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Multimedia movies (AVI, MKV and MP4)
Our Movies section allows users to download multimedia files. All files are available via BitTorrent. In addition, many of our movies are available from archive.org mirror links.
You will need BitTorrent and the proper codec to play them.
BitTorrent clients
There are multiple BitTorrent clients; any of them should work just fine. Some popular ones are:
- BitTorrent - The official BitTorrent client.
- Azureus/Vuze
- BitTornado
- µTorrent
- A bigger list of clients.
Codecs
A codec is a piece of software that encodes or decodes an audio and/or video file.
Almost all multimedia movies encoded on this site use the H264 standard for video. Very old movies use DivX or XviD. Movies on this site use either Vorbis or AAC for audio, older movies use MP3 instead.
If you can hear sound but there is no video, you need an H264 codec. There are a couple options:
- Most, if not all, of the free media players (like VLC, for instance) already have the codecs you will need to play the movies. See below for the link.
- If the media player does not contain H264 or Vorbis codecs but allows support for one (such as Windows Media Player), you may simply download the latest version of FFDShow which contains all codecs necessary to play multimedia movies on this site.
Media Players
Your operating system probably already includes a standard media player, but you can try one of these if the standard media player doesn't work well.
Cross-platform
Windows
Mac
- MPlayer OSX Extended
- Quicktime, using Perian
- VLC
Emulators and Key Input Movies
All our Movies include a key input file. You need an emulator and a ROM to play them. We do NOT supply ROMs.
Emulators
Download emulators needed to play and record key input movies.
Read the FAQ if you have any problems with playback.
Tools
Our TASTools repository offers a number of useful utilities for movie editing as well as for various publication work.
In addition here are some extra downloads
General
- TAS Movie Editor is a program developed by Maximus, which supports most of the formats accepted on this site. Splicing, inserting and editing is supported. See the discussion thread.
Genesis
- EME (Emulator movie editor) v1
- Gens Editor v1 for editing movie files.
Hex editors
- Hex editors can be used to edit any emulator movie. See our guide on Hex Editing. There are several ones to choose from:
- Translhextion (free)
- Xvi32 (free, simple)