Post subject: Bizhawk movie broken?
Somo743
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Hi, I created a TAS movie for "Ghosts 'n Goblins" (NES) on Bizhawk and wanted to view the movie through the "play movie" function. When I load it however the movie is only ~3000 frames (50 seconds) long, while it should be much longer. The re-record count however, is at 2000+, which seems appropriate for what I did while creating the movie. Upon playing the movie nothing happens. The game just stays on the title screen and ocasionally plays the in-game demo, but none of my inputs. I didn't close the emulator or stop the movie recording until I had finished the game. In short, it knows the amount of re-records, but somehow appears to be unable to play the movie. Does anyone know what happened and if/how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.
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Have you loaded an early state while recording at the end of the process? That'd truncate the movie is you stopped it after that. If you used several state slots during recording, one of them might contain a fuller version of your movie. Load your movie, switch to recording mode, and try loaded state slots you used, one by one. The one that is the farthest is as much as you have preserved. Before stopping a movie, the last frame of it should always be stored to one of the states, maybe even named state to be sure. tl;dr: Each state saved while the movie is loaded, contains some part of your movie.
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