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I know I've raised this point before but I... don't trust covers from TheCoverProject. This was given out in a cardboard box, not a traditional sleeve like other games. The perfectionist inside of me says this isn't a proper scan

3366 x 2100 is a resolution people use so covers can easily be printed and stored in these. "Universal" boxes which are designed to hold all sorts of cartridges, not just Mega Drive ones.

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We're only talking about a tiny bit of resizing here, but my gut feeling is that Sega Retro should be hosting actual scans and letting people do clean-up jobs later. I don't trust TCP to keep all the quirks and inaccuracies that exist across different publishers -Black Squirrel 05:14, 21 May 2012 (CDT)

I have this; I can replace it later. I know I've seen replacement cases circulating in used game stores a lot, but I doubt with the Genesis it's not as severe a problem because most games did come in sleeves but who knows :/ - Andlabs 08:44, 21 May 2012 (CDT)

What the Cover Project does is it maintains a dump of raw cover scans and then its users take these images and edit them to fit a template. The result is you can get things which are stretched or minor details which are missing or whatever, and everything ends up unusually clean and tidy... and uniform. Really good for collectors who don't have boxes, less so when you're striving for complete accuracy like Retro.

I think the "Universal Game Cases" are only slightly different to standard Mega Drive boxes so it probably doesn't make much of a difference (at least, compared to their Mega CD/Saturn stuff where they're altered to fit DVD covers). The dimensions might have been dictated by SNES/N64 boxes and they're not wildly different shapes to Sega's consoles, but I guess it's just the idea that these covers are purposefully altered to meet a template that is a little dodgy. And it doesn't work for cardboard boxes because there's another three sides to scan.

These EU Dreamcast covers are much better - they might have been cleaned up (it's virtually unnoticable if they have), but they keep the slightly different blue hues and little details and they look so much better for it. -Black Squirrel 09:44, 21 May 2012 (CDT)

I'm aware of the shortcomings of things being modified to UGC standards, but in a lot of cases it's not as though there is a better solution that exists already outside of going back and doing raw 600dpi scans of everything.

Also (and maybe I'm in the minority about this), I have always when doing my own scans just converted cardboard boxes to back-spine-front. This box is cardboard; I just altered it to fit the standard format (and yes, Majesco left that back out of focus on the box itself. It's rather embarrassing.) - Scarred Sun 11:48, 21 May 2012 (CDT)

I think the whole box should be scanned (unless there's completely blank sides) so theoretically nobody else in the world has to scan it again... but the Scanbox template can't handle tops and bottoms and I can't think of an easy way of getting it to cope, so idk if it should be one image or several. -Black Squirrel 12:42, 21 May 2012 (CDT)

Maybe scan the entire box and then provide a way for someone to get a back-spine-front version of a box scan if they so choose? - Andlabs 14:45, 21 May 2012 (CDT)