Post subject: Combine input recordings made with Dolphin
Joined: 9/10/2016
Posts: 2
Hello, I have a rather simple question but I just can't find anything useful that can solve my problem. I hope an experienced Dolphin TASer might come along and help me. Recording inputs and playing them back works fine and is perfect every time, but I don't know how someone would be able to record and do everything in one sitting. Now I have the first section of the game recorded but I've stopped because I've wanted to know if it works at all. At the end it did work out fine so I wanted to load the recording and continue from where I've stopped but the problem is I can't just go and record with the same inputs as before so now I have two different input files for two different sections. Is this a thing everyone has to do, combining the sections in editing the videos later, or is there some fancy way to get everything into a single file? Thanks.
Samsara
She/They
Senior Judge, Site Admin, Expert player (2098)
Joined: 11/13/2006
Posts: 2821
Location: Northern California
No good TAS is done in a single sitting, but it's still all done in one single input file. If you load your input file, turn on Read+Write mode and load a savestate, it will load that savestate in recording mode, and you can continue TASing from there. This is standard with every re-recording emulator. So basically, load the input file that starts from power on in Read+Write, pause near the end of the input, save state then load state, and continue TASing away.
TASvideos Admin and acting Senior Judge 💙 Currently unable to dedicate a lot of time to the site, taking care of family. Now infrequently posting on Bluesky
warmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
Joined: 9/10/2016
Posts: 2
Samsara wrote:
No good TAS is done in a single sitting, but it's still all done in one single input file. If you load your input file, turn on Read+Write mode and load a savestate, it will load that savestate in recording mode, and you can continue TASing from there. This is standard with every re-recording emulator. So basically, load the input file that starts from power on in Read+Write, pause near the end of the input, save state then load state, and continue TASing away.
Yessss, thank you so much. Now everything makes sense.