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what do you mean, something like C:\> vba.exe -playmovie '<file>' ?? and then it opens the emulator in window mode and loads the movie? If so why dont you just edit the emulators so they have that capability, or is that what you mean by hack :P
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Hoe wrote:
The real problem is the lack of emulators supporting command line support for loading movies. I
That's no longer true! I've done a lot of work on supporting that. I think SNES9X still lacks it, and possibly VBA. Everything else should be good to go.
It's hard to look this good. My TAS projects
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Well, if anyone's up for it, they can give it a go: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10027
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Ok, so I was directed to this thread in hopes of finding a way to splice videos together. Im going to start diving through the links in a sec, but I figured id post real quick to see if someone could save me some time. Check this link if I managed to confuse anyone. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=254669#254669 Thanks for the help in advance
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What I'm using for editing movies is Maximus' TAS editor. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4448&highlight= For games that have random lag or a lot of randomness it will be hard/impossible to splice movies together. Also, the frame numbering in the TAS editor isn't equal to the emulator's frame numbering (I didn't check thoroughly, but frame 134 in VBA could be frame 133 in the TAS editor). So you should do something on the same frame (press A on the frame you want the two movies to be spliced together) and use that frame for reference. Of course, if you provide the two movies and the game name, maybe I or someone else can do it for you. But chances are you were running Super Metroid and I wouldn't think this game is hexedit-friendly...
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MUGG wrote:
What I'm using for editing movies is Maximus' TAS editor. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4448&highlight= For games that have random lag or a lot of randomness it will be hard/impossible to splice movies together. Also, the frame numbering in the TAS editor isn't equal to the emulator's frame numbering (I didn't check thoroughly, but frame 134 in VBA could be frame 133 in the TAS editor). So you should do something on the same frame (press A on the frame you want the two movies to be spliced together) and use that frame for reference. Of course, if you provide the two movies and the game name, maybe I or someone else can do it for you. But chances are you were running Super Metroid and I wouldn't think this game is hexedit-friendly...
Hmm so a restart on the run is for the most part unavoidable. Guess I should have started asking questions before I got 6 videos in lol. Thanks for the tip and link. Im still really new to all of this. Is there a guide I should follow? And are there any more useful tools that I should become familiar with. My ultimate goal is to get a site worthy run submitted and learn as much as possible about all things tas.
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Maybe you can find some information here. If you were intending to run Super Metroid, keep in mind that it's a very over-TASed game, it is being played on a very high quality level (saving every frame possible). And it has a lot of categories already. So probably it would be a good idea to run a lesser known game which doesn't have a published run. See here. However, it is said that you can learn from watching and investigating a published run. Also keep in mind that not every game qualifies for a good TAS. It's recommended you post on the forums about your TASing activities and in case you need help with something. TASing requires patience so you shouldn't aim to complete a 20 minute TAS in only 2 days. Try to put some effort into your movie and make it be interesting to watch. ...
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MUGG wrote:
Maybe you can find some information here. If you were intending to run Super Metroid, keep in mind that it's a very over-TASed game, it is being played on a very high quality level (saving every frame possible). And it has a lot of categories already. So probably it would be a good idea to run a lesser known game which doesn't have a published run. See here. However, it is said that you can learn from watching and investigating a published run. Also keep in mind that not every game qualifies for a good TAS. It's recommended you post on the forums about your TASing activities and in case you need help with something. TASing requires patience so you shouldn't aim to complete a 20 minute TAS in only 2 days. Try to put some effort into your movie and make it be interesting to watch. ...
Yeah, before I tried doing super metroid, I did a quick run of super mario bros. Just to get the idea. It took me about 5 hours and my time is 5:30.77 from power on to princess 19,879 frames. The super metroid project was more for myself then then to be published. I wanted to emulate taco and krioles run and im or was about a weeks playtime in. having just picked up the speed boosters. I don't know what point was by stating all this but this is basically the extent of my tasing history. Thanks
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If you are using FCEUX to record a NES movie, you can open and edit the movie files in notepad. This way you can splice movies together by cutting and pasting sections of input from one movie file to the other.
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Randil wrote:
If you are using FCEUX to record a NES movie, you can open and edit the movie files in notepad. This way you can splice movies together by cutting and pasting sections of input from one movie file to the other.
Nice, is there a tutorial for this? I've been considering a run of toki, or thrilla's sufari for my first shot at a published run. Im sure this would be useful for that.
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There's some information on it here.. It is quite intuitive: the first few lines will contain information on the movie files, such as emulator version and ROM checksum. The first line that looks something like |0|...U...A|........|| is the first frame of input. In this case, it means that up+A was pressed on the first frame. The row after this is the second frame in the movie, and so on. I hope that helped!
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Once I have permissions to do so, I will add my Button Count.lua script as well as bkDJ's Button Press Counter GUI.
All the best, Brandon Evans
Post subject: How to end on a movie on FCEUX
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Please stop bumping threads with irrelevant questions or statements. The topic you were looking for is here. Future off-topic posts may be deleted if you persist on doing this.
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