Taking Screenshots

Chaoticjosh · Post by **Chaoticjosh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:09 am

I apologize if this has been asked before, but I'd like to do a picture-based LP of an SNES game for my online community, but I don't know whether or not Zsnes has a built-in screenshot feature to make this easy.

Can someone point it out and tell me how it works if there is one?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:11 am

press F1 during a game.

Chaoticjosh · Post by **Chaoticjosh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:16 am

franpa wrote:press F1 during a game.

Thanks, I didn't know, but where does it put the "snapshots" so that I can use them?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:17 am

alongside either zsnes.exe or the place where your ROMs are located.

Chaoticjosh · Post by **Chaoticjosh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:18 am

Can I specify exactly where I want them saved?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:30 am

see "Menu -> Config -> Paths -> Snapshots"

Chaoticjosh · Post by **Chaoticjosh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:45 am

Thank you, thank you very much!

Now, this'll probably be my last question.

The screenshots I get from this process are okay, but they seem a tad small.

This is the size I'm getting them:

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/s ... ofth-3.jpg

Can I make it so it gives me larger pictures?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:00 am

I don't think so, as far as I know, if you want larger screenshots, you will need to use print+screen.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:25 am

Resizing as appropriate in IrfanView is fine too

Chaoticjosh · Post by **Chaoticjosh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:49 am

Excuse me? I just looked that up, does that program resize the pictures quickly and easily so I can show them to my community for LP purposes?

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:15 am

Yes, it does. I've resized many pictures using that program.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:16 am

This article explains batch resizing with IrfanView.

Chaoticjosh · Post by **Chaoticjosh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:47 am

Thank you!

I never knew about these utilities at all until I came here, and now I feel more capable.

This forum's help was very nice, thank you again.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:30 am

surprisingly nice

i think you got lucky, considering the basic nature of the snapshot feature

but it's all gravy

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:39 am

Chaoticjosh wrote:The screenshots I get from this process are okay, but they seem a tad small.

Note that some games use the high-res graphics mode of the SNES (2x width), and/or interlace (2x height). The snapshot function in ZSNES will downsize these images, so in that case you'll need to use (Alt+)PrintScreen.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:42 am

Chaoticjosh wrote: This forum's help was very nice, thank you again.

THIS forum?

*looks around*

Holy shit, it WAS!

Post by **Agozer** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:16 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
Chaoticjosh wrote: This forum's help was very nice, thank you again.
THIS forum?

*looks around*

Holy shit, it WAS!

Miracles do happen sometimes, it seems.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:27 am

also you can upsize them with precompiled scalex and hqx binaries
or use XnView or Paint.NET for more resizing options (IrfanView is nice enough though as suggested)

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:40 pm

Chaoticjosh wrote:Thank you!

I never knew about these utilities at all until I came here, and now I feel more capable.

This forum's help was very nice, thank you again.

No problem, don't hesitate to ask if you have anymore questions.