Posted: 8/11/2004 12:41 PM
Post subject: If a fault was made in the beginning of a movie
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Baxter
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After finishing about 10 minutes of a speedrun I discovered I could improve something in the first minute (33 frames faster). Now I have problems playing through the part I already played keeping those 33 frames. Is there a way of taking the improved first minute and 'pasting' it over the first part of the 10 minute fmv? (sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it)
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Posted: 8/11/2004 12:42 PM
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Posted: 8/11/2004 12:43 PM
Post subject: Re: If a fault was made in the beginning of a movie
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Baxter wrote:
Is there a way of taking the improved first minute and 'pasting' it over the first part of the 10 minute fmv? (sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it)
None other than binary editing the movie file. Even that is risky to desyncs.
Posted: 8/11/2004 12:44 PM
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Oh.. and that. I however usually restarts.
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Posted: 8/11/2004 12:47 PM
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Regardless, that's what Morimoto & co are doing. :) They first had to change the order two levels were played, and now they have to fix a mistake done in the first level.
Posted: 8/11/2004 1:26 PM
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No wonder that the new version is taking so long then :) Rockman can't be a nice game to be pasting around sequences in, since the randomness factors for what enemies drop probably change... Like any game with psuedo-random drops (Zelda, Rygar). I can imagine that it would work with Mario or Sonic, or something like that. But you're saying that they managed to do it in RM2 somehow anyway? Luck, or something other?
Posted: 8/11/2004 1:35 PM
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I can imagine that it would work with Mario or Sonic, or something like that. But you're saying that they managed to do it in RM2 somehow anyway? Luck, or something other?
Finalfighter explained me yesterday what is involved, but he didn't explicitly say whether it's already done.
Posted: 8/11/2004 9:03 PM
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Well, it the binary editing worked for me... but it seems as if there is a random factor of some sort, because after a while it gets stuck on something different less than a frame. Although it didn't entirely work out, it helped a lot, and I'm almost at the point I was before.
http://tasvideos.org/Baxter.html
Posted: 8/12/2004 1:33 AM
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I've started hex-editing my movie files right at the beginning to place the first pressing of the Start button (or A, or a disk switch, or whatever) at the very first frame in which it can be pressed. You see, with auto-fire, Start is pressed every other frame, so there's a chance it could be one frame later than necessary. Agh. The big thing to remember about editing the files is that you'll want to make all-new save states during playback afterwards, because if you load a save state from the old movie within the altered movie, the state probably won't correspond to the same point in the movie anymore. That's BAD.
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