Hi, I'm making a Metal Slug tas run with Final Burn Alpha, and I'm making each level a separate movie and then when I have all missions, I'm going to put them together. Anyways, I got the first mission, worked on the second one, it told me there was an error and closed me out.
I have the video of that mission on FBA and it goes until it originally froze. Is there any way to continue off that movie, or is my only option to make a new movie from that point and later try to slap the two together?
I have the video of that mission on FBA and it goes until it originally froze. Is there any way to continue off that movie, or is my only option to make a new movie from that point and later try to slap the two together?
If FBA works anything like other emulators, load the movie in readonly mode, play it to the end and switch to readwrite mode. That should allow you to continue from that point (make a savestate there?)
Making each level as a separate movie is unlikely to work unless the game state at the end of the first movie is exactly the game state at the beginning of the second movie. Otherwise, random effects that go one way when you make the movie may go a different way when you try to stitch the movies together, resulting in a desync and causing the run to fail.
Why not just make the entire thing as one movie?
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Making each level as a separate movie is unlikely to work unless the game state at the end of the first movie is exactly the game state at the beginning of the second movie. Otherwise, random effects that go one way when you make the movie may go a different way when you try to stitch the movies together, resulting in a desync and causing the run to fail.
Why not just make the entire thing as one movie?
When I said put the movies together, I meant make each have their own AVI file in then in my movie editor, put the AVI's together there. Although it is the exact frame when the previous one stopped.
Ilari wrote:
If FBA works anything like other emulators, load the movie in readonly mode, play it to the end and switch to readwrite mode. That should allow you to continue from that point (make a savestate there?)
How do I switch to readwrite mode? Or are you saying make another one? I'm confused.
Shift+8. Then save and load a savestate and presto, you're recording from where you saved the state.
Well it put me into that mode but I still can't continue off that video. I still can only make a new one at the last frame which I have a feeling will look weird with the transition between the two videos.
(Edit)
Never mind I figured out why I couldn't get it to work. Thanks a lot!
