Author Topic: NES Screenshots for everyone (Read 8995 times)

stuzza · « **on:** May 23, 2003, 06:45:47 am »

After spending ages searching the web looking for screenshots to use with my console emulators I decided to bite the bullet and and just make my own.
Anyway, I have made screenshots for 581 NES games with 2 screenshots for each game - the start screen and an in game shot. If anyone wants to download them, I have made them available in a single zip file here:
h**p://console.photosfor.us/index.htm - This site will no longer be updated.

New site now here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/stuzza12/

I understand the names will probably differ to the roms some of you may have (I wish there was a decent standard for these like there is in MAME!), but hey at least it's easier renaming them, than having to create them all yourself!

Cheers,

Stuzza

Superdude · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2003, 09:47:26 am »

Nice Job! Now can you do SNES and Genesis and Gameboy and Gameboy Advance and .....

Just kidding.... Great work!

radiator · « **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2003, 01:57:30 pm »

ok, maybe a dumb question but, after i click the link it takes me to www.web1000search.com....

....what now?

if you want the zip file hosting, i'll gladly put it on my server for you

Jakobud · « **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2003, 06:06:13 pm »

You should choose some sort of naming convention based off of the GoodTools. Those are standard names that are followed quite well.

liquid8 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2003, 06:56:57 pm »

great job! more people need to contribute these, maybe we could get a complete set. I have quite a few I wouldn't mind contributing if you have the space for it..

LiQuiD8

Frostillicus · « **Reply #5 on:** May 23, 2003, 07:13:53 pm »

zip file doesn't work for me.

stuzza · « **Reply #6 on:** May 23, 2003, 10:43:29 pm »

Seems web1000 hosting is giving some people some problems. Does anyone know of any other good free web site hosting? (web1000 has 50MB free space which is pretty good)

I'd be happy to upload the site to a different host for those of you experiencing problems.

I'll also check out that good Tools program to see about the naming conventions. The reason I have done it my way was to get all my nes screenshots to use with Emucon!

Thanks for the replies.

Stuzza

radiator · « **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2003, 07:27:50 am »

like i said above, i'd be happy to stick some files 'n stuff on my server for you

just let me know

Thumpa · « **Reply #8 on:** May 25, 2003, 02:15:00 am »

For everyone running non mame emulators ie Gens/nintendo etc , I think all snapshots should be in the Goodtools nameing convention.Ive started doing some Gens but are only up to C.
Who thinks its possible to organise combined effort to work on proper named console game snapshots?
I know others have started before but i don't think they ever finished?
There would have to be a common snap shot file size ,type, dimensions , extention I think so everyone is pulling in the same direction.Also someone has to combine the contributions and host them.

stuzza · « **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2003, 04:59:13 am »

Thumpa,

Sounds like a great idea. I should be receiving a full set of NES & SNES roms in a week or two and would gladly be involved in a group effort to get a proper database of screenshots going using the GoodTools naming convention.

If such a project was done, would people require a screenshot for every version of a single game? e.g. one for each of:
10-Yard Fight (J) [o1]
10-Yard Fight (J) [o2]
10-Yard Fight (J) [p1][o3]
10-Yard Fight (J)
10-Yard Fight (U) [b1]
10-Yard Fight (U) [o1]
10-Yard Fight (U)

or just one of these? Just a thought...

radiator · « **Reply #10 on:** May 25, 2003, 07:52:01 am »

Quote from: Thumpa on May 25, 2003, 02:15:00 am

Who thinks its possible to organise combined effort to work on proper named console game snapshots?
I know others have started before but i don't think they ever finished?
There would have to be a common snap shot file size ,type, dimensions , extention I think so everyone is pulling in the same direction.Also someone has to combine the contributions and host them.

i'd be happy to help, but, i don't have ANY console roms at the moment.

as for hosting, i can stick em on my server (i've had 500Mb web space for around 8 months, but i havn't really done anything with it yet

)

maybe i should start (yet another) emulation/arcade cab site...?

(oh, and i still can't get that damn link to work above...)

Thumpa · « **Reply #11 on:** May 25, 2003, 07:57:39 am »

yes thats the problem.
Im only using roms with a (U) USA (E) Europe or [!] good rom.

