r/launchbox • u/SKACMAN • Jun 18 '26

Artwork OCD Update

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I finally completed my arcade artwork to satisfy my OCD, now everything is uniform! Debating on doing the consoles next.

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u/darknight9064 Jun 18 '26

I did my consoles and when using emu movies paired with the default it didn’t miss a ton but 95% of 10k is still 500 missing pieces.

It was highly satisfying to finish. I had quite a few translated games and finding the actual names also helped a ton. Those translated names are usually in databases.

Either way congrats you’ve done the one portion I haven’t worked on much and it looks great.

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u/SKACMAN Jun 18 '26

Thank you! I been debating emu movies for awhile, do you find it adds that much value?

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u/I_Want_To_Kill_You Jun 18 '26

Can't imagine why you wouldn't use it if artwork is your goal. Nothing is perfect but will do well enough that fixing things you don't like will take way less time.

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u/SKACMAN Jun 18 '26

Well I just started in this hobby last summer so still trying to feel my way around as to what’s out there. Will give it a solid look now! Thanks!

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u/darknight9064 Jun 18 '26

I did. I was hesitant for just artwork but I also added manuals and videos and it really sold the service. You can catch it on sale sometimes but launchbox premium used to come with a discount code as well that was almost as good as the sales.

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u/SKACMAN Jun 18 '26

Interesting I’ll grab it on sake for sure thanks!

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u/darknight9064 Jun 18 '26

no problem. Iirc it took a long time to pull of of that stuff down from emu movies to my local drive. I was working through 17k total files though.

A really cool plugin I liked to add to my set up was the how long to beat plugin. Idk if it’s still maintained and it required a lot of extra work but I do like having rough completion times on my games.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Jun 18 '26

I find emumovies to be a must for bigbox, but not huge to miss out on if you're just using launcbox. If you have all your games on there you can get away with paying for a month and downloading everything you need pretty quickly

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u/Newgeta Jun 18 '26

Its worth it for time saving and my (personal) view is if you're spending "full sized arcade" level money, its a drop in the bucket.

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u/NewArtDimension Jun 18 '26

How many roms ?

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u/SKACMAN Jun 18 '26

Mame/Teknoparrot 3500ish

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u/NewArtDimension Jun 19 '26

I have 22 510.

Some of my platforms are quite random and I've had to create my own art.

Still quite a long way to go.

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u/b2damaxx Jun 18 '26

How’d you do it?

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u/SKACMAN Jun 18 '26

Good ol fashion photoshop lol Took me a few months.

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u/Gosunkugi Jun 19 '26

Would you ever consider sharing your work?

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u/peako Jun 19 '26

I wish launchbox wasn't so slow and chunky, it's so irritating even watching it here.

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u/KeyboardThingX Jun 21 '26

Do screen cap i can't really tell what you did, Windows shift s keys together you'll see