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    Game Screen Captures?

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    • MaMikeeM
      MaMikee
      last edited by

      Is there a way to capture game screens (lrmame-2003) or footage when a game is playing?

      Then how do you get it into a file that you can work on in Windows?

      Thanks

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @MaMikee
        last edited by mitu

        @MaMikee Retroarch has a screenshot option, available in the menu when it's opened (RGUI). For video, it has a similar Start/Stop recording option in the same menu.
        The image/video should easily read on Windows also,they use standardized formats and codecs.

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        • sirhenrythe5thS
          sirhenrythe5th
          last edited by sirhenrythe5th

          never used it myself, but i recognized a "take screenshot"-function in the RGUI.
          I guess it will do what it is named for and save the picture to the rom-Folder, where you can pick it up and copy it to every Windows-, OS2- , -MacOS or even Solaris-System ;)

          [EDIT: Mitu was faster :) ]

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          • ClydeC
            Clyde @sirhenrythe5th
            last edited by Clyde

            @sirhenrythe5th said in Game Screen Captures?:

            I guess it will do what it is named for and save the picture to the rom-Folder, where you can pick it up and copy it to every Windows-, OS2- , -MacOS or even Solaris-System ;)

            The screenshots are saved in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/screenshots. For convenience, I made a link at /home/pi/screenhots with this command:

            ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/screenshots /home/pi/screenhots
            
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