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This page lists settings necessary for initial movie capturing and logos for various console platforms in Windows.

For detailed information on movie encoding visit EmulatorResources/MakingAVI/Common/Windows. For detailed information on logo creation visit EmulatorResources/MakingAvi/Logo/Windows

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General
NES
SNES
Master System
Genesis
GBx/GBA
Nintendo 64
Playstation
Arcade/Neo Geo
TurboGraphx 16
Nintendo DS
Saturn

General

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 a avi.

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

NES

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.

SNES

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.

Master System

Emulator

Dega (check the git tree as well)

Logo

Platform	Resolution	Audio
SMS	256x192	48kHz Mono
GG	160x144	48kHz Mono

Capturing

TODO

Genesis

Emulator

Gens

Logo

Resolution	Audio
320 x 224	44.1 kHz Stereo
320 x 240	44.1 kHz Stereo

Capturing

Graphics -> Frame Skip -> 0. Also make sure vsync is unchecked.
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.

GBx/GBA

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.

Nintendo 64

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

Playstation

Emulator

PCSX

Logo

Resolution	Audio
320x240	44.1 kHz Stereo

Some games may differ.

Capturing

See thePCSX-rr Avi Help page.

Arcade/Neo Geo

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.

TurboGraphx 16

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