Post subject: Adding 2nd controller to SMV?
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This is a 1-player movie on snes9x 1.51 v6 http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/575083967/earthbound_tas2.smv I'd like to add the second controller port, but apparently it will mean changing the whole file structure. Any help will be appreciated.
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Perhaps this would be of help? http://code.google.com/p/tastools/wiki/SNES9XAI I think it pre-dates 1.51 but it might be able to help, or the way it is coded could be adapted.
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This seems to work for converting from 1 player to 2 players (joypads only): - Read bytes 0x1C-0x1F of the file. This is 32-bit controller data offset (little-endian) - Copy that amount of bytes, changing byte 0x14 from 0x01 to 0x03 - Until end of file: - Read 2 bytes - If these bytes are 0xFF 0xFF, write 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF - Otherwise, write those 2 bytes followed by 0x00 0x00 - Repeat That method is very hacky but seems to work (modulo game potentially desyncing due to number of controllers changing).