Tips for playing

These tips may help you if you're making timeattack movies.
They are my experiences.

Redefine the keyboard shortcuts so that you can use them fast

In Famtasia, I have assigned the keys as follows:
You can select whichever keys you want, but you should design them so that they are quickly accessible at any given situation.
Don't assign the Reset key anywhere near your playing keys, and don't use Alt or Ctrl for your playing keys because they might activate operating system functions exactly when you don't want that.
Alt+number changes the number of quicksave.

Use the emulator features to your power.

Use more than one quicksave, but no more than necessary.

I use always 3 to 6 quicksaves. I have designated them as follows:
If you notice that you have made a major mistake that none of the quicksaves can save you from, stop the recording and watch your movie. Make a quicksave where you would want to start rerecording, and then load it while your movie is playing. You're back at recording.

Make the emulator as slow as you can use.

Review your playing

Your first version doesn't have to be perfect. Just do something that looks good. It's important that you don't tire yourself with the first version. You will probably learn new tricks even while playing.
Then review it. Many times. So many times until you remember everything that looks bad: waits, unused shortcuts, redundant actions etc. Read the guidelines.
After you are certain that you know how to play it faster, start making a new version - from the very beginning. (Because you have probably learned something, and because of the re-record counter.) Repeat as many times as necessary.
When you gain experience, you also start being able to do it faster.
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Note: AVI files are much better for reviewing than the fmv files, because you can browse back and forth in them. I watch my own movies often.

To avoid broken movies

Make backups

Backups are important. You will be depressed if you accidentally rerecord over your good progress.

Remember that your movie will be judged on how entertaining it is to watch, not on how entertaining/hard it was to play

Thus you should choose well which game you play and how you play it.

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