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Title: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Darkheart on November 15, 2005, 05:41:56 AM: Source: Ds advanced!

This is a super simple site that translated icons into the Mario Kart Decals. Dsadvanced is actually giving away 3 Ds's with Mario Kart in a contest over there so those who dont win PlanetGameCube's art contest might want to check it out there. In the meantime heres a few icons made by moi!

Remember that the actual icon will look like the tiny icon in the upper right hand corner.

Luna from Lunar

Link

Kirby Jester

Jessica from Lunar

Dragonmaster Alex from Lunar

Bullet Bill

Link again

This little program is going to produce some NICE artwork for the game!

Click here to try it out for yourself! WOOOOOOOOOT
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Arbok on November 15, 2005, 08:52:50 AM: And there goes my hopes of using my site's logo as a decal
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Post by: Darkheart on November 15, 2005, 09:31:32 AM: Nice one!

Heres a couple more i did, the ones with an asterisk is the 3 that I submitted into the contest

*****

Oprah

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Yoshi

*****

Tingle
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on November 15, 2005, 12:59:13 PM: The limited color pallette makes many things I tried fugly, including just about every Luigi image I tried, but this program is certianly more convenient than doing stuff in GIMP. Remember to resize/crop to a square before using this thing, too!
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 15, 2005, 01:30:32 PM: Well the color palette has been just fine for me, it's just that the program doesn't give you the "best fit" sometimes...So I've just been using it as a rough draft and manually editing it myself...
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Post by: blackfootsteps on November 15, 2005, 04:40:44 PM: I had to add the mouth myself, it looks fantastic in game.
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Post by: Renny on November 16, 2005, 12:50:40 PM: This is like going back in time. Oh, the days when people would compress their photos to GIF. [shudders] So how are these images applied ingame? Are they stretched much? Dithered much?
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Post by: Stimutacs Addict on November 16, 2005, 12:53:39 PM: yeah,, how is the ingame color pallette
i'm so poised to buy this game... breathe...
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Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on November 16, 2005, 01:24:42 PM: I call Samus's little icon thing!
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: mantidor on November 16, 2005, 04:37:54 PM: surprisingly, most Samus dekals end up being actually really nice. I try it just to test it and didnt even resize them or anything

but the one I really want is this one:

which of course turns out like crap

At least Ill be entertained trying to pull out a decent mantis icon while I get my DS until the end of the month (yes, finally! )
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Babyboy8100 on November 16, 2005, 04:54:54 PM: Cool Decals Guys, I need to buy a wifi adapter Damm!!!

use your own bandwidth for image posting
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Arbok on November 16, 2005, 05:22:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Babyboy8100
Cool Decals Guys, I need to buy a wifi adapter Damm!!!

You can't hotlink from their service, it's why they are in php format. Anyway, those Samus ones are amazing!
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Myxtika1 Azn on November 16, 2005, 06:03:26 PM: Mantidor, I want to ask for your permission to use your Samus icons.

okplsthxlol
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Darkheart on November 16, 2005, 06:09:07 PM: here you go this was pretty decent as far as mantis icons go
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Post by: mantidor on November 17, 2005, 12:54:55 AM: thats great, thanks!

Myxtika1 Azn go ahead
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Post by: Dasmos on November 17, 2005, 01:47:37 AM: Your name sort of reminds of a praying mantis now. It's because Mantidor and Mantis are similar.
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Post by: vudu on November 17, 2005, 09:14:18 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: mantidorAt least Ill be entertained trying to pull out a decent mantis icon while I get my DS until the end of the month (yes, finally! )
Excellent. Did you wind up getting one locally, or did you find a place that would ship it to you for under $60 USD?
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: mantidor on November 17, 2005, 03:16:19 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Dasmos
Your name sort of reminds of a praying mantis now. It's because Mantidor and Mantis are similar.

yup, its based on the name of the insect (Im a bit obbessed about them), but back when I made it up, almost 10 years ago now that I think about it, I though that plain "mantis" was kind of simple, so I played around with the word, you know how is when you are thirteen and want to create something l33t for a nick heh, now Im just very used to it.

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Originally posted by: vudu
Excellent. Did you wind up getting one locally, or did you find a place that would ship it to you for under $60 USD?

I wish! no, I decided to expend the extra money, the fanboy in me didnt accept a "lets wait til a price drop" for an answer damn you Nintendo for making me poor . Ill probably get all the GBA goodness Ive missed since those game are cheaper, and maybe just one or two DS games for a while. And I hope wifi at college is compatible, or Ill be going online until next year when people would have probably lost interest in the game
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: StrikerObi on November 17, 2005, 07:44:02 PM: This application sucks. The image I submitted to it uses a total of three colors (black, white, and red) and the emblem it spit out is using at least 7 colors including green and grey and yellow WTF!?
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: mantidor on November 18, 2005, 03:30:36 AM: If you have it already in three colors just resize the image to 32 x 32 pixels and you are ready to go.
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Post by: KDR_11k on November 18, 2005, 04:55:55 AM: The image I submitted to it uses a total of three colors (black, white, and red)

Red-White-Black as in Swastika?
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Spak-Spang on November 18, 2005, 05:03:25 AM: I love the Icon creater. I was able to create my PGC avator as a descent Icon for Mario Kart. It definately is a tool that you need to tweak colors on...but it works!
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Darkheart on November 18, 2005, 05:20:15 AM: If you post the icon I will personally make it work for you, but you have to post it here so I can fix it.
Title: RE: OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: odilon on November 20, 2005, 04:59:07 AM: My icon is a zombie from Earthbound.
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: Darkheart on November 20, 2005, 07:04:12 AM: Found this one over at AMN from one of the contest posters. I repeat I DID NOT DO this icon, I am not trying to steal it, just figured I would show you all.

Hehehehehe and I thought my Oprah one was good....................

Guess who?
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: nickmitch on November 21, 2005, 07:39:19 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: odilon
My icon is a zombie from Earthbound.

interesting. . .
Title: RE:OMG Mario Kart Icon fun
Post by: vudu on November 27, 2005, 08:01:39 AM: I found this list over at Animal Crossing Ahead. It's for Animal Crossing textures, but lucky for us they work for Mario Kart DS, too!
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Post by: JonLeung on November 28, 2005, 09:23:43 AM: I was going to mention Animal Crossing. There must be some programs for that. At 32 x 32, aren't they also the same as Windows icons? (*is too lazy to look*) So if not for the limited palette, there might be easier ways to translate your pictures, as if cropping to a square and then resizing to 32 x 32 and then blowing it up again without alteration in nearly any image program wasn't simple enough.

(I remember that Animal Crossing site! Wow, they still have the 16 icons that I originally made for my own web site! Good times...)