My Custom Box Arts! (feel free to share yours too!)

[Heaven Piercing Man]

I also did Kirby 2 DX in both Japanese and English styles.

 

Honestly I'm not a fan of the cookie cutter, generic as hell American-style boxart for retro games, but I think I like more how the American Kirby 2 DX came out.

Anyways I've been working on my own collection of custom boxart for Game Boy based on the Japanese style, think fan translations of the box art. I'll share what I'm coming up with.

Edit: I've been doing some cart art too.

[Brutapode89]

I think I've an idea. Maybe we could make other SNES cover arts but in the Super Famicom style. Your opinions, please?

[Heaven Piercing Man]

I think I've an idea. Maybe we could make other SNES cover arts but in the Super Famicom style. Your opinions, please?

Well well well... I made these a while ago inspired by the Megaman Japanese Style project.







And I also made this one, took a while...

[Brutapode89]

It's very nice! But can't we even delete Japanese writings?

[Heaven Piercing Man]

I leave some in for "multicultural flair", namely the bilingual logos. I try to change the rest by abusing the clone tool in Krita. I used to work in Paint.NET but the cloning looks better in Krita, and there are blur tools to hide when the cloning looks too obvious. Sadly, Krita sucks at typesetting so most replacement text looks like garbage, the kerning is all over the place; to have best results I type the new text in Inkscape and insert the resulting SVG into Krita, or leave the text insertion for last and do it on Gimp/Photoshop/Paint.NET/whatever. Word of warning, never use a default Windows font. You want it to look like it came out of a professional printing service, not some random bozo like me's free software equipped low-end laptop.

If you want to modify anything I have done, just do it. I don't care. We're a bunch of crowdsourcing collectors after all!

[Brutapode89]

I leave some in for "multicultural flair", namely the bilingual logos. I try to change the rest by abusing the clone tool in Krita. I used to work in Paint.NET but the cloning looks better in Krita, and there are blur tools to hide when the cloning looks too obvious. Sadly, Krita sucks at typesetting so most replacement text looks like garbage, the kerning is all over the place; to have best results I type the new text in Inkscape and insert the resulting SVG into Krita, or leave the text insertion for last and do it on Gimp/Photoshop/Paint.NET/whatever. Word of warning, never use a default Windows font. You want it to look like it came out of a professional printing service, not some random bozo like me's free software equipped low-end laptop.

If you want to modify anything I have done, just do it. I don't care. We're a bunch of crowdsourcing collectors after all!

I already made five covers.

Super Mario World


The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past


EarthBound


Super Metroid


Final Fantasy VI

[Heaven Piercing Man]

These are great! I didn't think about actually putting the SNES logo in mine because I planned to use them in a SFC-shaped Raspberry Pi case. Anyways, you gave me an idea, and well, challenge accepted.



The original did use a generic stenciled Japanese font that kinda looks like Shingo Pro, so I chose Helvetica and added the stencil cuts myself.
If anyone wants to try next, here's the blank one https://i.imgur.com/93JKBeg.jpg
and here's the original for reference https://i.imgur.com/ULk6C8s.jpg

[lilpuddy31]

Can we make requests?? 

[Brutapode89]

Kirby Super Star


Super Mario All-Stars


Final Fantasy V

[Lazermutt4]

PLAYSTATION
Kowloon's Gate (translation in late stages)

70's Robot Anime: Geppy-X (translation in early stages )


GAME BOY ADVANCE
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade [original cover remake by Vortiene, tweaks & subtitle by me]

Shin Megami Tensei


CANCELLED SNES GAMES with cleaned-up boxes
Based on the work of Jolu42 and their cover cleanups for the full US library for NES, SNES, TG16 & Genesis
https://archive.org/details/@jolu42

SD The Great Battle (localization cancelled)

Special Tee Shot (cancelled, then reworked into Kirby's Dream Course + separate Satellaview broadcast)

[Brutapode89]

Final Fantasy IV


Super Castlevania IV


Terranigma