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Title: ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: TalkingOctopus on November 30, 2003, 10:03:53 pm

I packaged 490 ATARI 2600 screenshots.  They are from www.atariage.com (http://www.atariage.com), 640x??? in PNG format, weighing in for about 3kb each, totaling to about a meg.  They use the Goodtool naming convention and match my romset.  If they do not match yours, try one of the artwork renamer tools that is floating around.  (Sorry I don't have the link and have never used the tool).

Here is a direct link to the screens:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~stevebec/2600Screens.zip (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~stevebec/2600Screens.zip)

They are also available on my humble site:

http://webpages.charter.net/rbecker5/files.html (http://webpages.charter.net/rbecker5/files.html)

Stuzza - Feel free to add the link to the screenshot download to your website.  I like the the new design of the site!  However, at first I was a little worried that your site vanished because my bookmark was broken  :-\.

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: stuzza on December 01, 2003, 12:48:13 am

Awesome work TalkingOctopus!!  I'll add these to the site tonight.

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Stuzza - Feel free to add the link to the screenshot download to your website.  I like the the new design of the site!  However, at first I was a little worried that your site vanished because my bookmark was broken  .

Yeah, I completely redid the site layout to make things neater and easier to navigate  ;D  Please everyone update your links.

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: APFelon on December 03, 2003, 03:06:49 am

Thanks for these. Not only did you save me a bunch of time, they are all great shots.

 Kudos!

APf

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: ts on December 03, 2003, 03:24:40 pm

thanks again

did you go to atari age and download each screenshot for each game and resize them all.

i was thinking how it  might be neat to have shots of the box art for each game to maybe go in our  frontend screen (similar to the cabinet shots we have for mame) and was wondering what kind of time commitment we are looking at.  Id be glad to work on this but things are busy at work and it may take me a while.  So just wondering how you went about it.

Thanks

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: TalkingOctopus on December 03, 2003, 03:51:13 pm

I only use screenshots with mamewah and do not use any boxart.  So I am not willing to make a boxart package.  However, I would be happy to host one.

atariage has excellent cartridge scans and box scans for about 3/4 of the games I had screenshots for.  Here is the process I went through to collect all of the screenshots.  It is rather tedious.

1. I had 2 windows open and right next to eachother.  They were my good named roms and the website.

2. I would do a single click on the rom file name and then copy it.  

3. Then I would goto the corresponding screenshot rightclick on it and do a save as.  

4. Next I pasted the rom filename for the picture name.

5. Repeat 1-4 490 times  :D

I did not resize any of the screens and I left them in the original PNG format.

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: soslo on December 03, 2003, 07:42:58 pm

holy cow...you are one motivated individual (or you get paid to surf the net at work  ;))

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: ts on December 15, 2003, 07:33:38 pm

Quote from: TalkingOctopus on December 03, 2003, 03:51:13 pm

I only use screenshots with mamewah and do not use any boxart.  So I am not willing to make a boxart package.  However, I would be happy to host one.

atariage has excellent cartridge scans and box scans for about 3/4 of the games I had screenshots for.  Here is the process I went through to collect all of the screenshots.  It is rather tedious.

1. I had 2 windows open and right next to eachother.  They were my good named roms and the website.

2. I would do a single click on the rom file name and then copy it.  

3. Then I would goto the corresponding screenshot rightclick on it and do a save as.  

4. Next I pasted the rom filename for the picture name.

5. Repeat 1-4 490 times  :D

I did not resize any of the screens and I left them in the original PNG format.

hey.  I just about have them ready (about 390 or so of them matching the roms i have and using good tools naming.)  Do you still have somewhere to host them...

Let me know

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: TalkingOctopus on December 15, 2003, 07:59:32 pm

Sure.  Just let me know how you can get them to me and I will host them for everyone.

A few possibilities:

Email: rbecker5@charter.net
AOL IM: TalkingOctopus

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: ts on December 16, 2003, 06:11:34 pm

i have it ready to go.  zipped its 31 MB (seems awfully big).  is it ok to email that size to you...

let me know

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: TalkingOctopus on December 24, 2003, 11:29:20 pm

Yeah that is too big for e-mail.  Is there anyother way we can get those available for everyone?

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: ts on December 27, 2003, 10:06:44 am

i dont know
is there any way to compress it more?

I used ultimate zip and it zipped it to the 31 MB although I am not real versed in compressing files..

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: TalkingOctopus on December 27, 2003, 02:20:42 pm

Nope you probably cannot compress them much more than that.  What format are the images in?  JPEG images would take up the least space.

Title: Re:ATARI 2600 Screenshots
Post by: ts on December 27, 2003, 06:38:37 pm

yep they are all jpeg.

I just dont have access to any webspace right now.

ideas anyone...