attractmode videos torrent updated!

[)p(]

mopwr updated the attractmode videos and added most of the newer ones too

for more info for how to get them or update your current set see here:
http://echo.messageboard.nl/2243/viewtopic.php?t=1317


peter

[Minwah]

Cool, lots of new stuff there!

[pointdablame]

awesome. I grabbed teh ~500 mb file a few days ago, this will round out the collection nicely

[Goz]

I'm not having very good luck actually downloading from that torrent site. I know this has been asked before, but is there any other way to get the attract videos?

-Goz

[)p(]

I'm not having very good luck actually downloading from that torrent site. I know this has been asked before, but is there any other way to get the attract videos?

-Goz

with 1.1 gig in size i am afraid hosting them is suicide for any website...

they also get posted regularly on usenet but thats about it.

the fservers on irc #3darcade are down at the moment I think. I have not been there in a long time ;-)

when its finished they will also be on the 3darcade dvd.


peter

[simplygriff]

When will said 3darcade DVD be available?  How much?
-G

[)p(]

When will said 3darcade DVD be available?  How much?
-G

Actually the dvd project is in limbo at the moment. Because of a personal tragedy the person who was working on it cant finish it. We are looking at alternatives now... But the idea was at cost price of course...

peter

[simplygriff]

Sorry to hear that.  About the project and any tragic events occuring to anyone.  What did the project involve?
-G

[)p(]

Sorry to hear that.  About the project and any tragic events occuring to anyone.  What did the project involve?
-G

3darcade setup with all arcades artwork models videos etc. and setups for most console and computer emus and all preconfigured...

peter

[pointdablame]

That DVD sounds very cool.

This torrent however is dragging.... I'm only getting 4k/s, and I think I'm uploading to pretty much everyone since I'm at 30k/s....    I'm getting quite a few hash check errors also.

No promises, but if I have time and this downloads completely, I might be able to throw them on a few dvds for people.  I'd have to see with school though...

[Thenasty]

I have not yet look at one of this AVI yet and wondering at what point at the game you start recording from ? Do you start during an actual game, or just record the ATTRACT mode, strting from the Title Screen to the end of the attract mode ?

[SpamMe]

I'm currently connected at 132 kB/s down/ 43 kB/s up.

Out of curiousity, why are all the horizontal games squashed into vertical ratio?

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I'm currently connected at 132 kB/s down/ 43 kB/s up.

Out of curiousity, why are all the horizontal games squashed into vertical ratio?

because they were made to be used as textures. 3darcade and also ultrastyle work best with powers of 8 textures. And 256x256 looks better then 256x128 or 256x128.

i don't know how mamewah handles this. mame listinfo/listxml gives info if a game is vertical or horizontal you can use that to info for the fe to stretch the game correctly. thata how i do it for bitmap sprites that use the videos in 3darcade (ie when not used as textures)

peter

peter

[Howard_Casto]

How I do it is to only allow the attract video to be "linked" to a snapshot.  Then I use the snapshot from the game to resize the video.  This is more accurate because some games have odd "letterboxed" aspect ratios.  Also keep in mind that mame's aspect information found in the listinfo is terribley inaccurate.  

Just my two cents.  

Great to see more vids btw, but I sure wish people would keep their torrents open longer.  I've been trying for two days to finish the download.  

[)p(]

Great to see more vids btw, but I sure wish people would keep their torrents open longer.  I've been trying for two days to finish the download.  

yeah...if everybody quits right after completion there will almost be zero seeds for the last parts...:-(

oh yes your method for displayin the vids as bitmaps is the best way to implement it :-) Thikning about it in 3darcade it works probably like that to...ie tkaing the diemnsions from the bitmap...but i have not seen that part of the code in years  

peter

peter

[PedroSilva]

Some info that might help ...

Got 500 Mb this night alone for the videos torrent ... I think I'll have it by monday complete ... Maybe it's because you guys are soooooo far away  ...  

Anyway ... for those with fast machines (over P IV 2.4 with 1 Gb RAM) I've found a nice solution for making our own videos.

For the capture: SnagIt
http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagitdefault.asp?lid=DownloadSnagIt

It alows region capture and creates a .avi file ... huge ...  

For the cutting: Easy Video Splitter

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/11/2/3/11-2-3-14.shtml

The best I have ever seen ... it cuts and saves a video file in seconds .... no need for looooooooooooong productions ...

Next you'll need  a converter from avi to mpeg so that the files remain below 2Mb ... I believe this is the optimum size ...

I have not yet search for any but I'm sure there ar  few hundreds available ...  

Hope this helps ...

[Minwah]

How I do it is to only allow the attract video to be "linked" to a snapshot.  Then I use the snapshot from the game to resize the video.  This is more accurate because some games have odd "letterboxed" aspect ratios.  Also keep in mind that mame's aspect information found in the listinfo is terribley inaccurate.  

That's pretty clever Howard, I hadn't thought of that

Presumably you could use the resolution from -listxml (as opposed to aspect ratio) to resize the video correctly also...

[PacManFan]

FYI everybody,
Kymaera www.pacmanfan.com can use the attract mode videos as well. Integrated mpg/avi support has been in since the first release. You can use a video anywhere where you can display an image, even as the background!

-Just my shameless plug for the day.

-PMF

[Howard_Casto]

Presumably you could use the resolution from -listxml (as opposed to aspect ratio) to resize the video correctly also...

Unfortunately no....physical resolution has nothing to do with the aspect ratio.  Often games have interlaced modes or require a 20% stretch in the horizontal/vertical hold... ect.  Anyway... there are a lot of ways you can do it, I'm just real picky about displaying video in the proper aspect and since crashtest does all the hard work of figuring out the proper ratios when he creates his snaps i just take advantage of it.