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CoolKirby wrote:
So how hard would it be to TAS a single star in Super Mario Galaxy 1 or 2, since those games require the Nunchuk?
Probably somewhere between a pain in the ass, to mildly annoying, depending on luck, and how much desyncs bother you.
There have been a few short mario galaxy tases done before. You might want to ask sonicpacker about his experiences here.
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jlun2 wrote:
rog wrote:
I voted yes, as per the hopefully soon to be new rule about game choice.
There'a a new rule?
Anyway, I think Atari games should be judged differently since most of them in my opinion either look awful or puts people to sleep.
There was discussion in irc about plans to remove bad game choice as a reason to reject a run.
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Just keep in mind with that though, i'm not sure if it'll actually sync disc changes. I'm thinking it'll end up switching discs a frame late, but i'm not sure. If it does, you can just hex it, but be aware of that.
edit: Just tested it using a panic alert to output the frame number it was changing discs on, and it matches, so i guess it should sync after all. I'd still check to be sure right after you get to the second disc, but i think it should be fine.
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partyboy1a wrote:
And about a 7 CPU run: this might be especially interesting if you give yourself totally horrible starting conditions, like: 10.000$ for every CPU, 1$ for you + 3 turns in jail... just my opinion. You would win despite facing a totally hopeless situation. Such ideas should be discussed beforehand.
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Everything but the disc switching, and other stuff i mentioned in my last post. I'm double checking my code now, then i'll commit it shortly.
edit: just committed it.
edit2: don't use 3.0-785. I I forgot to adjust the padding in the header. 786 fixes it.
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Fixed an old bug where the header wouldn't be fully read when loading a .dtm from anywhere other than when starting emulation. This mainly happened if you started emulation without a movie, then loaded one later, and caused things like start time, and most of the new stuff i've added to be zeroed.
Author name is also now maintained when saving a .dtm, if you hexed it in previously.
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Disc switching is (hopefully) done. The .iso name is saved to the end of the header (switching discs more than once is not supported, but it's my understanding that this should never need to be done), and when playing back it will search all set iso folders for it, and automatically load it if found, or prompt the user to manually switch discs if not.
If someone can just test that it syncs, i'll merge it.
x86 build: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11111638/Dolphin%20changedisk%20x86.exe
patch: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11111638/0001-save-disc-changes-to-.dtm.patch
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Could someone with a multi disc game test this and make sure it works and syncs? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11111638/Dolphin%20changedisk%20x86.exeFor now, the second disc must be saved in first iso path (the first thing listed under iso directories in config->paths).
Thanks for the tip warepire, i found something there that helped.
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11111638/0001-save-disc-changes-to-.dtm.patch
Basic disc changing support. It currently just saves when you change disc, then when playing back pauses emulation, and prompts the user to switch discs. I'm not really sure how to go about automating this.
Maybe i could save the name of the second iso to the header...
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Re: changing disks
Are there any games that would need to change disks more than once?
Also, do multi disk games have different game IDs for the different disks?
Not being able to call gui code from the core is complicating this, but worst case i can always just pause the game, and tell the user to switch disks manually.
edit: got my answer: no to both.
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petrie911 wrote:
Cheat engine works, but I wouldn't say it works fine. For starters, it can't even search for float values. Meanwhile, debug mode already has a RAM watch, but it doesn't update them in real time.
How easy would these be to change?
Yes you can, just add a big endian float data type.
I don't know how difficult it would be to fix, but CE really does work just fine. I'd need a lot of convincing to even consider looking at it, and even if i did, i can't promise i'd even be able to make it work properly.
