Lack of Screenshots

[savking]

Admin Ive been experimenting with some games Ive never played before and when I come to download the rom file I noticed that barely any games had the screens. Now I no that asking you to do these yourself may be a bit cheeky becuse theres so manny. But if you want I could take loads of screens for you to paste on to the site? Its only a offer and dosnt matter if you feel this is nnot nessery at this early time in the sites development.

[chaos master]

YES YES YES!!!
good idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was going to mention this, but I forgot.

If this is going to work, we are going to need either a lot of people or a lot of dedication.

I will help if you want me to, just show me where to upload.

[admin]

Hey savking. I am personally taking screenshots for many games at the moment, but you are right, doing this alone is quite tough ;). If you guys are willing to help, that will be great, just PM me and I will provide you with more details :). Thank you.

[Sonic]

I would be willing to help out as well. Let me know what you need and I'll email you or pm you some screenshots.

[Kameo]

Anyone wants to take screenies from the MAME ROMz?? There's only near 6000 of them :p. Well, if that **** FTP stops hanging every time ;).

Might be easier and faster if we all choose a system to take screenies of instead of all just doing something :). If we all take SNES screenshots then we'll have lots of that and none of others :p...

[Iconoclast]

Keep in mind, people, if you want the screenshots to be of perfect quality, do NOT save them in BMP format. Trust me, I work with imaging all the time. Where a JPG can be 10 KB in size, a BMP can be, like, 310 KB. Plus you don't get background or partial pixel transparency. Leave the format as it is when Project64, for example, captures it. PNG format is an alternate, but some web browsers don't support it.

[Sonic]

^ How do I do that since in some cases at the instant you press the screenshot button they come out in BMP format? (Sorry for sounding new) And yes, Kameo, I'll be willing to help out with that too. Just tell me what you want the screenshots of.

[Iconoclast]

Do not use BMP format. If it comes out as BMP format, reformat it using an image editor. But that's not a good way. Screenshots only come out as BMP format if you are using Jabo's Direct 3-D 6 plugin. If you use his Direct 3-D 8 plugin that I have, they will come out in JPG format, which normally sucks with the exception of when Project64 generates them.

[Iconoclast]

Admin's good. All of the N64 ROM screenshots I've looked at so far are in GIF format (limited to 256 colors) and do not look conspicuously crappy. I myself find it hard to optimize GIFs this way. But I think his image file sizes would be less if they were saved in JPG format; adding features to GIF format to preserve all of the quality takes up so much more size you may as well use JPG. Still, I don't know how he does it. GIF format should only be used on images with fewer than 256 colors in it and where you want to enable image background transparency. (My avatar, for example, has background transparency. You can see through the background to the web page background, a solid gray.)

[Sonic]

I always thought that GIF format was mostly for when you want to animate stuff. I know that I primarily use GIF format for when I use flash animation on graphics like flashing multiple banners at a time with ImageReady.

[Iconoclast]

Oh, yes, it's good for animating. It's the only image format that can be animated or a single image. It is one of the only two image formats that supports background transparency: GIF and PNG. PNG is the only format that supports background transparency and partial pixel transparency at the same time. It was a relatively recently created format for imaging, but old web browsers can't load them for that reason.

[Sonic]

Doesnt .PSD also support background transparency?

[Iconoclast]

...Oh, yes it does. So does PSP, Paint Shop Pro image. But these are what I know as 'unoptimized' image formats. You can't import them into a web page or use them in any program except the program that created them. Think of them as preservation formats which we use to preserve all of the imaging quality until the image is done and ready to be optimized into an official image format so it can be used by other software. So PNG is the only optimized and usuable image format with this quality.

[admin]

Thank you guys for your eagerness in wanting to help me :). Kameo is currently uploading the full MAME set, which will need alot of screenshots taken. I currently have 2 loyal members helping take screenshots for Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, but I still need someone to help me take screenshots for Nintendo NES. So if are interested, please pm me, and I will provide you with certain procedures I follow when taking screenshots, as well as a FTP account to upload the images. Iconoclast: I convert the images to .gif format using Adobe Photoshop while keeping all the default options :).