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This guide assumes you are starting from a CLEAN installation of each emulator. You should create a separate folder for your captures from any emulator you use for TASing/playing games. Always disable frame display, input display, and status display. Speeding up emulation will capture faster. Pause before loading a movie/recording the AVI.

If this is your first time recording an AVI in the emulator, there are several tools you should install and configure first - consult the common page for details. For recording from the emulator, the most important detail is installing ffdshow and configuring it to use a lossless codec (steps 4 and 5 of 'Initial installation and configuration').

Logos should (almost) always be 60 fps for NTSC or 50 fps for PAL.

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Emulator

FCEUX

Logo

Resolution	Audio
256 x 224 (NTSC)	48 kHz Mono
256 x 240 (PAL)	48 kHz Mono

Capturing

• Config -> Video. Disable hardware acceleration
• Config -> Sound. Set rate to 48000. Quality high. Turn up all volume controls.
• File -> Open Rom.
• Speed up to about 400% (= key)
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• File -> Movie -> Load Movie
• File -> Avi/Wav -> Record avi. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.

Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate File -> AVi/Wav -> Stop avi.

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Emulator

SNES9x. There are 2 versions which might be used, 1.43 or 1.51. The submission text of the movie should indicate which emulator was used.

Logo

Resolution	Audio
256 x 224 (NTSC)	48 kHz Stereo
256 x 240 (PAL)	48 kHz Stereo

Capturing

1.43

• Options -> Display configuration. Set Frame skipping to fixed, amount skipped 0.
• Sound -> Playback rate -> 48khz
• File -> Load Game
• Speed up to about 400% (= key)
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• File -> Movie -> Load Movie
• Disable input display (, key)
• Disable frame display (. key)
• File -> Record avi. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate File -> Avi/Wav -> Stop avi.

1.51

• Options -> Display configuration. Uncheck automatic frame skipping.
• Sound -> Playback rate -> 48khz
• File -> Load Game
• Speed up to about 400% (= key)
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• File -> Movie -> Load Movie
• Disable input display (, key)
• Disable frame display (. key)
• File -> Record avi. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate File -> Avi/Wav -> Stop avi.
  

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Emulator

Dega (check the git tree as well)

Logo

Platform	Resolution	Audio
SMS	256x192	44.1kHz Mono
GG	160x144	44.1kHz Stereo

Capturing

TODO: Make it much more clear on what to do, anyone willing to rewrite this section for it to make much more sense would be appreciated
Unlike any other emulator listed here, the use of .kkapture is required. .kkapture may be found here. .kkapture is required due to the fact that the AVI dumper supplied with Dega is basically broken, when .kkapture is opened, browse for the demo (Basically, select the Dega executable), select the path of which the AVI should be dumped via the target section, and set the fps to 60 (Or 50, if you plan to dump a PAL based game), the other options don't need to be adjusted for usage with Dega.

Be sure to have Enhanced PSG turned off under the sound menu, and have FM chip enabled in the graphics menu before you boot the game, this is to ensure you have the most faithful audio output possible.

When processing the audio for Master System games, be sure to only use one audio channel in order to conserve space (The Master System doesn't actually output in Stereo, the emulator just duplicates the Mono track into a recorded Stereo track).

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Emulator

Gens

Logo

Resolution	Audio
320 x 224	44.1 kHz Stereo
320 x 240	44.1 kHz Stereo
256 x 224[1]	44.1 kHz Stereo

Capturing

• Graphics -> Frame Skip -> 0. Also make sure VSync is unchecked; if the game predominantly uses the low resolution mode, also uncheck "Proper Aspect Ratio in low-resolution mode".
• File -> Open Rom
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• Tools -> Movie -> Play Movie
• Tools -> Avi -> Make sure Clean avi is checked -> Start Avi dump. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate Tools -> Avi -> Stop avi dump.
  

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Emulator

Visual Boy Advance

Logo

Platform	Resolution	Audio
GB/SGB/GBC	160x144	44.1 kHz Stereo
GBA	240x160	44.1 kHz Stereo

Capturing

• Options -> Sound -> 44khz
• File -> Open Rom
• Speed up to 300% (= key)
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• Tools -> Movie -> Play Movie
• Disable input display (, key)
• Disable frame display (. key)
• Tools -> Avi -> Start Avi dump. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate Tools -> Avi -> Stop avi dump.
  

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This console is particularly difficult to encode good movies for. You should have a fast pc and a ton of disc space available before attempting it if you want to create a good quality encode. Check the plugins specified by the author or in the movie file, and match them for best compatibility. Here are some guidelines.

Emulator

Mupen 64

Logo

Resolution	Audio
320x240	44.1 kHz Stereo

Capturing

• Open Rom
• Under Options -> Video set display mode to 1280 x 960 (shorter encodes) or 640 x 480 (longer encodes). Whatever disc space you can reasonably handle - the higher the resolution the more space required. Turn Full-scene Antialiasing to maxmimum. Turn Anisotropic Filtering to maximum.
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• Utilities -> Movie -> Play Movie
• Utilities -> Avi -> Start recording. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok. It is normal for the encode to run at less than 60 fps.
• Unpause emulation. When capture is complete select Utilities -> AVi -> Stop recording.
• Important: During encoding, Use this line for your logocombine.bat to rescale your movie while combining the logo/adding subs:

start /wait mencoder.exe -aspect 4:3 -oac copy -mc 0 -ovc lavc -vf scale=320x240 -sws 9 -lavcopts vcodec=ffv1:vstrict=-2 -sub subtitle.sub -subfont-text-scale 4 -sub-bg-alpha 15 -o mixed.avi logo.avi recorded.avi

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Emulator

PCSX

Logo

Resolution	Audio
320x240	44.1 kHz Stereo

Some games may differ.

Capturing

See thePCSX-rr Avi Help page.

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Emulator

Final Burn Alpha

Logo

Differs by game hardware. The best recommendation is to capture at the game's native resolution and match your logo with it.

Capturing

• Audio -> Plugin Options -> 48khz
• Game -> Open Rom
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• Game -> Movie -> Start Playback
• Disable input display (, key)
• Disable frame display (. key)
• Game -> Movie -> Record Avi. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate Game -> Movie -> Stop Avi.
  

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Emulator

Mednafen

Logo

Resolution	Audio
256x224	44.1 kHz Stereo
320x232	44.1 kHz Stereo
320x240	44.1 kHz Stereo

Most games fall into one of the above 3, but there are exceptions.

Capturing

TODO

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Emulator

DeSmuMe

Logo

Resolution	Audio
256x384	44.1 kHz Stereo

Capturing

• File -> Open Rom
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• File -> Movie -> Load Movie
• Disable input display (, key)
• Disable frame display (. key)
• File -> Record avi. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate File -> Avi/Wav -> Stop avi.
  

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Emulator

Yabause

Logo

Resolution	Audio
320x240	44.1 kHz Stereo

Some games may differ.

Capturing

• Config -> Uncheck Auto Frameskip/throttle.
• File -> Open Cue/Iso
• Pause emulation (Pause key)
• File -> Play Movie
• Disable input display (, key)
• Disable frame display (. key)
• File -> Record avi. Name it, click save, select ffdshow, click ok.
• Unpause emulation. When your capture is complete, navigate File -> Stop avi.

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[1] This is the preferred resolution for low-res Genesis game encodes.

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DeletedPages/EmulatorResources/MakingAVI/EmulatorSettings/Windows last edited by Ilari on 2013-02-01 07:48:09
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