5,992 Animated Atari 2600 Screenshots

[as_the_gavel_falls]

http://www.atariguide.com/romshots/index_0.html

 

These are based on 99.9% complete TOSEC rom sets. The ones which don't appear are probably due to the rom being bad, not being runable on my hacked up emulator, or a possibly a problem with process flow on one of the 125 compute nodes that were used in this project. Some more might be produced shortly when my standalone catchup machine gets sync'd up. This project used 7.9 million screenshots and 2500 hours of cpu time. There was problem with the sound levels somewhere unfortunately that was not noticed until very late in the run. Hopefully I'll get a chance to run it again someday.

Edited February 19, 2008 by as_the_gavel_falls

[Zach]

Very cool. Is this your web site? I hope that was made that with some automated process.

BTW, credit for the Four-Play song files should go to Bob Montgomery.

Edited February 19, 2008 by Zach

[as_the_gavel_falls]

Yes, it's totally automated, my mind would be really hurting if i had to sit down and play that many games.

 

I just used the official name given to the roms by TOSEC, apologies if his name is missing, I'm sure they'd put it in.

 

Jason

[moycon]

Very cool.

[Shannon]

Slick!!

[+Random Terrain]

So a computer played the games? Was it just random joystick movements and fire button presses?

[BydoEmpire]

That's great, thanks!

[EricDeLee]

The THRUST videos represent the worst game playing ever! LOL It has to be random buttons, etc.

[as_the_gavel_falls]

Yes, just random buttons. But, I do have a plan. There is one screen shot of breakout I noticed that it managed to get the ball twice in a row, http://www.atariguide.com/romshots/index_B_36.html barely missed the third. pretty impressive for a million monkeys.

[EricDeLee]

Yes, just random buttons. But, I do have a plan. There is one screen shot of breakout I noticed that it managed to get the ball twice in a row, http://www.atariguide.com/romshots/index_B_36.html barely missed the third. pretty impressive for a million monkeys.

 

That's better than most of my attempts at games like Breakout.

 

LOL

[Rom Hunter]

Looks great!

 

Edited February 19, 2008 by Rom Hunter

[FireTiger]

looks great, the one of the pal ones doesn't seem to be coming up on the display thumbnail.

 

could you have a master list with links to the games rather then thumbnails in the final?

 

This is awesome, wonderful work.

 

-fixed error

Edited February 19, 2008 by FireTiger

[+Philsan]

An incredible achievement!

[DaveD]

Very cool. That's a handy reference.

[ComputerSpaceFan]

Cool!

I see in the G section there was a Greatest American Hero hack of Superman. Did that game ever get made? Was it just a mod of the sprites or did it have bonus gameplay? I would love to try that rom out if it still exists.

I already searched Atari Age and couldn't find it.

[MegaManFan]

Any handy way to search for a specific game? For example I wanted to look just at Megamania and yet I have to start at M and go page by page. A search feature would make this cool idea even cooler.

[BigO]

Yet another impressive feat for a million monkeys is the one good bounce I saw in Circus.

[as_the_gavel_falls]

Any handy way to search for a specific game? For example I wanted to look just at Megamania and yet I have to start at M and go page by page. A search feature would make this cool idea even cooler.

 

Yes, I am just one poor overworked coder. Somewhere in here I was supposed to dump a menu of the names to a seperate file with a link back to the 9 - screen shot page. Not to mention catching the "Other" games which don't start with A-Z.

 

#!/bin/bash

 

# rm ssanim_30fps/index.html

 

export IFS='

'

 

shotdir="romshots"

 

shotcount=`ls $shotdir/ | grep '.gif$' | wc -l`

 

mychar=''

for mychar in `echo 'ALL

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

'`

do

 

idxCount=0

curFile=0

curCol=0

maxCol=3

maxItem=9

echo "Doing '$mychar'"

 

 

abbrev='_'

reg=''

 

if [ "x$mychar" != "xALL" ]

then

abbrev="_$mychar""_"

reg="$mychar*"

echo "reg is $reg"

echo "abbrev is $abbrev"

fi

 

 

