Posted: 4/5/2007 10:17 PM
Post subject: Need help recovering a movie file
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laughing_gas
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I am currently working on an improvement to an old NES tas. I had made considerable progress when, one day, I thought I was recording when I really wasn't, and replaced all the savestates with ones that don't match up with the movie. When I realized I wasn't recording, I started recording, and when I loaded the savestate, it said there was an error (as expected), but then it turned out that by doing that, I wiped out my old movie file. Now the movie file is only 1 frame in length. I thought FCEU's bulletproof recording would prevent stuff like this, but is there any way to recover the old file?
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Posted: 4/5/2007 10:18 PM
Post subject: Re: Need help recovering a movie file
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Bisqwit
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http://bisqwit.iki.fi/utils/fcmrepairer.php
Posted: 4/5/2007 10:22 PM
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laughing_gas
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Um ... I never made a backup of the movie.
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Posted: 4/5/2007 10:25 PM
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Bisqwit
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laughing_gas wrote:
Um ... I never made a backup of the movie.
Well, that kind of sucks then. But if you know for _certain_ how your movie is supposed to begin, you can reconstruct a pseudo backup file. 1. Backup your current, broken movie. Call it "B.fcm". 2. Rerecord the first 2-3 seconds of the movie (or actually, any length just slightly longer than the broken part of your current movie will work). The result is "A.fcm", and it is your pseudobackup movie. Now feed "B.fcm" as your broken movie and "A.fcm" as your backup file to fcmrepairer and try your luck. This will work if you know precisely how your movie was supposed to begin -- the exact frames when you hold which buttons. If it does not... well, next time you maybe know to take backups. :-/
Posted: 4/5/2007 10:28 PM
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Nvm ... I'll redo from start.
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Posted: 4/5/2007 10:36 PM
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I didn't think that FCM kept movie data past the end-of-file like SMV does when you rerecord over an earlier portion...so where does this utility get that data from in the broken movie file? (Or am I wrong with FCM?)
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Posted: 4/5/2007 11:13 PM
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You should use a software to autobackup the file every 5 minutes, and there shouldn,t be any problem.
Posted: 4/5/2007 11:22 PM
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laughing_gas
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It's all right, I managed to make it to where I was before and created a backup. :P
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