Four words for you:
Too Much Free Time.
I kid. Nice work.

So I was waiting for someone to tell me that.... :-)

The truth, I made 90% of my screenshots over a two day period this summer. The rest were just recently done for the new files that didn't have any for the front page.

Yeah, they've been doing a great job...most of the time when I upload one of my programs, I'll find that a screenshot has been added.

Let's hear it for FAKE SCREENSHOTS!

The MTSQuest screenshot is so unbelievably fake, it's obviously a flash movie converted to a .gif. First of all:
no motion blur, yet grayscale?
Fading objects and not the screen at the same time? (changing contrast can fade the screen to white)
The zoom out effect at the end IS the zoom effect from flash, complete with anti-aliasing.
Yeah, forged screenshots are nice...

Although I do understand it's supposed to be a trailer, or preview for the game, and it looks nice, but it's misleading to claim it as an animated screenshot of the actual game.

Hey, if you can convert flash movies to .gif and upload them as a screenshot, more power to ya. I have no problem with that as long as it doesn't stray too far from the program.

.....as long as you don't say it's a screenshot and it accurately represents the game.....

Yeah, you're right, the very definition of a screenshot means that it should be from the actual program, not a seperate flash movie. I agree.

Well, if it's a flash movie based on actual screenshots, and the program itself looks almost as good as the movie, I don't really see the problem.
Regarding your second point, the fading, that could also be because of the use of an emulator, instead of a real calc.
When somebody uploads a screenshot that the program itself doesn't come close to, I see the problem, but (to the best of my knowledge) that is not the case here.

I never said that I got it from the actual calc. Hell, I never explicitly stated that it was a screenshot in the first place. If you go to my webpage you can check out the actual TRAILER which is, surprise surprise, the flash movie I converted to a .gif
actually, the TRAILER (not animated screenshot, nor screenshot of any kind) is what I've had in mind for an actual movie trailer if and when I get my game made into a movie ^_^
now, if you REALLY wanna get all pissy about it, then fine, I'll make some actual screenshots just so your panties don't bunch up but then, where's the mystery? if you know what happens in the game, why bother downloading it?

When I saw that screenshot I though it was from the
actual game.
I feel like such an idiot-someone shoot me.Maybe fo an april fools joke some one should upload a game WITH A FULL COLOUR GIF at 96*63 res and say its an 83+ screenshot-lol >:0

But, hey, at least ya downloaded my game, and that's what counts ^_^

I can't figure out how to use normal, hyper, and super effects. I can only use the punches and kicks. Thus, I cannot defeat <<THIS WORD HAS BEEN DELETED BY A STAFF MEMBER SO THAT IT DOESN'T DESTROY THE GAME FOR THE OTHER PATRONS OF TICALC.ORG>>!! This is very frustrating. Please help (MMfan, preferably, or ANYONE!)!!

They had that.... it was called 2 Color Pong. By jacking up the contrast, you got blue instead of black.

no i meant like a 256 color gif not TWO

Whoa, I'd better get busy!! I'm working on some TIGCC projects, and I need to finish them so I can upload my programs to ticalc.org so people can use them. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll get screenshots. :-)

Make your own! It's really easy, and if you have something particular that you want to be included in the screenshot, then you can be sure that it will be in there, because you're doing your own. TISSHOT works well, and now there's that new one (VTI Capture, I think).

Let's not forget RBP2. there you can send files that will be put online ASAP with a screenshot. So far noone's sent a file except members. If a screenshot can't be supplied Aaron Sarna or I will create it. I must admit that I've been cruel to many here and at TI-News needlessly, but that was just a misdirected outlet. Workign on the screenshots for Morgan has been fun and I hope to complete the TI-80 and TI-81 directories soon. So far > 60% done.

I have seen some files include some image files of screenshots the programmer has already included, and they appear as screenshots on the file information page.

So if I include screenshots, will they appear automatically? I was thinking about that and just wanted to make sure I understood how the system works.

That happened to me when I created this little basic grayscale adjuster with Flib. I included Flib for ease, and they put the Flib screenshots in there! But then they were gone. I guess Morgan realized his mistake :).

-W-

If you upload screenshotd on the upload form they will appear on the file info page if they are in .gif format. That is kind of key...if they are not in .gif I never even get to see them, they are just thrown out.

However if you put the screenshots in the .zip file I will use those, no matter what format they are in (.png, .gif, .jpg, .bmp, .tif etc) before I create my own for the file.

Okay, thanks for the information.

How 'bout .dds?