Taking Screenshots From Emulators

[Duddyroar]

I want to take screengrabs from emulators on the GP2X and I was wondering how many of them support this feature? I seem to recall that Temper (PC Engine) has an 'img' folder which I assume is for storing screengrabs.

Does anyone know of any other emulators that carry this feature? I think it would be a good idea to include it in all of them - most PC-based emulators do this.

I'd really like PicoDrive to feature this, as it's easily my most-played emulator.

 

[slaanesh]

MAME4ALL supports screenshots.

 

[Parkydr]

FBGrab will do it with it time delay, it's easier if you've got telnet or serial terminal.

 

[Duddyroar]

Sounds cool...is there any way to get it to take a shot every minute or so? Does it work with firmware 4 on the F200?

 

[Parkydr]

You could probably make a script to loop. Don't know about F200 - I've got an F100.

 

[Duddyroar]

Make a script? Huh?

You're speaking to someone who has no programming knowledge here!

 

[bomberman]

Doesn't really matter. I tried using fbgrab and it appears that picodrive doesn't use /dev/fb0.

 

[Exophase]

I want to take screengrabs from emulators on the GP2X and I was wondering how many of them support this feature? I seem to recall that Temper (PC Engine) has an 'img' folder which I assume is for storing screengrabs.

*shakes head*

Do you want this feature?

I'd only do bmp though, nothing compressed.

And it'd only store names sequentially, not something you'd enter (ie, <rom_name>_number.bmp)

EDIT: In the mean time, it's possible to extract them from savestates, for both Temper and Picodrive.

 

[Duddyroar]

It's a feature I would certainly be keen to see in all emulators.

From a personal viewpoint, I'm a freelance writer and do a lot of features on retro games, so being able to take screengrabs on the GP2X would be a lot easier than doing it on the PC (I'm on my home PC for maybe an hour each night but I'm on my GP2X a lot more as I can take it to work).

I'm aware this is quite a selfish request but surely it wouldn't demand too much effort from a coding point of view?

Exophase - if you could try and include this with the new version of Temper it would be excellent. And the sequential naming method would be perfect, too.

 

[Exophase]

Exophase - if you could try and include this with the new version of Temper it would be excellent. And the sequential naming method would be perfect, too.

Secretly, I added the feature as soon as I read the thread ^_-

 

[Duddyroar]

 

[notaz]

ok I've "added" that too.. by writing a separate app for the job. This way I won't have to update all emus (including the future ones).

http://notaz.gp2x.de/misc/gshot.zip

After you start it, you can configure a button (or combo of them) to take a screenshot, and then send the program to the background. After that, start your app/emu/whatever as usual, and press whatever you configured to take screenshots. It also can be used over command line too (./gshot.gpu <file>), and works with most programs I tested (some results here). More details in the readme, source here.

Can someone test this on F200?

 

[Duddyroar]

Just tested on my F200 and I can confirm it works like a dream!

In fact, this is even better than what I was asking for as it can be used with ANY programme! I've tried it with all my emulators and it works great!

Fantastic work notaz! Thanks a lot for doing this!

 

[stranno]

ok I've "added" that too.. by writing a separate app for the job. This way I won't have to update all emus (including the future ones) ...

:-| Awesome notaz, it works really perfect

Many thanks man!

 

[b._.o._.b]

ok I've "added" that too.. by writing a separate app for the job. This way I won't have to update all emus (including the future ones).

http://notaz.gp2x.de/misc/gshot.zip

After you start it, you can configure a button (or combo of them) to take a screenshot, and then send the program to the background. After that, start your app/emu/whatever as usual, and press whatever you configured to take screenshots. It also can be used over command line too (./gshot.gpu <file>), and works with most programs I tested (some results here). More details in the readme, source here.

Can someone test this on F200?



two big thumbs up! This is a very useful tool. Thanks a lot.

 

[notaz]

two big thumbs up! This is a very useful tool. Thanks a lot.

May be it needs a newspost, then?

 

[Duddyroar]

Hell yeah!

 

[fusion_power]

ok I've "added" that too.. by writing a separate app for the job. This way I won't have to update all emus (including the future ones).

http://notaz.gp2x.de/misc/gshot.zip

After you start it, you can configure a button (or combo of them) to take a screenshot, and then send the program to the background. After that, start your app/emu/whatever as usual, and press whatever you configured to take screenshots. It also can be used over command line too (./gshot.gpu <file>), and works with most programs I tested (some results here). More details in the readme, source here.

Can someone test this on F200?



FINALY a useful Screenshot Program. Great! Again, notaz saved the day, I'm waiting since I have a GP2X for such a tool. Now it's easy to show problems in programs graphicaly. I had many situations in the past, where I wanted to show the Devs some things but without Screenshots it's not easy.

notaz, all I can say is:

And you use a ".de" domain, nice. ^_^

 

[b._.o._.b]

two big thumbs up! This is a very useful tool. Thanks a lot.

May be it needs a newspost, then?


Definitely! This is great for easy bug explaining like fusion power commented. Also easy to make screenshots for reviewers / bloggers and you can join game competitions that need screenshots of high scores.

 

[notaz]

notaz, all I can say is:

Thanks, I remember this one from my playtesting sessions

And you use a ".de" domain, nice. ^_^

Yeah, i'm just using ED's hosting.