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Posted: 11/20/2013 3:05 AM
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Khaz
Experienced Forum User, Published Author, Player (53)
Joined: 11/20/2013
Posts: 103
I was aware that bizhawk and its ilk are very demanding, it just seems strange that it can bog down my computer where newly-released games on high-quality settings do fine. I know this is a really dumb statement so forgive me, but how hard can it really be to emulate an SNES? By branches you mean all the different versions and improvements and such? I can understand that. As I said - just trying to collaborate with some people recently I had to hunt down several different versions. Anyways... this talk of dates and accuracy - do you think there will come a day that a run that was done on SNES9x 1.53 right now will be considered no longer valid? I really really don't want to risk being disqualified sometime later in such a manner. Thanks for taking my rant in stride by the way.
Posted: 11/20/2013 1:59 AM
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Khaz
Experienced Forum User, Published Author, Player (53)
Joined: 11/20/2013
Posts: 103
I guess I will try again someday, when I've calmed down sufficiently, with snes9x... But can you explain why it is listed as "Deprecated / Obsoleted / Not Reccommended"?
Posted: 11/20/2013 12:40 AM
Post subject: BizHawk, Why?
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Khaz
Experienced Forum User, Published Author, Player (53)
Joined: 11/20/2013
Posts: 103
So I decided today that I'd try creating a TAS of Drakkhen 2: Dragon View, since I've been playing and breaking it to death lately. I looked at your website and saw that BizHawk is the only "acceptable" emulator for SNES TAS's anymore. Okay, fine. I've used it for a while but I don't like it because it seems to lag slightly on my relatively-fancy computer. I figured I would try it anyway. I spent my entire day grinding along, probably 9 hours on maybe 20 minutes of gameplay but it was damn good (from an amateur perspective) and I was proud of it. It crashed. Gave me some kind of error window about something to do with memory that I should have copied down (I should seriously not be having memory problems). Aaaand it seems like EVERYTHING I did today is now gone. I guess I should have saved along the way, but CAN you even resume recording a saved file? I don't see any obvious way anyhow. I have "Automatically Backup Movies" checked. There does appear to be a backup recording, but it's eight minutes of nothing. Sooooooo.... Why is BizHawk the standard again? I've been screwing around in five different versions of SNES9x for weeks now and I have never had anything close to this problem. Even when the emulator crashed, the recording it was recording was STILL THERE. Even if I actually can just save and resume along the way, I'm just... Done. I'm not risking my work on this emulator again. Killed all my motivation instantly.
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