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Posted: 5/1/2008 3:07 PM

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nitsujrehtona

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mfc71.dll and msvcp71.dll are standard MS runtime libraries. Google them and you'll get safe download links; I'm pretty sure that's perfectly legal. The last string of errors you got was for building TestEmu, not VisualBoyAdvance itself. No idea about the fast-forward issue... that sucks. You need all of the code changes I mentioned for VBA to (a) not crash and (b) accept a movie's input when you supply the --watchmovie switch. Sorry about assuming C++ knowledge you didn't have. I threw a crappy patch on this crappy file host: http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/22/1451488/vba-rerecording-19-sdl-cpp_changes_only.patch. It contains the changes I made to the C++ source (not makefiles). DeHackEd or somebody might have a more complete solution for Linux, BTW. Chances are that nobody's ported the TAS-making features that Nitsuja added, though.

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Posted: 5/12/2008 2:24 PM

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nitsujrehtona wrote:

mfc71.dll and msvcp71.dll are standard MS runtime libraries. Google them and you'll get safe download links; I'm pretty sure that's perfectly legal.

I copied them using my still existing XP installation and I still get the same errors.

nitsujrehtona wrote:

The last string of errors you got was for building TestEmu, not VisualBoyAdvance itself.

Oh, I see. Sorry.

nitsujrehtona wrote:

You need all of the code changes I mentioned for VBA to (a) not crash and (b) accept a movie's input when you supply the --watchmovie switch.

Your patches were applied just fine.

nitsujrehtona wrote:

Sorry about assuming C++ knowledge you didn't have.

No problem. ;) Now I didn't even seem to get a binary. After including movie.cpp instead in .h in GBA.cpp (I honestly have no idea as to what this might have helped or made worse), I do get a binary and now was even able to watch submission #1975, up to the third level of the tree zone. On that very first run, the game was running at perfectly normal speed (fluctuating between 98% and 103%). After it desynced (after getting the mushroom in that particular level), I restarted VBA and bam, fast-forward again. :( These are the build errors with #include "movie.h" in GBA.cpp:

