A place for Sega / Mega CD Screenshots?

[Minwah]

Anyone know of a site for this? I've tried all the usual places.  Preferably title shots.

[unclet]

Here is a site which has tons of screenshots, titles, etc.... 

http://no-intro.dlgsoftware.net/main.php?lang=1

This site has them as well but the file naming is horrible:

http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/index_somac_db.php

[Minwah]

Thanks for the links...they don't have SegaCD tho unfortunately.

Also I had a look at the Megadrive NoIntro shots and they were named with CRC's or something...are all the systems done like this??

[massive88]

Getting screenshots to match with console romsets was probably the most frustrating thing I have done in setting up my cab.  Trying to find collections named the same as my roms was like manually pulling my own teeth.  I still dont have my Atari 5200 screens working right as I cant find the GoodTools version that they were made to match.

I dont have any suggestions for the Mega CD though, there weren't that many games though were there?  Doing it manually may not be that bad of an undertaking.

Also there are avi previews from - http://www.emumovies.com/console.html  If that would work instead.

[Minwah]

Getting screenshots to match with console romsets was probably the most frustrating thing I have done in setting up my cab.

Yep...I have roms in NoIntro format and use screenshots mainly in GoodTools format.  My FE can display the screenshot whose name matches best...this works fine the majority of the time.

I dont have any suggestions for the Mega CD though, there weren't that many games though were there?  Doing it manually may not be that bad of an undertaking.

You're right, I decided to go this route. I don't have all the games as most of them are shite!

[massive88]

Yep...I have roms in NoIntro format and use screenshots mainly in GoodTools format.  My FE can display the screenshot whose name matches best...this works fine the majority of the time.

Can I assume you use Mamewah?  What kind of logic does it do for matching the screenshot names?

My 5200 filenames have the etc at the end, but the rest of the filename is spot on and still no screen shows up   

Also on Future Pinball no screens show up despite it being something like:
This persons table with long name.fpt
This persons table with long name num 1.jpg

[HaRuMaN]

Can I assume you use Mamewah?

    

[Dazz]

Hey Minwah... Once you complete your Sega/Mega CD screen shots would you mind posting them somewhere?  I've been looking for these as well...

Also, what is the best way to do these manually?

[Minwah]

Can I assume you use Mamewah?  What kind of logic does it do for matching the screenshot names?

'Fraid so    IIRC it pretty much just cuts any bracketed info off the game description start/end, and then looks for a matching rom name.

My 5200 filenames have the etc at the end, but the rest of the filename is spot on and still no screen shows up   

Make sure 'enable_fuzzy_search' is set to 1 in your emulator.ini file (it is 0 by default).

Also on Future Pinball no screens show up despite it being something like:
This persons table with long name.fpt
This persons table with long name num 1.jpg

It may not work with that as the 'num 1' part isn't bracketed.  I have been thinking about making it a little more comprehensive...I am just a little concerned about speed and accuracy - it may be counter productive to try to be too clever.  ie I want to avoid eg:

Return of The Jedi
Return of The Strange Monkeys

...being confused as the same game.  Where do you draw the line!?

[Minwah]

Hey Minwah... Once you complete your Sega/Mega CD screen shots would you mind posting them somewhere?  I've been looking for these as well...

Yes no problem, as I say tho it will not be a complete set, but I have about 40 games.

[Dazz]

Hey Minwah... Once you complete your Sega/Mega CD screen shots would you mind posting them somewhere?  I've been looking for these as well...

Yes no problem, as I say tho it will not be a complete set, but I have about 40 games.

Works for me... It's a starting point at least.  I have 188 Sega/Mega CD games so if I can figure out the technique for doing screen shots I'll see what I can do for the ones you don't have.

[massive88]

Hey you never know, its not impossible for him to code one thing, and then end up using either a multitude of front ends in different cabs or what.  Better to make sure than make an assumption.  You know the adage.

Make sure 'enable_fuzzy_search' is set to 1 in your emulator.ini file (it is 0 by default).

If that works, I will be ecstatic!  I spent so long on that, and almost considered manually editing... /shudder

It may not work with that as the 'num 1' part isn't bracketed.  I have been thinking about making it a little more comprehensive...I am just a little concerned about speed and accuracy - it may be counter productive to try to be too clever.  ie I want to avoid eg:

Return of The Jedi
Return of The Strange Monkeys

...being confused as the same game.  Where do you draw the line!?

True.

For my specific case anyway, what would work would be to see if the entire [romname] string is in the picture filename, then use that pic.  Which is pretty much backwards from the GoodTools naming issues (extra characters in the romname).

Or you could even make it variable, to make it check like the first X characters of [romname] against the first X characters of the picture filename.  Then the user can find the sweetspot for their filenames to get the best mix of accuracy and pictures showing up.  The rest can be fixed manually.

