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Sonia wrote:
Nearly two years ago, I remember reporting a bug on a certain SNES game (Battletoads in Battlemaniacs) - basically, Deterministic mode breaks the intro part of the game, causing both the video and audio speed to fluctuate. You can't TAS without Deterministic mode, so there's no way around that. The main problem is that this also translates to the dumped .avi file. If it were to play correctly, it'd not be a problem.
This isn't the only game with this issue, though. If you pause any of the DKC games, the speed breaks and audio starts playing really fast. If those two games are affected, there are likely many others with similar issues that we just don't know of.
It was said that those bugs seem to be caused by "Deterministic Emulation hacks". While those are helpful for some games, they end up breaking others. My question is, why are those hacks even there in first place? Isn't it a dirty way to help some games run "properly"? Other than that, only reason I can think of is to help users with lower end specs to run those games at full speed. While it could prove useful some years ago, it shouldn't be a problem anymore. It's 2017 and I'm sure most people have decent enough hardware to run bsnes at stable 60fps. It runs perfectly on my machine, and it's from 2012. Even higan's accuracy core runs at full speed.
Furthermore, bsnes's compatibility core already runs all SNES games perfectly apart from Air Strike Patrol. So, why the need of hacks? I think they only break the purpose of keeping emulation faithful to real hardware. It could also cause other significant problems such as preventing movies of those hacked games from running on a real SNES.
Note that those bugs are Bizhawk exclusive. They don't exist on the actual bsnes/higan or even the less accurate snes9x. It's present on all Bizhawk versions except for really early ones where Deterministic mode wasn't a thing.
My suggestion is to remove those hacks as they apparently cause more problems than good.
All the determinism hack does is forces a savestate to be taken every frame, even if the frontend did not ask for one. As a result, it makes things slower. It's required because the savestate code in BSNES is worthless junk, and it breaks some things because the savestate code in BSNES is worthless junk.
The same bugs do exist on lsnes; you used to be able to desync some movies by taking extra savestates. That may have changed with more recent builds; I think lsnes ignores your savestate request sometimes as a different hack around.
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Radiant wrote:
...why? This run is clearly a Superplay.
That's not clear. Once the ACE breakout occurs and the initial payload is sent, the rest of the movie has no logical connection to to the original game. It's not a superplay because it's not even a play. Any payload as possible so long as it meets the technical restrictions of the system, and the rest of the movie is something that belongs on a demoscene exhibition.
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sappharad is aware of issues specifically with the Bizhawk snes core and is working on it. Might be fixed with time. Most of the others, you're probably SOL on; OSX emulation isn't that popular.
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PikachuMan wrote:
If BizHawk allowed linking with up to 4 Game Boys at once, we could do 4-player TASes of F-1 Race, Super R.C. PRO-AM, and Yoshi's Cookie. But we're not here for that. I was thinking about using the Japanese versions of Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow, and have the option to switch between link options between horizontal, vertical, cross, and 4-way. The 4-way option is for 4-player games, but not for Pokemon, we use horizontal, vertical, and cross connections.
4 way link is new emulation development; might be difficult. 2 way link with more than 2 total carts and connections that can be plugged and unplugged is much simpler; all the complex work has already been done. How useful would this feature be? Are there many games that could do something interesting with it?
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Aktan wrote:
natt wrote:
At one time I was a contributor to the PrBoom-Plus project and implemented an exact capture system in it. If that code is still there and still works, it would be superior to kkapture.
That would be great! Only reason I don't use the internal capture was due to the melt effect is missing. This is being captured by .kkapture though. Maybe your code didn't get to the stable releases =/.
So you're wasting time and getting inferior output just to get that stupid melt? Ok, have fun.
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At one time I was a contributor to the PrBoom-Plus project and implemented an exact capture system in it. If that code is still there and still works, it would be superior to kkapture.
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No such offset exists for mgba. workram is allocated on the heap.
The offset should exist for vbanext. I'd expect the workram to be in .bss or something similar. I'm a bit rusty on win32 PE, but anyone that would be able to do something useful with the memory offset should be able to easily find it themselves.
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Alyosha wrote:
I'm getting this exception in the most recent Dev Builds whenveer I open the emulator or load a game (any core):
System.InvalidOperationException: Sync mode is required
at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.SoundOutputProvider.set_BaseSoundProvider(ISoundProvider value)
at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.Sound.StartSound()
at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.WinFormExtensions.FormExtensions.ShowHawkDialog(CommonDialog form)
at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.MainForm.OpenRom()
at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.MainForm.OpenRomMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
EDIT: Things seem to work if I comment out the exception
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Everyone has their own opinion about whether FFXII is good or not, but I think most people would agree that it's much different than all of the other FF games, including FFX, FFXIII, and FFIX and below. So I can't say whether or not you'll like it, but I can say that if you don't like it, it will be for different reasons.
I personally liked FFX quite a bit, and FFXII is one of my favorite games of all time. I thought FFXIII was utter dogshit.
