Post subject: Recovering from an emulator crash during TAS'ing
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So, I was trying my hand at TAS'ing Vice - Project Doom. It took a long time for me to do it by, and I had just gotten to an area of stage 9-2 before the boss fight when FCEUX crashes! NOOOOOO! Well, now what? I asked the IRC channel about what to do about this and they said to set the movie to read+write mode and load the savestate I was at prior to the crash. So then I played the rest of the area toward the Stage 9 boss, and replayed the movie, but unfortunately it still played to the part I was still in the area before that fight. So now, I've given up... What do I do if I'm trying to TAS and a crash happens like this again?
Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 9/2/2008 Time: 8:29:19 PM User: N/A Computer: LUNAR-ONE Description: Faulting application fceux.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module fceux.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00014475. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146 0010: 20657275 65636620 652e7875 30206578 0020: 302e302e 6920302e 6366206e 2e787565 0030: 20657865 2e302e30 20302e30 6f207461 0040: 65736666 30302074 34343130 0a0d3537
Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 9/2/2008 Time: 8:31:37 PM User: N/A Computer: LUNAR-ONE Description: Fault bucket 912358671. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 6b637542 203a7465 33323139 37363835 0010: 0a0d31
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(03:12:21) (Raiscan) GuidMorrow: open your "Truncated" movie. Make sure read-only is UNCHECKED.
(03:12:30) (Raiscan) then load your latest savestate you made while TASing
(03:12:55) (Raiscan) since movie information is included inside the savestate, you can continue.
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That's the point! Problem is, you can't "record" back to it without overwriting the entire file! You'd have to be able to append to it somehow
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How much of the game did you TAS before your last savestate?
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I had completed up to stage 9-2. The savestate puts me in the room just moments before the boss fight with an eerie blue creature.
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I have no idea where that is, I haven't played the game. How close is it to the last place you were? If it's very close, Then do as I said above. If it isn't, then it can't be an acceptable TAS...
<adelikat> I am annoyed at my irc statements ending up in forums & sigs
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... You didn't watch Josh the FunkDOC's time-attack movie of Vice - Project Doom, have you? What I would have to do is figure out the hotkey to shift from play mode into record mode before I cause any more scenes. Since the movie was damaged, I discarded it, and all of the saved states.
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GuidMorrow wrote:
... You didn't watch Josh the FunkDOC's time-attack movie of Vice - Project Doom, have you? What I would have to do is figure out the hotkey to shift from play mode into record mode before I cause any more scenes. Since the movie was damaged, I discarded it, and all of the saved states.
1. I haven't watched every run on the site. 2. You don't need a hotkey. When you open your old movie, THEN load a savestate, the movie is magically restored to where you were when you were at that savestate point. ALL OF YOUR MOVIE DATA UP TO THAT SAVESTATE POINT IS STORED INSIDE THE SAVESTATE. 3. Why did you delete everything? Also, I don't like it when someone completely edits the content of their post after someone's already posted. it's REALLY irritating.
<adelikat> I am annoyed at my irc statements ending up in forums & sigs
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Ok, listen here, no further input will be recorded at all, and will not be recorded unless I find a way to get it into the movie file!!! Dammit
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Even though you'll be overwriting your old movie when you open it for writing, it doesn't matter, because when you open that savestate it'll all be awesome again.
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GuidMorrow, you should read this page before you continue working on more TASes. Also, this topic should be in the "FCE Ultra" forum.
You're just fucking stupid, everyone hates you, sorry to tell you the truth. no one likes you, you're someone pretentious and TASes only to be on speed game, but don't have any hope, you won't get there.
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LOL Raiscan -- "DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A PICTURE?!?!" Also, GuidMorrow, how's the whole yelling-until-you're-satisfied thing working out for you?
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