Nintendo Vs. Artwork Project

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In another thread we were talking about how hard it is to find some of the instruction cards for some Nintendo Vs. games. The conversation eventually resulted in a hard to find Vs. Pinball card repro file being circulated. And there was much rejoicing. It got me thinking about starting an artwork project thread where people could request certain pieces and hopefully those 1 or 2 KLOVers out there who have it could scan it. Others could touch it up or repro it in vector and create a file for circulation. We could also then send those files to sites that already have artwork posted for download. In essence, fill in a lot of those blanks.

Much information and artwork about Vs. games can already be found through links on:
http://playchoice.riemen.net/vs_list.html
http://www.johnsarcade.com/nintendo_vs_ppu_info.php

Hopefully this thread will serve two major purposes: first, to request certain artwork not readily found and second, to supply links to completed artwork that people can download for use. I'm relatively new here and I don't want to overstep any boundaries by creating a post like this, so if there's anything about this idea or post I need to be made aware of, please feel free.

Here's a list of known artwork missing from Riemen.net. If you have scans or files of these, please post a link and I will update the main post:

***Instruction Cards***
-VS. Balloon Fight - http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-ic.pdf (OldTymeToys version)
-VS. Freedom Force
-VS. Pinball - http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-pinball-ic.pdf
-VS. Platoon
-VS. Slalom
-VS. Soccer - http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-soccer-ic.pdf
-VS. Battle City
-VS. Clu Clu Land
-VS. Star Luster
-VS. Tetris *NEW* - http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-tetris-ic.pdf
-VS. Urban Champion
-VS. Wrecking Crew http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-wreckingcrew-ic.pdf (Raikus version)

***Marquees***
-VS. Balloon Fight http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-marquee.pdf (OldTymeToys version)

***Art Pieces***
-VS. Balloon Fight logo in AI http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-logo.ai
-VS. Balloon Fight art in AI http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-art.ai
-VS. Star Luster logo in AI http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-starluster-logo.ai
-VS. Soccer 600dpi card scan in PDF http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-soccer-scanhigh.pdf
-VS. Duck Hunt topper scan http://vectorlib2.free.fr/VS_stuff/Duckhunt_New_Game_Banner.tif
-VS. Excite Bike topper scan http://vectorlib2.free.fr/VS_stuff/Excitebike_Nintendo_topper.tif
-VS. Wrecking Crew Mario/Luigi in AI http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-wreckingcrew-marioluigi.ai
-VS. Wrecking Crew logo in AI http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-wreckingcrew-logo.ai
 
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I want to see if I can help out with recreating some of these... just need to find the time.
 
Good deal bongoben. I know a few of us here have graphic skills so if we can get some good pictures or (better yet) scans of cards we can reproduce them for print. If anyone knows of any artwork source images for the items listed above (in decent resolution) then please post them!
 
Dude, thanks so much for getting organized and starting this thread. Like I said, I have the reference and some art elements (from the flyer) that could suffice for Balloon Fight, but my wife (the designer) has been extremely busy with work. Of course, we've been busy with our baby girl at home. One day fellas. One day. Though, if someone else could step in and get it done, that's great too. The more, the merrier.
 
Dude, thanks so much for getting organized and starting this thread. Like I said, I have the reference and some art elements (from the flyer) that could suffice for Balloon Fight, but my wife (the designer) has been extremely busy with work. Of course, we've been busy with our baby girl at home. One day fellas. One day. Though, if someone else could step in and get it done, that's great too. The more, the merrier.

I was talking to NotreCaine the other day about this for Balloon Fight. I've got an abundance of files that we've found online that I started using to pull seperate layers from to create a marquee for the game but I just lost interest/time/whatever. I still have all of those files and I think making a RT card for this game based on the layout that we can see on the couple of RT card files that are out there should be fairly straight forward. I would like to put some time into it this weekend but I honestly don't think it will take too long to do. I'll post some files up on here to get opinions as I'm working on it. Since somebody actually coming forward with a Vs. BF card for us to scan seems very unlikely at this point I figure having something in there is better than nothing. And I want to do what I can to make that something as close as possible to what it was in the first place.
 
I was talking to NotreCaine the other day about this for Balloon Fight. I've got an abundance of files that we've found online that I started using to pull seperate layers from to create a marquee for the game but I just lost interest/time/whatever. I still have all of those files and I think making a RT card for this game based on the layout that we can see on the couple of RT card files that are out there should be fairly straight forward. I would like to put some time into it this weekend but I honestly don't think it will take too long to do. I'll post some files up on here to get opinions as I'm working on it. Since somebody actually coming forward with a Vs. BF card for us to scan seems very unlikely at this point I figure having something in there is better than nothing. And I want to do what I can to make that something as close as possible to what it was in the first place.

