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Back in Janruary 2001
I had an idea that would make SNK vs Capcom Card Fighter Clash playable
with cards in hand rather than being confined to only playing it on the
Neo-Geo Pocket Color. Don't get me wrong I loved playing Card Fighters
on my NGPC but I was the only one in town that I knew with the great handheld
system. I had other friends that were constantly borowing my system just
so they could play the game. At the time I was going through school for
Comercial Art so I was able to purchase a copy of Quark Express fairly cheep.
The problem I ran into using that program was I was the only one who could
actually print the cards off and that forced me to try this using a different
method. Now I figured the best way was to just use a "Paint Program" I
wanted to use Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop but those programs were way
to expensive so I ended up going with a very under powered program Paint
Shop Pro. By February 6, 2001 I had finished the first card.
The card shown here is the actual resolution size that I went with.
For those of you who know anything about printing the quality of those
cards were really low. Not to mention the design is really poor. At
the time I really didn't care what the cards looked like because I was more
interested in doing the project and just getting it done.
The problem I was running into was this method was taking too long.
I completed all of the Action cards most of the SNK and only a handfull
of Capcom cards. Back then there were no Reaction cards to deal with since
the only SvC:CFC that I knew of was the first game.
As you can see with this design I took direct sprite rips to construct
just about everything on the card. From the Card picture to the Ranks and
all the way up to the card descriptions.
Since I am kind of a perfectionist (to my best abilities) I aslo did
backs for the cards. Two different desings and both of wich were ugly as
sin. The first one that I did of course was
the one on the left. When I would cut the cards I noticed that some
times the blue border was not alway centered and it was really obvious
at times so I came up with the second design. The one on the right I did
not come up with till a while later. It's design is based off of SvC:CFC2
which is why it's quite a bit nicer than the original one. I was not all
that good at design so early in my schooling as you can see that as the
years have progressed my design skills have grown considerably.
Eventually I got to the point where I started to release the cards to
the public. But still... I was not happy with the way the things were going.
Despite that I still went out and opened up a site on a free web host. Here
is a thumb nail of what the site looked
like. If you want a closer look just click on
the picture. As you can see the web design looks an awful lot like a cartrige
slot to a Neo-Geo AES. I got bored one day and drew a picture using Paint
Shop Pro of a top down view of the Neo-Geo so I decided to turn it into
a GUI and used it for the Card Fighter Clash website. This site was put
up and had absolutly no updates. I only had one news update entry. So basically
the project was dead as fast as it went up.
It didn't take long for me to totally give up on the project until several
years later I got the itch again.
I'm a creature of habit so I went back to working on this through Quark
Express I tried everything and it just was not working out. Still running
into the same old problem. I can make the cards but how am I suposed to
get this out to the public if I'm the only one who can print them.
Finally a friend of mine showed me GIMP. An image manipulation program
that is free of charge and totally open source. This program is just as
powerful as Photo Shop. From here the Project has become what you have come
to see on this site. Only the future will show what becomes of CFP, but I
still plan on making a 2nd series. I just have to come up with a way as to
how.
(note 2nd series has been started in the form of the DS series).
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CFP powered by GIMP see links section for more info
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