Theres not much point running 7 slightly versions of the same game especially those silly jap ones.Ive got about 500 to do, but it will take a little time.Still ,some snapshots are better than none at all.And u still can make your own of the ones that get missed.

colonelsnow · « **Reply #12 on:** May 25, 2003, 06:02:36 pm »

Can anyone tell me which Nes emulator is capable of displaying screen shots? I have looked and can't find one.

radiator · « **Reply #13 on:** May 25, 2003, 07:03:59 pm »

Quote from: colonelsnow on May 25, 2003, 06:02:36 pm

Can anyone tell me which Nes emulator is capable of displaying screen shots? I have looked and can't find one.

er, as far as i know, there aren't any emu's that are capable of showing screenshots...
...the files above are for frontends...i think nearly every frondend is capable of displaying them...

stuzza · « **Reply #14 on:** May 26, 2003, 12:25:28 am »

Quote

Can anyone tell me which Nes emulator is capable of displaying screen shots? I have looked and can't find one.

The screenshots in the zip file were named as:
"filename_01.png" - start screen of game
"filename_02.png" - in game screenshot
This was done specificially to work with the Frontend Emucon.(http://www.mameworld.net/emuloader/downloads.htm) This just happens to be the frontend I prefer, due mainly to the fact it supports a bunch of console emulators, allowing me to run my NES, SNES and Gameboy games all from the one list.

radiator · « **Reply #15 on:** May 26, 2003, 10:53:39 am »

ok, for those of you that had trouble with the link above, the zip file is now mirrored here

JesterDEV · « **Reply #16 on:** May 26, 2003, 05:34:53 pm »

Just a thought on the nameing convention. But what about using a batch file to rename the files? Wel.. This is a little harder to explain then I had originally thought.

Have a text file with the rom names minus the ext. Have a list of image filenames that correspond to the rom. Like so:

rename 10_yard_fight_01.png 10yardfight(!)(U).png
rename 1942_01.png 1942(!)(U).png
reanme 1943_01.png 1943(U)(#).png
rename 720_01.png 720(J)(!).png
(Note the goodtools codes are all wrong and are Just for example)

etc..

The amount of typing could be shortened by using a dos window to copy and past the filenames. And you can use notepads Find and Replace feature to replace the .nes ext.

I'm sure I could just code something in Visual basic .Net/C# to do this also. But if I do it everyone who uses it will need to have the .NET framework installed.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2003, 08:20:03 pm »

I have a solution and it's 90% completed. I'll release it shortly after dxlaz is released.

anthony691 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2003, 10:28:30 pm »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 28, 2003, 08:20:03 pm

I have a solution and it's 90% completed. I'll release it shortly after dxlaz is released.

Hmmm.... DxLaz? Sounds a lot like DrXlax an awesome homebrew Dreamcast game... Howard is infringeing!

JK

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2003, 12:58:20 am »

Hello,
I have been thinking about it. Eventhough I am after assistance getting umm things..... to no avail.. I feel I will not be a dick and not help ppl get the goodies they need. I have the SNES set and Genesis Set Pics, just need to zip em and have a place to dump em. If you have space I have the pics. Also have NES with snaps, boxes, and carts. The Genesis ones a are in games snaps, boxes and titles i think.. and snes is pics and titles. Let me know, I will help.

stuzza · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2003, 03:23:24 am »

Ok, I now also have 987 Gameboy Advance Screenshots - named with the GoodTools standard. Howevever the zip file is quite large, 24MB and I need somewhere to upload?

Seems like a lot of people out there have the screenshots, just nowhere to up em to. If someone out there is able to host all of these files can they get in touch.

anthony691 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2003, 07:42:44 am »

Quote from: stuzza on May 29, 2003, 03:23:24 am

Ok, I now also have 987 Gameboy Advance Screenshots - named with the GoodTools standard. Howevever the zip file is quite large, 24MB and I need somewhere to upload?

Seems like a lot of people out there have the screenshots, just nowhere to up em to. If someone out there is able to host all of these files can they get in touch.

Well, did you talk to radiator? He seemed like he wanted to host that!

