Posted: 2/17/2014 5:51 AM
Post subject: MHS ( Memory hacking software )
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MoronicTAS
Joined: 2/16/2014
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Is there a way to do a TAS with MHS in super mario 64 ? I mean, mhs changes the speed of mario. Is there a way to change the speed automaticly, see mario jumping over the whole level AND standing around, or be slow? I have another problem. If I do a TAS with MHS, and change the speed of mario constantly, he crashes against a wall every time. It's like: TAS - done. rerecord - fuc*ed up Need help here please
Posted: 2/17/2014 7:17 AM
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Well, usually the idea of making a TAS is to compete on beating the game under natural conditions (no cheating, in other words). If you edit memory data manually, it’s very likely that you may set some variable to a value which is not intended to be possible and thus cause a lot of unexpected glitches. If the emulator has Lua API, you can change memory data from a Lua script.
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Posted: 2/17/2014 7:57 AM
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A TAS movie file does not record every memory address on every frame, it only records what inputs you send it. So when you play it back the MHS memory edits aren't played back and thus it desyncs. Your most likely option for success is to use LUA scripting to write to memory addresses at certain times.
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Posted: 2/17/2014 2:43 PM
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MoronicTAS
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@WST: I wanted to do it just for fun. No uploading or smth else. But thanks @Patashu: MHS I can freeze the values ( speed of mario ). Is there a tutorial for lua scripting in mupen 64 rerecording? It would be awesome
Posted: 2/17/2014 8:00 PM
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HowardC
Joined: 2/5/2014
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Yeah some Mupen64 lua examples sure would be nice. Just as a test I wanted to paint a rectangle to the screen and no matter if I call my rect via a register function or in a good old "while true do" loop it flickers like crazy. I don't know if this is the fault of my scripting, or a video plugin problem, or a problem with the emulator itself. I can't find any example scripts that draw anything to the gameplay area and the documentation is partially in Japanese!
Posted: 2/19/2014 4:49 AM
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MoronicTAS
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But are there any tutorials? Maybe you did smth wrong? idk
Posted: 2/19/2014 7:19 AM
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HowardC
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The only tutorial I could find was the one on the google page and it doesn't actually draw anything to the screen, rather it just shows you how to hook up a code loop. Even then the comments are in Japanese, meaning you only get code and not an explanation of what it's doing. The only example script I could find was a lag counter script on these forums. Now while it DOES draw to the screen, it does it by making the gameplay area larger and drawing in the empty space. That only works in windowed mode unfortunately.
Posted: 2/20/2014 5:45 AM
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MoronicTAS
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Well... that's what I thought :D Cool, but thats not really helpful for me. Anyway, thx!