Posted: 7/4/2016 4:42 PM
Post subject: Can you TAS DSiware games? Or Steam games?
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Pretty straightforward question.
Posted: 7/4/2016 4:57 PM
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Steam games: This is a grey area filled with "tread carefully". Currently most Steam games don't run, but there is nothing technically holding them back from running given the correct WinAPI support is added. HOWEVER, TASing Steam games with any form of internet connectivity is possibly the worst idea ever, since games usually communicate with the Steam servers in one form or another, and when they travel in time while doing it... It's just going to be a mess. If a lot of people do this, Steam will most likely see it as a DDoS attack. Some games apparently run fine with no internet connections, others will probably not. Meaning that a "hacked" Steam DLL needs to be used for those cases. This IS NOT something that Hourglass will do for you for as long as I am a driving member of the project, as bypassing the Steam DLL is a type of copy protection violation, and I would really not want to get sued by Steam / Valve. The same surely goes for any other contributor.
Posted: 7/4/2016 5:13 PM
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To answer the DSi question. DeSmuME doesn't support it. No$GBA does, but it's not a TASing emulator. All DeSmuME does is this: The game will not run.
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Posted: 7/4/2016 5:30 PM
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Spikestuff wrote:
To answer the DSi question. DeSmuME doesn't support it. No$GBA does, but it's not a TASing emulator. All DeSmuME does is this: The game will not run.
Can't tell if you read me like a book or what. That's the exact game I wanted to try out rofl
Warepire wrote:
This IS NOT something that Hourglass will do for you for as long as I am a driving member of the project, as bypassing the Steam DLL is a type of copy protection violation, and I would really not want to get sued by Steam / Valve. The same surely goes for any other contributor.
I got it dude, just chill, it's more than understandable if you won't work on it