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2003, 08:01:29 am »

Well if anyone has the space to host these i will host em. Should have most of n64 done soon too with snaps and title.

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2003, 10:55:45 am »

ok zipped up geneis ones they are huge!
Carts-101 MEGS
BOXES-201 megs
Titles-10 megs
Snaps-20 megs

I did best compression too! ehehh.
I will rar up nes and n64 soon too. need space to post em! worst comes to worst will post on my ftp.

jim

radiator · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2003, 01:07:49 pm »

hehe, stuzza just emailed me about hosting, i'd be happy to do it, but i'm only on 56k, and would never be able to upload files that big

i'll ask around my mates, see who has broadband and a few hours spare...

i'll get back to you

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #25 on:** May 29, 2003, 05:49:20 pm »

If anyone has 20 bucks to spare why not get a mamehost account (from pj)? www.mamehost.com

Ok that's one cheap plug, you owe me man.

IIOIOOIOO · « **Reply #26 on:** May 29, 2003, 06:46:41 pm »

I sure hope that's not a monthly fee for the service provided at mamehost.net.

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #27 on:** May 29, 2003, 10:19:35 pm »

Hey,
Today, I finished the n64 roms too. Did the boxes, and snaps. Let me if anyone has web space to post em for everyone. I will put them on the ftp. Will give out leech to anyone who can assit me too. I have only made the snaps available, but guys can have more access if u can help me out.... email me. Its all on there now!

demonseed.no-ip.com
ArcadeControls/snaps
21

Jim

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #28 on:** May 29, 2003, 11:04:48 pm »

I put on the ones I have Nes-snaps,boxes, carts
Genesis-boxes, carts, and snaps, and n64 boxes and snaps!!! Big downloads but there u go. Let me know if it does not work as I am running it accross a networked pc.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #29 on:** May 29, 2003, 11:41:31 pm »

Quote from: IIOIOOIOO on May 29, 2003, 06:46:41 pm

I sure hope that's not a monthly fee for the service provided at mamehost.net.

That's a yearly fee providing certain restrictions.

stuzza · « **Reply #30 on:** May 31, 2003, 08:05:01 am »

New mirror now available, 987 GBA Screenshots also up:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/stuzza12/

arcadecab · « **Reply #31 on:** May 31, 2003, 10:19:16 am »

Demon-Seed,

Are your zip files of Genesis, Snes, and N64 files available for download somewhere? If so, what is the link or website? Or if not, I hope someone will host these files real soon as I would really like to have them!!

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #32 on:** May 31, 2003, 02:09:26 pm »

Umm.. not to be rude but read above! theres a ftp link dumbass. LOL..

arcadecab · « **Reply #33 on:** May 31, 2003, 05:49:29 pm »

Unfortunately, I am new to MAME and computer emulators, therefore as I have found, you are label a "dumbass". I am unsure of what ftp is for one thing and I tried all the links in the thread above to no avail, including the demonseed.no-ip.com
ArcadeControls/snaps
21 site that was mentioned above. Maybe I am really missing something obvious, but can you simply provide a hotlink to the site where the zip files are located.
Thanks and sorry for the "dumb" questions.

tyweed · « **Reply #34 on:** May 31, 2003, 05:50:21 pm »

I typed in the demonseedno-ip.com and i get too many visitors error. I guess there are alot of people looking for snaps like myself.thats all you do right is type

ftp:\domain in explorer right?

Thumpa · « **Reply #35 on:** May 31, 2003, 08:06:31 pm »

Hey stuzza,

what GBA emulator do u use?.
and is it o/k with an arcade monitor and a FE like mamewah?
Just wondering if its worth adding to my MAME box.
Cheers

radiator · « **Reply #36 on:** May 31, 2003, 08:27:22 pm »

the only good GBA emulator is VisualBoy Advance...

...looks ok in fullscreen mode, but i can't figure out a way of getting rid of the menu bar/mouse cursor..

stuzza · « **Reply #37 on:** May 31, 2003, 10:00:01 pm »

Quote

Hey stuzza,

what GBA emulator do u use?.
and is it o/k with an arcade monitor and a FE like mamewah?
Just wondering if its worth adding to my MAME box.
Cheers

As Radiator stated, the one and only good Gameboy emulator, in my opinion is Visualboy Advance. I run this via the Emucon Front End, which I also use for my NES and SNES titles. As for arcade monitor compatability, I wouldn't know, as I use a standard 19" computer monitor in my cabinet.

