It seems as though the gaming community as a whole is pretty split over this issue. Though there seems to be some core issues that I should address
To the best of my ability they will be the same, this being said I am having the label artwork professionally digitized and set up for printing. The labels are being custom cut be a professional company down to the mm and yes they have the rounded edges. Plus I plan on using a 4800dpi professional label printer, which companies use to print labels for store products. Although I don’t have a sample, it should look the same, but I can’t say for sure yet.
It seems that most people are against this idea because of this issue. I wouldn’t be making any reproduction labels for any high valued games. At most I would be targeting games like SMB3 and such, which have both enough value to justify the expensive of a new label, though wouldn’t really damage the market as a whole since they are not high value items.
I absolutely would not make any type of labels that misrepresented a product such as a prototype label.
Yes this is possible in the future.
So this leaves a couple of unanswered questions and positions. I am hesitant to put any type of mention of reproduction on the labels since, although this would be in line with the hard core collectors. The majority of people who play and collect games might be put off by this. I do like the idea of admitting certain features like the Nintendo Seal or what not as a way of identifying these labels.
I also like the idea of custom artwork and would be happy to work with anyone with this. I am neither an artist nor a professional designer so this is outside of my league, but if somebody would like to collaborate with me on making custom labels I would be happy to work with them. I think it would be outstanding to give collectors an opportunity to come up with some original artwork for NES games.
I think to start off and to avoid this whole reproduction issue my first label will be far different than the original label. It will be for SMB3. This being said perhaps I can work out a system that can work towards both sides of the argument.