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FractalFusions issue has been resolved. Anyone with that issue just needs to redownload.
As for the backups, no they aren't necessary but they are probably a good idea for now. I wouldn't trust Mednafen too much with keeping a good copy of your movie. I think we weeded out most of the major bugs with my Dragon Egg TAS, but I can't be sure. Dealing with 1000 backups is better than losing your TAS.
I've never had the crash issue relating to your savestate problem. That's concerning but I have no idea what might be happening there.
EDIT: For the frame counter issue, try -pce.xres 640 -pce.yres 480, or whatever size you prefer.
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For Wonderswan/WSwan Color:
BizHawk
For Atari Lynx and Neo Geo Pocket:
http://code.google.com/p/mednafen-rr/
Note however, that Neo Geo Pocket emulation in mednafen is problematic. There are known emulation bugs and stability issues.
Mednafen also emulates Wonderswan but again there are known stability issues
For Information on how to use mednafen-rr for rerecording, visit:
http://code.google.com/p/mednafen-rr/wiki/MakingTAS
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Mednafen is a multi-platform that emulates 11 platforms:
This includes all variants of Turbo Grafx:
TurboGrafx / PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD-ROM² / SUPER CD-ROM² / Arcade Card CD-ROM
In addition, it supports 5 other platforms currently not TASable with any other emulator:
Atari Lynx, Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color and PC-FX
As well as the following platforms:
NES, Sega Master system, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance
Currently only TG-16 is rerecordable with for Windows users.
The src is maintained via github. Project homepage: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/Mednafen.html
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Entertaining run! I like it better than the NES Ghouls & Ghosts (Haven't watched the SNES version yet).
The boss fights were very nice.
This is a case whee using a password is justified and acceptable.
Practice mode displaying on the screen didn't bother me.
Good ratings from me.
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I wasn't able to get into this run. It had an awful lot of walking. Due to the language barrier, was able to understand what was going on when there was action. I couldn't tell there was a bug happening but the description of it sounds interesting at least. I am going to have to rate this low on entertainment.
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Ok, this issue has been fixed and a new release has been made:
http://fceux.com/web/htdocs/
Anyone who TASes NEEDS to download this new fceux.
If you were having the large .fm2 issue here are the steps to remedy it:
*open your .fm2 with wordpad (or some text editor)
*delete all the extra characters in the author field
*save your .fm2
Your Savestates that are tied to this movie will still be slow until you overwrite them with new ones. Thanks to FatRatKnight and FerretWarlord for helping me diagnose this bug.
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FatRatKnight, thanks. I know exactly what the problem is now (and it wasn't me that did it, yay ;) )
For now you (or anyone with this issue) can fix the problem by deleting those extra null characters at the author field (or better yet, delete the author field entirely so they don't come back). There was 27.8 megabytes worth of those!
I'll get a fixed release for this asap
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22mb is certainly wrong! I didn't not knowingly do anything that should have ballooned the movie or the savestates. Would you mind sending me your 22mb .fm2 and associated savestates (the ones that are larger than normal).
EDIT: Also, btw, .fm2 is a text based format. So you can open your movie in something like wordpad and get an idea for yourself what is going on.
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I think you should go for max hours. Which by my theory is 65535 hours. So redo it to get to that number, then watch your movie to verify that it syncs. Then I'll happily publish ;)
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Oh. Then Hex Editor can do just fine with that feature. So Randil is just complaining about having to scroll down to the address.
In that case, I like the idea of a Go to address (with ctrl+G hotkey) feature.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
It would seem that the problem states are ones attached to movie files, and the further along the movie the state is, the longer the state takes to load. Plus, it recently went from two or three seconds to nearly ten to load one, even though I hadn't moved.
Obviously movie savestates would be slower since they are storing movie data. However, they shouldn't be that slow unless you have a really slow computer! IIRC, you have vista. Problem is, no developr does. So Vista is in a "Use at your own risk state". (Perhaps there is a Vista user would be willing to help fix Vista related bugs)
*Explanation: when I saw how many .dll files were in the zip, I decided to try and give them their own folder to keep from cluttering up the main folder, which apparently didn't work out. Do we really need this many dll files? If so, I would like to set a directory for them, if such would be possible.
If you want to use Lua, you must have all those .dll files in that folder. If you don't use Lua, delete all of them but 7z.dll and you will be fine. You can set them to another directory. Acmlm & I tried to get them to be read from another folder but that failed. In a future release, I hope to find a way to get it set up that way.
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Randil wrote:
*Memory poke: This still works in FCEUX, but I found it a bit more convenient in the old FCEU. In FCEU, you could enter a RAM address in field A, and enter a hexadecimal value in field B. When you press "Poke Me!", that address was instantly set to that value. This can still be done in the Hex editor, but I find it a bit more inconvenient because it can take some time to find the right address. Perhaps a solution where you keep Hex editor as it is, but add this "Poke me!" feature that FCEU had?
I don't know if you are familiar, but you can right-click a value and select "freeze". I think a better way of implementing your idea would be to add a "Freeze As.." menu option under freeze.
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I'm curious what all you are thinking for funny. If it works, it could be publishable (see River City Ransom)
As far as tricks/glitches:
*That weird "ladder" in level one comes to mind.
*The "get lots of hearts" trick in level 2. More interesting if you can find other places to abuse that just to show it off.
*In Level 3 the first blue cave room. You can knock enemies off the ledge on the left. That one comes to mind because I tested it for a TAS and it was a bit slower than the published TAS method. But I thought it was neat that the left of the screen was in fact a ledge.
*In Level 4, the glitched weapon trick that allows you to have a weapon for the machine gunner. It is useless for a speed oriented trick, but could be cool for a playaround.
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The long awaited FCEU 2.1.0 is now released: http://fceux.com
This is a major release that features a multitude of fixes and features for TASers. See the changelog for details (its massive and I don't want to paste it here).
One note though. If you use your pre-existing fceux.cfg, most of your hotkeys will be "off by 1". My apologies!
