Posts for Brock_Lee


Post subject: Gens keeps pausing during playback causing desync
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Joined: 4/18/2013
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Hi, I'm having a desync issue with the Sega Genesis emulator Gens (gens11svn304.exe). In Sonic 3 and Knuckles, for some reason when playing it back it suddenly pauses (in game pause, not emulator) and then after a while continues but is desynchronized. I tried switching the pause button to different keys for playback but that does nothing. Is there anyway to fix this?
Post subject: What windows movie editor gets good quality?
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I made a tas run of Metal Slug from the FBA Neo Geo emulator. The AVI of the original video looks great full Screen but after I trimmed it it WIndows Movie maker the quality looks terrible full screened. Small screen, its fine, but full screen is awful. Is there a free program that could get better quality? Or is there another way with movie maker?
Post subject: How do you get a better quality avi with FBA?
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I finished making a tas two player game of Metal Slug and I'm trying to convert it to AVI but it slows down a lot. I know sometimes the game itself does, but the videos does it in so many spots (the bosses are the worst). Is there any way to fix this? And yes, when I record I close out every other program.
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NitroGenesis wrote:
Brock Lee wrote:
How do I switch to readwrite mode?
Shift+8. Then save and load a savestate and presto, you're recording from where you saved the state.
Well it put me into that mode but I still can't continue off that video. I still can only make a new one at the last frame which I have a feeling will look weird with the transition between the two videos. (Edit) Never mind I figured out why I couldn't get it to work. Thanks a lot!
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Derakon wrote:
Making each level as a separate movie is unlikely to work unless the game state at the end of the first movie is exactly the game state at the beginning of the second movie. Otherwise, random effects that go one way when you make the movie may go a different way when you try to stitch the movies together, resulting in a desync and causing the run to fail. Why not just make the entire thing as one movie?
When I said put the movies together, I meant make each have their own AVI file in then in my movie editor, put the AVI's together there. Although it is the exact frame when the previous one stopped.
Ilari wrote:
If FBA works anything like other emulators, load the movie in readonly mode, play it to the end and switch to readwrite mode. That should allow you to continue from that point (make a savestate there?)
How do I switch to readwrite mode? Or are you saying make another one? I'm confused.
Post subject: How to continue a movie with FBA
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Hi, I'm making a Metal Slug tas run with Final Burn Alpha, and I'm making each level a separate movie and then when I have all missions, I'm going to put them together. Anyways, I got the first mission, worked on the second one, it told me there was an error and closed me out. I have the video of that mission on FBA and it goes until it originally froze. Is there any way to continue off that movie, or is my only option to make a new movie from that point and later try to slap the two together?
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I tried making my first TAS of the PS1 Metal Slug 1. I controlled two players at a time by myself and spent over SIX tedious hours making it to the end on the hardest setting with no deaths. I though it would look really impressive but then when I went to hit stop recording, I realized I forgot to hit the record button all the way back from the start. Please, is there ANY way to get it all back? I haven't closes it yet and I won't until I get a definitive answer but is there SOME way I can replay it to get recorded? I really don't want to redo all of it. PLEASE HELP.