Thank you for your translations, FractalFusion. I appreciated being able to follow the discussion.
So how hard would it be to TAS a single star in Super Mario Galaxy 1 or 2, since those games require the Nunchuk?
So how hard would it be to TAS a single star in Super Mario Galaxy 1 or 2, since those games require the Nunchuk?
Probably somewhere between a pain in the ass, to mildly annoying, depending on luck, and how much desyncs bother you.
There have been a few short mario galaxy tases done before. You might want to ask sonicpacker about his experiences here.
If there was a mission that required running in one direction for quite a while and occasionally jumping (like that one star in Battlerock Galaxy), would it be a good idea to use jlun2's hex value copying idea to keep Mario running straight without desyncs?
rog wrote:
You might want to ask sockpacker about his experiences here.
If there was a mission that required running in one direction for quite a while and occasionally jumping (like that one star in Battlerock Galaxy), would it be a good idea to use jlun2's hex value copying idea to keep Mario running straight without desyncs?
rog wrote:
You might want to ask sockpacker about his experiences here.
You mean sonicpacker? I could ask him.
I would not recommend trying to hex every frame like that for wiimote. Wiimote just records raw data to the .dtm, so it's kind of a huge mess, and doesn't even have a constant amount of data per frame.
Yes, i meant sonicpacker, not sure how that turned into sock.
I see. So it's not organized or easy to follow at all, like GameCube controller input?
Each input frame is variable-size (it has length tho, so it is possible to follow the input framing without reference to the ROM).
The first byte of each input frame appears to be length of said frame (not counting the length byte itself).
I see. So it's not organized or easy to follow at all, like GameCube controller input?
Not really. There's no way to calculate an offset with just a frame number, you to need parse the entire file, since the amount of bytes per frame can vary from one frame to the next (the first byte of each frame tells you how much data is saved for that frame, but not what data). And then once you find the frame you're looking for, you still need to determine what the data saved actually is before you can edit it.
Until someone writes a program to parse the .dtm, it'd be a huge waste of time to even try hexing one.
I will keep that in mind. It does sound like a lot of effort though, so I might just stick to GameCube TASing for now.
You mean GameCube controller TASing? Because GC controller can be used wih Wii, and it works just like when connected to GC as far as TASing is concerned.
Of course, some Wii games require Wiimote (or some related device).
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Rog: In your movie-fixes branch, would it not be easier to keep the Wii save stuff in RAM instead of moving files back and forth? If someone runs Dolphin from an SSD drive this becomes extra harddrive writes that wears on the SSD (not that I think anyone should run programs that write a lot to disk from an SSD...)
Or is the Wii generated saves just too much to temporarily keep them in RAM?
Wii saves are generally tiny. I'm not sure why anyone would even care about the writes to an ssd. That being said, i only did it that way because it's the easiest way i could think to do it. I'm no expert programmer, so if you think you can do better, you probably can, and i'd love to see someone else working on dolphin's tas features!
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It's not only about the SSD part, mainly you don't want to move more permanent files around in favor of temporary files. Though I realize I didn't quite think it through in the sense of starting from a save... Because if something is stored in RAM only, then no one can generate a save from it, this means verification movies become impossible to make. I will have to look at how other emulators does this, and if I figure out a good way to do it, I'll give you a patch.
Yeah, if i saw an easy way to save to a temporary location, i would have done that. That's what i did with GC, since it's just a matter of changing the memory card location, but wii saves aren't so easy.
Might be convenient if you're doing a lot of hexing.
