Normally, you have to hold a button, then press the "Frame Advance" key so that the game "realize" that the button is pressed. In IWBTG you have to press Shift to jump and there is my problem. If I hold Shift and try to press the Frame Advance key but it doesn't go to the next key.
Sweet sweetness! This is most excellent. Did a brief test of Eternal Daughter. It kills Gar and gets out of the opening village in around 15 seconds. It seems stable enough for a complete run, although there are several really annoying quirks I've encountered. First, any threading mode that permits sound will lock the game up.
Second is a really annoying graphical bug that results from loading between rooms. If I'm in room A and I load a state from room B, then the screen will be locked onto displaying the last frame from room A until I blindly change the scenery, whether it be into room A or room C.
Third, I don't get what the deal with stale savestates is, but it appears I'll have to watch my entire run again in fast forward every time I wish to pick up where I left off.
Also, there's an issue with the "Stop Running" button not closing the process completely. With Geoffrey The Fly, at least, every time I ran it, I ended up with another instance of "Geoffrey The Fly.exe" running even after pressing the "Stop Running" button. The "stopped" processes seemed to be frozen.
This leads to inability to select "save replay" option for example, and makes it harder to pick odd-numbered levels (however, this is possible to do, as there is an even number of positions in that menu). I fiddled with options a bit, but can't seem to resolve that problem. Is there any fix for that?
Does it work if the game uses variable frame rates, and/or when some modal dialogs pop up?
I tried 50 fps, and it desyncs. I actually tried 50 before trying 47. Playback synchronizes when recorded and played back at 47 fps, but doesn't with 50 fps.
I made a TAS of a level in Rotate Gear, but it desynchs instantly apparently, not sure why
If PC recording becomes a reality, I think this should be top priority. Just look here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14052079
I did some testing today, and those games which I was able to make run on both my old 32-bit WinXP laptop and my new 64-bit Win7 laptop synced on both machines.
Geoffrey The Fly (Nifflas MMF game) works and syncs if set to 47 fps (Yes, 47. That's the fps the game reported when it was initially set to 60 and 50.)
Elasto Mania syncs for me with a 60 fps setting, full screen allowed, and hardware acceleration disabled. Elasto Mania TASing is now reality!!! :D
would it properly record date changes in the emulator?
Also, I forget if lowering your level changes your stats, or just your HP. If it drops stats, then use luck manipulation for drops, otherwise keep it at Level 1 for easier luck manipulation and 'wow factor'.
What about RosenkreuzStilette?
Hey, would ElastoMania work on this?
Well HOW would this work anyway?
What would the interface look like?
And when do you think we could see some more test movies or an early alpha build?
1: Timing
2: Stability
3: Pause and Frame Advance
4: Savestates
5: Playback Sync
6: AVI Video recording
7: AVI Audio capture
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Cave Story: good good good good good good good !!
La-Mulana: good good good good good good good !!
Ika-Chan: good good good good good good good !!
Eversion: good ok good good good good good !!
Bunny Must Die: good ok good good good good good !!
Streets of Rage Remake: ok good good good good good good !!
MegaMari: ok ok good good good good good !!
Super Marisa Land: ok ok good ok good good good !!
Iji: ok ok good ok good good good !!
Tumiki Fighters: ok ok good ok good ok good !!
Rescue: The Beagles: good good? good good? good good good !!
RotateGear: ok? good? good good good good good !!
Hero Core: ok ok good good good good good !!
Perfect Cherry Blossom: ok? ok? good ok? good? good good !
Rosenkreuzstilette: ok? ok? good ok ok? good good !
Eternal Daughter: ok ok good ok ok? ok BAD
Lyle in Cube Sector: good ok? good ok? ok? NO good?
