Posted: 7/25/2007 12:57 AM
Post subject: Sonic Advance patch?
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Danfun64
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I downloaded the modified emulator and I want to know how to use splitscreen mode (Has unmodified video on left, modified on right). I found a patch made by Bisqwit for it. I want to know if I need the patch for Splitscreen mode or not. If so or if not but the patch makes it easier, how do you apply it and after that, how do you activate splitscreen? If not and it doesn't help anything, how do you activate splitscreen?
Posted: 7/25/2007 11:54 AM
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There is no split screen. The AVI is just a capture of the unmodified one and a capture of the modified one put side by side, therefore it was 2 AVIs combined into 1. There is no splitscreen in the emuator. Speaking of which, can the link to that emulator be posted here :-)
Posted: 7/25/2007 12:35 PM
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VBA With Sonic Advance Camhack You can set the hotkey under Tools --> Customize all Commands. Be warned that this likely isn't what you're looking for. Why? Well, with the camhack active, the emulator can't run at full speed and the sound goes very echo-ey. This is one reason why an AVI was made. I don't have the linux version/source, but nitsuja might.
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Posted: 7/25/2007 1:16 PM
Post subject: Re: Sonic Advance patch?
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Danfun64
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Danfun64 wrote:
I downloaded the modified emulator ...
So the splitscreen is not part of the emulator? what tools do I need to have splitscreen?
Posted: 7/25/2007 1:24 PM
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I'm not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish other than something which doesn't actually exist. If you want such a "Split screen" for playing the game normally, and having one viewport on sonic and one the normal camera, you will be disappointed to know that the movie on the website was created via the following:
  1. Make an AVI using the non-camhack emulator
  2. Make an AVI using the camhack emulator
  3. Merge the two AVI's together using whatever program you want (I used an AVIsynth script). Sound generated by the camhack emulator is a bit weird so discard that audio track and use the original one instead.
  4. Optionally compress it for uploading.
Also as I previously said, with cam hack enabled the emulation is pretty slow and the sound sucks, so even if you decided to load up two emulators and have them both accept input at the same time you would have to get them running at the same speed (which would be slower than realtime). I should probably summarise this all: Split screen doesn't exist. It was made by sticking 2 AVI's together. Camhack doesn't play full speed. Making a splitscreen emulator wouldn't be very feasible.
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Posted: 7/25/2007 5:41 PM
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Danfun64
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How did you use AVIsynth scripts? what code do you need for them?
Posted: 7/25/2007 5:54 PM
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StackHorizontal I'm afraid you'll have to consult google for alot of these things, but StackHorizontal(movie1.avi,movie2.avi) in a text file renamed to have the extension ".avs" might help. You may have to do some other stuff also, I don't remember. you can open the avs in VirtualDub and save it to whatever avi you want.
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Posted: 7/26/2007 12:17 AM
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Danfun64
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Raiscan wrote:
StackHorizontal I'm afraid you'll have to consult google for alot of these things, but StackHorizontal(movie1.avi,movie2.avi) in a text file renamed to have the extension ".avs" might help. You may have to do some other stuff also, I don't remember. you can open the avs in VirtualDub and save it to whatever avi you want.
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:/ I'm not trying to insult you, but I checked google and I couldn't find out how to use that perticular code in plain english. StackHorizontal for Dummies anyone?
Posted: 7/26/2007 12:34 AM
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Okay for the benefit of other people I'm now going to prove that you can work all this AVS stuff out from that single link (and also prove you're not looking hard enough) Src 1: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/First_script Says here that you can import AVI's using the following: AviSource("c:\folder\myclip.avi") Src 2: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/StackHorizontal Says there that you use "StackHorizontal" to make it stack two AVI's horizontally. By using just two sources you can make a 1 line script like this: 
StackHorizontal(AviSource("c:\folder\myclipleft.avi"), AviSource("c:\folder\myclipright.avi"))
Src 1
Open up any text editor, type the above on the first line (using any AVI file on your machine as "myclip.avi"), and save it as "myclip.avs". You now have a script that can be opened by most AVI players in your machine: Windows Media Player 6.4 (aka "mplayer2") will play the script; so will VirtualDubMod or plain VirtualDub. So far as they care, your text document is an AVI file.
I'm afraid if you can't understand that then I can't help you any further.
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