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Adelikat contacted me about mz's encode (from page 4) and said it was good and that only the subtitles and a logo at the beginning were missing. So I cut the video in pieces to add them and put it all together afterwards to store them in the mkv file published. 320x240 seems to be the game's resolution (see the screens from in the submission text), they're quite sharp. Dunno why that's not the case for the mkv.
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LagDotCom wrote:
What Vista hate? People are discussing quite frankly and without prejudice.
Besides, 'disabling Aero' is not the most obvious way I can think of to resolve a problem with AVI output. :)
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I really do look forward to this. I wonder if the 4 MB/minute limit would still apply for those :rolleyes: I'm sure it would apply, but I guess we'll have to see how good they would look.
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Obviously, there's been a mistake. Either I screwed up publishing this one (and Super Mario RPG alike) or the database. My guess is that I am the guilty one here. Bisqwit is already informed about this and will probably react soon.
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It shows the frame counter if you set the setting to do so. Iirc it will resume recording only if you've actually loaded the correct run for that savestate.
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Load your ROM and your .smv file (read+write, but back it up first). As soon as you load a savestate (from that game and run, obviously), it will resume recording from just that frame. If you don't have any savestates from recording that run anymore, just advance to the run's last frame, save and load again and you'll continue from that point on.
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Once again, great work to both Sami and bkDJ. The last minute or so of the mkv desynced a little due to a short gray flash, but nothing major. Keep it up! :)
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Raiscan wrote:
Something with red and green will show up better, for example Mario on a green hill with blue sky in the background.
That's dependent on the video driver you're using. -vo xv for mplayer looks much better colorwise than -vo gl2 with such pure colors, still it tends to eat up a *lot* of CPU compared to gl2.
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Great to see you actually compared the same frames!
/edit: to clafiry what I was intending to say, a quote:
<Bisqwit> Shiny: huh?
<Bisqwit> Shiny: I don't get what you're trying to imply with your post
<ShinyDoofy> Bisqwit, open up one of the images and then enter the url of the other one
<ShinyDoofy> they are not the same frames, peach is further away in one of them
<ShinyDoofy> thus colors, shadows etc have changed and imho make the comparison invalid
<ShinyDoofy> i know it's a moo point, but still for me it's like saying x=x+1/512
<ShinyDoofy> besides: why try to make a point with a new-obsolete run/encode?
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Supper wrote:
Note that this uses FCEU 0.98.15 because I totally forgot about FCEUX.
Syncs just fine with the latest FCEUX :)
But about the run: As I loved the AVGN's review about it and thus can imagine what a pain this game must be like when actually playing it, I found it fairly entertaining. As already said by Randil, the street stages weren't the very best entertainmentwise, but that's just the game, I guess. It seemed well optimized and might even be suitable for submission. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether or not non-AVGN-fans will also like it.
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To answer some of your topmost questions (which I personally am most worried about): No, it does not even compile under Linux and even if it did, there's no CD plugin included that loads .iso/.bin/.mdf/.whatever images. Avi creation is supported by some Windows plugins, but strictly vfw-based, I assume.
/Edit: are there really two seperate threads about the same emlator? I was referring to the other thread by mz and PCSX 0.005.
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Well, I suppose you downloaded Snes9x and loaded your ROM. After fiddling around with the input config, you started recording your gameplay to an smv file (from reset, of course). After closing this smv file (stop recording to do so), you can upload it to Microstorage in order for all of us to download your run and watch it.
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While in general I can perfectly understand Johannes' idea, that's what exceptions were made for. 4MB/minute might not always be a good limit, but certainly one that most game look fine with. If a game such as F-Zero X really looks better with a higher bitrate (just ran a test encode and found 470kbps of video for ingame scenes only to be damn near publishable quality at 320x240), a publisher can always ask an admin for an exception.
Generally raising this limit would potentially result in a lazy encoder just going with a higher bitrate instead of trying harder.
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marzojr has already hexed his own run quite a few times. At least that's what I assume from reading the thread about this hack in the Sega forums. Thus I don't see the point of cancelling the run itself when an updated and faster .gmv already solves the issue.
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As this run/threads hasn't had a post in almost three weeks and the submission text does not indicate an updated .gmv file, did anything happen with the 21-frame improvement marzojr found?