Guide to Clean High-Res Cover Art

I'd like offer a small tip to anyone who likes to use nice looking cover art for their emulators and libraries.

IMDB has clean, high-resolution cover art without messy labels for just about every game ever made. Even obscure titles only released in certain regions. If you simply do a google image search for "game imdb" with your game title of choice, it'll most likely appear right away, in .png format.

Likewise, if you want something more compact, IGN has high-res perfectly square images of almost every single game, just do the same search but replace IMDB with IGN. Some might be in .webp format so you might have to convert them if the emulator doesn't recognize the format.

Here's a cover from IMDB...

...and here's the same game from IGN:

Another cool thing, is that the fancy "tall" IMDB covers are available for many games that weren't originally in that format:

IGN version:

Hope this helps you make your libraries even better looking!

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Thanks for the tip. I like to use Moby games myself, but will check for Imdb next time. Sometimes there's also huge scans of boxes on archive.org, with single pngs of hundreds of MBs several times the size of the game itself.

 

[ColonelKurtz]

Never realized that! I wish I could easily scrape those websites.

 

[Glimbo]

Some more options.

libretro's database:
Good for cover art scans of old console games. The majority are high quality, I find.
https://thumbnails.libretro.com/

steamgriddb:
High quality with standardized image dimensions. Lots of variety. I use this mostly for PC games but it has games from consoles too.
https://www.steamgriddb.com/

If something from libretro is low quality, you can check the game's page on gamefaqs under the media tab.