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We use special emulators that support tools such as savestate and frame advance, and generate movie files from them. These movie files are nothing more than a recording of input. They do not contain images or video. All movie format specifications can be found here.

Disclaimer: The majority of rerecording emulators are third-party modifications of existing open-source emulators. In most cases, only these rerecording emulators can play and make TASes, and not the official emulator.

We do not by any means claim that using any of these emulators will guarantee "correct" results. There may be bugs in these emulators which have gone unnoticed due to lack of testing.

You should read DesyncHelpTAS before making any serious projects. All movies are highly dependent on the timing and the slightest difference may cause a desync. We cannot help you if you lose work due to desync problems. You must also read the Movie Rules if you plan to submit your work to this site.

For a comprehensive list of supported Platforms and their emulators, see the Platforms page

Preferred Emulators

System Emulator Movie Format
Arcade/Neo Geo Final Burn Alpha FBM
DOS JPC-RR JRSR
GameCube/Wii Dolphin DTM
GBA Visual Boy Advance VBM
GB/GBC/SGB BizHawk BKM
GB/GBC lsnes LSMV
Genesis/Sega CD/32x Gens GMV
Master System/Game Gear/SG-1000 BizHawk TAS/BKM
MSX OpenMSX OMR[2]
NES BizHawk BKM
NES FCEUX FM2/FM3
Nintendo 64 Mupen64-rr M64
Nintendo DS DeSmuME DSM
PCE/PCE-CD (TG-16)/SGX BizHawk TAS/BKM
Playstation PSXjin PJM
Saturn Yabause YMV
SNES BizHawk BKM
SNES/SGB lsnes LSMV
Virtual Boy VBjin MC2
Atari 2600 BizHawk TAS/BKM
Atari 7800 BizHawk TAS/BKM
ColecoVision BizHawk TAS/BKM
Windows Hourglass[3] WTF
(multi)[1] Mednafen MC2

Accepted but Not Preferred Emulators

System Emulator Movie Format
Master System/Game Gear Dega (altered versions) MMV
NES FCE Ultra FCM
Nintendo 64 Anti-DS Mupen M64
Playstation PCSX PXM
TG-16 Pcejin MC2

Deprecated Emulators (Obsoleted/Not Recommended)

System Emulator Movie Format
GB/GBC/SGB Visual Boy Advance VBM
SNES Snes9x[4] SMV

Not accepted at all

System Emulator Movie Format
NES Famtasia FMV
NES VirtuaNES VMV
SNES ZSNES ZMV

Experimential

System Emulator Movie Format
DOOM demo (various) LMP

See also: Other Emulators.

Using Emulators

Development

Accuracy tests

Subpages

>> Emulator Resources / Bug Reports
>> Emulator Resources / Desmume
>> Emulator Resources / Development
>> Emulator Resources / Features
>> Emulator Resources / GB Accuracy Tests
>> Emulator Resources / JPC
>> Emulator Resources / JPC / JRSR Format
>> Emulator Resources / JPC / Key Numbers
>> Emulator Resources / JPC / Movie Dumping R10
>> Emulator Resources / JPC / Movie Dumping R11
>> Emulator Resources / JPC / Pc Settings
>> Emulator Resources / NES Accuracy Tests
>> Emulator Resources / NES Accuracy Tests / Test Criteria
>> Emulator Resources / Potential Emulators
>> Emulator Resources / Ram Search
>> Emulator Resources / Ram Watch
>> Emulator Resources / Requirements
>> Emulator Resources / TAS Editor
>> Emulator Resources / Updates
>> Emulator Resources / Using

[1]: Mednafen supports all flavors of TurboGrafx/PC-Engine, including CD-ROM. It also supports Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket/Color, and Wonderswan/Color. It also supports PC-FX, but only for the Linux version.

[2] Using older .gz extension is no longer supported.

[3] Technically speaking, Hourglass is not an emulator.

[4] Movies using Snes9x v1.43 are not accepted unless a continuance is granted. Movies using Snes9x v1.51 or up are accepted but the emulator is deprecated.


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