Author Topic: Neo Geo MVS Thumbnail Images  (Read 1366 times)

Neo Geo MVS Thumbnail Images
« on: March 06, 2017, 06:46:00 pm »
This thread is in response to some of the rejections of edits I've been making to the Neo Geo MVS section. As you might know, MVS is the arcade version of the Neo Geo hardware. The games came in generic brown cardboard kit boxes, and therefore have no official "box art". However, they all came with "mini marquees", basically little artwork cards that slid into the top marquee of the arcade cabs. These mini marquees often had logos and images for the games, and usually a part that showed the game's controls.

Most of the MVS games in the database here use images of the mini marquees as the "box art" images, and I would like for that to become the official preferred standard. Some listings have the box art for the AES (Neo Geo home console) versions, but that wouldn't be correct for an MVS version. Not all MVS games came with artwork fliers either.

I know scans of the official mini marquees can be tough to find sometimes, but whenever possible it would make sense to use them as the standard MVS thumbnails.


Re: Neo Geo MVS Thumbnail Images
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2017, 07:26:32 pm »
I've done some edits there exactly as described and it works just fine as the moderators are very helpful in streamlining and optimizing those sections.

MVS mini marquee artwork can also be found here: http://arcademarquee.com/?product_cat=marquees

Re: Neo Geo MVS Thumbnail Images
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2017, 08:11:37 pm »
That site is a good resource, but there are still many that aren't on there. "Puzzled" for instance only shows the Japanese version "Joy Joy Kid". The image for Neo Drift Out isn't correct, and I can't seem to find a scan of the US marquee for Aero Fighters 3 anywhere. Sometimes I've spotted a few obscure MVS mini marquees from eBay listings. ;D

Another problem in finding Neo Geo cover images is the prevalence of "shockbox" cover art made by fans. Shockboxes are 3rd party AES-like cases for MVS carts, and there's a lot of fan-made Photoshop covers that you can print out for them. Trouble is, in some Neo Geo databases those can be confused for the real cover.

For example, GameFAQs has this fan-made image as the official cover for Last Blade 2 (US AES):
https://www.gamefaqs.com/neo/919840-the-last-blade-2/images/152893

... but this is what the real cover looks like:
http://www.neo-geo.com/snk/carts/us/lastblade2.jpg