Thumpa · « **Reply #38 on:** May 31, 2003, 10:12:35 pm »

thanks for the info.
If i can force it into 320 x 240 mode then im sweet.
Ta

Luxury · « **Reply #39 on:** June 01, 2003, 12:05:28 am »

radiator - try the visual boy advance SDL version. it takes a little tweaking, but allows you to get rid of the menu bar.

Pyronious · « **Reply #40 on:** June 02, 2003, 04:01:25 pm »

Hey Demon-Seed,

I was able to log in to your FTP site and see the files there, including one called "Full Access Read Me.txt" but the account you provided us with does not have RETR permission.

Thus, we are unable to read the read me, or download the files.

Are you just taunting us? =)

Jakobud · « **Reply #41 on:** June 02, 2003, 07:00:07 pm »

So i'm still a little unclear about the naming conventions that you guys are using for these screenshots...will they match TOSEC or GoodTools names or what? Or are people renaming them all individually?

tyweed · « **Reply #42 on:** June 02, 2003, 07:23:26 pm »

had to rename individually big pain in the butt!

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #43 on:** June 02, 2003, 11:21:08 pm »

should be able to dl it. no there is lots on there need to email me to talk.

JIM

names-i made them in english no good tools, one for each US verson of the rom,

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #44 on:** June 03, 2003, 12:18:03 am »

I have a utility for this (renaming) that works fairly well. I need beta testers. (Hint Hint)

Email me.

tyweed · « **Reply #45 on:** June 04, 2003, 12:58:07 pm »

Demon-Seed on the ftp i saw gens and n64 snaps do you happen to have snes as well? i saw your post earlier you mentioned you had gone through them. I'm very interested!

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #46 on:** June 04, 2003, 07:54:51 pm »

Here is the beta to my generic artwork renamer.....

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus/files/generic_artwork_renamer.zip

It uses some fuzzy logic to guess at the game the image goes with, but for emus like nes emus it should be a 100% match....

Nes emus taken the name of the rom and add crap to the end such as "romname_000.jpg" right? Well all you do with my renamer is in one of the "remove this from text if found" slots type in "_000" and it will copy and rename all of your snaps to the new folder you specify and remove the _000. That is assuming you point to a rom path that actually has the roms for the snaps in it.

It is also designed so that you keep the orignals and the renamed versions are copies, put in a seperate folder. That way there isn't any risk in trying it and if you download new roms you can run it again and convert more art.

You know those ones in which the title is _0 and the snap is _1 ? Do the same deal except run it twice.... the first time put _0 in the remove box and point the destination folder to "titles" and it will only match up those that it removes "_0" from. Then run it a second time replacing the "_0" with "_1" and call the folder "snapshots" Poof! They are sorted!

This is beta and isn't user friendly at all... those who have already contacted me to beta test please try this and keep in contact with me. For the rest of you feel free to try it, but it's not supported yet so don't bug me about it.

tyweed · « **Reply #47 on:** June 05, 2003, 12:50:49 pm »

Hey howard nice work i'll try your program and keep you posted! I had a quick question for you though. Demon-seed gens snaps i have downloaded and when i rename them foir my front end game launcher thee icon on the side of the text shows up but some of the snaps don't come up. I noticed that alot of his snaps are 60-75kb and those are not the ones coming up. Is this a normal for a front end? does it keep it from displaying to large of images in order to not slow down performance?

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #48 on:** June 05, 2003, 05:42:14 pm »

For gamelauncher it is, for other fes it's not.

Snaps really should be bigger than 256 by 256. What size (dimension wise) are these snaps?

Minwah · « **Reply #49 on:** June 05, 2003, 07:03:57 pm »

Is GameLauncher OK with 16bit color images? I remember ArcadeOS had a problem with those ones (MK etc).

