Scanning (Vs. Super Mario Marqee)

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I got this beautiful NOS Vs. Super Mario marquee with no fading from FullThrottle. My original thought was to sandwitch it between 2 sets of archival glass to prevent fading but I'd still have to remove the backing from it, and trim it. I'm not even sure that would work. So, instead of that, I'm thinking about doing a high res scan so that it can be reproed.

It's too big for my copy machine at work (which only scans at 300 dpi in color anyway). Anybody know a place that can do high-res scans of larger pieces? What dpi should I go for. Is 1200 dpi too much?

Also, if a repro was done, what would people want? I'm just thinking a unisystem version done on plexi. I'm thinking it's probably restricted to an inkjet job because of all the colors? What do people think?

If nobody else cares I'll probably just do a one-off with Rich but I thought I'd see if anybody else had a need for one or suggestions first.
 
I'd be interested. I'm about f'ed up with my unisystem between repair issues that are beyond my knowledge and skill (needs at least a tube swap) but would still like to have the marquee.
 
Maybe Rich can use the colors on your NOS marquee to better match the colors on my custom bezel:

SuperMarioBezel-2.jpg
 
custom bezel

wow...can you do more custom bezels? id like to have one of those!!
 
Phet, that would be cool. Your bezel is infinately mo-better than the plain old tinted plexi that Nintendo used. That design on tinted plexi would be sweet.

Now that he's doing these custom one-offs I wonder whether we could do a run of marquees and bezels with Rich it might bring costs down.

Anybody know the best resolution to scan in? Bueller?
 
Phet, that would be cool. Your bezel is infinately mo-better than the plain old tinted plexi that Nintendo used. That design on tinted plexi would be sweet.

Now that he's doing these custom one-offs I wonder whether we could do a run of marquees and bezels with Rich it might bring costs down.

Anybody know the best resolution to scan in? Bueller?

I think I scanned mine in at 800dpi. This is a photo of a NOS one I had used for colormatching before I found my own NOS copy:

MarqueeSMB.jpg
 
Phet, that would be cool. Your bezel is infinately mo-better than the plain old tinted plexi that Nintendo used. That design on tinted plexi would be sweet.
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My first version was a little dark, but yeah, it did look sweet:

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Color matching and tweaking some of the details would make it that much sweeter.
 
I think I scanned mine in at 800dpi. This is a photo of a NOS one I had used for colormatching before I found my own NOS copy:

MarqueeSMB.jpg

I like how you photochopped Mario into Lugui. The whole thing is on the money. Like, if Nintendo was doing shit right in 1986, that's what the bezel would have looked like.

Did you feel bad using that NOS marquee? I'm not sure I have the hoart to peel and cut mine.
 
I like how you photochopped Mario into Lugui. The whole thing is on the money. Like, if Nintendo was doing shit right in 1986, that's what the bezel would have looked like.

Did you feel bad using that NOS marquee? I'm not sure I have the hoart to peel and cut mine.

I didn't use it. Ever. The one in the pic as a faded original. I sold the NOS one.
 
I'm thinking this has already been done long ago? Otherwise how is everyone and their mothers selling reproduction prints already? Here's a couple links I keep around. Gameongrafix appears to be down right now, worked yesterday. I don't know who uses screen or jet, but I assume scans are the original source material.

http://www.arcadeoverlays.com/store...ail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=17232&c=408467&i=13797983

http://www.gameongrafix.com/products/vs-mario-marquee

etc. I like the sounds of the 3M product, sounds very similar to the original material.
 
I'm thinking this has already been done long ago? Otherwise how is everyone and their mothers selling reproduction prints already? Here's a couple links I keep around. Gameongrafix appears to be down right now, worked yesterday. I don't know who uses screen or jet, but I assume scans are the original source material.

http://www.arcadeoverlays.com/store...ail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=17232&c=408467&i=13797983

http://www.gameongrafix.com/products/vs-mario-marquee

etc. I like the sounds of the 3M product, sounds very similar to the original material.

i bought a repo one from someone here(cant remember who). it looks really nice. im sure a new one was scanned for it because its a perfect repo.
 
I've said for years, if someone will make a perfect repro of the Super Mario marquee, with unfaded colors, I'll be first in line.
 
So are people more for an exact repro or for something better?

I was kind of envisioning somthing printed on the reverse of plexi, more in line with what Nintendo should have done had Super Mario Bros. been a dedicated cab. I gather the only reason they did the textured sticker was because they wanted to do one sticker that could work for all 3 different types of marquees.

It looks like ballytablewiz has already linked to arcade overlay's (presumably) acurate repro of the original.
 
Has anyone here bought either of those marquees? I need one for my cab but i am not a fan of the dull artwork used for such a great game. I just wish they were brighter in color than what I have seen on the net.
 
FYI, I've been unable to find a place that can do color scans larger than 11x17. I was hoping not to need to do several scans and then cutting and pasting in photoshop.

Unless there's some huge outpouring I'll probably just scan the marquee and then have Rich do a one-off of the Marqee (on plexi) and Phet's bezel for me. If it was DK I'd be trying to do exact repros but Nintendo truely dropped the ball on these Vs. series when it came to art. Marquee stickers? Really? No artwork on the bezel? Really Nintendo? Really?
 
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