PSO Loading Screen

[Garfu]

I just started playing PSO (DC), and my girlfriend is a huge fan of the series. I was curious - does anyone out there have (or have the ability to make) a screen saver of the loading screens? I'd be so happy if anyone could do that for me. And so would she!

Cheers,

-Garfu

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

i have one screensaver in my cellphone, i made it myself, but i used images and compiled them into a gif image (gif images are animated and have only 256 colors)

i mean, i can take screens of it, but how would i made into a screensaver? would i record and turn the movie into a gif?

[Garfu]

Well, the gifs are a start. I don't actually know how to make a screensaver with gifs, but I'm sure there's a way. Could you email me those? I'll send you a PM, cheers!

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

let's give an example about the main loading screen of pso dc, it's a light in the center, what i did was to take some screenshots and then make them into a gif, nothing really good but still aceptable.

since you want to act as a screensaver, the speed would need to be better, and more screens would need to be taken, recording a movie with fraps (i can do it) would enable me to catch a few seconds of loading.
then the converting to gif would be made by a program, i supose there are tons of those around the web.

about the green squares in the quests loading.......i have the texture of that thing, it is rather small, but i mean really smal, on the tv it is hard to notice, but the texture is bad.
BUT, i can still record into a movie and do the same i would do to the main loading.
recording is not a problem, making a screensaver out of it i only know the .gif way.
i will try on the weekend some tests to see if the request is aceptable.

keep talking, i don't mind receiving ideas.

[Garfu]

That sounds great - how are you FRAPSing a dreamcast game? Haha.

The screen _I_ want is the one with the moving green squares: she probably wants the spheres of light.

If you have photoshop, it might have a gif maker. I'm godawful at making anything other than a JPEG, so I can't help there, haha.

I'll poke around the net and see if I can find a 'screensaver maker' guide.

EDIT:: This looks promising - http://www.freesaver.com/tools02.htm

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

i have both null dc and chankas, they are dreamcast emulators that use either a image of the disk (null dc) or the disc itself (chankast), that way i can record using fraps

[Garfu]

Ohh, those sound great (might pick up Chankast - I want to see PSO on my 22inch widescreen monitor ;D

Did that link help any? I can't test the downloads, I'm at work.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

i saved to favorites, i will try and do a movie and a collection of screenshots (1 per second, or more if fraps alows it)
then i will download a couple of programs to see what they can do.....
thanks for the link.

i still need to test some stuff on the emulator, to see wich graphic options i need to disable/enable to see the loading correctly. (don't worry, it shall be done)

[Garfu]

Thanks again

I'm not sure what FPS the DC runs at (probably 30), but we might be able to stagger it by just double each picture taken, or something.

I just want a screensaver that looks like those loading screens, MAN that would be awesome...

[dudemanozzy]

Yeah it'd be awesome having the GC quest loading screen, with the bands of light that change colour when you press A and all the data flowing past, or the ep 3 loading screen, it's a brilliant idea man, I can see a lot of people using it