DB and Z DBox singles question

[MCDaveG]

I just saw all those wallpapers with Dragon Box singles cover art for all three series and movies.
Where are those from? They were on the DVD's or some official web sites accompanying the release?
Thanks for info

[Xane]

They came from the Jumpland site whenever the DVDs were coming out in 06-09.

[Hujio]

First, you can read more about them in this thread. Here's a bit from where I jumped in...

First of all, these were originally promotional screen savers posted on Shueisha's official DVD release site, which have all been shutdown for years now. These screen savers would highlight the current batch of individual Dragon Box DVDs being released. The cover art of the DVD would slowly fade onto the screen, over the dark gray background covered in various kana characters, and then its relevant information would appear next to it. The screen saver would continue to rotate through the three DVDs. Here's how the screen saver actually looked with the text and everything:



So these wallpapers are actually just screen shots of the screen savers without any of the promo text, which have then been passed off as wallpapers. I'll admit though, they do make some nice wallpapers.

Anyway, the reason why you can't find a wallpaper for the fifth and ninth DVDs is because they don't exist. These screen savers weren't released until individual DVD volumes 10-12 were released. There were no screen savers made for volumes 1-9. All those wallpapers for 1-9 are fakes that someone made by slapping a scan of the DVD cover over a screen shot of the screen saver's kana background. Notice how in all of the official ones that the cover art is on the left, while on fakes it's on the right? The official ones also all feature a copyright listing over the cover art. That's why I never posted volumes 1-9 on Kanzentai, because they're not legit. Now I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with them, I'm just telling you what they actually are... fakes. That's what they are.

The DragonBall series and DragonBall The Movies releases also got screen savers, but for some reason they did actually do wallpapers instead of screen savers for the GT DVD releases. As far as I know there was no screen saver for the three DragonBall movie DVDs, since they were the last three to be released, and therefore there are no wallpapers that I've seen.