• tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) OPEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    I really liked this artwork, is one of my favorite pieces of video game art.

    The box art on the SNES game was a small portion of this:

    A while back, tried digging up a copy but couldn’t, spent a long time looking online and was delighted when I finally managed to dig the submitted image up: good-quality and high-resolution. Just remembered this community, and putting it up in case anyone else is in the same boat.

  • tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) OPEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    It looks like, from this YouTube video of the re-release’s title screen:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upe2EzebE9I

    …that they did some touch-up work before the re-release to improve sharpness, but they also lost the kind of texture that the original (I would assume) natural-media artwork had, which is part of what I like about the original.

    • tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) OPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, I don’t even remember now. I didn’t scan it, downloaded it somewhere. The last-modified time on my local copy of the file is August 24, 2023, so that might have been when I picked the copy up, but it could also have predated that.

      I’d been looking for a good-quality version on a number of occasions. Then some time over the past few years search – maybe it was Google Images or Tineye or something – and found that someone had finally put a really good quality scan online.

      I also don’t know what the actual physical printed source of the scan is.

      The form I originally saw the artwork in was a centerfold in a Nintendo Power edition in probably the early 1990s. I don’t think that this is likely the source, because there are no visible folds; if that was it, someone did a really outstanding job of cleaning it up. Also, I doubt – though I can’t remember, as it was about thirty years ago – that the centerfold had “Printed in Japan” on it. I assume that the “Printed in Japan” text in English probably means that this is some kind of promotional print aimed at a North American audience.

      The aspect ratio on it is .7585 (2758/3636). Assuming that Nintendo Power used US Letter pages, then a three-page centerfold (which I think the centerfold I recall was) would have had an aspect ratio of 8.5x3/11= .4313. If it was a two-page, then it would have been .6471. So that’s also an argument that whatever the promotional material here, it’s not from that centerfold.

      Looking online, there was apparently a poster included with the original game, though I’d have to assume that that would also have shipped folded, given the constraints of an SNES video game box. If you can find the dimensions of that somewhere online, you might be able to make an argument that this is the source – that someone did a really good job of smoothing any folds out, and then ran it through a large-format scanner.

      searches

      Whatever the source, if I found it via Tineye, it’s no longer available online wherever I originally ran into it.

      So…sorry, I don’t know what its origins are, just can narrow it down a bit.

    • tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) OPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Not sure why it was removed, as the other images on lemmy.today’s pict-rs seem to still be up. Size, maybe? Moved it to catbox.moe and updated the submitted link.

      EDIT: Hmm. Apparently, for some reason, even if I link to an off-site copy, lemmy.today tries to proxy it, submits a modified URL proxied through lemmy.today, and then fails to serve it. I’ll re-submit it in a new post using PieFed.

      EDIT2: You can find the new post here:

      https://sopuli.xyz/post/38803121

      EDIT3: If the aim is to try to keep users from deep-linking to images hosted elsewhere, I don’t think that this is a good idea for Lemmy to do, at least not if the instance isn’t going to be willing to serve the image itself.

    • tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) OPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      You’re probably thinking of Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana. I think that both of them support two player.

      EDIT:

      Seiken Densetsu 3:

      It features three main plotlines and six different possible main characters, each with their own storylines, and allows two players to play simultaneously.

      Secret of Mana:

      An innovative cooperative multiplayer system allows a second or third player to drop in and out of the game at any time.