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So I have a few mini marquees that came with some of my MVS carts.
Some are showing their age. Many looking faded or are yellowing.
I was thinking about printing up some new ones that were more colorful and didn't use any space for showing instructions on how to play the game. I should already know how, right?!
Often the instructions take up about half of the MM.
I wanted to make some MMs with easy to read titles and show off more SNK artwork.
I spent some time searching and found a few nice high resolution SNK pictures and added a title to each. I then emailed them to a local print shop and had them printed on 12 mm backlit film. I think the other option is Vinyl. I don't know which is better.
This is how my fist experiment turned out:
And here's a closer view:
So far I'm really liking the look.
The two issues that bother me most is that it's hard to find high resolution images and titles that are large enough to print well. The World Heroes title is a bit small for my liking. But if I blew it up an larger it really got pixelated.
And the other issue is they get a bit washed out when they are lit. It's OK but I'd like to do better. What you see in the video below makes the 'washed out' issue look worse than it is. It's not that bad in real life.
And here's a quick video of the MMs being lit up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLBbgwWVp30
Any suggestions for improvements?
Some are showing their age. Many looking faded or are yellowing.
I was thinking about printing up some new ones that were more colorful and didn't use any space for showing instructions on how to play the game. I should already know how, right?!
Often the instructions take up about half of the MM.
I wanted to make some MMs with easy to read titles and show off more SNK artwork.
I spent some time searching and found a few nice high resolution SNK pictures and added a title to each. I then emailed them to a local print shop and had them printed on 12 mm backlit film. I think the other option is Vinyl. I don't know which is better.
This is how my fist experiment turned out:
And here's a closer view:
So far I'm really liking the look.
The two issues that bother me most is that it's hard to find high resolution images and titles that are large enough to print well. The World Heroes title is a bit small for my liking. But if I blew it up an larger it really got pixelated.
And the other issue is they get a bit washed out when they are lit. It's OK but I'd like to do better. What you see in the video below makes the 'washed out' issue look worse than it is. It's not that bad in real life.
And here's a quick video of the MMs being lit up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLBbgwWVp30
Any suggestions for improvements?