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Radix: 2005-09-20 08:21:45 am
I'm addicted to games
Some people have complained that my "action shot" on some of the game pages are dull. I tried to change them when a new run is released but that seemed inadequate.

When Blake's metroid run was posted I wanted to change that and both a kraid and ridley shot seemed good ... so I came up with a javascript method of randomly selecting on of the two.

But i hated that... it was messy, and people could disable it. So tonight I whipped up a perl script to do the same job: behold!

Or, an even more larger example, for one of David Gibbons's upcoming runs: 10 possibilites

So ... I need people to create pics!
That'll liven things up for sure right?

For NES and gb/gbc/gba games I like to use screenshots from ROMs because they look a lot cleaner... but it's not necssary. If they are, they should be saved to pallete-reduced png files only.

Everything else is jpg, keep them under 20 KB.

Since I'm so busy with runs already (the queue is at an all time high) I don't have the time to take the pics myself obviousy.

I'm hoping someone, or a group of people, will take charge of this opportunity and collect lots of pics for the existing games I have up. I think about a dozen would be the max needed, although it doesn't have to be that many. Once someone has organized a good collection they can hand them to me and the script will do the rest.

They'll need to be named the same as the html page followed by _#. So like mzm_3.png or MajorasMask_3.jpg. The number starts at 3 unless you think the currently posted pic is utter shit, then you can start at 2.

Or you could tell me you hate the idea, whatever.
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Eternal Understudy
Sounds good, I think it's a great idea. Some of the pics would be really interesting for some of the games. I'm all for it.
ouch!
I'd be glad to help out the site with some artwork. just gimme dimentions and themes to work with!
I'm addicted to games
artwork?
it has to be real in-game pics of course!!

And the dimensions are 320x240 unless you're taking ROM shots.
ouch!
oh you just want screen shots? I thought we were talking about cycling banners on the top of the page. like the one on this forum. I could also make you some nice forum buttons if you want.

Here is one of the Forums I own just so you can see how better this forum could look. it is the same type of forum...

http://www.dragonballcs.com
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Psychochild: 2005-09-20 05:10:47 pm
This could actually be a lot of fun...

Love the idea.  And on that note, DIBS ON DKC2!  Just a question.  Games that are tracked on the same page that are either expansion packs or ports, like how DKC2 GBA and SNES are on the same page, will we be able to put pictures from both games on there?

I.E. there's 6 SNES, 4 GBA?  I want to get a picture of my favorite boss Kerozine in there...

(Cough)
How about screen shots from the actual runs themselves? I always thought it could be like a small preview of the awesomeness inside the run.

And forum buttons- no. They're confusing for new people to get adjusted to, they take longer to load, and I don't think their cosmetic value lasts long.
ouch!
so how many screen shots are you expecting to have on each runs page?

I like your idea soteos!  :clap:
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Radix, you might want to know that your script crashes if the supplied argument contains a "_" character.
I'm addicted to games
Not much interest after all?

I'd hate Quest 64 to be the only game with rotating pics...
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soteos: 2005-09-23 05:25:52 am
Well I would if I.... no you're right, no interest. Just get some pictures from a google image search.
Eternal Understudy
boo to you, Soteos. I think the idea's great.  I'd much rather have cool pictures from the runs than just random pics of the game elsewhere
I'm addicted to games
Right, most of the existing pics are already from runs (except the rom shots of course). The problem is that you need to take them from HQ (or ideally, the uncompressed capture) or they won't look very good. *Radix glares at marsh*

Plus we don't need to go stealing pics from other sites.
Never give up!
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Right, most of the existing pics are already from runs (except the rom shots of course). The problem is that you need to take them from HQ (or ideally, the uncompressed capture) or they won't look very good. *Radix glares at marsh*



I am glad I saved the original capture of my first run for this long now.  (I was saving it in case the verifier thought my video quality itself, and not the run, wasn't up to standards.)  Although I've never taken screenshots from a video capture before.....

I can do it for that run if you guys really insist*, but in my case I'd rather wait for the next run I do.  Oh well.

*If you can't guess why I'm tentative about taking screenshots for my first run, shame on you.
Radix, what about my question?  I got a few DKC2 pictures, but I want to know what settings you want the emulator set at before I send them out (Wouldn't want to waste your time with useless pic-tu-ma-tures.).  Also, I need to buy a new PS2 controller, since the calibration in my left stick's being a pain in the bum.  Surprised it didn't come up when I was doing my last speed run attempt... hrm. 

ANYWAYS!  Get back to me involving the emulator ideal settings and the question about games/ports that are on the same page!
KratosJudgment6
I can take a bunch of awesome pictures of me doing stuff on Diablo II...
I'm addicted to games
I guess pics of a gba port is fine... but they'd have to have black borders to make them the same size as the snes shots.
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Psychochild: 2005-10-26 02:19:19 am
Bah.  Screw that then. 

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4599/dkc280am.jpg

Sending about 12 to your SDA email addy, Radix. 
I'm addicted to games
If you took that from a rom it needs to be png not jpg.

which i explained in the first post.
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Psychochild: 2005-09-23 07:56:30 pm
Bah. I read through it, and I didn't see SNES listed there so I didn't know if it was the same, but reading back I see it.  Give me a bit.

Edit:  I got the files converted to PNG, had to replace a few since I had deleted the original BITMAPs.  I sent them your way Radix (It's the email from Psychochild51at the Hot of mails, I forgot to give it a subject name), and if it's acceptable, I'm looking at moving onto the Zeldas (Just LTTP and TMC mostly), Megamans 2, 3, X, X3, and Zeros, and Metroid Fushion/Zero Mission.
Make something up.
I'll see what all ROM's I have and send a few pics.  Would it be easier to put all pictures into PNG format?
Also what size for non rom shots and DPI is 72?
Ben Goldberg
This sounds like a nice idea. I'll take some pics from the games I've speed runned.
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Psychochild: 2005-10-26 02:19:38 am
I got a few snappy ones from my latest DMC3 run so far.

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/2821/devilmaycry335dq.jpg

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/3989/devilmaycry342su.jpg

I got a few more, though I'm only so far into this run and I intend to cover a few more ideal bosses..  There'll be more opportunities.  I'm busy debating between five cerberus pics though...
cool stuff, i would to help if i can O.o since i suck at speedrunning.

do you just want us to take picture of some random game in the list an dsend them to you ??