Good Sources for High-Quality Screenshots?

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:29 pm

Does anybody know of some good resources for high-quality screenshots?
I'm looking for Dreamcast and Saturn primarily right now, but eventually will want just about any other platform.

If anybody has a good collection on their own machine, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could send me a zip file or something with them.

Post by **roushimsx** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:58 pm

Saturn. Boris has a wonderfully massive collection of photos from and information about SSF on his site.

Not sure about Dreamcast-specific stuff. Any games in particular you're looking for shots of?

edit - and I have about 12+ gigs of screenshots on my machine of whatever I've been playing (30,000 screenshots across ~250+ games).

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:01 pm

roushimsx wrote:Not sure about Dreamcast-specific stuff. Any games in particular you're looking for shots of?

edit - and I have about 12+ gigs of screenshots on my machine of whatever I've been playing (30,000 screenshots across ~250+ games).

All of them

It's for the game database I'm working on.

Post by **dudex77** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:32 pm

Your best bet is just going to the sega support site or that other big Dreamcast website that I can't remember the name of right now.

Post by **Scooter** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:42 pm

I only own about 20 Dreamcast games but if you have specific needs/wants I'd be happy to get some screen shots of what I can. I'm not very deep into many of the games but I could certainly get title pages, menu pages and at least 1st level screens of what I have. I'll send you a list of the games I have and you can let me know what you'd like.

Post by **racketboy** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:44 pm

Scooter wrote:I only own about 20 Dreamcast games but if you have specific needs/wants I'd be happy to get some screen shots of what I can. I'm not very deep into many of the games but I could certainly get title pages, menu pages and at least 1st level screens of what I have. I'll send you a list of the games I have and you can let me know what you'd like.

I'll take anything I can get

Post by **Scooter** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:43 am

I'm done "working" tonight, I'll try to get some screen shots tomorrow. I've got one or two semi-rare games, I'll start with those and see if you like them. Getting good photos off a TV screen is always a challenge so I'll have to play around a bit to see what works best.

Post by **extrarice** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:21 pm

Not sure about DC and Saturn screens, but http://www.vgmuseum.com and http://www.mobygames.com are some good places to look.

Post by **roushimsx** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:50 pm

Scooter wrote:Getting good photos off a TV screen is always a challenge so I'll have to play around a bit to see what works best.

It's pretty much impossible to get a "good" photo from a TV screen. You're going to have to invest a few bucks in a capture card. You can go with a pretty nice S-Video capture card for ~$30ish that'll get you some pretty decent quality stuff or you can shell out some decent bucks on something like the Black Magic Intensity, which costs between $250 and $350 (depending on which features you need/want), but will allow you to cap at up to 1920x1080 over HDMI/Component. Doesn't support HDCP, but for gaming that doesn't really matter.

DScaler + a decent (yet inexpensive!) svideo card (like the Leadtek TV2000XP Deluxe) results in some pretty nice stuff. Especially for the price range.

Post by **Scooter** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:39 pm

roushimsx wrote:
It's pretty much impossible to get a "good" photo from a TV screen. You're going to have to invest a few bucks in a capture card. You can go with a pretty nice S-Video capture card for ~$30ish that'll get you some pretty decent quality stuff or you can shell out some decent bucks on something like the Black Magic Intensity, which costs between $250 and $350 (depending on which features you need/want), but will allow you to cap at up to 1920x1080 over HDMI/Component. Doesn't support HDCP, but for gaming that doesn't really matter.

DScaler + a decent (yet inexpensive!) svideo card (like the Leadtek TV2000XP Deluxe) results in some pretty nice stuff. Especially for the price range.

Well, that just ain't gonna happen.

This is my first try at getting some screen shots.