I recently removed the screenshot submissions page and screenshot edit page after an exploit was found and abused. I then used this as an opportunity to finish a new screenshot script that I began working on years ago.


Screenshot Submission/Edit Page
When you click the Retrieve, Add or Update your Screenshots link on a game's page, it'll now take you to a new page. This set of pages mostly look and operate the same except that it's far more secure and should be a little better.

Something I did add was the ability to have these links open up in a separate tab instead of in a popup window. To have it open up in a tab instead, either right click the link and choose 'Open in New Tab' or simply middle click the link.

The option to "Add" screenshots to a game's page is only available when a game ID and a user ID is both selected. This happens by default when you click the links from a game's page but you can also get this option from the Screenshot Browser when you've filtered the screenshots based on your own account and also selected a game. The screenshots that you've uploaded but haven't added to its game page will have a yellow border around the screenshot.


User Screenshots Page
This new page lets you sort through just your screenshots:
https://www.vizzed.com/user/screenshots.php

It should be easy to use, fast, and customizable. You can also have it display the screenshots of a single user:
https://www.vizzed.com/user/screenshots.php?id=1
(replace the 1 in the URL with the ID of any user)

I'll eventually make this page accessible from a user's profile page so that you can quickly view a user's screenshots.

Staff : Letting you all know that you can go back to adding and editing your screenshots.

As for the "screenshot monitor" page, this page will eventually replace that:
https://www.vizzed.com/videogames/screenshots.php
It's still a work in progress but should be good enough for now. It sorts the screenshots in order of newest first by default.

Davideo7 : it all looks pretty good in my opinion although it will probably take a little bit of getting used to I just have one question with the old system there was a part that allowed for screenshots to be deleted and I was just wondering if let,s say for example I accidentally take a duplicate screenshot and wanted to delete it if it would be possible to do so or would I just have to leave both the screenshots where they are?

I'm having trouble with all these updates, the main way doesn't work for me and I always have to resort to doing it on a new tab or window. Seems to be just me having this issue, so as long as there's a secondary way I'll be fine with it.

I tested to see how this worked, and I agree it will take some time getting used to. However, we will be able to update the screenshots that weren't on the backup without major problems, like if we were editing them for the first time.

So glad to see that the old descriptions still appear to me as reminders. Not sure if this is a cookies or history thing or whatever, but it surely saves me a lot of time and will allow me to re-add the original description of all those screenshots without having to come up with a new one.

no 8120 : Yeap I still need to add the ability for staff members to delete screenshots. It's rare we need to delete screenshots, we generally are fine with rating them a 1 if they're useless or unnecessary but we definitely need the option to delete them so I'll probably get that added on Monday.


EX Palen : What issue are you having specifically? When you click the links, it doesn't open up a popup window? Maybe then it's because of a popup blocker. What internet browser are you using?

Yeah your web browser stores a good amount of data for form fields. I hadn't considered this but maybe we should let the staff know of this.


Staff : For those of you who have added screenshots in the past few months, your web browser most likely stored a lot of data for those screenshots including descriptions so if you go back to edit the screenshots that had information removed, you can see what your browser has available and just select that.

With screenshots in particular, it's just that sometimes when the popup opens it doesn't respond as it should, and it's also much slower than using the "open in new tab" method.

Not a big deal, like I said, and seeing how the screenshots are filtered now I don't think I'll actually use the popup anymore. Still worth of noting just in case I'm not the only one having issues with it, like with other few things here and there.

Davideo7 : while the new system looks good in my opinion I have been having trouble both yesterday and today trying to add screenshots yesterday I took some for official u.s. playstation demo disk 42 and today I tried monster racer for the psx and while I was able to take the screenshots I have not been able to add them

Great job David I'm glad to see content submission features being fixed and updated any plans yet or time frame for when the video adder will be fixed?

I'm glad the screenshots are safe from unauthorized interference again. I haven't tried adding one yet, but I'll probably fire a game up and do that at some point next week - thanks for keeping things working.

no 8120 : Adding them should now work fine. Let me know if you're still having issues.


Divine Aurora : It might be a while before the Video Adder stuff works again. It's a little trickier since my scripts stopped working due to YouTube's APIs being changed. I attempted more than once to fix the Video Adder but it looks like I'll just have to completely rebuild it from the ground up which will be time consuming so it'll be something I tackle after my kids go back to school which is when I'll have more time. So probably next month I can try to get it working again.

Hi, it's been a while since I did stuff on Vizzed. It's good to see that the screenshot feature is being worked on. I'd like to report a few issues I ran into with the new screenshot submission/edit pages: It seems that I cannot take/upload any pictures for Atari 2600 games. I also cannot change the description, change the category, or add characters to any other screenshots I've already uploaded, 2600 or not. I was able to successfully upload a high score for a 2600 game though, so that aspect of screenshot uploading still works. I also accidentally uploaded two pictures for the game Super Mario Advance 3 Color Restoration, and I cannot change the description, add characters, or add a category on those two uploads.

Also, I don't really have anywhere else to post this, so I'll say it here: it's too bad to see what happened to the screenshot contest over the last two years. I had intended to compete in at least the 2018 contest, but I've just been generally busy with life and I haven't had any time to dedicate to the contests. I probably won't have time to compete in any Vizzed competitions in the near-future (if they happen), but I do hope there's still some sort interest in them. Though it sounds like they have been suspended until further notice.

Lastly, are there any plans to make the Retro Game Room games have a screenshot upload process similar to the Video Game Room games? As in, users don't need to use the RGR plugin to take pictures and upload them—they can just pick screenshots from their hard drives to upload. I am not sure if that might open up the screenshot feature for potential abuse, though.

Davideo7 : I have been having trouble trying to add screenshots for the a2600 and c64 games while I am able to take them they don,t appear when I go to submit them instead all I get is a blank screen I also just thought I would let you know that both the msx and msx 2 games appear to be not working

no 8120 : I have noticed through your recent uploads that you are still able to add screenshot descriptions/categories, while I'm still not able to add any screenshot info myself. I have tried numerous kinds of consoles, tried different browsers (Firefox and Chrome) but the result is the same: I can upload pictures, but I'm not able to to add any screenshot info. Like you said, some consoles like Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 don't seem to allow for any screenshots at all. Also, I have been able to play MSX and MSX2 games, but a few of them don't seem to work, like Aleste on MSX2. I also can't seem to take any screenshots for the MSX consoles either.

For now, I guess I'll just wait for a fix. I guess these are just the "growing pains" of overhauling the screenshot submissions.