Good Sources for High-Quality Screenshots?

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:42 pm

Pretty good considering the circumstances -- better than some of the Dreamcast sites out there.
What about using an emulator? I know the Dreamcast emus aren't the greatest yet, but I've seen some good screenshots captured from them.

Post by **GagaMan** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:13 am

Dreamcast emulation is pretty good so far, I could maybe take some screenshots out of one of those if you like.

Post by **roushimsx** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:02 pm

Scooter wrote: Well, that just ain't gonna happen.

...and the results speak for themselves.

Seriously, get two Andrew Jacksons together and invest in a capture card.

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:51 pm

roushimsx wrote:
Scooter wrote: Well, that just ain't gonna happen.
...and the results speak for themselves.

Seriously, get two Andrew Jacksons together and invest in a capture card.

I'm not expecting him to spend money just to make screenshots for me....

And Gagaman, I'd love to see what you could come up with via emulators and let me know which one you recommend and what tricky things I might need to know to get it to work...

Post by **roushimsx** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:05 pm

racketboy wrote:I'm not expecting him to spend money just to make screenshots for me....

He could do it to take screenshots for himself, too. Or to record videos to upload to places like YouTube, to replace those piss poor shakycam game videos people upload.

Also, are you planning on adding watermarks or logos or anything on the screenshots you use?

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:11 pm

roushimsx wrote:
racketboy wrote:I'm not expecting him to spend money just to make screenshots for me....
He could do it to take screenshots for himself, too. Or to record videos to upload to places like YouTube, to replace those piss poor shakycam game videos people upload.

Also, are you planning on adding watermarks or logos or anything on the screenshots you use?

No I'm not -- I despise watermarks.

Post by **GagaMan** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:03 pm

Would a capture card also let you take footage of a game? Could someone maybe recommended a good one? It's just I love to be able to rip footage as well as screenshots for the blogs I work at, too. =)

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:09 pm

GagaMan wrote:Would a capture card also let you take footage of a game? Could someone maybe recommended a good one? It's just I love to be able to rip footage as well as screenshots for the blogs I work at, too. =)

I believe so. I used to have an old one, but it never had capture drivers for XP.

Post by **GagaMan** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:03 pm

I actually have a capture card of some sort that came with my laptop. but I don't think it;s a very good one and the laptop didn't come with any instructions on how to use it! It has an AV-In, and two odd ones for 'FM radio and DTV/TV' that don't seem to connect to anything. Best pic I could find of it:

Model number: LR505 NTA.

Post by **Daniel Primed** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:55 am

I have a capture card can capture screenshots and videos for you if you like. I can record at about 720p or possibly even higher, I'm not sure I haven't checked. Unfortunately I don't have a Saturn or Dreamcast.