Posted: 9/14/2020 9:13 AM
Post subject: Which emulator is the best to TAS PSP games?
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Dr_Doppietta
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Hello. Recently I've found out this Youtuber, Charada Brazil, who TASes PSP games. I'd like to, but I don't know which emulator he's using. I've used PPSSPP, but - as far as I know - it lacks TASing Tools. I also found out there aren't many PSP TASed games, which also makes it difficult to find this emulator. I read on the TASVideos site the emulators section, but I didn't find a proper PSP emulator with TASing capabilites. So I'd like to ask here if anyone knows which emulator I need to use. Thank you.
Posted: 9/14/2020 9:33 AM
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Dimon12321
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There's some progress done on porting PPSSPP's core into Bizhawk, but that person dropped it. I don't know why. Maybe it was too complicated. There's also some progress done on implementing TAS Tools in PPSSPP, but for some reason Fog has lost all the enthusiasm and dropped this thing. I don't even know how you can get in contact with him. You can also install Linux and use libtas program to record external TAS movies in PPSSPP. Actually, it's possible to launch a lot of Linux emulators (which have no TAS tools) and record TAS movies using this trans-layer (libtas), but I haven't seen any major TAS movies made on it so far. I remember slamo was doing something, but these are just tests.
TASing is like making a film: only the best takes are shown in the final movie.
Posted: 9/14/2020 12:16 PM
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Dr_Doppietta
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Oh, so that's why I can't find the emulator: it doesn't exists (yet). Isn't Fog the one who encoded that beautiful RE4 TAS on GC? It's a shame he dropped, he had a lot of talent, skills and potential... Using LibTAS seems the only doable thing, but as I never even tried Linux, I don't think I can mess around with those things all of a sudden. Anyway, thank you for giving me some more informations, I really needed those. :)