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Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-09, 03:44

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Really? Let me give you an example. I submitted the DOS game Bez Pegs which was not in their database which was fully approved and I upscaled my screenshots to 1024x768. Clear and easy to see. http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/bez-pegs/screenshots I then got rejected for doing the same thing when I …

Re: 3DMark 1999 does not run setup on Windows 10 x64

Posted on 2018-01-09, 01:03

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liqmat, be smart ;) Open that site, click on the "Software" item in the Navigation menu on the left. Then just download Universal Extractor. Davros, thanks a lot for the tip. On Win7x64 i launched the benchmark without using compatibility during installation, and without copying ddraw.dll. No …

Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-05, 03:40

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For items like the overlays that feature highly structured, sparse data, you're best served using a grey scale color space, applying quantization to the grey levels (16 discrete luminosity levels, perhaps), and encoding as PNG (or TIFF) data. DCT based encoding doesn't represent monochromatic …

Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-04, 19:36

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Stretched up uneven jPEGs from a lower res source, wtf? OK, no sympathy for this. I think my keyboard overlay work looks fantastic. Took me an hour each to get those perfect. Had to splice together two scans for each of them. If you mean the screenshots I submitted, those are not stretched or …

Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-04, 18:07

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I would have rejected your screenshots too, don't take that so hard. I'd much rather see screenshots in their native res than some user's attempt to upscale them. I can resize them myself if I need to. All kinds of things that could go wrong there, especially since 320/640->1024 is a dirty …

Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-04, 17:47

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Here's an example of the scaling issue I feel they have. I submit two high resolution keyboard overlay scans for the DOS game Gunship 2000 and they are approved. After they got scaled, they are not even legible anymore. I understand they have to conserve space, but what's the point of archiving …

Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-03, 20:57

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Actually I think this is a Firefox problem at my end. Still, approvers should all play by the same standards is my point. One approver approves my 1024x768 screenshots and one does not. One approver approves of my description on a media scan and another does not even though they are described …

Re: MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-03, 20:44

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Submitting in the native resolution and letting their site handle upscaling dynamically for the viewer is probably better for consistency. Ironically, wanting to submit in one's favored upscaled resolution is the opposite of standardization. They don't upscale as far as I can tell. The 320x200 DOS …

MobyGames approval process is a moving target

Posted on 2018-01-03, 18:35

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Have been scanning and capturing various items to submit to MobyGames. I find their volunteer approval people extremely inconsistent which, as far as I am concerned, means the whole MobyGames approval process has no standardized approval criteria. An example would be that I submitted numerous games …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 15:03

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...perhaps by the time the System Shock remake comes out. Same here. Upgrading for the new System Shock and maybe Mechwarrior 5 as long as Piranha doesn't pull the same money grabbing asshattery they did with Mechwarrior Online. I still haven't finished Mechwarrior 3's single player campaign or the …

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