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Help Wanted > Icon for DSx86 needed

#171645 - Pate - Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:07 am

Hi!

As you might have read in the Homebrew Announcement thread, I'm working on a x86 emulator for DS, called DSx86. http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16956

However, I don't currently have a proper icon for it, and I pretty much suck at creating icons anyways (as you can see in LineWarsDS), so I was wondering if there are any graphics artists here that would be interested and willing to create an icon for it? I can't pay you anything, but you will certainly get your name in the credits and quite possibly into the emulator itself as well.

I would need the nds launch icon, and also a version to use as a favicon.ico on my DSx86 web pages at http://dsx86.patrickaalto.com would be nice to have.

I don't have any specific ideas or requirements for the icon, but perhaps it could give an impression of a DOS program/prompt running in a DS? Or something along those lines?

You can contact me by email using my first name at my domain name (patrickaalto.com) if you prefer that over this public forum.

For your consideration, and thanks for reading!

Pate
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#171646 - DiscoStew - Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:30 am

I went and did a couple of quick nds launch icon mockups with my free time (which should have been used to study for finals). All are 32x32 pixels in dimensions.

This one is probably too much and the lettering in the screens are too small, but it was my first idea (that thing on the side is meant to be a floppy disk)
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5057/dsx86.png

This next one is 3 different versions of a simple prompt look, minus the rainbow separators (I personally like the last one)
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/156/dsx86cmd.png

If you like them, then go ahead and use them, or alter them to your liking.
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#171647 - Vague Rant - Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:58 am

Well damn, those beat the hell out of my efforts.

DS icon: http://i45.tinypic.com/oqzype.jpg

Favicon: http://i45.tinypic.com/11vsch0.jpg

I like the idea of these (echos the DS logo; the colours for background and text are actually the official colours from the logo) but obviously my execution is awful. Might be worth looking at if someone with a flair for pixel art completely redid them.
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#171648 - Pate - Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:04 am

Wow, you guys are fast!!

Both of these have pretty neat ideas, I like the DS:\> prompt, and also the "dual screen" icon idea is very appealing!

I'll think about these, big thanks! I probably won't decide on which one to use quite yet, so that people that don't browse this forum many times a day have a chance to give their ideas as well.

Thanks!

Pate
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