4K Vertical Overlay Community Contributions

Updated Street Fighter III: Third Strike

In addition to the general graphic updates such as the plastic bezel and other trim from @PapaShine, I used a higher quality scan of the marquee from @MrDo. I also purchased and scanned the instruction cards used here.

MAME - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

RetroArch - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

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GigaWing Control Panel Update

I’m really excited about this update to the GigaWing overlay, which features a fresh new 3D CPO render by @PapaShine. The control panel stickers for the joystick and buttons were recreated by myself based on a combination of reference photos, high resolution scans from arcade flyers I’d purchased for this game in the past, as well as other vectorizations I’d done for other Capcom games that used the same overall design.

So with this update, we have the complete set of GigaWing artwork on display, something which is extremely rare to find anywhere at this time. Hope any other GigaWing fans out there are half as happy about this one as I am! :slight_smile:

MAME - GigaWing

RetroArch - GigaWing Control Panel View

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Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Control Panel version

Another Capcom CP 3d Render from @PapaShine, this time for Street Fighter! I vectorized the CP stickers again for this one and I believe this same sticker set can be used for at least 2 of the 3 SF Alpha series, but I haven’t been able to confirm that conclusively, given the amount of cross-pollination across the conversion cabs I’ve seen reference images of.

MAME - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

RetroArch - Street Fighter III 3rd Strike CPO Version

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In The Hunt Control Panel Version

So, an hour after I said I couldn’t find the CPO anywhere and we’d likely never have a version of this game with the CP, @Briball successfully tracked down a clean enough copy to use for the render by @PapaShine.

Happy to have the full art set for this one too!

MAME - In The Hunt

RetroArch - In The Hunt control panel version

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Wow! Three in one day. Thanks so much, team. These look beautiful. I’m the Hunt is especially stunning!

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Control Panel Version of Ghouls’N Ghosts

This overlay was thanks to the magnificent CPO recreation done by Lord Hiryu from the arcadecontrols forum, as he has generously shared this artwork back with the community. Thanks again to @PapaShine for the excellent 3D render as well.

MAME - Ghouls’N Ghosts

RetroArch - Ghouls’N Ghosts

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Street Fighter Alpha: Warrior’s Dreams 4K Vertical Overlay

As near as I can tell, no instruction strips were released for the US version of the game, so the only art available is the marquee and the control panel stickers.

MAME - Street Fighter Alpha

RetroArch - Street Fighter Alpha

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Just noticed the texturing on the GigaWing bezel. Quite nice! Excellent realism here combined with that awesome CPO.

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Thanks @benlogan! That plastic bezel is something @PapaShine rendered for the Neo Geo overlay series, but it’s a very standard bezel style so we can use it on a ton of overlays. I agree he did a great job on that texture, it’s the most realistic rendition I’ve seen of this style of bezel and just incredibly useful!

Thanks for all your continued encouragement and support!

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Street Fighter Alpha 2 4K Vertical Overlays

There are 2 versions included in this one, a Capcom Big Blue view which is based on @Thoggo’s Big Blue design and a conversion cabinet view with the control panel.

MAME - Street Fighter Alpha 2

I’ve bundled both the Big Blue and CPO views into a single master zip file. Just unzip the main zip and choose which view you want for retroarch and then unzip that view under the RetroArch directory.

RetroArch - Street Fighter Alpha 2

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These Capcom fighter overlays look amazing @ArsInvictus, loving the adaptation of @Thoggo’s big blue with that huge marquee too! Lovelly work on the vector recreations of the stickers, they really make a difference, some great CPO’s coming up. Also loving the GnG overlay, going to try and beat this when I have time.

Thanks @benlogan! Glad you like the work we’re doing :grin:

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Street Fighter Alpha 3 Control Panel Update

This one right here is my favorite Street Fighter game and the only one I played enough to feel like I knew what I was doing, so I’m gonna get a lot of use out of this overlay myself.

In addition to the @PapaShine control panel here, I restored the high resolution instruction strips sourced from @mrdo.

MAME - Street Fighter Alpha 3

RetroArch - Street Fighter Alpha 3

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King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest

Standard Neo-Geo overlay, but for this game I couldn’t find complete scans of the instruction strips available online but I was able to pick them up on eBay for inclusion here.

UPDATE - Apologies, but I used an older version of the overlay for this one and it had a smaller screen size than the newer version. I’ve updated the zip files to correct the issue.

MAME - King of Fighters '98

RetroArch - King of Fighters '98

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Updated Ketsui

Thought I would mix it up a bit and refresh one of my old custom designs. This was assembled from high resolution scans I took from a Cave art book I imported from Japan. The overall thematic elements of the design were lifted from there as well.

MAME - Ketsui

RetroArch - Ketsui

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Look super cool. Original Ultraman color tones. Great design work, Ars. What’s the name of that Cave art book? Would love to track down a copy for myself.

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Hey @benlogan, glad you like it, the name of this book is Cave Shooting Artworks, you can actually see all the artwork via this youtube video someone put together: https://youtu.be/PXIPv96hYAM

It’s a great compilation of art from a ton of their games. I was able to use this as the source for a number of custom Cave overlays, and in fact I still have some more left to go, which I should probably revisit again soon :slight_smile:

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Red Earth 4K Vertical Overlay

This game never got wide distribution outside Japan and was both the first game on the CPS III and the only game from that platform to never get a home release. So, if you want to play this game, emulation seems to be the only option. Happily, we have good quality scans of the instruction cards, but only a low resolution marquee, unless there is a scan lurking around that I don’t have access to. I did a little cleanup on the Capcom and logo text for the marquee and think it’s fairly presentable for the overlay. The marquee and instruction cards were all sourced from the Launchbox game database. I was also able to get some more mileage out of the SF Capcom control panel @PapaShine rendered here.

MAME - Red Earth

RetroArch - Red Earth

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Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

These next two overlays need no introduction. Thanks again to @PapaShine for the quick turnaround on the control panel render that enabled us to get these both out today.

MAME - Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

RetroArch - Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

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Turbo Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting

MAME - Turbo Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting

RetroArch - Turbo Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting

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Primal Rage

Another entry in the fighting game genre today, Primal Rage! No control panel render for this one yet, but we hope to provide one in the future.

MAME - Primal Rage

RetroArch - Primal Rage

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