Sounds like plan. Like I said, if anyone else can contribute, that would be awesome. I'd love to see whatever files and/or progress you have made. Maybe I can pick up the same elements and do variations as well. We'll also need to come up with the instruction copy since we have no idea what the Japanese version says.
 
I was talking to NotreCaine the other day about this for Balloon Fight. I've got an abundance of files that we've found online that I started using to pull seperate layers from to create a marquee for the game but I just lost interest/time/whatever. I still have all of those files and I think making a RT card for this game based on the layout that we can see on the couple of RT card files that are out there should be fairly straight forward. I would like to put some time into it this weekend but I honestly don't think it will take too long to do. I'll post some files up on here to get opinions as I'm working on it. Since somebody actually coming forward with a Vs. BF card for us to scan seems very unlikely at this point I figure having something in there is better than nothing. And I want to do what I can to make that something as close as possible to what it was in the first place.

Weird. I had the same exact idea and was working on it right now. Matter of fact, let's open source this stuff. I just finished making a vector of the VS. Balloon Fight logo. Here's a link to the AI file:

http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-logo.ai

Feel free to improve upon it or use it in any of your work. I'm also working on vectoring the artwork of the balloon boy escaping the fish from a piece I found online. I'll post it once I'm done.
 

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Weird. I had the same exact idea and was working on it right now. Matter of fact, let's open source this stuff. I just finished making a vector of the VS. Balloon Fight logo. Here's a link to the AI file:

http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-logo.ai

Feel free to improve upon it or use it in any of your work. I'm also working on vectoring the artwork of the balloon boy escaping the fish from a piece I found online. I'll post it once I'm done.

You're totally on the right track. If you want to take over with it then it's all yours. :) The only question on it was what would be written on it for instructions. I think the general plan was to kinda base what would need to be known off of what is written on other game's cards. I would love to help out right now but I don't think my boss would apperciate me focusing on that. :)
 
I don't think I'm going to tackle the instruction card myself but I'll be more than happy to supply some of the general art to the thread. That way others can take it and put it together and make something better.

I may try to do a Wrecking Crew card but I'll leave the Balloon Fight to ones with more experience with the game. Also, I found a better source shot of the Balloon Fight logo so I'm making changes to the general file (which I didn't see before due to the low source quality) and adding the Japanese text to it. Will update it soon.
 
...and adding the Japanese text to it. Will update it soon.

Right on. Well I'll see what I can do with it when the time comes. If you do pull out any more images please post them as it is less work I would have to do. :) As far as the Japanese text, I was planning on writing something up in English for the card. I know it's not "original" but for me I'd prefer to have something in English.
 
Sounds like plan. Like I said, if anyone else can contribute, that would be awesome. I'd love to see whatever files and/or progress you have made. Maybe I can pick up the same elements and do variations as well. We'll also need to come up with the instruction copy since we have no idea what the Japanese version says.

When I made the Vs. Pinball one listed above, I had to work off of a photo taken by a guy selling a Red Tent on Ebay who snapped a pic of it installed on the game and sent it to us. Much harder than working off of a scan.

When I had to do elements like the buttons and arrows, I actually pulled up the Vs. Golf one on Riemen's site and used that better image for the tracing, then adapted it to what I needed....
 
Here's the VS Balloon Fight art from the flyer. I reproduced it in vector, cleaned it up and tried to make it match the original style as much as possible. And now my hand is cramped. Illustrator file can be found at:

vs-balloonfight-art.jpg

http://ideaity.com/workspace/vs-balloonfight-art.ai

Are there any other Balloon Fight pieces that need repro for the instruction card? Let me know and I'll take a crack at it.
 
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Dude, you are the man! :)

I don't think there needs to be anything else for the instruction card at least. Logo and that graphic should be enough. I'll provide this vector art to my wife and maybe she'll be more inclined to work on it.
 
Beautiful!

Look at that. Two days and we have a very nice instruction card for Balloon Fight. Plus, if anyone else wants to work on their own version the graphics are there for them.

Email me the file and I'll host it and update the first post with a link. We can have multiple versions if other people want to make them as well and I'll just credit each person next to the link. How's that sound?
 
Beautiful!

Look at that. Two days and we have a very nice instruction card for Balloon Fight. Plus, if anyone else wants to work on their own version the graphics are there for them.

Email me the file and I'll host it and update the first post with a link. We can have multiple versions if other people want to make them as well and I'll just credit each person next to the link. How's that sound?

No problem- I'll tweak it a bit and email it to you. Suggestions welcome as well.
 
Tweaked a bit with spacing of the images, changed text format and color, small additions, etc. Better, IMO:

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Beautiful!

Look at that. Two days and we have a very nice instruction card for Balloon Fight. Plus, if anyone else wants to work on their own version the graphics are there for them.

Email me the file and I'll host it and update the first post with a link. We can have multiple versions if other people want to make them as well and I'll just credit each person next to the link. How's that sound?

PM me your email address, and I'll get you the updated file.
 
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