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This first link is the book covers we made so far. The SNK ones are modeled after the Neo Geo arcade control board. Intellivision, Colecovision, NES and SNES are modeled after the top of the respected systems; the INTV book gets its name from The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scot-Heron. Street Fighter is modeled after the font and colors of the original game, Mega Man is based off the color palette of Mega Man and Channel F is modeled after the core color palette of the Channel F (red, green, blue, and slate blue-grey).

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This is a rough draft of the NES book which was started in Word but scrapped in favor of doing the pages in Photoshop.

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Just some miscellaneous pages we made with the book cover to represent which book they belong too.

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The big one we are concentrating on the most. We have yet to work on the strategy section but we got the tidbits done up to Mega Man 6 so far. There is no set date on the other books as they can be finished anytime this year or next year but this Mega Man one, our goal is to have it done by Dec. 17th (his 30th birthday).

Note: All PDF are best read in Adobe Reader as they will be freakishly large in size (not filesize) in most other apps.

For ebooks and publication creation, what sort of software tools or applications are you using?

UserMike : Sorry for taking so long to reply. Been busy as of late. Haven't done any research for any software as of yet, just been working on making the pages for now. The last time I found a epub maker, it was a bust as it decided to plug crap in the middle of the test guide.

Here is a low res sample that has been made for Gutsman's stage on the Mega Man book.




You can view the high res version on my sister's AtariAge blog by clicking the image.

http://atariage.com/forums/blog/552/entry-14188-mm30-preview-guts-man/