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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.
This
site is not affiliated with SNK or Capcom.
All characters are owned by either SNK
or Capcom. No money is being made from this project so if
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