Within a Deep Forest: ok? ok ok ok BAD? NO good
I Wanna Be The Guy: ok? ok ok good good? NO good
!! == Fully TASable (criteria: everything is "ok" or better, and playback sync must be confirmed "good")
! == Possibly TASable (criteria: everything except stability is "ok" or better)
? == item not fully testedDo Multimedia Fusion games (read: Lyle in Cube Sector) work?
would games such as the ones from Alpha Secret Games work?
Would MegaMari work on this thing?
Is there a way to get rid of the 1-frame delay when drawing to the screen? That is, display graphics based on the frame that was just emulated (assuming frameadvance is used). Edit: the best I could come with is this pseudo frameadvance function to ahead in the future, and using the unpause hotkey to advance a frame. I'm guessing there has to be a better way.
local tempsave = savestate.create()
local recursing = false
emu.registerbefore(function()
if recursing then return else recursing = true end
emu.emulateframeinvisible()
savestate.save(tempsave)
emu.emulateframeinvisible()
recursing = false
end)
emu.registerafter(function()
savestate.load(tempsave)
end)
Mouse input support (as in, synthesize events for the snes's mouse input device). Yes, no? I cannot find any mention of it in the documentation. I am thinking of Mario Paint. It's been four years since this topic was brought up. Has there been any progress?
assert(joypad.gettype and joypad.gettype(1) == 'mouse', "You must be running Snes9x 1.51 with mouse enabled in port 1.")
while true do
-- move the mouse in a circle at an arbitrary speed
local xpos = 128 + 64*math.cos(emu.framecount()*0.125)
local ypos = 128 + 64*math.sin(emu.framecount()*0.125)
joypad.set(1,{x=xpos,y=ypos})
-- hold left click except on every 64th frame
if AND(63,emu.framecount())~=0 then
joypad.set(1,{left=true})
end
emu.frameadvance()
end
One important caveat not shown by the above demo: the mouse movement is completely relative, although Snes9x both provides and expects the mouse input position in "unbounded" absolute coordinates. Only the game knows where the cursor is really positioned, so if you want to put it at a certain logical position you'll have to move it relative to the value the game has stored for it but represent it relative to the emulator's coordinates. So, here's an example of how to move the cursor to the middle of the screen in Mario Paint:
local cur_game_x,cur_game_y = memory.readwordsigned(0x7e04dc), memory.readwordsigned(0x7e04de) -- where the game thinks the cursor is
local cur_virt_x,cur_virt_y = joypad.get(1).x, joypad.get(1).y -- where the emulator thinks the cursor is
local new_game_x,new_game_y = 128, 112 -- where we want to put the cursor onscreen (the middle of the screen)
local new_virt_x,new_virt_y = cur_virt_x+new_game_x-cur_game_x, cur_virt_y+new_game_y-cur_game_y -- final input to emulator
joypad.set(1,{x=new_virt_x, y=new_virt_y})Well, as far as I know, Desmume uses a different way of saying "while true do". Someone else will have to explain...
As for Griffin, is waiting for a full charge shot the best strategy?
So, it requires landing on the slope? It can't be in transition from running from flat to slope?
You don't happen to have a .dsm demonstrating it being used do you?
Sliding the first frame possible slows down the decay, prolonging the speed.
If you could walk me through the process, i'd be entirely grateful. Or even if you could tell me how to install the library. Thanks.
require "gd"-- hack fix for new bug in desmume 0.9.7 with integers > 0x7FFFFFFF getting mangled when read in by the emulator
local function fixcolor(c) return type(c)=='number' and OR(c,0) or c end
local origdrawtext,origdrawline,origdrawbox = gui.text,gui.drawline,gui.drawbox
gui.text = function(x,y,s,c1,c2) return origdrawtext(x,y,s,fixcolor(c1),fixcolor(c2)) end
gui.drawline = function(x1,y1,x2,y2,c1,s) return origdrawline(x1,y1,x2,y2,fixcolor(c1),s) end
gui.drawbox = function(x1,y1,x2,y2,c1,c2) return origdrawbox(x1,y1,x2,y2,fixcolor(c1),fixcolor(c2)) end