.  Of the entire series, it probably only had more of a story than FFI (might have...).   It's suiting that you used such a white and plain image compared to most of the rest.

All in all an excellent job, and it is definitely getting my praise for more than the simple fact that FF is probably my favorite series of all time.  



I do have one suggestion though that I hope you agree with and can accomplish....

It's what I was talking about before in my last suggestion.  


Look at FFI, FFVII, FFVIII, FF Tactics......  See how perfect the right side meshes with the left side?


Now look at FFIV, FFV, FFVI and FFIX.... See the faint-to-not-so-faint color clash with the stark white on the right?  Or that little dark spot that shows up on the middle of the FF Tactics icon?

On FFII and FFIII, it would probably be near impossible to do anything about, but the funny thing is on their own they look great like that.  It's just the ones in the "middle" that would look much better if somehow the Right Title side could meet the Left Picture side more fluidly.  

What do you think DA?
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« Reply #127 on: May 02, 2009, 07:21:00 PM »

I'm going to be doing boxart for the systems to launch the games straight from XBMC, but I'm also going to have an alternative way to load "favorites" using icons like the ones all you guys are making here.  I'm thinking of actually listing out my directory structure when I'm done so you guys can see exactly how I put my emus/roms/videos/artwork.  

This way, everyone would be able to emulate my setup perfectly and then I can release stuff like Xtras icons that would be immediately plug-n-play by just plugging in the .CUT folder.

I want to have a section for system specific favorites, and favorite series that use the wide icons created by the community.  Things like DA's FF icons, some great SMB icons that cover all the playable SMB games, as well as castlevania, metroid and other favorites.

Thanks for the great stuff everyone,
~Rx
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« Reply #128 on: May 02, 2009, 08:43:00 PM »

I dunno, I'd say Tactics was quite comparable VII in terms of plot. Maybe even more complex. Sure, there was far less to see/do in the world, but in terms of actual plot... That was about the only thing that got me through it (some of the battles were particularly unforgiving to the unprepared).

But those are about the only two FF games I've played (other then Tactics Advance, which doesn't have much of a plot at all... Speaking of which, does that get an icon?)

Any chance of getting multiple icons for the multi-disc games?  smile.gif
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« Reply #129 on: May 07, 2009, 12:51:00 AM »

Super Mario 64
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Mario Kart 64
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« Reply #130 on: May 07, 2009, 04:57:00 AM »

Donkey Kong 64
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Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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« Reply #131 on: May 07, 2009, 05:59:00 AM »

Mario Golf
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StarFox 64
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That's enough for tonight.
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« Reply #132 on: May 07, 2009, 07:30:00 AM »

Sweet looking icons man.  Nice work!

Do all of those games work on the N64 emulator?

I know 007 is only a partially working game, but were you planning on doing an icon for it?  

Maybe South Park.... cool.gif
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« Reply #133 on: May 07, 2009, 12:14:00 PM »

GoldenEye 007
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For South Park I'm not gonna be able to do anything better than the TheTVDB banners.
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« Reply #134 on: May 07, 2009, 06:20:00 PM »

Thanx alot for the mario ones they look great..
I found huge arcade marquees last night gonna try and make some nice mame icons tonight
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