Posted: 7/12/2016 12:06 PM
Post subject: tas movie file not fully saving?
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Mochithecat
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i was recording a movie file, but when i ended it and reloaded it (it was just shy of 500000 frames), the movie file had only saved about 141087 of it. is this a common problem or something? should an input movie file ever have a limit on its total time? should i be making multiples? what should i do?
Posted: 7/12/2016 1:24 PM
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ALAKTORN
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That is a lot of frames. There shouldn’t be any limits as far as I know. Don’t know what happened to you.
Posted: 7/12/2016 1:26 PM
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ALAKTORN wrote:
Don’t know what happened to you.
We also don't know which emulator you were using to run into this issue, can you please state that as well. Input file would also be nice to see what's going on.
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Posted: 7/12/2016 1:58 PM
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Mochithecat
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq3uejzf2rd4oh4/Mega%20Man%20X6%20%28USA%29%20%28v1.1%29.bk2?dl=0 megaman x6 bizhawk 1.11.6, newest as of this post. from what i could tell, the inputs work just fine up until where it cut off from. it ends after a couple bosses dead. i originally went up to all bosses dead, all 128 reploids rescued and a bit of soul grinding, so im a bit bummed out at the moment as well as very tired. (im pretty new to tasing, so this was more practice and having a backup log.) if it has anything to do with it, i downloaded and modified a lua script and had it on as i played. https://www.dropbox.com/s/jivbm1bbojmhmfy/x6.lua?dl=0
Posted: 7/12/2016 4:03 PM
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scrimpeh
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You may have accidentally loaded an earlier savestate before stopping the movie. In that case, all frames following that savestate are dropped. If you have a more recent save state, you can reload that in Read+Write mode to restore your inputs, otherwise you may be out of luck.
Posted: 7/12/2016 4:18 PM
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Mochithecat
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well, assuming turning off read mode was what you meant, i was able to recover up to 348000ish (woulda been the full thing if i knew this was a thing) or so frames which was after all the bosses at least. i need to find better hotkeys because i think it might have been caused mostly save states and movies being the same without realizing it.
Posted: 7/12/2016 6:02 PM
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dunnius
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FCEUX also sometimes does the same thing. I always make a save state at the end before stopping the movie recording, and if the file doesn't save, then I reload it in record mode and load the save state, which forces it to write.