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Best loading screens query

Started by ComSoft6128, 13:02, 10 February 23

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ComSoft6128

Quote from: Nich on 20:54, 11 February 23
Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 13:02, 10 February 23So my query is this - what are your top 5, 10 or even 20 loading screens of all time?
Could be something "primitive" from 1984 or some recent amazing production, could be anything you like :)
I have far too many favourite loading screens to list here, but if you need some inspiration, try Super Sylvestre's site:

Cheers Nich, I've already scheduled in two screens I found on CPCPOWER and will have a look thru the rest of the site over the next few days.


lmimmfn

Turbo Girl for the win :), wouldn't be slowed now of course, grrr
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Shaun M. Neary

Dinamic have produced some nice screens. AMC, After The War and Satan spring to mind.
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ComSoft6128

Quote from: lmimmfn on 02:23, 12 February 23Turbo Girl for the win :), wouldn't be slowed now of course, grrr
You might like this:




GUNHED

How funny is that! Some naked pixels, and they up it to 'age must be 18', but all that killing-stuff can be watched by everybody.

BTW: Looong ago I worked at the 'free' version of the Game Over picture too. Eventually I see the result of an artist who did the job properly. Fun travel to the past.  :) :) :)
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eto

Quote from: GUNHED on 00:32, 14 February 23How funny is that! Some naked pixels, and they up it to 'age must be 18', but all that killing-stuff can be watched by everybody.
Not censored: "Age-restricted video (requested by uploader)"

GUNHED

Ah ok, they censored one of my 'Wallpaper' video, therefore I thought... 
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Brundij

#34
Most if not any screen from Michel Rho, who made many screens for Ere https://cpcrulez.fr/games_GFX-artist-Michel_RHO.htm
These two are of my favorites too. Vindicators for how clean it looks and Wanderer 3D for how the gas clouds and transparencies are made.

Brundij

Some mode 1 ones.
Mountie Mick's and Ziggurat : For the use of patterns.
Sepulcri: Sometimes less is more.
Basun: Game is shit but the loading screen looks good with that ghostly figure.

dirtybb

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lmimmfn

Quote from: dirtybb on 21:38, 15 February 23






Great screens, apart from Captain Blood which is weak relatively
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Gryzor

Ha, I was gonna say "ahh Captain Blood, that's awesome and so cinematic!" 

lmimmfn

#39
Quote from: Gryzor on 20:31, 16 February 23Ha, I was gonna say "ahh Captain Blood, that's awesome and so cinematic!"
:), I get your point, I'm just averse to too much text and less visualisation in a loading screen.

It does look cinematic though but for me would be more suited to an ingame screen, with the text removed on keypress and a menu presented
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Piero

#40
Hi, here are some I always liked that haven't already been mentioned:

ZbyniuR

OK, nice subject. I found about over 80 nice pictures. I think it's too much.
I will be back after I choose best of the best. :)
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ComSoft6128

#42
Wow!

Loading screen for the Spanish adventure game released by Dinamic Software in 1989.

Best viewed on a large screen at 720p (YouTube Setting)



With thanks to trocoloco

Other platforn screens for comparison:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/jabato-2ic

Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Jabato#:~:text=El%20Jabato%20(lit.,illustrated%20mainly%20by%20Francisco%20Darn%C3%ADs.

Dinamic Software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinamic_Software

Links:
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1188
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/el_jabato.htm

Longplays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ok6NhspUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WivsOlv1yGY

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that  the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

GUNHED

Overscan...

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ComSoft6128

2018 article from Retro Gamer magazine that is well worth reading.

"The Art Of The 8-Bit Loading Screen"

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/retro-gamer/20180712/281539406708201

ComSoft6128

Loading screen for the 2012 conversion of the 1985 Apple II game by Froggy Software.
This fantastic screen was converted to CPC overscan by 'Les Sucres en Morceaux' .

BEST WHEN VIEWED ON A LARGE SCREEN AND AT 720p (YouTube Setting)



Info:
http://cpc.sylvestre.org/projets/projets_jeux.html#le_mur_de_berlin_va_sauter

Links:
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/le_mur_de_berlin_va_sauter.htm
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=6700

Amstrad Manique longplay here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pskT-O-4IqM

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that  the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

Cholo

My teenage self was probably a horrible judge when it came to loading screens. I have a feeling that most of the ones remembered are from good games only. Like take Captain America, im pretty sure i thought is was "lazy" but now think has a nice clever used of the whole screen space & well "shaded". Like there is a whole stack of back then "boring" sports/racing titles that my mind has completely blocked out  :D

Couple of random nice ones attached.

MacDeath

#48
Renegade III : shitty game but great splash cover in Mode1.

Operation Thunderbolt was also a nice mode1.

Bounty huner : simple but effective.


Captain blood had another intro page, but the CPC version was a bit botched to be honest...
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as usual they could have just repaletted the CGA version to get something better...
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TotO

This Captain Blood screen is one of the ones I didn't like.
It clashed so much with the rest of the game visual.
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