I did some basic input recordings for a project of my own on F-Zero GX and suffered no desyncs whatsoever. I wasn't TASing, but rather just doing some replay/recording stuff. I think it's rock solid, but someone should definitely try it with savestates.
Luckily the in game replay file never desynced for me so far. However dolphins input recording desyncs really fast for me. I think I need to use different settings to record input correctly.
3. There are some strange RTA timesavers, like instantly selecting the difficulty after choosing the chapter and skipping the cutscenes by mashing A/start , that I haven´t looked into, but could be somewhat random or only frame perfect and I´m not willing to waste too much time on optimizing that, but I will of course optimize menu as much as I can. (also I don´t even know if skipping them even saves time, because noone ever timed it)
So to be able to start the TAS, can someone please explain me which version of dolphin and which save file to use, to get something that can be verified ? Also I will first go to settings and adjust the controller settings to my GCC and what I´m used to (I TAS with a GCC instead of the TAS input thingie, because that would take ages). I hope there is no problem with that.
I know that using a sub-par movie file (inputs) that unlocks everything, is OK if you use that as a base or starting point for the real TAS. That way you can skip the cutscenes in Story Mode.
but some other input files desync consistently at one specific point, so I wouldn´t say it´s rock solid. From what I discovered the desyncs only appear when you interact with AIs, because I think they have some RNG, however it can sync even with heavy AI interaction.
I´m very new here, so I don´t know how stuff works exactly here. So all I need to do is having a verification movie that unlocks everything for the story mode and sets everything up for the real TAS and the TAS of course, that doesn´t start from restarting the game and the verification movie doesn´t need ot be on the same dolphin version as the real TAS ?
What are you doing exactly? If you play back the whole .dtm file from the beginning then you need to account for the memory card file. The memory card file is not saved in the .dtm, so the game may behave differently when the savegame is different. Make a backup of the memory card file when you start recording and replace the currently used one with that when playing back.
btw, my tip for TASing in Dolphin: Save a state at slot 1 (or wherever you prefer) at the beginning of a room / level / race and disable that hotkey. Then you can not save over it and you can always play back your current work from the beginning of that room / race etc.
You may want to remove the memory card at a certain frame count to prevent the game from saving.
You open the config screen and set the memory card to none. Do this at a certain framecount in the movie (and do it at that framecount when playing back) and it should sync. Can you link to your TASes or youtube?
