Show your shmup desktop wallpapers!

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:29 am

If you love shmups so much, make a wallpaper out of it for your desktop!

Just use the printscreen and paste it in Paint and boom, done! (well, almost)

Here's my Salmander 2 wallpaper on my desktop:

Ex_Mosquito · Post by **Ex_Mosquito** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:16 pm

Mine is sort of shooter themed. A view of space.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark9/desktop.JPG

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:07 pm

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:59 pm

Ive been using the same Irem desktop for about three years now.

My LJ background is cute though:

http://pics.livejournal.com/slycherrych ... c/000020yk

Salem Witch Trials! · Post by **Salem Witch Trials!** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:16 pm

Not exactly a shmup background

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:40 pm

Well here is the one that i'm using at the moment -

However here are two non shooter related that I thought i would share. I've been using these for the past couple of months.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:44 pm

Hehe, everyone loves that picture of Samus.

My current wallpaper is this one:

http://www.mossjp.co.jp/raiden/images/r ... 3_1024.jpg

Should be mine at Christmas, too... my mate tells me I'll be sorely disappointed with it.

extrarice · Post by **extrarice** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:25 pm

http://johan.hoshichan.com/media/desktop_rtype.jpg
Image is at 50% since my res is 1600x1024.

Desktop picture from http://desktopgaming.com/.

EDIT: link fixed.

agony · Post by **agony** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:32 pm

mine: http://www.deviantart.com/view/25759683/

superhitachi4 · Post by **superhitachi4** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:04 pm

Michael Jackson in TATE mode??? Second one's my real Shikigami wallpaper.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:06 pm

Hey Ord, any chance you could post a link to those Metroid and Mario pics?

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:08 pm

Coincidentally, I recently became tired of the wallpaper that I had been using (sweet season) and put up the first wallpaper that didn't seem to bother me too much, and I actually sort of like it:

http://icepick.rustedmagick.com/res/des ... cepick.png

The Windows appearance is leftover from when I had Puyo Puyo Fever wallpaper up. My apologies for the file size (351 KB) and if the colors clash; I have color deficient vision.

Ex_Mosquito-

extrarice- I get a 403 when trying to view your desktop, but I love your avatar!
agony- simple and effective!
SH4- nice TATE.

extrarice · Post by **extrarice** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:38 pm

icepick wrote: extrarice- I get a 403 when trying to view your desktop, but I love your avatar!

Fixed. Mistake in .htaccess.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:39 pm

30,000 years in the future Dennis Hopper's gigantic cybernetic head will be carved into the countryside every 10 or 12 acres to help rid the land of a pesky homoerotic angel infestation.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-10/ ... wings2.JPG

Heh heh... well - my pc works a little different on that whole screen capture thing... but this is the image i'm using.

sffan · Post by **sffan** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:06 pm

I use this image surrounded by black for my desktop:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassi ... 07740.html

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:12 pm

Damocles wrote:Hey Ord, any chance you could post a link to those Metroid and Mario pics?

Certainly.
Samus -
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3931/samus6zo7jm.jpg
Mario -
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6364/8 ... e0125d.jpg

superhitachi4 · Post by **superhitachi4** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:24 pm

icepick wrote:SH4- nice TATE.

Thanks. Your Gradius background looks cool.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:38 pm

You rock, Ord.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:24 pm

If anyone could hook me up with the official Gradius V wallpaper/s (1024x768), it'd be greatly appreciated.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:34 pm

Bal-Sagoth wrote:If anyone could hook me up with the official Gradius V wallpaper/s (1024x768), it'd be greatly appreciated.

Well here's what I have -
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/972/23164ny.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8295/77382ar.jpg
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/6269/46205gx.jpg
I'm sure there is more though.

Stefan_L · Post by **Stefan_L** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:43 pm

Here is my messy desktop.... Delta was the first really good shoot'em up i ever played on C-64.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:37 pm

Ace! Cheers Ord, those are lovely.

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:16 pm

Ord wrote:
Bal-Sagoth wrote:If anyone could hook me up with the official Gradius V wallpaper/s (1024x768), it'd be greatly appreciated.
Well here's what I have -
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/972/23164ny.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8295/77382ar.jpg
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/6269/46205gx.jpg
I'm sure there is more though.

The Third image there is my desktop (and my new avitar).

Theres more of the official wallpapers here http://www.gamestone.co.uk/gradius/art_ ... ist=Konami

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:37 am

I'm a bit of a minimalist-
http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shot012ba.jpg

extrarice-
I love the R-Type background. Seamless level shots are fun.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:55 am

eh...

Click on the thumbnail below for the wallpaper. It's shmup related because these two characters are in the Touhou universe.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:30 pm

I'm using the M.D.S. Five Ascetics Mech from Psyvariar II.

Full size desktop:

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/ps ... esktop.png

But I've also used thse in the past:

Full size 1024x768 wallpapers

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3553/16gt1.jpg

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/295/29go2.jpg

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5407/31mo.jpg

ave · Post by **ave** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:36 pm

I still search for a good Mars Matrix-wallpaper. It should be 1200x1024-sized, does anyone know where I can find one?

Currently, I have a wallpaper of Tokyo at night (helicopter view)

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:15 pm

dai jou bu wrote:eh...

Click on the thumbnail below for the wallpaper. It's shmup related because these two characters are in the Touhou universe.

So in what shooter is the "Touhou” Universe exactly?
That wallpapers looks cool.

By the way...
Anyone have a hi-res wallpaper of the Lifeforce cover:

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:45 pm

Ord wrote:Well here is the one that i'm using at the moment -

However here are two non shooter related that I thought i would share. I've been using these for the past couple of months.

Hey Ord, I was wondering if you could post a link to that awesome Ikaruga wallpaper, without your desktop icons.

Thanks in advance.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:04 pm

Here you go -
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7592/wall43wg.jpg
and here are a few more nice Ikaruga pics -
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5917 ... oss0jh.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8198/wall18gs.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2731/wall22nl.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3528/wall59kr.jpg