Omega-TI Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Could someone please toss one of their 5200 joystick templates in their scanner and save it in PDF format? I'd like try an experiment with one to see how it works out. I'll post the results here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 You mean like one of the overlays from a game or ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 You mean like one of the overlays from a game or ? Yes. I've located three templates (attached below), but until I get my repaired joystick back, I cannot get the correct sizing. With any luck we could get an assortment here eventually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 Oops, I uploaded the Defender PDF to the wrong thread, so I'm posting it here with the hopes that this thread will grow. Anyway, I correctly sized the Defender joystick overlay and put it in a PDF, so it should print up perfectly for everyone. 5200 Joystick Defender Overlay.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Star Raiders is an early title and one of the few where an overlay is really nice to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 fresh off my scanner... and in some cased fresh outta the box. 5200_overlays_1.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 fresh off my scanner... and in some cased fresh outta the box. 5200_overlays_1.pdf Excellent! Thank you. Now with others helping out, maybe we'll get them all eventually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 I have others I didn't open up yesterday that I can take a look at. But those are likely the only overlays I have as I don't have that many CIB 5200 games in my collection. I also originally scanned them in at 1200 dpi, but naturally the original PNG file was over 80mb in size and you would have to scale that down still to be usable. My point though is that my original scans are much higher quality than what was eventually put to the PDF file. Only way I can put them into PDF is to open the scans and put them into a word doc as correct size and then save that to a PDF but you loose quite a bit of the definition doing this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 .. at 1200 dpi, but naturally the original PNG file was over 80mb in size and you would have to scale that down still to be usable. My point though is that my original scans are much higher quality than what was eventually put to the PDF file. Only way I can put them into PDF is to open the scans and put them into a word doc as correct size and then save that to a PDF but you loose quite a bit of the definition doing this. Yeah, PNG format while beautiful can be rather large. If you want to try scanning at 600 DPI and upload the raw images in JPG format, you'll find it'll be more than adequate. I can tweak them from that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 I feel like an IDIOT! I've been on AtariAge for years and just found << THIS >>!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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