I thought it might be fun to have a contest for best eInk art for display on the HyperFlash32 eInk display. Winner will get a free HyperFlash32 cart ($150 value). This contest is open to anyone, even existing buyers. I’ll refund your cart price if you’ve already paid or give you a second free one.
The idea is to generate eInk labels that would be associated with a loaded ROM file. This is flashed to the screen so that you know what game is currently programmed. It’s meant as a changeable game label.
You can see the visible area of the image below in the picture of approximately 226 x 168 pixels set within a 264 x 176 frame. Your image needs to be 264 x 176 in size but only the 226×168 offset image will be visible once on the cart. Image needs to be in 4 gray shades to match the display: black, white, and two intermediate shades. Saved as a 24bit BMP file (this is what I need to convert to an eInk format). I’ve also attached an image showing an example 4 shades of gray available on the display, as well as some images I’ve done already. Be aware that the images I’ve done in the examples are NOT offset properly. To keep everything consistent in the conversion on my end lets use gray levels 0xFFFFFF, 0x000000,0xC0C0C0, and 0x808080.
The images I’ve done were ripped/modified from various existing labels/places. This may not be the best approach as they were not originally designed for a 4 grayscale display. But I won’t restrict people in any way. Feel free to do what you think is best.
For judging, I’ll put the images on an eInk display and pick my favorite 3. I was going to let the community vote via a poll, but someone brought to my attention that cheating would be very easy via a poll. So I’ll be the judge on this one but I’ll pick my top 3 favorites. Then I’ll randomly pick out of a hat from the top three for the final grand prize. I’ll pick the top 3 on May 1st. Then select the top one. I’m likely to have a 2nd and 3rd place prize as well. TBD on what those are.
To enter, just post your image here in this thread when its ready. By posting and entering the contest you’re open to letting others use your image on their own personal HyperFlash carts. The idea is to share labels.
Let me know if you have any questions. I reserve the right to modify the contest slightly just in case some issues arise that I didn’t think of but the general idea will remain untouched.
Adjusted brightness and added color palette
Here is my third attempt. Still trying to come up with original ideas.
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Can Anyone use these scans?
I can scan the rest of the games I have if these are of any use.
Next batch. Color bars are great. Thanks to everyone for adding them.
That’s the rest. I dont have Jack Bros.
Looking pretty good.
The small text on the Galactic Pinball is hard to read.
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Here’s my next batch (2/3, all Teleroboxer themed) overall pretty happy with how they came out… I’m gonna make a separate post for the last one – because its splendour justifies it infinitely.
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… I’m gonna make a separate post for the last one – because its splendour justifies it infinitely.
Here they are, in all their glory. “critics are saying it surpasses the Mona Lisa in every conceivable way”… honestly I only did this because I found it way funnier than I probably should. I also decided I should have at least one with the title of the game, even if it takes the focus off Ed.
Here is my 5th attempt I hope everyone can figure out what’s going on.
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My next batch!
Getting through all the ones I’ve got planned at a reasonable pace.
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Just added a some grey boarders to the japanese text for space invaders, like how it is on the box. I still like the one without the boarder as well though.
just a quick relatively low effort gundam one. Could probably clean it up a bit but I’m satisfied enough. I might do some more later today.
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Here’s my entry.
I tried to prioritize the logo legibility rather than do an illustration, as the goal is to make it a game label.