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #50 on:** June 05, 2003, 10:35:02 pm »

That might be it as all official snaps are in full color.

tyweed · « **Reply #51 on:** June 06, 2003, 03:20:49 pm »

Howard , generic renamer kicks butt! i just have one question though in order for my pics to show i have to have the .smd or .bin in the pictures name is there any way to automate adding this to the renamer. Because as of right not it pulls it out and jst uses everything before the "." Well i can go through each onbe and add it i was just curious before i do it if you have an idea of how i could do this. Because sometimew this front end does not except roms zipped....

works great though

stuzza · « **Reply #52 on:** June 06, 2003, 08:01:59 pm »

Excellent work on the Renamer Howard!

For anyone who is having troubles renaming their snaps, I found this neet little program called Oscars Renamer very helpful:
http://www.mediachance.com/free/renamer.htm

It enables all files in a directory to be loaded into a text editor type mode, where you can then do simple edit and replace all. I used it to replace the _ and _01, _02 from my snaps, before loading them into Howard's renamer and it worked quite well - although I'm still playing with it...

Demon-Seed · « **Reply #53 on:** June 07, 2003, 01:18:35 pm »

Great! anyone got the SNES ones?

stuzza · « **Reply #54 on:** June 08, 2003, 02:40:39 am »

** New Screenshots available! **

After receiving my full set of NES roms in the mail, I've decided to do things properly as far as creating NES shots. - This way everyone will be happy

I have now started creating shots using the correct GoodTools names. I am doing them country by country (ie. I used GoodTools to move the roms to sorted directories).

For starters, here are the Australia, Europe and World shots:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/stuzza12/nes.htm

If anyone is interested in helping create these, please send me an email or pm me.

Dave Dribin · « **Reply #55 on:** June 08, 2003, 03:27:43 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 05, 2003, 05:42:14 pm

For gamelauncher it is, for other fes it's not.

GL should display screen shots regardless of size. This is the first I've heard of any issue. I'll have to take a look in a week or so, as I'm in the middle of a move and my main GL testing machine is dismantled.

-Dave

Dave Dribin · « **Reply #56 on:** June 08, 2003, 03:32:52 am »

Quote from: Minwah on June 05, 2003, 07:03:57 pm

Is GameLauncher OK with 16bit color images? I remember ArcadeOS had a problem with those ones (MK etc).

Yup, 16-bit is just dandy. AFAIK any PNG should work.

-Dave

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #57 on:** June 08, 2003, 04:15:15 am »

Dave, back in the day I ran into some issues with gl like this other poster did. I didn't know specificaly what the problem was, but I resaved the files and they were ok. I don't blame gamelauncher, but the library that it uses to read png files. Some are picker than others. I should know, in lazarus I used the paint x dll, which didn't like about 10 or 12 of the official mame snapshots. Allegro is also bad about this at times.

My suggestion, resave in another program.

Dave Dribin · « **Reply #58 on:** June 08, 2003, 11:20:39 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 08, 2003, 04:15:15 am

Dave, back in the day I ran into some issues with gl like this other poster did. I didn't know specificaly what the problem was, but I resaved the files and they were ok. I don't blame gamelauncher, but the library that it uses to read png files. Some are picker than others. I should know, in lazarus I used the paint x dll, which didn't like about 10 or 12 of the official mame snapshots. Allegro is also bad about this at times.

Hmm, a corrupt PNG or bug in the PNG library would cause this behavior. This is just the first I've heard of any issues regarding PNGs. C'mon, Howard. You should know that unless a problem gets reported, it won't get fixed.

GL uses libpng which is pretty much the de facto PNG library. That said, the loadpng library has had a number of bugs in the past which I had to fix. Can someone email me a PNG which exhibits this behavior? I'll take a look later this week or next week.

Quote

My suggestion, resave in another program.

That's worth a shot. Maybe try ImageMagick as they have a command line utility called "convert". If it works you could batch convert all the problem images. Even if this does work, I'd like to get a copy of a PNG that exhibits this issue so I could test it out for myself.

-Dave

stuzza · « **Reply #59 on:** June 09, 2003, 06:37:56 am »

Pc10 and Unlicensed NES snaps now up:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/stuzza12/nes.htm


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