Sorry, but is it just me or is the download link dead?
Edit: Ok, downloaded from http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/ReleaseHistory.html#Bizhawk11191
Edit2: Ok, for real, this is what I did.
1. Open BizHawk 1.11.9.1
2. Open the Rom Keitai Denjuu Telefang 2 - Speed (Japan).gba
3. Load this savestate https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2O13fpsnI4ZlNlZ3ZZOC1sYUk/view?usp=sharing (either drag it or place it on folder)
4. Press "A" to start the battle
5. Press "A" to get into battle:
6. Click the menu bar -> GBA -> GPU Viewer
7. Click the "sprites" under "available widgets, then click "refresh" button. You should get this:
It doesn't occur when the trainer occurs; only once the monster is summoned. No idea why.
Edit3: Works fine on VBA-next, so it's mgba core.
Edit4: Viewing tiles in the mgba emulator itself (not BizHawk) seems fine. Hm.
Fixed. It was actually a frontend issue. The game asks for sprites that creep slightly past the end of VRAM, and the viewer didn't bounds check, so it read a little pixel garbage off of the end of VRAM. Depending on the memory layout though, that could be in an invalid host memory area and trigger an access violation.
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Mothrayas wrote:
Sync note: due to a bug in the mGBA code in BizHawk regarding RTC configuration, the movie may desync depending on the timezone it is played back on. I verified that it synced with a system configured to timezone GMT-5 (US Eastern Time) while it desynced in Fortree Gym at my native GMT+1.
I'm looking into this. I've run some movie time in a debugger and it isn't doing anything different on timezones; the code in question is timezone agnostic, as best as I can tell (I've been wrong before, but it's only 3 lines...)
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Weegeechan wrote:
So, is it confirmed to work or is it not implemented fully?
Neither of the above. I implemented to a spec, which apparently isn't enough for at least some games, but no investigation has been made into what is missing. If it needs subframe input, that will be hard unless we can fake it somehow...
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Weegeechan wrote:
Hey Alyosha, have you ever considered emulating the Famicom controller 2 microphone? There is a decent amount of information on it and it seems possible to emulate in some way. There is only a small amount of games that seem to use it but it could be useful in FDS Kid Icarus and the FDS Legend of Zelda.
The microphone is already implemented and has been for a long time. Is it not working for you?
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Aktan wrote:
To make matters worse, when you convert back to RGB as most displays are or YUV4:4:4, the upscaling of the chroma is probably not using point resize either, adding some color bleeding also...
This is the real killer for 4:2:0. It doesn't matter how smart you are when encoding; the playback software is going to stomp over that and make film-based assumptions about how to filter the chroma.
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Warp wrote:
feos wrote:
I'd prefer to hear counter points to using C#.
Nowadays when developing a web server backend, it's usually a good idea to use a popular well-tested framework (such as for example Symfony) instead of programming it from scratch.
If you look at Wikipedia's comparison of web frameworks page, C# is conspicuously absent.
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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Gamer Maiden Sonia wrote:
Aktan wrote:
Honestly H.264 in AVI is an hack and shouldn't be used unless B-Frames are turned off, which would be true if you are using lossless mode.
Warepire wrote:
That's because AVI isn't meant to contain video encoded to x264.
If I understand correctly, it's not a good idea to choose either then?
I know the x264 codec has 7 VFW FourCC options:
H264
h264
X264
x264
AVC1
avc1
VSSH
If I can't pick H264 nor x264, what should I pick then?
The fourcc used isn't the problem. AVI cannot properly support mpeg4 part 10 aka h.264 aka AVC aka whatever you want to call it, regardless of fourcc labeling. You should not use that container to store that format.
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DeHackEd wrote:
Here's an idea I sorta made up just now. There's an arcade game I play where the real hardware runs too many frames per second, at over 61. When the NTSC signal is recorded on most capture hardware it outputs at 59.94 or 29.97fps and frames get dropped. This was easily noticed because the game has a built-in timer with 0.01s accuracy. The NES runs at ~60.1 fps, so maybe the framerate of the provided video can be useful? If it's not a recording standard, or if there's no dropped frames to account for the framerate variance, you may have a smoking gun.
I worry that this method can lead to false positives if a particular china special capture card has unexpected timing parameters, or if the user inadvertently processes the video in a weird way through Vegas or whatever. On the other hand, a skilled forger would easily know what timings are to be expected, and could carefully post-process the video to make it work.
You can find smoking guns sometimes; the best ones are emulation defects not present on real hardware. But there's no way to give the "VERIFIED NO CHEATING" guarantees that some sites claim.
6. Click the menu bar -> GBA -> GPU Viewer 7. Click the "sprites" under "available widgets, then click "refresh" button. You should get this:
It doesn't occur when the trainer occurs; only once the monster is summoned. No idea why. Edit3: Works fine on VBA-next, so it's mgba core. Edit4: Viewing tiles in the mgba emulator itself (not BizHawk) seems fine. Hm.