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Pics from Nintendo Shoshinkai show, Aug. 1990

 
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Tongueman



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 3:24 pm    Post subject: Pics from Nintendo Shoshinkai show, Aug. 1990 Reply with quote

Hi, folks. I scanned some pictures of Marukatsu Famicom magazine's coverage of the Shoshinkai, where the Super Famicom was finally launched.





More here: http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/OTH_1990Q3.html#shoshinkai
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just curious, what methods are you using to reduce moire? Are you blurring in Photoshop or just resizing down or what?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For full-page scans that may be scaled down, any technique is OK, either let the scanner do the descreening, or apply a small Gaussian blur.

For tiny pictures on a page, descreening blurs the fine details too much, so I often scan at 450 dpi, then apply a 0.5-pixel Gaussian blur, or sometimes a 0.5-1-pixel motion blur at an oblique angle, whatever will obliterate the moire the most.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dat moire.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been having good results with the Descreen plugin

http://www.descreen.net/eng/soft/descreen/descreen.htm





That plus black and white level correction plus smoothing out some of the flat colors is my jam.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



That is some nasty moire.

Super Gloveball mockup?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Semi interesting thing about the Metal Man art, Codemasters ended up using it on the label for their Game Gear port of Dropzone.

http://www.smspower.org/Games/Dropzone-GG
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tongueman wrote:


That is some nasty moire.

Super Gloveball mockup?


Yeah, I kept that on because it's from the original photograph...I only try to reverse the printing process when I scan. It's actually from Glove Pilot, one of the unreleased Power Glove games. Here's another, The Terror of Tech Town:



I actually think they're both bull-shots.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, they're bull, because they're both Amiga screen-shots.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FWIW Tech Town is based on this Jim Sachs demo, Time Crystal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7UDnJF3kk

Also Sachs doesn't remember there ever being an NES version, so that's pretty interesting.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even before ol' Red Eye Frank mentioned Jim Sachs, that screenshot just yelled out "I AM JIM SACHS".

That man is legendary!
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