I have a strange habit of pressing print screen when i'm using the computer and see something interesting (either nice graphics, or a nice drift around a bend, or some computer virus). After using dreamcast's vga box for a week and the incredible graphics (I won't ever go back to the tv, maybe except s-video), I want to do that too! I see people at gamespot or ign, having really high quality screenshots, how do they do that?
They probably use TV tuner/capture cards in their PC. They're pretty much a PCI card with a coaxial cable jack and either an S video, or RCA jack. You can plug in your cable TV, or a console, and view it on your PC screen. From there, you can make videos and take screen grabs.
Do you mean like these type of quality pics? I made them by connecting my Dreamcast to my PC's MPEG2 Video Encoder card Via S-Video. The original pictures are much bigger than these shown. I made these smaller to save on bandwidth. This is probably the same way magazines and other sites like IGN get their screen shots. Yakumo
and the best way to make screenshots is by using an devloppers kit. although I do know that you can take high-resolution screendumps with it when you've got the dreamcast devloppers unit.
I use a tool in the dreamcast sdk with my dev box hooke dup to the pc Only Downside is everytimeyou take a pic it freezes the screen so you have to softreset the dev box and get back to wherever to take the next pic.
Yeah I use my TV capture card as well. Pics dont look terribly great though, perhaps using something like Dscaler would improve the quality but i cant be arsed Its funny to look at very old game magazines with their shitty screenshots, obviously there was no cheap & good way to do screenshots back then so some just look like they've been made by pointing a camera at the screen :smt043
I use a capture card. It takes S-video, so the quality isn't too bad. 640x480 looks okay, although it's actually some queer number -- 572xsomething.
I have an ATI All In Wonder 9600 Pro Radeon. I'm able to hook up just about every console. It can't however, do component video. It's a gread video card. I used it to record some of my Gran Turismo 2 runs as well as some Zelda adventures I undertook.
as far as I know there are no (or maybe an obscure few) video capture cards that have video inputs other than RF, Composite or S-video. Pretty stupid, for the Euro market they could've left out the composite & s-video bits and just slap on a SCART connector that also takes RGB :snipe:
the ninja library has the ability to take a screen dump with a command and save as a bmp - but probbaly as a bmp would be too big for a vmu i guess it was never used.
