Post subject: Team Dolphin & Future Development
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Last night was an exciting evening :) I spoke with several developers and one of the head developer of Dolphin. They recommended me to create an issue on their google code website: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=502&q=tas When you normally ask a developer for a somewhat tedious feature to implement, you usually get the answer: "yeah, we'll see..". But these guys began discussing immediately with eachother how they are supposed make bulletproof rerecording, savestates etc. So I certainly think their intention and desire to give us essential tasing tools are there! Anyway, the purpose of this thread was to give the google link so that those who are interested can follow any activity regarding our submitted issue. I will follow and read on a daily basis every revision they make.
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I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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Gamecube tasing is surely on the way, so many games waiting to be tased :)
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I really do look forward to this. I wonder if the 4 MB/minute limit would still apply for those :rolleyes: I'm sure it would apply, but I guess we'll have to see how good they would look.
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It might come out soon so choose your game that you want to TAS fast.
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So how far away are we from TASing GameCube games months/years?
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Only problem with doing a TAS for Gamecube games, is that the Roms are going to be over 1 gigabyte in size. xD
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Although a problem, that may be worth it to see TAS of games such as Super Mario Sunshine.
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Issue 502 at the Dolphin google code is going off the rocker, quick. If someone could help me explain better what we need from them, it might help expedite things. They are currently talking about including controller inputs with avi/mkv!
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DarkKobold, If you were the one who helped me explain a lot better at the wiki, then I am very thankful :P Anyway, literally everyday, team dolphin is working their butt off to give us a stable emulator. Like they post an update for revision 2069, and two days later, I see 50-60 revisions created :D Determined, thats what they are. <+nakee> AngerFist: why don't you guys get few programmers to join your team? <shuffle2> yeah it would be easier if that tas group just sent emus their patches :p <+nakee> AngerFist: actually if you had some nice portable framework that emus just had to plug into it would have been 10 times easier <+nakee> like already have recording and convertion guis <+nakee> and all the codec code and stuff Can I/we address this? In meantime, know that we "have" a developer named JPeterson working to implement you know what :D
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
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Actually, there is something like this: http://tasvideos.org/Bisqwit/Source/NesvideosPiece.html
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More fantastic news! Look at these links: http://www.dolphin-emu.com/youtube.php?youtubecode=BWmnqOAtWco --> Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) http://www.dolphin-emu.com/youtube.php?youtubecode=Myt5wMEyIF4 --> Metroid Prime 2 http://www.dolphin-emu.com/youtube.php?youtubecode=6W-UkCV_6Do --> Metroid Prime (This one is in my opinion almost emulated 100% correctly). http://www.dolphin-emu.com/youtube.php?youtubecode=obLjfJlLsbs --> Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles http://www.dolphin-emu.com/youtube.php?youtubecode=BpGGuWyon4Y --> Sonic and the Secret Rings Please note that most of these demos were made with the 1400 revision of Dolphin. Now, they are almost at revision 2200 and lots of things have changed and been improved. For instance, Dolphin emulates 50% faster Wind Waker now than what it did a few weeks ago.
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
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Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
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Wow. The Dolphin developers are doing a great job, and you are doing a great job at encouraging them too, it seems! So now dolphin has recording. I guess that must mean that the emulation is deterministic too, then? Otherwise recording wouldn't work. What is the status on the savestates? Are they complete? I guess implementing rerecording is the best way of finding out. Oh, and another thing: How long does it take to save/load a savestate in dolphin? It is hopefully nearer that needed for previous consoles than it is for a pc.
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SWEEEEET! Holy shit. I blinked, and suddenly dolphin has rerecording. (possibly) lots of debugging most likely but seriously, holy shit.
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Haha, fastest development ever! :D
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I think this is by far my most happiest day here at tasvideos :) This is absolutely huuuuuge! I bet the rerecording isn't robust and ready but it is there and that's what is important. I've asked Bisqwit to create an own game section for Gamecube/Wii so we can start discussing TASes ^_^
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
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AngerFist wrote:
I think this is by far my most happiest day here at tasvideos :) This is absolutely huuuuuge! I bet the rerecording isn't robust and ready but it is there and that's what is important. I've asked Bisqwit to create an own game section for Gamecube/Wii so we can start discussing TASes ^_^
Has noone even tried it yet?..
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Raiscan wrote:
Has noone even tried it yet?..
I believe JPeterson (the developer did). I will once I have more space. Currently I have only 4gig of free space left..
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
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AngerFist wrote [quote="AngerFist"]I've asked Bisqwit to create an own game section for Gamecube/Wii so we can start discussing TASes ^_^[/quote] I like-a-da sound of that.
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AngerFist wrote:
I've asked Bisqwit to create an own game section for Gamecube/Wii so we can start discussing TASes ^_^
This seems a little bit premature. Shouldn't it be tested and verified that the emulator is in an acceptable state before that happens?
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upthorn wrote:
AngerFist wrote:
I've asked Bisqwit to create an own game section for Gamecube/Wii so we can start discussing TASes ^_^
This seems a little bit premature. Shouldn't it be tested and verified that the emulator is in an acceptable state before that happens?
If it is just talking about runs, though, I don't think there is a problem. Now, if we get all pumped and then something happens to get fucked up (leaving us without the emulator), then I would agree; it is premature ;)
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I very much agree with this post.
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This is incredible. If this all works out, we'll be able to make TASes of a current system. How awesome is that?
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What about a TAS input plugin for Dolphin? If needed, I could try and assist on the controller protocol used.
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I can't get it to run I downloaded the 64bit Windows version and got "not a valid Win32 application". And then when I downloaded the 32bit version I get all these DLL plugin errors. I tried to load Twilight Princess (the Gc version) and Metroid Prime 3 into my CD drive but my computer doesn't seem to read them.
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Mitjitsu wrote:
I can't get it to run I downloaded the 64bit Windows version and got "not a valid Win32 application".
Check you have XP x64 edition or Windows Vista x64. Works for me. For those interested, playback/recording functions are in the input plugin config: Tooltip for Record Input:
Your recording will be saved to pad-record.bin in the Dolphin dir when you stop the game
Tooltip for Play back input:
Play back the pad-record.bin file from the Dolphin dir
Tooltip for Save recording:
This will save the current recording to pad-record.bin. Your rerecording will also be automatically saved every 60*10 frames. And when you shut down the game.
Sounds a bit clunky. You might want to give more input as the dev doesn't seem to fully understand the ease of use required (i.e perhaps hotkeys, direct writing to file rather than every so often, specified filenames for files)
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