Posted: 11/1/2011 5:26 PM
Post subject: Hey I'm new and have a Mac related question.
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ChTBoner
Joined: 10/24/2011
Posts: 3
Location: Arras, France
Hello TASers, I'm ChTBoner, from France. I discovered tool assisted speedruns a few month ago, thanks to CœurdeVandale and Realmyop on 88mph. My question is : do any of you guys do TAS on Macs? Which emulators do you use? I especially think about NES and SNES, as they probably are the consoles I'll try TAS on. (I have a few games from my childhood I wanna take revenge on. Yes, I'm looking at you, Simon's Quest!!) (I did a fast search on the forum, but couldn't find the answer. Sorry if it's been already asked.) Thanks!
Posted: 11/1/2011 5:28 PM
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Lex
Joined: 6/25/2007
Posts: 732
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
If you're TASing on a Mac, it's probably a good idea to use a virtual machine to run Windows software. I've heard it's quite easy to do this. Something called "Parallels" comes to mind, but I don't know the details, not being a Mac user. I haven't heard of anyone TASing in native OSX software.
Posted: 11/1/2011 8:00 PM
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mmbossman
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VMWare Fusion works fine to TAS via virtualization, it's what I currently use for my emulation needs. IIRC, SNES9X (one form of it) had a OS X build, but when I played around with it two years ago, I wasn't able to get a sync stable movie. It may be better now. Also, if you know how to compile and have the right frameworks installed, I think you can compile FCEUX to run (not sure on that though)
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Posted: 11/1/2011 8:04 PM
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Derakon
Joined: 7/2/2007
Posts: 3960
I also run on a Mac, and my experience with OSX TASing is that basically none of the TAS-capable tools out there are OSX-compatible. There's a Linux version of FCEUX, which you can compile yourself, but it's a bit of a UI nightmare and there's no Lua scripting. SNES9x doesn't sync. I haven't really surveyed other options given my relatively minor interest in TASing. Virtualization should work fine for the simpler emulators (i.e. everything up until the N64/Playstation). Basically what this means is that you run another operating system "inside" OSX. VirtualBox is a free virtualization system. However, you'll still need a Windows install disc or disc image. Good luck, and welcome to TASVideos!
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Posted: 11/1/2011 9:02 PM
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ChTBoner
Joined: 10/24/2011
Posts: 3
Location: Arras, France
Thanks for the replys. In the meantime I tried FCEUX on windows through VirtualBox and it works pretty well. I'll deal with it. Right now I'm watching Adelikat tutorial trying to imitate what he does on SMB.
Posted: 11/3/2011 12:43 AM
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Dada
Joined: 11/22/2004
Posts: 1468
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Yeah, it's unfortunate but a lot of TAS tools, in fact pretty much all of them, are made for Windows. That's the way it is. I'm a Mac user too, and although I only do encoding it's very useful to have a VM around.