House of the Dead 2- artwork?

Arcadeartshop's stuff is likely the best you will find, but it's not 100% as the original… it's damned close though!

My comment is not to knock the product, but from first hand experience the CPO is a few mm out in certain spots and not as thick as the original.

If your art is worn or missing then go for it! (A friend and I both got HOD2 bits from them)

The average person won't know or care, but a die hard fan may nitpick.
 
Arcadeartshop's stuff is likely the best you will find, but it's not 100% as the original… it's damned close though!

My comment is not to knock the product, but from first hand experience the CPO is a few mm out in certain spots and not as thick as the original.

If your art is worn or missing then go for it! (A friend and I both got HOD2 bits from them)

The average person won't know or care, but a die hard fan may nitpick.
Love this honest review. With anything reproduction I find 100% just doesn't exist. Damn good is what I expect!!
 
I am ordering it from ArcadeArtShop this time. I ordered from a competitor and their art was unusable.
The original CPO with the purchased one set on top. Its terrible.
 

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I am ordering it from ArcadeArtShop this time. I ordered from a competitor and their art was unusable.
The original CPO with the purchased one set on top. Its terrible.Sega Turbo Cabaret Side Art
In defence of where ever you ordered - If they have ben provided scans and dont have access to the cabinet it can be very hard to now how clean or accurate the scans were. I have customers send scans and I have to hope sometimes they have scanned it well and it's picked up all the shadow details. Here it doesnt look it did and muted the colours.

We do have to work with what we have available, but at the same time a quick google to see the original cabinet would have highlighted these issues in this scan when they were editing
 
The scan quality is not an issue in this case. It's 100pct the lack of color and attention to detail. If the scan was so accurate on a pixel level how could the colors be so far off. That sample I showed would be best described as a black CPO.

If I printed that, I would have changed the color balance and reprinted. Like you said it should have be verified and corrected. I have gotten too many pieces of art that I literally throw away. This one joins the pile.
 
The scan quality is not an issue in this case. It's 100pct the lack of color and attention to detail. If the scan was so accurate on a pixel level how could the colors be so far off. That sample I showed would be best described as a black CPO.

If I printed that, I would have changed the color balance and reprinted. Like you said it should have be verified and corrected. I have gotten too many pieces of art that I literally throw away. This one joins the pile.
Because scanners aren't calibrated. Your average person who wants to help is using a flat bed scanner and sending them in stitches. So many things can go wrong from light getting into the scanner ( causing a crush in all lower contrast areas ) to even them saving them as a low quality JPG after before sending.

Scanners arent always a perfect 1 to 1 copy. Wand scanners also struggle with dark areas due to amount of light they produce but are an incredibly quick way to scan something. Sometimes it's either a bad scan or simply no scan at all. If I have a scan thats just bad I wont use it to reproduce but some people may want a poor reproduction over a damaged or non existent original

Also - Scanners introduce banding in lower contrast areas. The quick and dirty fix is to increase the contrast but all you are doing is clipping the low end grey scale. So that art simply doesnt exist any more because it's effectively removed. But you get a clean quick fix to all the noise on that lower end of the scale. Not saying thats a good thing but I can point to art reproductions all day long where that's the case
 
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