I dont know about the speed considerations (you can always turn it off if its too slow right? Or also do it on a per emulator basis), but as for accuracy, the way I see it, right now 0% of my screenshots work (for pinball anyway).  So even if it only works to get 80% of my shots working perfectly, that at least narrows down the ones where the only option I have left is to manually fix it.

[Minwah]

For my specific case anyway, what would work would be to see if the entire [romname] string is in the picture filename, then use that pic.  Which is pretty much backwards from the GoodTools naming issues (extra characters in the romname).

I see what you mean, I didn't notice before.  I would have thought that should work...but if not I can add this!

Or you could even make it variable, to make it check like the first X characters of [romname] against the first X characters of the picture filename.  Then the user can find the sweetspot for their filenames to get the best mix of accuracy and pictures showing up.  The rest can be fixed manually.

I dont know about the speed considerations (you can always turn it off if its too slow right? Or also do it on a per emulator basis), but as for accuracy, the way I see it, right now 0% of my screenshots work (for pinball anyway).  So even if it only works to get 80% of my shots working perfectly, that at least narrows down the ones where the only option I have left is to manually fix it.

True...I will see if I can improve it first of all without adding any extra options...

[Minwah]

Yes no problem, as I say tho it will not be a complete set, but I have about 40 games.

38 actually.  These do not neccessarily obide to any naming convention.  These are just how I named my 'rom' folders - ie as basic as it gets, as I only have 1 version of each game.  Hope this is of some use.

Note these are title screen shots (COPY + PASTE link into browser!!):

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/segacd_titles.zip

[massive88]

I see what you mean, I didn't notice before.  I would have thought that should work...but if not I can add this!

I havent toggled that option yet, so I dont know if it works.  Will do so tonight when I get back from work.

Thanks for jabbering with me about it!  And once again, Mamewah rocks.

[massive88]

The fuzzy search worked more or less!  Thanks Minwah!

[joebells]

Thanks for the links...they don't have SegaCD tho unfortunately.

Also I had a look at the Megadrive NoIntro shots and they were named with CRC's or something...are all the systems done like this??

Minwah yeah all the screenshots are done that way. They have a tool on that same website that will read a dat file and name the screenshots. At first I thought what the heck but its nice actually. If they change the names or anything all that changes are the dats. There screenshot packs don't have to change. I think its a great system.

The tool is "No Intro image renamer" and it works well but its picky. I was thrown off at first because it says select image folder and I was trying to select CRC_Snaps when what the program wants you to select is the folder that contains that folder or folders. The tool will also take a dat file, a folder of images and put them into the crc name so you can then use any other dat file on them and put them in a different naming scheme like from goodtools(if you can find a dat anymore for them) to no intro or whatever.

I think its a pretty nice system and if more people did something like that I think we'd have alot more useable artwork out there.

[Minwah]

Minwah yeah all the screenshots are done that way. They have a tool on that same website that will read a dat file and name the screenshots. At first I thought what the heck but its nice actually. If they change the names or anything all that changes are the dats. There screenshot packs don't have to change. I think its a great system.

OK thanks.  I guessed it had something to do with dat's but just hadn't seen the files named that way before.

The tool is "No Intro image renamer" and it works well but its picky. I was thrown off at first because it says select image folder and I was trying to select CRC_Snaps when what the program wants you to select is the folder that contains that folder or folders. The tool will also take a dat file, a folder of images and put them into the crc name so you can then use any other dat file on them and put them in a different naming scheme like from goodtools(if you can find a dat anymore for them) to no intro or whatever.

I think its a pretty nice system and if more people did something like that I think we'd have alot more useable artwork out there.

You could be right there. I like the NoIntro sets in general as IMO, there are a load of useless sets going round in Good sets.

[Dazz]

Thanks for the links...they don't have SegaCD tho unfortunately.

Also I had a look at the Megadrive NoIntro shots and they were named with CRC's or something...are all the systems done like this??

Minwah yeah all the screenshots are done that way. They have a tool on that same website that will read a dat file and name the screenshots. At first I thought what the heck but its nice actually. If they change the names or anything all that changes are the dats. There screenshot packs don't have to change. I think its a great system.

The tool is "No Intro image renamer" and it works well but its picky. I was thrown off at first because it says select image folder and I was trying to select CRC_Snaps when what the program wants you to select is the folder that contains that folder or folders. The tool will also take a dat file, a folder of images and put them into the crc name so you can then use any other dat file on them and put them in a different naming scheme like from goodtools(if you can find a dat anymore for them) to no intro or whatever.

I think its a pretty nice system and if more people did something like that I think we'd have alot more useable artwork out there.

Ok, I think I have almost figured this out...  This actually works really good.