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I've been modifying my build with custom corners by taking an image of the cartridge/disk & putting it behind the controller. It looks nice in my opinion & I thought it might be a pretty simple addition to make since the background/video/corner is already a layered stack of images, why not have a Box-Art/Disk/Cartridge layer as well. Now originally I was using Box art, but dealing with multiple-disk games I found that putting the disc that says "Disk 1" on the screen it makes it easier to identify them. Plus with cartridges like the old NES I like the way it looks with the cartridge, though it's more work than I want to do for many unfortunately since I have to find the cartridge, remove whatever background, scale & then give it a slight tilt for ideal look IMO. I think for a default included metadata the Box is better since the art is available on most game databases alongside the logos.
One thing that I have noticed making these is that the
default.pngfor each of the corners have a partially incomplete or corrupted color index. When imported to GIMP it tries to, I believe, use the default 256 indexed color profile but the faded shadow & controller cords end up getting messed up on import. I'm told the same happens on Photoshop but as I don't have it I cannot say for certain.I can say, however, that it's fairly easily fixed (For anyone who may wish to edit their own) by opening & saving the PNG in another program that doesn't read the color pallet metadata from the image, I use the basic Windows Snip & Sketch App & it results in a file that imports as RGB instead of indexed & looks correct though it is 40KB instead of 16KB