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Just downloaded the avi and it sounds off almost right from the start. Around 2:10 min in, there are a few dupe frames that made the video look laggy. I don't know if that's the game naturally lagging or the emulator screwing up.
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While I appreciate your efforts, I have very different results about the header indicating a SMSor GG game: except for Public Domain ROMs and hacks, there was a total of 2 false positives for the whole GoodGG set and 0 for the GoodSMS set. Any explanation for this?
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There's a binary called degavi for Linux that lets you capture the game. Maybe it's even compilable for MinGW, but I have no idea about that.
nfq, Vista always made problems for me when I had Aero activated (i.e. transparent title bars). As soon as I deactivated it, it worked fine.
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Enhasa wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Who approved this format, anyway?
I did, in absense of the knowledge that this emulator also emulates Game Genie Gear.
Great, since pcc doesn't seem to be active anymore, and I don't think anyone else cares, I guess we'll never not for a long time see Game Gear TAS's now.
I can't speak for the Windows version, but on Linux it should only be a few extra lines to have the format include SMS/GG info. After all, there are 4 bytes for flags, currently only 2 bits are used (for PAL/Japan settings).
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My mplayer is svn r29040 and x264 from May 2nd 2009. Some day I think in August 2008 they changed something about the codec that makes it scramble on older decoders. You might want to update either of them, probably both. For Windows, a newer build of VLC should do as well.
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Sadly, I'll have to agree with Cardboard. While I can't comment on those 40 frames being saved at the beginning (neat filename :P), it's a rather dull movie. What struck me most was the lack of music and the relatively slow pace throughout. I blame the game for it.
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I don't have VLC handy atm (didn't want to compile against a recent version of x264, so I removed it), but just right-click the video when playing it, there should be a point to disable them easily.
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This seems to be a win32-only bug as it doesn't happen on SDL. Every time a movie is loaded, the variable holding all the information (ASCII header, subtitles, input and so on) is freshly created in movie.cpp (currMovieData = MovieData();). Maybe the win32 build is using a static variable instead?
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Although the submitted .fm2 file is somewhat odd (fourscore, yet there's only input on the first player port), I discovered a bug in FCEUX: the SDL build doesn't support fourscore playback :/
So... thanks for that cranky file :D
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zeromus wrote:
For the record, shinydoofy has made no effort to acquire knowlege of the current state of affairs in desmume and nothing he has said about it should be assumed to be true. Maybe there are issues with it, and maybe it was rushed, but this post is simply not reliable.
Thursday morning adelikat's submission hits the workbench and I leave for work. Coming back that evening, I post my strong discomfort about his submission text only linking a zipped exe file on the forums. A few minutes later I ask him about an IRC channel for desmume and read that the rerecording sourcecode is on a private svn only and that it will be merged with the official svn "soon".
Think what you what, but my point stands: There was plenty of time to tar/zip/7z/whatever an svn snapshot and copy/paste the FM2 specs instead of creating a thread about the emulator's development.
When I first came to this site and cared about the emulators involved, I found that everything was open source and that I'm free to look at the code and study/change as I prefer. Everything was well documented and free, it was a good example of the GPL's freedoms. Now this just feels like Microsoft: they release something and it takes quite some time before there are any specs, documentation or the like. They only do so because the EU forces them to in an effort to have them pay big bucks otherwise.
But about your main claim: I openly admit that I didn't explicitly ask for any information. But seriously, I strongly doubt that detailed information could have been offered when it already took ~68 hours to get them online.
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I don't know about the tracker software used, but I'd support Warp's idea. As for the work needed, a checkbox saying "keep old torrent" or the like would shift that work load to the publishers.