Screen Shot Database

[goatdan]

I took this from another thread that I don't want to interupt the flow of...

SCREENSHOTS! Lots and lots and lots of screenshots! I spend hours on end every week, scouring the net with all the search engines, just trying to find some screenshots, any screenshots, of some classic game that I'm thinking about buying but wondering if it's really any good or not. So I look and look and look, only to find that there isn't even a single screenshot of it left out there anywhere anymore, much less a review of it. Or when I do luck out and find a screenshot, it's just the title screen, or when I do luck out and find a review, it doesn't show any screenshots. So I'm left with no choice but to just buy the game and hope that it's worth it, or just forget about it.

Actually, I have been thinking about asking this question for a while and your message makes me think that perhaps it is the time...

When Gary and I rebuilt the GOAT Store, we built it so that we had the ability to expand it in the future and one of the things that we have thought about is adding screenshots to every game. Obviously, by ourselves this would be an insurmountable task.

I've been meaning to ask if anyone would like to help by taking screenshots of games and sending them to us. Our database currently holds every game name that was released in the US, so we could use screen shots for everything. The screenshots would be put into 140px by 140px (which isn't the best, but it is the only way we could host them) size. We were hoping for a screenshot of the title screen of each game and three different shots of gameplay. Would anyone be willing to help in this project? If we start it, after I were to get enough screen shots to actually have a database, I would figure out some way for other sites to access them (XML interface or something).

What do you think? Would you help with any certain systems?

[tritium]

I can help, but only with a Camera/TV.

Genesis/Dreamcast/psOne. games.

(offtopic whats up with the homebrew games? Are they coming out soon?)


-Tritium

[goatdan]

I can help, but only with a Camera/TV.

Genesis/Dreamcast/psOne. games.

(offtopic whats up with the homebrew games? Are they coming out soon?)

The two DC games are back in production as of yesterday and we expect the final copies in my hands within twenty days, if all goes well.

I will make updates on this after the company verifies to me that everything is going smoothly.