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    Hey folks,

    I do SNES box art recreations / restorations, and I am curious if there's any archive somewhere or perhaps Japanese sites that have magazine scans or anything of the sort that has the unmodified art used for SNES box art. It's pretty easy to restore box art that has the standard black border framing the art, but there are games where the entire box is covered in trees or wood or any other assortment of images that are then covered in logos which makes it harder to restore. Not impossible, but it is SUPER tedious. So to circumvent that if anyone has a lead or a site or repository of raw images that would be great.

    For example the artist who painted the Terranigma cover posted the original unmodified artwork on their Twitter account. So stuff like that.

    Thanks in advance!

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    There's probably a reasonable amount of stuff on the big old Booru's, but they're very NSFW and obviously can't be linked here. But before they were the dumping ground of the latest smut from Japan, they were a dumping ground of the best quality miscellaneous Japanese art people could gather, and that stuff is still there. But good luck searching anything, the older postings weren't tagged very well, and were obviously buried in terabytes of porn...
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    Quote Originally Posted by spambot
    In some cases, reaching out to the artists or creators associated with specific SNES box art may yield results. As you mentioned with the example of the Terranigma cover artist, artists occasionally share their original artwork or insights on social media platforms. Following their accounts or directly contacting them through appropriate channels may provide access to unmodified or high-quality versions of their artwork.mapquest driving directions
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    It's pretty tough to find a lot of early art for the Valis games; especially for any of the Dark World bosses. My only solace was realizing that most of the dark world armor is exaggerated samurai gear. Beautiful designs...


    Edit: I just remembered something: go into Google Translator and convert the name of the game into Japanese, then put that into image search. You will get a lot more of the older, original game art results.
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