07 July 2010 @ 02:31 pm
Pac-Man iPhone Wallpaper  
There's a Pac-Man iPhone wallpaper floating around, and, frankly, it sucks. What's with the blue background? Smoothed-out sprites? Blogs say it's made for the Retina Display, but it's obviously not 640x960.

So I made one of my own! This one uses the actual sprites from the game, and is probably as close to exact as you can get it. Here's what it looks like on my phone:



I've made a few variations - one with no ghost home, one with no top/bottom border, and one with neither. But you can also download the PSD to make your own.

Click through to the following images (one version for 3GS, the other for 4), and hold down to "Save Image". Then, from your Photos app, go to your Camera Roll and press the lower-right button to "Use as Wallpaper," do NOT move/scale, then "Set Home Screen."
  • Ghost home and borders (3GS, 4)
  • No ghost home (3GS, 4)
  • No borders (3GS, 4)
  • No ghost home or borders (3GS, 4)
P.S. - the iPhone 4 versions are not just upscaled versions of the iPhone 3GS ones - Apple knocks each icon down by a single pixel once it's twice as big, so I had to nudge each wallpaper down by 1.
 
 
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Ron D.[info]strongesthylian on July 7th, 2010 10:04 pm (UTC)
Wait, the top two are iPhone 3GS and the bottom two are iPhone 4? I don't see a difference... -_-
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 7th, 2010 10:07 pm (UTC)
No. I changed the blog a bit - thought it would be confusing...
Ron D.[info]strongesthylian on July 7th, 2010 10:10 pm (UTC)
So the four images under the cut are iPhone 4? Where's the iPhone 3GS ones?
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 7th, 2010 10:14 pm (UTC)
Oh god the ones on the page are for the iPhone 3GS but if you click through you get the iPhone 4 ones aaa

I'm going to separate them so they're not links
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 7th, 2010 10:21 pm (UTC)
Okay fixed.
Ron D.[info]strongesthylian on July 7th, 2010 10:22 pm (UTC)
Awesome. And holy crap the resolution for iPhone 4 is nice!
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 7th, 2010 10:23 pm (UTC)
Yeah it's kind of ridiculous when you see it on a regular monitor. The vertical resolution exceeds that of most laptop monitors.
Mr. Blue Sky[info]jonio on July 7th, 2010 11:44 pm (UTC)
Do these work on an ipod touch?
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 7th, 2010 11:45 pm (UTC)
Hmm, probably. Does your iPod touch run iOS 4? Does it support custom wallpapers? Try it out.

Edited at 2010-07-07 11:45 pm (UTC)
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 7th, 2010 11:48 pm (UTC)
Looks like custom wallpaper is only available for 3rd-gen iPod touch (32/64gb, late 2009).
David McGuire[info]coyotecoyote on July 8th, 2010 01:11 am (UTC)
Looks great on my ipod Touch.
This wallpaper is SO much better than that other pac-man wallpaper.
(Anonymous) on July 8th, 2010 06:53 pm (UTC)
Much better
Nice work. Those are awesome!
I just put together this Zelda one:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=utz5h&s=3
Jeffrey Carl Faden[info]jeffreyatw on July 8th, 2010 06:54 pm (UTC)
Re: Much better
Cool, maybe move the rocks out from under the icon labels, and upscale the image nearest-neighbor style so it doesn't look blurry.
(Anonymous) on July 9th, 2010 01:28 am (UTC)
LOVE IT!!!!
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