Friday, July 11, 2008

Control panel overlay

In order to order a custom control panel overlay, I needed to take the original Q*bert control panel overlay, and customize it. This way it will match my two joystick layout. Luckily the overlay art was recreated by a nice person and posted to localarcade.com. I took their image, modified it to match my layout, and spewed this out:



I didn't have room for the original Q*bert instruction panel and character panel. Oh well. Once the image was generated (at 300dpi), I sent it off to mamemarquees.com and got it printed. When it arrived, it looked like this, except that in real life it isn't covered in JPEG artifacts: