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Gbness | Posted 8/3/2007 2:50:28 AM | message detail

Surprised not to see a topic up for this yet. GameFAQs now seems to accept screenshots, although you can't rip them from magazines or the web. I'll still submit a few later myself, though.
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Super Slash | Posted 8/3/2007 2:52:48 AM | message detail

I KNEW something looked odd in the Contribute section. I thought it was just me. So we can submit actual gameplay images now?
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HyperSiIence | Posted 8/3/2007 2:55:02 AM | message detail

Are screenshots listed under "Box Art" on contributor pages?
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HyperSiIence | Posted 8/3/2007 2:59:11 AM | message detail

Most Prolific Screenshot Contributors (1000 or more)

Wow, that's uh... yeah.
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Shotgunnova | Posted 8/3/2007 3:08:10 AM | message detail

Nice.

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PeTeRL90 | Posted 8/3/2007 3:08:36 AM | message detail

Haha. Now I have a reason to take screenshots while I play my SNES/GBA games now.
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Devin Morgan | Posted 8/3/2007 3:09:19 AM | message detail

Finally.

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FecalLord | Posted 8/3/2007 6:10:49 AM | message detail

This is a great idea, I found it real handy to have the old external links on game pages that had a few screenshots for titles.
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OvenMan | Posted 8/3/2007 6:14:20 AM | message detail

I KNEW something looked odd in the Contribute section. I thought it was just me.

Same here. I guess I know now what it is...
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StarFighters76 | Posted 8/3/2007 6:16:53 AM | message detail

So I'm confused, people can now take screenshots from games and send them in?
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Shotgunnova | Posted 8/3/2007 6:17:11 AM | message detail

Yup.

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StarFighters76 | Posted 8/3/2007 6:33:25 AM | message detail

I guess that's cool. But seeing as one could post about a zillion screenshots from one game, couldn't that look like a map image (that is if they took one screenshot, move a couple feet, then another one, and repeat the process)?
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Shotgunnova | Posted 8/3/2007 6:35:47 AM | message detail

I have a gut feeling crappy near-repeat screenshots won't be accepted.

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odino | Posted 8/3/2007 7:42:33 AM | message detail

I have a gut feeling they won't be checking this too much and it will turn out really messy.

Crazyreyn | Posted 8/3/2007 12:57:15 PM | message detail

I wonder, can you crop screenshots from box art images you scan yourself? Or is that still not your own 'work' so to speak?
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Shotgunnova | Posted 8/3/2007 1:35:56 PM | message detail

Wouldn't the resolution suffer?

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Crazyreyn | Posted 8/3/2007 1:43:41 PM | message detail

I guess, unless it's a really high resolution scan. I think it's not original work anyway.
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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 4:27:36 PM | message detail

Here's an example.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/image/925601.html

Gamespot seems to be giving us some images.

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Split Infinity | Posted 8/3/2007 6:16:07 PM | message detail

By the end of day: "Screenshots submitted: 10000+"?
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PeTeRL90 | Posted 8/3/2007 6:52:39 PM | message detail

Well I submitted 4 title shots yesterday. One for Lufia II, one for Secret of Mana, one for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV, and one for Bleach Advance. Bleach has been accepted, whereas the other three are still pending.
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Gbness | Posted 8/3/2007 7:27:40 PM | message detail

Nah, I don't think it'll get quite to 10,000, although this is just more of a workload for SBAllen. At least it's down to 600 and one of mine got accepted. =P I wonder how long it's going to be before someone gets prolific in these.
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Devin Morgan | Posted 8/3/2007 8:49:28 PM | message detail

All of mine went up. :)

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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 8:54:30 PM | message detail

...Holy....

Devin, you have a lot of box art...

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RockMFR 5 | Posted 8/3/2007 8:56:02 PM | message detail

My Mega Man 2 title screen image was rejected. *grumble grumble*
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PeTeRL90 | Posted 8/3/2007 8:56:30 PM | message detail

I've been submitting only title shots so far.
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HyperSiIence | Posted 8/3/2007 9:00:41 PM | message detail

Devin, for a lot of games, it looks like you submitted the exact same title image for three different regions.

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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 9:01:54 PM | message detail

Anyway, what format should the pictures be in?

Also, I'm wondering because lots of people use Roms, is there any way to tell if a picture submitted is from a Rom or not?

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HyperSiIence | Posted 8/3/2007 9:04:08 PM | message detail

Emulated game screenshots are acceptable, provided that there are no graphical glitches or errors in the emulation.

Almost positive they should be .jpg.
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Devin Morgan | Posted 8/3/2007 9:13:45 PM | message detail

HyperSiIence | Posted 8/3/2007 4:00:41 PM | message detail
Devin, for a lot of games, it looks like you submitted the exact same title image for three different regions.

Because for those games, the same screen was used for all regions. There was a lot of that in the earliest releases for the system.

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RockMFR 5 | Posted 8/3/2007 9:18:59 PM | message detail

I've been submitting everything as PNG and they're converting them to JPEG.
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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 9:20:15 PM | message detail

I'm annoyed, just went to get a title screen shot for a game, and overwrote my save file by accident that I was working on while writing my guide.

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HyperSiIence | Posted 8/3/2007 9:20:37 PM | message detail

The three I submitted all got set to "Pending."

What does that mean? They were in-game shots of The Legend of Zelda I took last night.
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PeTeRL90 | Posted 8/3/2007 9:20:45 PM | message detail

Yeah, I submitted my stuff as .PNG as well, and one of them got accepted, so they'll convert it if they accept it.
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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 9:40:06 PM | message detail

Good news. I forgot that I had a hard backup save nestled in my files!!!

W00t, no loss.

I was worried because I'm busy writing a guide, and I didn't want to play through to where I was again.

Hopefully, my pics will be accepted.

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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 9:54:00 PM | message detail

Uh... Just checked my status, they aren't in the area for the game, they aren't rejected, they don't even appear in my status even though they did 5 minutes ago. I didn't pull them out or anything!

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Valkskorn | Posted 8/3/2007 9:54:39 PM | message detail

Oh, and I apparently have a contribution page now.

But, I don't...

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PeTeRL90 | Posted 8/3/2007 9:59:22 PM | message detail

Wait for the website to be updated, then it should appear.
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 8/5/2007 5:45:29 AM | message detail

1000 images is way too steep.

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Devin Morgan | Posted 8/5/2007 5:52:58 AM | message detail

Hey Rock (if you're still around), what's with the horribly stretched/disproportioned GBC screens you posted? Zelda DX for example... Why the hell does a GBC screen need to be set to 1024x768?

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Shotgunnova | Posted 8/5/2007 7:02:19 AM | message detail

I don't know what's up with that -- some of the NES/GBC are being resized to larger proportions and some stay as submitted.

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Xcarvengerx | Posted 8/6/2007 9:33:49 AM | message detail

A couple of things I noticed:

1. Pending = Accepted.
Once it is set to pending, it means the admins only need to do the "behind the scene" stuff (convert/rename/resize, etc) so the image would be ready to be posted. If one of your screenshots are being processed at the time you check your contribution status, the status will show as "Processing" (can only happen to one file at a time). if your screenshots were rejected, they will not be set to "Pending". However, once the screenshots were accepted, some of them may not appear in the game page (even after a few hours) because of some bugs in the system. Only very few already appears.

2. Your "Submitted Screenshots" can be found below your "Submitted Box Arts" in your CRP, specifically in the image tab. However, due to some bugs, the counter in the main page of CRP does not go up in correspond to the actual number of screenshots that have been accepted.

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Xcarvengerx | Posted 8/6/2007 10:03:45 AM | message detail

Only very few already appears.

Forget that part. I just checked that most of my screenshots for Genesis has appeared, but not the Playstation ones... -_-

Some more bugs, when I refreshed the FF VII image page, sometimes the new screenshots would show up, sometimes they wouldn't, and one of the "change disc" images (Vincent one) does not appear at all...

From my quick glance, the newly accepted screenshots have the correct size now (the size you submitted), and the inside preview for very large images does not break GameFAQs frame anymore. However, they haven't fixed the older screenshots.

Still, they have handled this better than what I expected. Good job guys! :)
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Super Slash | Posted 8/6/2007 11:10:32 AM | message detail

All of my Final Fantasy III screenshots have appeared.
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Gbness | Posted 8/6/2007 11:15:26 PM | message detail

And finally it shows I have 52 shots, not 3. ;] Congrats to Guard Master as our first prolific. That was certainly fast.
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Crazyreyn | Posted 8/6/2007 11:32:23 PM | message detail

Yep, the count is fixed.

However I noticed that when the site converts the screenshots to JPG, it messes up simpler images.

Example -

My submission - http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9593/batsandterrytitlejd2.png
GameFAQs Conversion - http://ui27.gamefaqs.com/698/gfs_19367_1_1.jpg
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Xcarvengerx | Posted 8/7/2007 2:15:09 AM | message detail

They have patched up all the bugs I was most concern with, except this "they haven't fixed the older screenshots."
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Guard Master | Posted 8/7/2007 2:50:21 AM | message detail

Thank you Gbness for the recognition. Took me plenty of time to do all of that.

Crazyreyn - I converted the png file to jpg myself and received the same result as what's on GameFAQs. Can't tell you exactly why it does that, but that's what happens when the image is converted.