Posted: 7/14/2004 9:25 PM
Post subject: Gimmick! AVI
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Quietust
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It's quite apparent that Famtasia has incomplete sound support; play the recently uploaded Gimmick! demo and you'll see why. On a hunch, I hacked my own emulator to play back .FMV recordings and it managed to play said Gimmick! movie through to the end without desynching. Adding AVI recording support to my emulator was also relatively painless. With that in mind, would anyone be interested in an improved AVI recording of the Gimmick! speed run? If so, I would appreciate any suggestions for codec settings and such so I can produce a high quality movie. If not, then I'll just make a copy for myself.
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Posted: 7/15/2004 1:58 PM
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wich emulator is yours? it's very interesting!
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Posted: 7/15/2004 6:13 PM
(Edited: 11/14/2008 4:08 PM)
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Quietust
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My emulator is called Nintendulator. In any event, I've finished recording and encoding that particular Gimmick run (24MB) as well as 2 other demos - a "good ending" Gimmick speed run I found here (35MB), and morimoto's Gradius "speed" run (37MB). All of them are 60fps and encoded using 2-pass XviD at 256kbps and have 44kHz/16bit MP3 audio encoded at 48kbps, so they look great and sound nice too. The main reason I re-recorded the Gradius run is that my emu was lucky enough to be able to play it - nearly every other .FMV I've thrown at it has desynched, either after a few seconds, a few minutes, or sometimes right at the end! [EDITED - Just realized that the Gradius AVI on the site is already 60fps; the only advantage my own recording has now is that the palette is a bit brighter]
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Posted: 7/15/2004 6:22 PM
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Phil
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Quietust wrote:
My emulator is called Nintendulator.
interesting
Quietust wrote:
In any event, I've finished recording and encoding that particular Gimmick demo (24MB) as well as 2 other demos
Well mine is 18MB
Quietust wrote:
The main reason I re-recorded the Gradius demo is that the current AVI just doesn't do it justice, only being 30fps, and the fact that my emu also was lucky enough to be able to play it - nearly every other .FMV I've thrown at it has desynched, either after a few seconds, a few minutes, or sometimes right at the end!
You are wrong , the current video on the site is at 60 fps but maybe I should use your emu instead.But anyway this game is boring and not very popular.So I will do it later.
Posted: 7/15/2004 6:24 PM
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Phil
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Btw, Quietust, maybe you should help us encoding videos?
Posted: 7/15/2004 6:28 PM
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Quietust
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I should point out that my emulator does *not* have movie recording (or re-recording, using savestates) implemented, ONLY semi-working FMV playback which only works with SOME games [and AVI capture, which only works at 32-bit color and currently captures an upside-down image which I then have to flip when I encode it]. If you really want to use a different emu for movie recording, I'd recommend an emu that already supports it, like VirtuaNES or FCE Ultra; mine is slow enough as it is ^_^.
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Posted: 7/15/2004 6:32 PM
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Phil
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Can you tell me how to playback movie I don't see the movie playback option in the binary.
Posted: 7/15/2004 6:35 PM
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Quietust
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That's because it isn't in that particular binary - I currently specify the filename at compile-time. I suppose I could add a proper option for it. [edit] Added an option to select an FMV from the user interface, but be warned! Most FMVs will desynch either within minutes, or even within seconds!
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