Okay, stay with me here - I'm close to getting a passable version of this FE going in Maximus Arcade but I'm running into a snag
1) I downloaded a craptastic little program that simulates the old XP starfield screen saver and a screen video capture program
2) I recorded about 30 seconds of stars wizzing by and then used VLC to export that to frames
3) I imported to photoshop and trimmed off the watermark on the series then exported as a gif
4) I also created a swf in flash
5) I downloaded the SW, ESB, and ROTJ vector logos from lucasfilm, did some stroking and got them to look like vector drawings
6) I saved these as transparent pngs at 1024x768
7) I set the starfield swf as background in MA, got rid of all the game lists boarder, general crap on MA, set the emulator to batch, put everything in a folder together, and aimed it at the shortcuts to the roms that launch directly so I can mix in whatever games I want
8 ) I made sure to resize batch_screen sprite to 1024x768 (same as the layout) to ensure a nice fill over the starfield
9) I'm totally borked, the damn snapshots won't change size, they seem to be proportional to whatever size layout I'm using. No matter what I set that shizzle to it's about a quarter of the screen. No more, no less.
I'm clearly doing something wrong.
Oh, I tried this in Mala with a gif, the background works but the stupid snaps won't show transparency *grumble grumble grumble
Anybody got any recommendations, I'll try other FEs, I'm stupid close on this, I even set the selection to scroll sideways so it would feel right navigating with a yoke. BLAST!
screenie I took isn't animated, just pretend the stars are flowing by