Posted: 5/3/2009 12:31 AM
Post subject: .vbm files, you are pretty much my last hope here.
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Professori
Joined: 5/3/2009
Posts: 3
How do I open these fuckers? Unnecessary background story I downloaded a tool assisted Pokemon Blue speed run. It came as .vbm, and I found myself unable to open it. I googled some and found that I should have Visual Boy Advance. It didn't work. I went to the site where I downloaded the speed run and searched for help. Didn't find any. I created an account to the forums to ask the forumers directly, but apparently the forums were not active anymore. I sent an email to the forum administerator and asked from him how I open the .vbm file. He directed me to this place. I searched faqs for information for opening the file, but didn't find anything I didn't already know. And so I come here to you now, it's getting a bit personal. Help me out please, even if I'm in a wrong place.
Posted: 5/3/2009 12:35 AM
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mz
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You need this emulator: http://code.google.com/p/vba-rerecording/ And you need the correct ROM for your movie.
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.
Posted: 5/3/2009 12:55 AM
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Ferret_Warlord
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I thought the FAQs had this covered... .VBM, .SMC, .FM2, .etc, are not video files you open with a player or other program; they are files that contain a stream of input that you play back on top of a game that's being emulated. What you do is download the needed emulator and ROM, open the ROM with the emulator, and play the .vbm or whatever back. The option to do so is under "Tools" in VBA, although it's sometimes under "File" in other emulators.
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Posted: 5/3/2009 6:56 AM
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arflech
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Ahh, another academic year ending, another crop of newbies flooding in...of course, although I joined here a year ago, at the end of that school year, I did at least have the sense to read the FAQs. (To be fair though the first thing I tried to use to open a VBM or SMV or FCM was the emulator directly, thinking it would try to load the ROM and play the movie right away and perhaps throw an error if the ROM weren't available.)
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Posted: 5/3/2009 8:52 PM
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Professori
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Ty for answers, but no results yet. I have VisualBoyAdvance (The program the moviemaker used) I play Pokemon Blue (the same version the moviemaker used) I go to tools, play movie, search for the .vbm file, it's not there. I click and drag it on the VBA playing the rom, "Error. Unsupported file type". What am I still doing wrong?
Posted: 5/3/2009 9:01 PM
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moozooh
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Professori wrote:
I go to tools, play movie, search for the .vbm file, it's not there.
What do you mean, it's not there? Have you unzipped it? Also, I assume you're doing it on the emulator version linked four posts above.
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Posted: 5/3/2009 9:04 PM
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upthorn
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Professori wrote:
I have VisualBoyAdvance (The program the moviemaker used)
Having VisualBoyAdvance is not enough, you have to have the specific version of VisualBoyAdvance that was modified for TAS purposes. You can find it linked earlier in this thread.
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Posted: 5/3/2009 10:43 PM
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Professori
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So that's it. Thank you, I got it working now. It's good to have this finally working as intended. Professori off -->