MAME screenshots and titles pics without white border--where??

[arcadecab]

I had the website, but in since upgrading my computer, I lost it.  I am looking for I believe it is Crash's website that offered screenshots and titles updates for each new version of MAME and the snaps did NOT have the white borders that others sites offered.  Can someone tell me the link to Crash's site again so that I have it?  Or any other good site that offers these without the awful white borders around them?
Thanks.

[Santoro]

This tool will modify your existing art:

http://www.mametitles.com/files/DrRomCBR.zip

Worked great for me.

[papaschtroumpf]

Awesome! I'v been wanting to get rid of those white borders and didn't know how to go about it (b yhand was not an option). I have some downloaded pictures but not for every game.

[JoyMonkey]

Crashtest has some really nice in-game shots, title shots and character select shots on his site:
http://crashtest.retrogames.com/

They're all full-screen, full resolution grabs with no border; so each snap is a different size but looks exactly as the game does in Mame. I think that's the best way to do it. He's got up to Mame 0.74 done, I'm sure the last few releases will have bogged him down a little, but I'd say they'll be up sooner or later.

Why is it that most people seem to resize their snaps down to 244x188 and add a border? Can some FE's not resize snaps as needed? Surely its better to release screen grabs in their most natural state and then let people resize/add borders as they see fit. Hmmm....

[papaschtroumpf]

I had never noticed that the pics with the borders were also resized in most cases.
My pics are a mixture of the ones from the crashtest site and some from a mame cd to fill in the blanks, so I'm still glad about the tool Santoro posted above (haven't tried it yet).

[SirPoonga]

The crashtest are unmodified snaps too.  The white border ones some are scaled.  Battletoads is a great example.  They stretched the image to a 4:3 format.  The game did this, but there were prototypes that were in a widescreen format.

[papaschtroumpf]

The program above appears to work but I think it's got a memory leak bug: I can't process all my pictures at once (I have several thousands) or I'd run out of virtual memory on my XP machine.
I processed them in small batches and was able to process them all.

[Santoro]

The program above appears to work but I think it's got a memory leak bug: I can't process all my pictures at once (I have several thousands) or I'd run out of virtual memory on my XP machine.
I processed them in small batches and was able to process them all.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that, I needed to do the same thing.  I processed them in a temp location then moved them to my real folders.  

But hey, its free.....

[papaschtroumpf]

Quite right! and it beats having to remove the borders by hand.
Most of my snaps come from Crash's site, but I was missing some (or at least, I ahd some pix with a white border that didn't have an equivalent on Crash's site), so now I have a "complete" set without borders.

One interesting thing I noted is that the pics with the white borders where in general larger in term of disk space than the ones from Crash's site, even thoguh they were smaller on the screen.
Like I think 1941 (or of its brothers) was something like 84K with the white border and only 30K on Crash's site even though it was a better picture. I don't know much abouthte .PNG format so I'm not sure how to explain the difference.