Posted: 3/31/2005 8:49 PM
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Bisqwit
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Do you have trouble hex-editing your FCM file? Just want to see what your FCM file has eaten? Use this utility: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/utils/fcmparser.php Screenshot:
Posted: 3/31/2005 8:53 PM
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Phil
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Are you sure it is a good idea displaying all frames?
Posted: 3/31/2005 8:55 PM
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Bisqwit
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Phil wrote:
Are you sure it is a good idea displaying all frames?
Why not? The idea is to ease hex-editing by interpreting all bytes of the file (except for the savestate contents).
Posted: 3/31/2005 9:00 PM
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Phil
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I mean for your bandwith and all of this. It takes so long to display.
Posted: 3/31/2005 9:13 PM
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Dada
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Very nice, Bisqwit. :) I don't think I'll be doing any hex editing, but it's a really cool module.
Posted: 3/31/2005 9:29 PM
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Bisqwit
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Phil wrote:
I mean for your bandwith and all of this. It takes so long to display.
Well... for the 1 hour Solomon's Key 2 movie, it produces about 4.5 MB of output, but for the 7 minute Trojan movie, it's only 34 kB of output (90% gzip-compressed) and a few seconds of processing time.
Posted: 3/31/2005 11:25 PM
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What is all that junk in the middle, anyway? Is it supposed to be the file's savestate, represented by dot-sized characters? I don't really see the point of it, whatever it is. But otherwise it's nice. Imagine how I felt upon finding out that FCEU wasn't storing ANY disk system operations into my movie files.
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Posted: 4/1/2005 5:47 AM
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So, will there have a plan to implement gamepad info while watching movies like VirtuaNES ? It's very useful.
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Posted: 4/20/2005 7:35 PM
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Monthenor
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Bisqwit, I was wondering if you'd care to share the PHP source for this handy doodad. I don't know PHP at all, but I'd like to take this program offline and slap a Java frontend on it. Save you some bandwidth. I know I could just re-implement it all from this info, but I'd like to try converting the PHP first before doing all the hard thinking ;)
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Posted: 4/20/2005 7:37 PM
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Bisqwit
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Monthenor wrote:
Bisqwit, I was wondering if you'd care to share the PHP source for this handy doodad.
Sure! http://bisqwit.iki.fi/utils/fcmparser-source.zip Includes a PHP frontend (.php) and a C++ backend (.cc). (In the first version, the backend was also PHP code, but I changed it to C++ for effeciency reasons. The C++ code is straightforward converted from the PHP code, thus it may not be as tidy as it should be.)
Posted: 4/20/2005 7:43 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
Monthenor wrote:
Bisqwit, I was wondering if you'd care to share the PHP source for this handy doodad.
Sure! http://bisqwit.iki.fi/utils/fcmparser-source.zip Includes a PHP frontend (.php) and a C++ backend (.cc). (In the first version, the backend was also PHP code, but I changed it to C++ for effeciency reasons. The C++ code is straightforward converted from the PHP code, thus it may not be as tidy as it should be.)
C++ backend? Score! That will be super-easy to convert...I'm lucky I have such a lax job. >.> Boss isn't watching, is he?
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Posted: 4/24/2005 5:39 AM
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Java FCM Parser, third public release! Source code also available. Unfortunately Java doesn't handle CSS, so it's not as pretty/colorful as the web version. And of course it's slower then the PHP+C version...it takes its sweet ol' time rendering the HTML pages. I think I may have to ditch the HTML in favor of speed. But it does work, with full tabbed browsing for viewing multiple files at once. EDIT: 2nd version now. I removed all the HTML rendering...it looks worse, but it runs like five hojillion times faster. RE-EDIT: 3rd version. File chooser now filters for FCM files and remembers the last directory used (in that session). ROM checksum un-flipped. Movie length given in frames and hours-minutes-seconds-milliseconds. Is anybody listening? Format change to clean up Input tab.
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Posted: 4/26/2005 12:39 AM
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Phil
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I am not listening but I am reading :P Ok, more seriously, I think what interest people here is a tool that let us edit the movie file. Here's what Genisto have done in PHP. http://hiddendragon.sytes.net/ If you can do something similar, it will be better than a PHP script. Although, I suggest checking nesmock source and port it to JAVA. If you want Genisto's editor source, I can send it to you.
Posted: 4/26/2005 3:41 AM
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Monthenor
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Phil wrote:
Ok, more seriously, I think what interest people here is a tool that let us edit the movie file.
They have those, it's called an emulator :P I was trying to justify that feature myself. I couldn't think of a way to make the process simple...you and Genisto came up with checkboxes, which is okay, but... Hm. Maybe I should just let people type into the Input list and try to reverse that into hex. That just seems fraught with peril.
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Posted: 4/26/2005 4:32 AM
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That's what we have peril-sensitive sunglasses for, silly. "You'll never see it coming, guaranteed."
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Posted: 4/26/2005 4:30 PM
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Right, but the main problem there is making sure everybody is wearing the glasses so as not to collapse the quantum state of fraught-ness through observation. Otherwise the situation will remain fraught whether or not you personally can see it.
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