Making all in sdl
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl'
if g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"VisualBoyAdvance\" -DVERSION=\"1.7.2\" -DYYTEXT_POINTER=1 -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -DHAVE_LIBPNG=1 -DHAVE_LIBPTHREAD=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_ARPA_INET_H=1 -DHAVE_NETINET_IN_H=1  -I. -I.  -I../../src -DSDL -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\"  -fno-exceptions -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -DPROFILING -DMMX -DDEV_VERSION -MT GBA.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/GBA.Tpo" \
	  -c -o GBA.o `test -f '../GBA.cpp' || echo './'`../GBA.cpp; \
	then mv -f ".deps/GBA.Tpo" ".deps/GBA.Po"; \
	else rm -f ".deps/GBA.Tpo"; exit 1; \
	fi
g++ -fno-exceptions -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -DPROFILING -DMMX -DDEV_VERSION   -o VisualBoyAdvance  SDL.o debugger.o 2xSaI.o Cheats.o EEprom.o Flash.o GBA.o Gfx.o Globals.o Mode0.o Mode1.o Mode2.o Mode3.o Mode4.o Mode5.o RTC.o Sound.o Sram.o Text.o Util.o admame.o agbprint.o armdis.o bilinear.o bios.o elf.o expr-lex.o expr.o exprNode.o getopt.o getopt1.o hq2x.o interframe.o memgzio.o motionblur.o pixel.o remote.o scanline.o simple2x.o unzip.o ../gb/libgb.a ../prof/libprof.a ../i386/lib386.a -lSDL -lpthread -lpthread -lpng -lz 
SDL.o: In function `systemReadJoypad(int, bool)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/SDL.cpp:2826: undefined reference to `VBAMovieUpdate(int)'
SDL.o: In function `main':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/SDL.cpp:2609: undefined reference to `VBAMovieOpen(char const*, signed char)'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/SDL.cpp:2612: undefined reference to `VBAMovieOpen(char const*, signed char)'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/SDL.cpp:2606: undefined reference to `VBAMovieCreate(char const*, char const*, unsigned char, unsigned char, unsigned char)'
GBA.o: In function `CPUReset()':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:3243: undefined reference to `VBAMovieSignalReset()'
GBA.o: In function `CPUWriteStateToStream(void*)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:688: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:695: undefined reference to `VBAMovieFreeze(unsigned char**, unsigned long*)'
GBA.o: In function `CPUReadStateFromStream(void*)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:998: undefined reference to `VBAUpdateFrameCountDisplay()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:923: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:944: undefined reference to `VBAMovieUnfreeze(unsigned char const*, unsigned long)'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../GBA.cpp:946: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
RTC.o: In function `rtcWrite(unsigned int, unsigned short)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:155: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:155: undefined reference to `VBAMovieLoading()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:157: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetId()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:157: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetFrameCounter()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:128: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:128: undefined reference to `VBAMovieLoading()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:130: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetId()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl/../RTC.cpp:130: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetFrameCounter()'
../gb/libgb.a(GB.o): In function `gbWriteSaveStateToStream(void*)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2421: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2428: undefined reference to `VBAMovieFreeze(unsigned char**, unsigned long*)'
../gb/libgb.a(GB.o): In function `gbReadSaveStateFromStream(void*)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2750: undefined reference to `VBAUpdateFrameCountDisplay()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2698: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2719: undefined reference to `VBAMovieUnfreeze(unsigned char const*, unsigned long)'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2721: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
../gb/libgb.a(GB.o): In function `gbReadBatteryFile(char const*)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2151: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2151: undefined reference to `VBAMovieLoading()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2153: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetId()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:2153: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetFrameCounter()'
../gb/libgb.a(GB.o): In function `gbReset()':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/GB.cpp:1629: undefined reference to `VBAMovieSignalReset()'
../gb/libgb.a(gbMemory.o): In function `memoryUpdateMBC3Clock()':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:212: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:212: undefined reference to `VBAMovieLoading()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:213: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetId()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:213: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetFrameCounter()'
../gb/libgb.a(gbMemory.o): In function `mapperMBC3RAM(unsigned short, unsigned char)':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:325: undefined reference to `VBAMovieActive()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:326: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetId()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:326: undefined reference to `VBAMovieGetFrameCounter()'
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbMemory.cpp:325: undefined reference to `VBAMovieLoading()'
../gb/libgb.a(gbSGB.o): In function `gbSgbPicture()':
/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/gb/gbSGB.cpp:319: undefined reference to `VBAMovieSignalIgnoreNextReset()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [VisualBoyAdvance] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/doofy/Desktop/emu/compile/vba-rerecording-19-src/src/sdl'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

With movie.cpp included, only TestEmu fails to compile. Maybe somebody might have a precompiled version of VBA 19.3 for me?

Posted: 5/12/2008 8:48 PM

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nitsujrehtona

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ShinyDoofy wrote:

I copied them using my still existing XP installation and I still get the same errors.

That's odd. It worked for me if those DLLs are placed in either the same directory as "vba-rerecording-19 3.exe" or the current directory from which you run wine.

ShinyDoofy wrote:

Now I didn't even seem to get a binary.

The patch didn't include the Makefile changes you'd already made--that's all.

ShinyDoofy wrote:

I do get a binary and now was even able to watch submission #1975, up to the third level of the tree zone. On that very first run, the game was running at perfectly normal speed (fluctuating between 98% and 103%). After it desynced (after getting the mushroom in that particular level), I restarted VBA and bam, fast-forward again. :(

I also get the desync (no idea...) but not the fast-forward problem. Don't suppose you have a VisualBoyAdvance.cfg that it's reading? Or that passing "--throttle=0" helps?

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Posted: 5/12/2008 9:26 PM

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nitsujrehtona wrote:

That's odd. It worked for me if those DLLs are placed in either the same directory as "vba-rerecording-19 3.exe" or the current directory from which you run wine.

Damn it! I put the DLLs in windows/system32. Although I don't have any sound while watching the run, it doesn't desync anymore. Thanks for that hint :)

nitsujrehtona wrote:

Don't suppose you have a VisualBoyAdvance.cfg that it's reading? Or that passing "--throttle=0" helps?

Nope, didn't have any of them. But as the Windows version is running fine for now (I don't mind the sound, rather listen to music anyway), it's all kind of solved, I guess. Thanks for your support!

Posted: 5/16/2008 10:43 PM

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VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2 Rerecording v19.3 has emulation issues with GB Dirty Racing (both "Race Days (Dirty Racing & 4 Wheel Drive) (U).gb" and "Dirty Racing (J) [!].gb"). When entering a track the screen stays mostly colored white.

