Author Topic: NES Screenshots for everyone (Read 8993 times)

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.

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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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