Rouze Card Checklist?
- Thread starter Orichalcon
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Kickhopper - During your review you mentioned how you've made your own fake Rouzer cards.
I know the theory and I've tried using the barcodes that are floating around but to no avail. The barcodes were too large, so I resized them by measuring them against the barcodes of my real cards but no joy.
I tried downsizing the barcodes Here to 80%,80.5,81%,81.5%,81.2% but no joy.
At one point I thought it might be that the paper/ink I'm using doesn't have a high enough contrast so I switched to photo paper and bumped up the quality to make the barcode pure black.
I even printed the barcode from a scan of a genuine card but no to avail.
Putting the barcode up to my own genuine ones....I can't see any meaningful different in size/spacing etc.
At one point I thought it might even be because my barcodes weren't on cards to the same dimensions as the blade cards so I chopped off the leading edge. I'm now starting to wonder if the back of the card has to be opaque in order for the card to properly recognise a card is in there...
I am now intimately familiar with how the "miss" sound..sounds...
Did you have to jump through any hoops to get your fake cards to work? Did you find certain paper types worked better than others or any other tricks? This also goes out to anyone else who has successfully made their own Rouzer cards.
My Blay Rouzer scans all of the cards it came with with no trouble at all so I doubt that it's the rouzer itself...
I know the theory and I've tried using the barcodes that are floating around but to no avail. The barcodes were too large, so I resized them by measuring them against the barcodes of my real cards but no joy.
I tried downsizing the barcodes Here to 80%,80.5,81%,81.5%,81.2% but no joy.
At one point I thought it might be that the paper/ink I'm using doesn't have a high enough contrast so I switched to photo paper and bumped up the quality to make the barcode pure black.
I even printed the barcode from a scan of a genuine card but no to avail.
Putting the barcode up to my own genuine ones....I can't see any meaningful different in size/spacing etc.
At one point I thought it might even be because my barcodes weren't on cards to the same dimensions as the blade cards so I chopped off the leading edge. I'm now starting to wonder if the back of the card has to be opaque in order for the card to properly recognise a card is in there...
I am now intimately familiar with how the "miss" sound..sounds...
Did you have to jump through any hoops to get your fake cards to work? Did you find certain paper types worked better than others or any other tricks? This also goes out to anyone else who has successfully made their own Rouzer cards.
My Blay Rouzer scans all of the cards it came with with no trouble at all so I doubt that it's the rouzer itself...
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KickHopper
Rajio Showa Rider
Try putting the printouts on top of a real Blade card, test it out with one of the filler cards that have Blade's face on them or something. It took a lot of trial and error before I got it right. It's the same with fake DecaDriver cards too.
I did try that. I think that I'm going to do is print a bunch of cards at 80% size increasing by 0.1% until I get to the point where the barcode is definitely too big.
Since you didn't mention using specific paper I'm going to assume for now that it's not the paper itself. When you made your fakes did you use the barcodes off of THAT site or somewhere else?
Since you didn't mention using specific paper I'm going to assume for now that it's not the paper itself. When you made your fakes did you use the barcodes off of THAT site or somewhere else?
KickHopper
Rajio Showa Rider
I looked up the cards I wanted on yahoo japan auctions, looked at the barcode pattern, and just made them myself.
It looks like the mystery might be part way solved. It looks like the printer ink itself is too reflective, for if I trace over my bar codes with graffite pencil it works...sometimes.
Next thing is to try barcodes that are merely a dark colour like dark grey to blue rather than pure black and hope that it enough to stop the light reflecting back into the sensor, but I'm currently Beating and Maching all up in this mofo.
Next thing is to try barcodes that are merely a dark colour like dark grey to blue rather than pure black and hope that it enough to stop the light reflecting back into the sensor, but I'm currently Beating and Maching all up in this mofo.
