Posted: 8/30/2016 10:44 PM
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Hey ! I want to try to do my first tas with hourglass, I started the game (You Have 10 Seconds) with hourglass but i don't know why, The game doesn't react when i press a key on my keyboard. Do you have an idea for solve this ? Thanks for your help
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Posted: 8/30/2016 10:47 PM
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A bit more information would be helpful: Are you running the game through Steam? Is it some executable you acquired from elsewhere on the internet? Which version of Hourglass are you running? An official build? An interim build? Something you compiled yourself? Is the game otherwise running correctly? (Music and graphics are correct?)
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Posted: 8/31/2016 11:00 AM
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The game come from Steam but I started him with the .exe (steam\steamapps\...) The Hourglass version is the 81 (come from http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/Hourglass.html) Graphics and music are correct. The only problem is he doesn't react to my keyboard
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Posted: 8/31/2016 7:44 PM
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I'm afraid I am not going to bring better news than this: That's an annoying problem a lot of games experience, sometimes it only happens on Windows 7 and up, other times it's a complete failure. I haven't quite found a solution to it yet. ----------------------------------- Here's a post I made about steam games in another thread, with a little cleaned up wording: Steam games are a 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: 8/31/2016 8:45 PM
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Ok :/ I think the problem don't come from steam because I tried with the Non-Steam version and there is exactly the same problem :/
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Posted: 9/1/2016 12:22 AM
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Does this game run under the Unity engine? If so, this may be the cause for its unresponsive behavior. Refer to topic: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15282
Posted: 9/1/2016 11:07 AM
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I don't think. In the credits, we can find he is coded in GM.S
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Posted: 9/1/2016 4:10 PM
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GameMaker Studio games have this as a known issue. Sometimes they work in XP if you want to give it a go in a VM.
Posted: 9/1/2016 6:46 PM
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What VM can i use for Windows XP ? (I don't know VM, I just learn what is this on wikipedia)
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Posted: 9/1/2016 6:49 PM
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The virtual machine (VM) would have Windows XP installed on it. It shouldn't matter which virtual machine system you use (Hyper-V, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.) However, you may need to turn virtualization on in your actual machine's BIOS.
I am still the wizard that did it. "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." -- Satoru Iwata <scrimpy> at least I now know where every map, energy and save room in this game is
Posted: 9/2/2016 12:06 PM
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Do you think I can find a tutorial for install and tas on a vm ?
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Posted: 9/2/2016 5:36 PM
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TASing on a VM is exactly like TASing on a regular computer - the difference is instead of running Hourglass and your game on this computer, you're basically running Hourglass and your game in an emulator (I say "basically" for the sake of simplicity) and that emulator is using part of your computer to be Windows XP or Linux or an Apple ][ or whatever.
I am still the wizard that did it. "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." -- Satoru Iwata <scrimpy> at least I now know where every map, energy and save room in this game is
Posted: 9/2/2016 6:53 PM
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Thanks you, I will try
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