I'm a newbie at recording videos in emulators like this.
I made a fun vid in Visual Boy Advance. I decided to do Sonic 2
in Gens rerecording. The thing is,I couldn't find a rewind feature
like VBA has. So then I have to play it until the part where
I messed up and rerecord from there. That can take awhile in a long
video. Am I missing something? I sometimes miss the most obivous
things.
English is a language with an objective and no rules. Math is a language with rules and no objectives.
Savestates save your progress at any point.
Use F5 to make savestates and F8 to load them.
Loading a savestate while playing or recording a movie will resume recording from the frame the state was saved on.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
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upthorn wrote:
Loading a savestate while playing or recording a movie will resume recording from the frame the state was saved on.
Unless you're playing it in read-only mode, in which case it will resume playing from that point.
I do prefer VBA's method by far, though. It would be a great help to have a read-only toggle in Gens.
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Hey i gots a problem. I've just finished my gens movie and was about to submit it. When i tried Winzip said something about it not being an archive or something.
Which is annoying, any help?
How the hell do i Zip a .gmv
Thanks
Do F5 and F8 only let you save one savestate at a time, or can you load slots using some other keys (I wouldn't know, I use Shift F5 and Shift F8 to individually name and load all my savestates).
and forget win-zip and use 7-zip most importantly because it's free, and does that type of thing
The submission form of Nesvideos site only accepts zip files though. If you use 7-zip, be careful to make regular zip files, not 7z files, if you intend to submit the movie.
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I just e-mailed them eventually. Was rather straightforward actually, but i can't think how i would ever think of it.
Anyways, my movie is now submitted, Toy Story, take a look if you so desire....
Loading a savestate while playing or recording a movie will resume recording from the frame the state was saved on.
One thing I never understood about this.
Let's say I have a movie that's 5000 frames, I have a savestate that's 4000 frames into that movie. If I load the movie, then load the savestate, are the first 4000 frames of play still saved? What if I accidently loaded a savestate that was outside of the movie's gameplay?
If you load the file in read-only, you'll simply skip 4000 frames and the emulator will resume playing at frame 4000. If not in read-only, you'll start recording at 4000.
If you load a savestate not of the movie file, (this may be different with Gens, but it works this way with snes9x), you'll get a message saying that the savestate isn't of the movie file, and nothing will happen.
If you load a savestate not of the movie file, (this may be different with Gens, but it works this way with snes9x), you'll get a message saying that the savestate isn't of the movie file, and nothing will happen.
Depending on the emulator. With read-only off, some emulators will give an error message and then start recording from where you attempted the load. I personally lost half a run that way (fortunately it was only a test run).
Always back up your files.
