Edit: Solved it! I had set it up so that joypadDefault=2. Apparently that confuses it. I transferred my favorite control scheme to controller 1 and it fixed it right up. For other people who have the same problem that I did, use controller 1. For the development team, please change it so that any controller's inputs are accepted, unless there's a good reason not to have it that way.
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I'm in the planning stages of a Final Fantasy Legend TAS with FatRatKnight. I have version 22 of VBA with re-recording.
When I try to record a new movie, the frame counter stays at zero, although VBA "thinks" it's recording. I can then stop the recording and load it. VBA then informs me that my movie has a length of no minutes, no seconds, no frames, no re-records, no nothing. It does successfully stamp the date and time and include the ROM information.
I tried it out again with a Tetris ROM I had, but no such luck. Therefore, I'm led to believe it's a problem with the emulator and not the ROM.
FatRatKnight sent me a short VBM file to test and it worked fine, so I can read files but I can't write them.
So what's wrong here?
This was so much easier in Gens!
Edit: I replaced my vba.ini file with an old version and it's working. Nevertheless, I would like to keep the settings I carefully created, so I'm forced to examine vba.ini's contents item by item to find the problem. Help would still be greatly appreciated, but I'm slowly zeroing in on the problem on my own.