Greetings,
I'm at a breaking point in frustration - despite my best efforts to be incredibly paranoid and careful, my movie files are still ending up corrupted at random. I started over at the beginning of the first wave and I can tell that *some* of my input is there and sane because the ostrich goes all the way to the top and hits its head and jets to the bottom then goes to the top again, but as it falls for the second time it does not move to the left onto the head of the lowest buzzard under the center platform like it should and instead plummets straight down. Beyond that point it desyncs, although you can still see places where input is obviously being fed in as there is rapid flapping.
I've again zipped up all of the movie files, including two "predecessor" files named pressK.mcm and pressJ.mcm that show where the input was copied from originally. The session history is as follows: After I determined that the Ostrich looked better but that hexing in the change caused a desync I recreated input and created the initial file named dwangoACJoustTASWIPasOstrich.mcm. I closed the project and came back to it a few days later, at which point I played to the frame I wanted to start from, switched to read-write, changed to rerecording mode, created and loaded a savestate, and proceeded to work for a couple of hours. Things looked sane, but when I stopped the session and closed Mednafen (copying the file to a - copy.mcm file just in case) I could not play back any of the .bak or .mcm files. I'm noticing that the "header" information in the .mcm files seems to also be wrong, with a completely inaccurate number of rerecords and in many cases the author information omitted.
This was again tested in Windows 7 64-bit with Mednaen-rr 1.1. I'd really like to make this work because I've made some good progress on making something that I think will be very entertaining, if I could just get things stable. For the record, I was able to determine that you can "belly flop" through the platform on the right but it takes a fair bit of precision to do it. If only I could show you... :)
Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to make this more stable, in particular in regard to what order to do things in. Thanks in advance,
A.C.
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