Sega Astro City/Virtua Stick-SS T.E.

The Sega Astro City control panel is one of the more popular arcade control panels to copy for custom stick art. For my take on it however, I decided to add a twist and based mine on the Sega Virtua Stick SS (HSS-0136) for the Sega Saturn which used a similar design to the Astro City control panel.

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Eternal Blaze's KoFXIII T.E. "S"

Some time ago, an SRK poster who goes by the name "Eternal Blaze" asked me to do a King of Fighters XIII piece for the MadCatz Tournament Edition "S" stick featuring some of his favorite characters. The result is this stunning piece featuring K', Ash and King.

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The "New Style" Template

After playing around with the classic Versus City template, I decided to create a new base template using a small part of it. The result of this is what I originally dubbed the "New Style" templates since at the time, doing non-arcade panel style templates was new for me. This is also the first design I did that was created specifically as a base for future designs.

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Megalo 50 Tournament Edition

For those not familiar with it, the Sega Megalo 50 was a large sized sit down cabinet with (as the name suggests) a 50 inch monitor. Back in the arcades I used to go, operators would put their marquee games (usually those of the Marvel vs. Capcom series) on them. It was actually quite intimidating to step up to one of these machines - usually because most small arcades only had one of them, positioned at the center of the room so that everyone could see you and how well you performed. In honor of these cabs, I created a Megalo 50 lookalike skin for the MadCatz Tournament Edition FightStick.

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Dreamcast Game Cover Style

Last year saw the tenth anniversary of Sega's brilliant but ill fated Dreamcast console. To celebrate this, I created a line of skins made to look like the covers of Dreamcast game jewel cases. Both these skins feature art from two beloved Capcom games for the system.

The first of these is a skin based on Plasma Sword/Star Gladiator 2.

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