I'm actually curious as to whats exactly stored within each savestate, since surely you would need to store the characters postion motion, acceleration, room state, and possibly many other things.
Savestates are not game-specific (means: they store everything and don't care about character positions etc).
In the FAQ there's a list of file extensions (FMV, VMV, FCM etc). The linked pages show what each movie file type contains - sometimes also a savestate. The source of the emulator should show what is saved in one.
Btw. RHDN has the old ZST format.
I found the problem: cheats were enabled (the result can be seen here: link). I suspect it was because I used SNES9x v1.51 before (which has them enabled by default), but further testing seems to contradict that. I don't recall enabling them... :/
moozooh:
The movie you PM'd me also desynced: link *g*
Of course it works now. :)
Nope - Samus shoots that one stalactite (instead of the door), goes twice through the door and ends right of her ship at the wall of destructible stone.
I'm a big fan of individual controller button locations - meaning that the active buttons are not stacked up together, but each is on its own place.
Could you make that an option? I guess (?) others would like that too...
(Last I checked, "<" and ">" are used for the directional pad, not the shoulder buttons.)
Anyway, for "input display" each button can have only one character, so "LSB" and "RSB" are not possible.
Maximus:
Have you thought about showing the movie inputs vertically stacked?
A VBA version that lets the TAS author specify the colors during the run would be optimal.
Can't the author (and the viewer) do that anyways?
If the colors for a frame are provided (e.g. in another file) together with the keypresses, the background color could be changed by the movie author during the run. He or she could change it according to the areas.
Oh wow.. It feels like we are back in present time with colors. That looks 100 times better and this run should definitely be encoded with colors. Colors for the win!
Seconded.
A VBA version that lets the TAS author specify the colors during the run would be optimal.
(Of course in a separate file, otherwise the movie file format would've to be changed.)
Too difficult? o_0 My last try was 273.41, and I'm not exactly the best player in the world.
For me it's fun to swing like an ape. :)
By the way, are there good tools for recording the gameplay?
