hahahaha.... well I altered the cover slightly, but t00b I think the back and sidecolours are smashing !
Guess the back and side should stay true to the original, should look like it's a jap thing alright ^_^
p.s., do you have those SCC/MSX 2 and ehh megarom logo's ?


ps.2 : Many megadrive games come with a soundtest, accessible from the main menu.
It might be a nice addition to add it, so people can listen to the ingame tunes from there.
It's also some sort of musician's pride to have it built in.

et voila, a slightly browner version so it matches the ship sorta...
I guess it's kinda nice that you can't see what it is, so it'll be more
exciting once you reach the boss... shouldnt give it all away hehe.

Also I used the logo you sent, pity it was on low jpeg quality but
another 30 minutes (yeah, same time as doing an entire cover)
and it was more cleaned up.... and I added some more gritty stuff
so the metal looks less clean.

hmm hmm the '2' could be somewhat more 'in-your-face' I think.. Bright yellow perhaps, and bigger?

yeah, I think you're right about that one... I'll fix that....

and since filling the screen is so much fun:



sorry gents...
oh the jagged edges around some letters is because I took a screendump at 66%
instead of 50, so you get these little edges. I won't bother you with the original size,
else it would be too big (it's 300 DPI for printing purposes, this one is 72).

I love the metallic MANBOW lettres,
Sorry, didnt realise that JPG would make that logo so bad.
Is this BMP better ?

the "2" looks very cool, but still not perfect.
the right-bottom of the "2" should be wider, bigger.
Next to that I love the picture,
somehow it would be cool if it would be more revealing,
its a bit vague, like "what is it".
If you could zoom it out more, maybe we could make it look more like the big Manbow ship.
Another thing,
I got this artwork from Bifi:

The bigboss ship sucks, but the player's ship is awesome.
We could rip that one.
Maybe anyone knows who drew this ??

ah well, about the what is it part, you'll find out when you finish the game
INdeed, the main ship rocks... I'll see if I can rip it out and fix it a little.
Wasn't space manbow released on another system ? turbogfx maybe ?

hmmm, tried a zoomed out version of the ship (as taken from the metal boss version), but it didn't work out in the composition
And it's rather difficult doing a perspective version based on the pictures.
However, I did cut out the ship from bifi's artwork, easy to cut out and easy to integrate as well.

I have a little bigger cover:

Norakomi, you may consider contacting Hnostar (a Spanish group of three brothers). They are basically graphic designers and Photoshop masters. If you ever had a copy of their famous magazine you will be sure they are the guys for the job. However, I don't know if they are still interested in MSX.
Link: www.ctv.es/USERS/hnostar/

aaaah, thanks !!!!

Now, a bigger one.

www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/graphics/jpg/MSX_Game_Covers/Space_Manbow_-Konami-.jpg

If I musn´t link to that web, then, err, sorry.

like this

owwww excellent ! thanks for the picture,




It would make more sense now, the ship is now in front of the background, the
background being the heart and metalic version zoomed in.

also, this is the how many megs can 1 topic be ?