Emulator Resources

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.

All .7z archives can be decompressed using 7zip or WinRAR.

Preferred Emulators

System	Emulator	Movie Format
NES	FCEUX	FM2
SNES	Snes9x	SMV
Master System/Game Gear	Dega (altered versions)	MMV
Genesis/Sega CD/32x	Gens	GMV
GBx/GBA	Visual Boy Advance	VBM
Nintendo 64	Mupen64-rr	M64
GameCube/Wii	Dolphin	DTM
Playstation	PSXjin	PJM
Arcade/Neo Geo	Final Burn Alpha	FBM
TG-16	Pcejin	MC2
(multi)^[1]	Mednafen	MC2
Nintendo DS	DeSmuME	DSM
Saturn	Yabause	YMV
Virtual Boy	VBjin	MC2
DOS	JPC-RR	JRSR
MSX	OpenMSX	OMR^[2]
Windows	Hourglass ^[3]	WTF/HGM

Accepted but Not Preferred Emulators

System	Emulator	Movie Format
Playstation	PCSX	PXM
NES	FCE Ultra	FCM
SNES	ZSNES	ZMV
Nintendo 64	Anti-DS Mupen	M64

Obsoleted Emulators (Not Allowed Anymore)

System	Emulator	Movie Format
NES	Famtasia	FMV
NES	VirtuaNES	VMV

Using Emulators

Using: Instructions on how to perform common tasks on different emulators. For more specifications, see each emulator's Google Code page.
Encoding Guide: Instructions on how to encode movies into high quality multimedia files suitable for easy viewing. (You do not need this for submitting movies.)

Development

Recent emulator updates: Recent changes to the rerecording emulators.
Desired features: Lists emulator features wished by users, and compares the features of different emulators.
Development: List information about source code projects, how to compile, and how to contribute to emulator development.
Grrl: A project for a Linux version of Gens.
Potential emulators: List of ideas for developers. Lists non-approved open source emulators with links and status of their development.
TASVideos Requirements: Lists emulator features required by this site.
Emulator task list: open development tasks for emulators in use on the site.

[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 deprecated and support will be removed in near future.

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