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IGN hosts perfect quality boxes, you just have to know how to get them
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JStein0222
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I love this man
Seems okay, and it appears that the '160h or 160w' would refer to height or width in this case.
I'm not expecting super Hi-Res boxart for pre Gen-VII stuff, but this is pretty good.
Edit: Hope IGN doesn't mind us all hotlinking this stuff, because honestly this will probably eat up a decent little bit of bandwidth.
specialguy
Banned
This thread title is weird because you know, you cant host a physical thing on the internet.
Hero of Legend
Member
Host means to display online, hence why when people use Minus, Imgur, etc, it's called rehosting.
Host means to display online, hence why when people use Minus, Imgur, etc, it's called rehosting.
He's referring to the use of the word 'box' instead of 'boxart'.
Yea, Imgur is bad. What would be the best imagehosting site to maintain the quality as high as possible?
Hero of Legend
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Intheflorsh
Banned
Gorgeous! Nice find.
hgarrett54
Banned
Hey that's really cool.
Of course it is, never said it wasn't.Oh. Isn't that kinda nitpicky though?
Alright, cool, I already use that in cojunction with Abload. Thanks.
Vipershark
Member
Either I'm dumb, or there doesn't appear to be one for Catherine for the 360.
Can someone help me out?
http://www.ign.com/games/catherine/xbox-360-83916
edit: never mind, I got it somehow... I swear, it wasn't working every time I tried it.
Can someone help me out?
http://www.ign.com/games/catherine/xbox-360-83916
edit: never mind, I got it somehow... I swear, it wasn't working every time I tried it.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Welcome, IGN-ers.
NinjaCatfish
Member
I'd used GameFAQs Images until now, but these are gorgeous and high resolution.
If only there was a way to access localised boxart.
Oh well, great find!
If only there was a way to access localised boxart.
Oh well, great find!
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
I don't think it works for all boxarts, to be honest. I've personally tried a dozen and only one or two are large sized. The rest are smaller or crappier than amazon can do.
Welp, it was fun while it lasted.
Nice, I need to get around to getting the kind of boxart paper so I can print out boxart for games I have with GameStop covers. Which is like.....half of my PSP collection and nothing else. GameStop sold PSP games for pretty cheap prices just a couple years after the games got released but for some reason a lot of the boxes got gutted.
Hero of Legend
Member
Made a few corrections with my Sonic Gens U mock-up (new on left, old on right):
Now it's in better quality than the last, but it's funny that the one IGN had was sourced and resized from Sega who has a pretty badly compressed box (same of which Sonic Retro uploaded).
So I grabbed the box from SegaAmerica's flickr, as that has to be the same as found on their Press Site.
Redid somethings and did a better resize and viola.
Also a lot of boxes on IGN from last gen do have artifacts, a lot of the recent boxes are in perfect-quality though.
Now it's in better quality than the last, but it's funny that the one IGN had was sourced and resized from Sega who has a pretty badly compressed box (same of which Sonic Retro uploaded).
So I grabbed the box from SegaAmerica's flickr, as that has to be the same as found on their Press Site.
Redid somethings and did a better resize and viola.
Also a lot of boxes on IGN from last gen do have artifacts, a lot of the recent boxes are in perfect-quality though.
Crap, even Gametrailers is here >_>
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
This is pretty awesome.
Sexay.
Sexay.
Like really low resolution on my phone is it meant to be like that or is it my phone? (1080p phone display)This is pretty awesome.
Sexay.
Buttonbasher
Member
Nah, it's medium resolution.
Here's a higher resolution scan (I think it's a scan)
http://watchusplaygames.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/resident-evil-remake-cover-art-gamecube-box.jpg
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Good call, that does look better.
CamHostage
Member
Fun! Nobody else plays with URLs every now and then to see what's hidden behind the scenes, eh? It's a good skill to learn, I sometimes build lists of movies or games by cheating the itemcount or trying out some simple "genre=" injects into the URL based on what I find in the metadata. Fun and valuable (if only for the huge dorks amongst us who build lists and stare at boxart.)
I've been trying for years to dig through Xbox.com's graphic scheme, publishers must send those graphics at higher resolutions (would have been really nice to see all the detail that we'll never get to see in the leaked Star Wars First Assault graphic) but I've never been able to find anything better than what's shown on the Xbox Live site. Maybe they just don't store them better than that, they compress and forget, that'd be a shame.
I've been trying for years to dig through Xbox.com's graphic scheme, publishers must send those graphics at higher resolutions (would have been really nice to see all the detail that we'll never get to see in the leaked Star Wars First Assault graphic) but I've never been able to find anything better than what's shown on the Xbox Live site. Maybe they just don't store them better than that, they compress and forget, that'd be a shame.
That GTA IV review is big enough. It could use more compression.
Nemesis_
Member
I love the sticker on that, seems so pointless TWO DISC PRODUCT
AWW YEAH!
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crazepharmacist
Member
deleted. Wrong thread, sorry.
J
Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
This is the best thing ever.
PotionBleue
Member
Is there a way to get PAL boxarts? IGN apparently only hosts NTSC boxarts.
Hero of Legend
Member
Not even in a UK IGN site?
But yeah, they seem to focus on NA boxes. So sadly unless maybe a game got a EU-exclusive release, I doubt they host EU boxes.
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