Posted: 5/28/2005 1:48 PM
Post subject: Frame recession
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Warp
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Some emulators have a frame advance feature. That is, the game is basically paused and by pressing a key you can advance the game by one frame. It occurred to me that wouldn't going back one frame be useful as well? If you advance one frame and notice that oops, you made a mistake, you could go back one frame and try again. This would simply need for the emulator to keep automatically the savestate of the previous frame in memory. In fact, it could keep the savestates of n frames in memory so that you can go back several frames (at most n). Memory in current computers is not a problem so it should probably be possible to keep savestates for quite many frames (at least 100 or so). This way when you press the frame recession key the emulator would just load the savestate for the previous frame kept in memory. This way if you have advanced eg. 10 frames and notice a mistake which has to be corrected 10 frames earlier, you can take back 10 frames and do it again.
Posted: 5/28/2005 1:52 PM
Post subject: Re: Frame recession
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Bisqwit
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FCEU savestates are about between 10-300 kB in size (FDS saves are bigger), with average size around 20k. For frame recession support for a 30 minute movie (108000 frames), this would mean 2.1 GB worth of savestates. For 100 frames, it would be just 2 MB. Perhaps nobody has just thought of the need.
Posted: 5/28/2005 2:29 PM
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nesrocks
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there could be a setting to limit the number of frames you can keep saved, i think 60 would be a good number
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Posted: 5/28/2005 2:39 PM
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NrgSpoon
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Well, some emulators already have a rewind function. VBA has a rather robust one right now, under Options\Emulator\Rewind Settings... It lets you specify an interval and how many intervals to store. ZSNES has a simple one set up as well.
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Posted: 5/28/2005 2:45 PM
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Blublu
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It wouldn't even have to store a savestate for every frame. How about just storing a state every 100 frames and then when the "player" wants to rewind 1 frame, just reload the most recent one and advance the required number of frames. Basically just automate the "start playing movie in read-only, load from recent savestate (if available), save state, start playing again, load state". It would be slower and more complicated and probably not fesible at all, but possible...