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Posted: 6/5/2008 7:55 PM

Post subject: meboy gameboy colour emulator using standard roms

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This may be of some interest its called meboy and its an emulator for mobile phone which lets you run the gameboy colour and original black and white roms on your cell phone its a little choppy but i think it does a good job. http://www.techagesite.com/meboy.htm

Posted: 6/6/2008 8:44 AM

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VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2 Rerecording v20.0 has emulation issues with GB Sneaky Snakes ("Sneaky Snakes (UE) [!].gb"). From the intro on, the color of the "white background" is just pitch black all the time.

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Posted: 6/18/2008 10:21 PM

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nitsuja About VBA of kode54, think in these improvements: LCD colors option, in Filter PCM interpolation (None, Linear, Cubic, FIR (Kaiser 4T) and libresample)

Posted: 6/18/2008 10:31 PM

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1111 wrote:

PostPosted: 2005-10-15 23:48:02 Hey man. You must know the VBA of kode54(k54). Then, if remembers the option LCD colors in Filter and the options in Sound, PCM interpolation(None, Linear, Cubic, Lanczos4 and libresample)? It gives next time, tries to add these implements. ;) It's the tip! :) Great job! ps: The FPS in some filters is low.

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Posted: 8/23/2008 5:21 AM

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hay... vba-re-rec ignores input when it's main window loses focus... even if you're on memory viewer or cheat search, it still can't read the controller. Can anyone fix the bug (that's gotta be a bug).

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Bisqwit wrote:

Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 8/25/2008 7:34 AM

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The 1.93 link is broken.

Posted: 8/25/2008 7:37 AM
(Edited: 8/26/2008 2:05 AM)

Post subject: Download Links

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You can download from emulator resource pages (Mirror pages).

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Posted: 8/25/2008 8:40 AM

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Thanks, seriously. Now I feel silly, not looking at that page =P

Posted: 9/10/2008 1:38 PM

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pirate_sephiroth wrote:

hay... vba-re-rec ignores input when it's main window loses focus... even if you're on memory viewer or cheat search, it still can't read the controller. Can anyone fix the bug (that's gotta be a bug).

I remember fixing the bug already in my pre-alpha VBARL hack. But now I don't have any access to my HDD where all the source files are. o_O

<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do

Posted: 9/11/2008 12:07 AM

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It's not necessarily a bug- if you're entering in an address/datum and you have 0-9 or a-f bound to controller, you don't want it inputting to controller while you do, do you?

Posted: 9/12/2008 4:39 AM

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eternaljwh wrote:

It's not necessarily a bug- if you're entering in an address/datum and you have 0-9 or a-f bound to controller, you don't want it inputting to controller while you do, do you?

I think one will always pause the emulation first in order to modify memory values.

<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do

Posted: 9/12/2008 2:58 PM

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klmz wrote:

I think one will always pause the emulation first in order to modify memory values.

No, especially if they wanted the results in realtime. What's wrong with just focusing to the main window again?

Posted: 9/12/2008 7:11 PM

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yeah, it's really weird that the emulator doesn't pause, but doesn't accept input either if that window is not focused.

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Bisqwit wrote:

Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 9/14/2008 2:19 AM

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Current 20.0 link is broken.

Posted: 9/14/2008 2:22 AM

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Then check the link over at bluetoaster.net/emu.

Posted: 9/14/2008 2:54 AM

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20.0 is broken in all manners.

"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate

Bisqwit wrote:

Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 9/14/2008 4:40 AM

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I'm amazed that my savestate-saving/loading operations in SGB (Border enabled) movies can be recorded with v20.0.

<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do

Posted: 2/6/2009 6:55 PM

Post subject: SDL coders needed!

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I managed to get r9 of the SVN partially running (r10 barfed up...). It plays games fine, yet segfaults when trying to play back a vbm file. Check issue 19 on the tracker for more. In case anybody is willing to help us SDL folks to get that running, contributions of any kind are really appreciated.

Posted: 2/10/2009 5:35 AM

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I'm not familiar with SDL things, so I don't seem to update that really outdated SDL port. It's sad that my personal computer where all my code stuff lurks is down and unlikely to be repaired soon for some reasons.

<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do

Posted: 4/12/2009 1:43 AM

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This topic is obsolete. Discussions of VBA rerecording will now be held here: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7468 I am unstickying and locking this thread.

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