Adventures in taking screenshots of Kemco console ports

[Victar]

Figuring out how to take screenshots of Kemco console ports has been a series of adventures.

PS4 Kemco games are the easiest to screen capture. There's a feature of the PS4 firmware that lets the player take screenshots, which can easily be copied onto a USB drive and transferred to a computer.

The Switch recently had a firmware update that simplifies screen captures. The process still requires some meticulous Switch menu navigation. To get the screenshots onto my computer, I used the cord that came with my Switch Pro controller (it has the necessary full-sized USB port for my computer on one end, and the necessary mini-sized USB port for the Switch on the other end).

The Vita TV supposedly has a feature to take screenshots, but this feature refused to work with End of Serenity and Mystic Chronicles; there was an error message saying something like "Cannot take screenshot". I pointed a smartphone at the TV screen to take pictures.

The 3DS has no feature to take screenshots in its firmware. There used to be a convoluted process involving the Miiverse, but now that the Miiverse is gone, I had to point a smartphone at my 3DS to take pictures.

The save files for some of the 3DS Kemco ports I've finished are deleted; I regret that now. I still have records of playing them in the 3DS Activity Log, so some of my Game Length posts will only have an Activity Log picture.

The smartphone pictures of Vita TV and 3DS games were unusable in their base state. Their file size was too big. I used a free online JPG compressor to squish them under 2 MB each. I also used my computer's basic "Photos" tool to crop and rotate them.

[Nemo]

I can feel your pain . On Switch pretty much the only way to share screenshots was to connect Switch to Twitter, and upload screens to it, and then from it to other websites. The bad thing was that uploading screens to Twitter caused watermarks to appear on them.