(( showpage = $curFile + 1 ))

echo "<html><body text=#ffffff bgcolor=#000000 link=#ffffff vlink=#ffffff><a href=http://www.AtariGuide.com/>www.AtariGuide.com</a> - $shotcount screenshots<br><center><h3>Page $showpage of $mychar</h3>" > $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

# echo "<html><body text=#ffffff bgcolor=#000000 link=#ffffff vlink=#ffffff><center>" > $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

for char in `echo 'ALL

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

'`

do

 

if [ "$char" = "ALL" ]

then

link=index_0.html

else

link=index_$char""_0.html

fi

 

if [ "$char" = "$mychar" ]

then

echo "<a href=$link><font color=#00cc00>$char</font></a> " >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

else

echo "<a href=$link>$char</a> " >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

fi

 

#echo "<a href=index_$char""_0.html>$char</a> " >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

done

 

(( nextFile = $curFile + 1 ))

if [ -f $shotdir/index$abbrev$nextFile.html ]

then

echo "   <a href=index$abbrev$nextFile.html>Next</a>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

fi

 

 

 

 

 

echo "<table width=783 border=1>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

for file in `ls $shotdir/$reg | cut -d / -f 2 | grep '.gif$'`

do

 

(( idxCount = $idxCount + 1 ))

if [ $idxCount -gt $maxItem ]

then

prevFile=$curFile

(( curFile = curFile + 1 ))

 

idxCount=1

curCol=0

echo "</tr></table></html><a href=index$abbrev$curFile.html>Next</a>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$prevFile.html

 

(( showpage = $curFile + 1 ))

echo "<html><body text=#ffffff bgcolor=#000000 link=#ffffff vlink=#ffffff><a href=http://www.AtariGuide.com/>www.AtariGuide.com</a> - $shotcount screenshots<br><center><h3>Page $showpage of $mychar</h3>" > $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

echo "<a href=index$abbrev$prevFile.html>Prev</a>   " >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

for char in `echo 'ALL

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

'`

do

if [ "$char" = "ALL" ]

then

link=index_0.html

else

link=index_$char""_0.html

fi

 

if [ "$char" = "$mychar" ]

then

echo "<a href=$link><font color=#00cc00>$char</font></a> " >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

else

echo "<a href=$link>$char</a> " >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

fi

 

done

 

(( nextFile = $curFile + 1 ))

if [ -f $shotdir/index$abbrev$nextFile.html ]

then

echo "   <a href=index$abbrev$nextFile.html>Next</a>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

fi

 

echo "<table width=783 border=1>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

fi

 

if [ $curCol -eq 0 ]

then

echo "<tr>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

fi

if [ $curCol -eq $maxCol ]

then

echo "</td></tr><tr>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

curCol=0

fi

echo "<td><center>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

name=`echo $file | sed 's/.gif$//'`

nameplus=`echo $file | sed 's/.gif$//;s/+/%252B/g;s/ /%20/g'`

echo "<a href="'"'"http://img.atariguide.com/runtime.php?rom=$nameplus"'"'"><img border=0 src="'"'"$file"'"'"></a><br>$name <font size=-2><a href="'"'"../mp3s/$name.mp3"'"'">mp3</a></font>">> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

echo "</td>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

# if [ "$mychar" = "ALL" ]

# then

# echo "<a href=$index$abbrev$curFile.html>$name

#

 

(( curCol = $curCol + 1 ))

 

 

done

 

echo "</tr></table>" >> $shotdir/index$abbrev$curFile.html

 

done

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Wow, there must be a lot of work involved into this.

 

Unfortunately the MP3s are all VERY low pitched and noisy.

[as_the_gavel_falls]

Wow, there must be a lot of work involved into this.

 

Unfortunately the MP3s are all VERY low pitched and noisy.

 

There was problem with the sound levels somewhere unfortunately that was not noticed until very late in the run. Hopefully I'll get a chance to run it again someday... soon. Anyone have an amazon EC account to spare?

[Nukey Shay]

Wow...sorry for the late response, but I just noticed this. Impressive!

 

 

Cool!

I see in the G section there was a Greatest American Hero hack of Superman. Did that game ever get made? Was it just a mod of the sprites or did it have bonus gameplay? I would love to try that rom out if it still exists.

I already searched Atari Age and couldn't find it.

 

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...c=66359&hl=