Killer Instinct title screen snapshot

filouk · Post by **filouk** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:52 am

I am trying to take a poper snapshot of Killer Instinct title screen, but the bottom of the screen is missing (you can't see the Rareware logo entirely). The screen seems to have an actual size of 256x240 (snes9x takes a 256x239 snapshot) and zsnes snapshots take only 256x224 snapshots. What should I do ? Thanks.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:50 pm

Use "Killer Instinct (E)".

filouk · Post by **filouk** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:14 pm

I use Killer Instinct (Europe).sfc (no-intro roms)

With Killer Instinct (E) the same thing happens...

With Killer Instinct (U) it works ! Thanks !

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:14 pm

?

When I load the E version (CRC32: 3D7252D4), press F1 and select "save snapshot", ZSNES creates a 256x239 BMP or PNG file.

The logo is visible in both versions (E and U).

filouk · Post by **filouk** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:26 pm

Well it doesn't do the same with me. But anyway I don't want 256x239 snaps, it's too weird (should be 240...). With the American version I get a proper 256x224 so I'm happy

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:27 pm

The SNES can display only 239 lines.

filouk · Post by **filouk** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:39 pm

All titles screens I've seen are 256x224. The American version of KI also has a 256x224 title screen. So I wonder why KI(E) has a higher title screen. It's weird, when you press Esc to pause Zsnes, you can see the height of the screen increase.

Click here if you want to see the file made with the European version :

http://www.consolegames.fr/KillerInstinct.png

You can see the bottom is missing. I have the latest ZsNes version.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:42 pm

filouk wrote:All titles screens I've seen are 256x224. The American version of KI also has a 256x224 title screen. So I wonder why KI(E) has a higher title screen. It's weird, when you press Esc to pause Zsnes, you can see the height of the screen increase.

KI (E) is a PAL game, hence the higher resolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

I don't know what ZSNES setting you're using (try it with a clean copy). Are you forcing NTSC in the loading dialog?

filouk · Post by **filouk** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:52 pm

My Zsnes works very well in PAL. For my snapshots, I'm always working with European games and I always get 256x224 good snaps, where the bottom of the screen isn't missing. It's the first time I've seen this resolution.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:17 pm

It seems that ZSNES saves 239 lines only when the game enables the "overscan" mode (239 lines instead of 224), regardless of region or fps. "SNES Test Program (U)" also uses 239 lines.

I'll try some more games...