MONKEY ISLAND YESSSSSS [The Beginning]

[tarendol]

So I was looking at zarla's wonderful screencap adventures, and I just had to give it a go myself. I'm gonna do a much, much worse job than Zarla but hopefully there will be a little fun involved!

Our game of choice is the Secret of Monkey Island. This is an old LucasArts game that really rocked, it spawned several sequels. It uses what's called the

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[funkicarus]

I SURE DO LIKE THE LAST PART OF THE PIRATE REQUIREMENTS

[zarla]

OH YAY hee hee. :D

I use DOSbox, which has a handy feature where if you press ctrl-f5, it automatically makes a screencap, numbers it, and shoves it in a folder for you. :D Let me go look up if ScummVM has one, since I usually use DOSbox for all my gaming neeeds...looks like alt-s might take one (if you have an SDL backend, whatever that means). :O So if that doesn't work that might make things a bit harder for you. :O

As a sidenote, as far as I remember, Monkey Island runs fine on DOSbox. 8D

[tarendol]

I have a screencap program that autosaves my pictures when I do a shift-printscreen and puts them in a nice folder for me, though it gives them odd filenames (I'm sure I could change that behavior if I look into it). Then I used Photoshop to batch resize the images. It was the uploading that killed me :

[zarla]

Oof, that can be killer. :O I use an ftp program and shove them all on my domain at once, but I don't know any other way to do it offhand. :O