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Where should I start if I want to learn to help develop emulators? I'm very much a beginner; I've examined and written some Lua code and have taken some Computer Science courses in college (university) and learned some basic Python, C++, and Java.
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Well the dtm doesn't sync, so I'm going to try and redo the beginning menu part and then see if I can copy the inputs from after that. Also I'm not totally sure what thread to post in to ask for help? I mean I don't want to post in the wrong place or make a new thread just for some help
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I dropped it for a little bit because school got in the way, but now I've been thinking about it recently. There are a few things that I have to do.
I just starting using Cheat Engine to look at RAM addresses but when I started the TAS I wasn't using them, so I'll have to go back and look at my run again and redo what I've done so it's faster. I tried finding the address for Spider-Man's horizontal speed and vertical speed but to no luck, I need some help. Now I plan to use a newer version of Dolphin, so since the old dtm probably won't work, I'll see if I can use a dtm editor to keep my progress.
Here are two videos that I made a while back that I didn't make public because they don't show a lot of progress made.
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I redid the end of the first video with wallrunning, which is faster than swinging (at this point in the story anyway).
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I haven't found any glitchess yet, but i found a cutscene you can skip. When you're going down to the flying lesson, there is a cutscene with sir nicholas on the staircase between the third and second floor, not sure how long it is, but if you go to the door on the left on the third floor, there is a secret passage down to the second floor, and by going there you skip that cutscene
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solarplex wrote:
bihan wrote:
solarplex wrote:
Once you submit it, one of the encoders can use their linux machine that'll fix audio syncing
I didn't plan on submitting though :/ there's a cutscene skip near the beginning of the run that I didn't use that saves a lot of time (1-2 minutes I think). It wasn't discovered until later on, when I was way past that point.
EDIT: I made the video unlisted just because there are so many issues with it and it doesn't look good at all.
Aww Oh well then :) I still very much enjoyed the first hour of the video! good work :)
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solarplex wrote:
Once you submit it, one of the encoders can use their linux machine that'll fix audio syncing
I didn't plan on submitting though :/ there's a cutscene skip near the beginning of the run that I didn't use that saves a lot of time (1-2 minutes I think). It wasn't discovered until later on, when I was way past that point.
EDIT: I made the video unlisted just because there are so many issues with it and it doesn't look good at all.
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Here is the video! Please excuse the terrible desync between the audio and video. I don't think there's anything I could do to fix it. Also sorry for the missing video during the end fight with the basilisk. I have no idea what happened.
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It's alright, I managed to work through most of it. The render should be finished by tomorrow, then I'll start uploading to YouTube which shouldn't take as long.
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It's going to take a few days unfortunately, to finish the entire process. But it's coming soon!
EDIT: OK, so I finished dumping both audio and video for the entire TAS and I've ran into a few problems. First, in Sony Vegas, some sections of the video glitch out and shows rainbow colors across the screen and I don't know how to get rid of it, because the actual frame dump doesn't show that. Then, the audio and video don't sync up properly for some reason (I'm using 4.0-4167, so it should automatically sync correctly). I wouldn't mind dumping the audio again if there is a way to fix that, but I don't think there is.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Is there any way to see all the input from the .dtm in one column or something? And add no-input frames? I need to add some input in the middle of the movie.
The bit at the end where Spider-Man hit the building wasn't supposed to happen either.
And I'm betting that there are places to clip but I don't think there will be a lot of uses for them.