Try going to Options > Hotkey Settings and setting a hotkey for "Read-only mode". Then you can press it when the game window is active to toggle read-only. That should always work even when emulation is paused.
It doesn't.
But the hotkey works when emulation isn't paused? Does the window title change when you press it or not?
Yes, the hotkey works fine when unpaused. And the title doesn't change ever?
The frame count is broke... I'll write down some testing I have done with the bug.
When TASing super smash bros melee, I noticed every player equals 8 hexadecimals numbers in the movie file. Therefore, if I have only 1 player, my hexadecimal movie must be read by every 8 numbers. If I have a movie file of 2, 3 or 4 players, I must read the hexadecimal movie file of 16, 24 or 32 numbers for each frame.
Mario sunshine and Luigi's mansion frame count is broken, it always racks up by 2 frames every time I press frame advance once.
Is it that I really advance 2 frames? Or I really advance 1 frame and the frame count really is the problem? I suggest the frame count is the problem, because the game really appears to advance frame by frame.
I put a testing file of both mario sunshine and luigi's mansion in HxD, and I realised there is something wrong: the movie file records 16 hexa numbers each frame... and it records twice the same inputs. It's like port 1 and 2 are just the same controller... But it shouldn't be that way I believe, each port should only have 8 hexa numbers.
It really appeared that 16 hexadecimals numbers were the main problem of frame count glitch when I attempted to do a 2 players TAS of super smash melee, and suddently the frame count was racking up of +2. I knew my Melee was now registering 16 hexa numbers because of the 2 players, and the frame count reacted according to it.
I checked, and when doing luigi's mansion or mario sunshine, I really have only 1 port open, but it records 16 hexa numbers instead of 8. And this problem doesn't only glitch out the frame count, but it also doubles up the lenght of the movie file. Plus, the more ports you have for a movie file, the more it's bound to desynch. an 1p TAS is more stable than a 4p TAS, probably because there is fewer hexa numbers to read on every frame.
I'll take a very good example here: Mugg complained his bowser homerun contest file was desynching a lot. I have the same revision as him, the same configs, the same ROM, and I rarely have any desynch. At some point I asked him to give me his bowser file, so he did. What did I see? His bowser movie file was a 4 player TAS. Even if really, he was playing 1 character, the game was recording way more than just his bowser inputs. The file was bound to be unstable for that reason, and mugg didn't seem to know why it was desynching.
Frame advance actually advances by VIs, not frames. So if there is only one VI every other frame, it will indeed skip a frame.
And for mario sunshine/luigi's mansion, what value was at 0xb?
Frame advance actually advances by VIs, not frames. So if there is only one VI every other frame, it will indeed skip a frame.
And for mario sunshine/luigi's mansion, what value was at 0xb?
Well yes, it advances correctly if I rely on VIs.
Value at 0xb = I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the first numbers of a movie file?
Is it possible that Luigi's Mansion runs at 30 frames per second, and only advances 30 VIs per second (every VI throughout the game equaling two frames)? Luigi's Mansion was an early game on the GameCube and it seems that early games on 3D consoles tend to run at 30 FPS (like Super Mario 64 on the N64 and Ocarina of Time 3D on the 3DS).
Is it possible that Luigi's Mansion runs at 30 frames per second, and only advances 30 VIs per second (every VI throughout the game equaling two frames)? Luigi's Mansion was an early game on the GameCube and it seems that early games on 3D consoles tend to run at 30 FPS (like Super Mario 64 on the N64 and Ocarina of Time 3D on the 3DS).
... Well what you just mentioned may be the reason why when I dump frames for Luigi's Mansion, it's dumped at "60 frames per second" but the dumped movie's speed is twice as fast.
The movie file may play at 60fps while really there is only 30fps. And for that, I was about to investigate a bit before to post it.
Some things:
I am TASing luigi's mansion, I noticed some things were not appearing, such as keys. I figured it was direct3d9, so I switched to openGL. The key now appears, but dolphin needs to be shut down with ctrl+alt+del, because it crashes 100% of the time with these configs. Is it possible to prevent that?
I thought of another thing. I know other emulators allows frame-skipping. I know most computers can't even run a gamecube game at 100% speed, so I even wonder if it's possible. But either way, I'm throwing the idea...
According to cohn's testing detailed on this page (bottom row), Direct3D9 and OpenGL randomly crash in Dolphin 3.0, so if you can use Direct3D11, it might fix those crashes.
Dolphin has a Frame Skipping option in the Emulation menu (next to File).
Thank you coolkirby, direct3d11 works just fine, and doesn't crash everytime I close Dolphin. Even though, I couldn't make frame skipping to work. How can I arrange that?
I agree with you, but let's say I need to play from beginning a very long movie file?
I am doing luigi's mansion TAS, and it desynch every once in a while. I got myself compelled to start over my movie file a few times now, until I got to a point where I savestated so I could use read-only mode from this point. But noneless, I had to start over.
frame-skipping is not useful to make a TAS, it's just another method of going to a certain point in a movie file, beside read only mode, or just sit there and wait for your file to get there.
... I'm not sure if you're saying this regarding the present, or you're supposing it will never be possible to have a working frame-skip, or if you're unaware that I was talking about it regarding a future revision that has a working frame-skip for Dolphin, that could be used like the one on other emulators.
Because there are working frame-skipping on other emulators, you know that? You can press a button, and then the game goes in fast-forward mode, by skipping frames. If you let go the button, the game goes in normal speed. There is no such thing as "movie won't sync, unless it was recorded with frame skip" on other emulators.
... I'm not sure if you're saying this regarding the present, or you're supposing it will never be possible to have a working frame-skip, or if you're unaware that I was talking about it regarding a future revision that has a working frame-skip for Dolphin, that could be used like the one on other emulators.
Because there are working frame-skipping on other emulators, you know that? You can press a button, and then the game goes in fast-forward mode, by skipping frames. If you let go the button, the game goes in normal speed. There is no such thing as "movie won't sync, unless it was recorded with frame skip" on other emulators.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just turning off the frame limiter? It still "renders" each frame in memory, but it doesn't delay the output to match the correct framerate. The problem with Dolphin is that its frameskip actually skips the rendering of some frames, which can have effects on playback.
I don't know how frame-skipping works actually, but you are probably right about turning off the frame-limiter.
In the very beginning though, I asked if it was possible to have frame-skipping, I was throwing the idea. I was doubting it because most computers can't even run dolphin at 100% speed, let alone playing a game at more than 100% the speed... But if it only "renders" every frame without showing them, that could possibly work...
I was throwing the idea because it would be a useful tool overall, for TASers, along with Read-only mode.
By the way, good stuff making read-only work on revision 235!
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I am having the problem rog had earlier with the 223 savestate that stops my 191 movie where it last ended instead of playing out the full length of the dtm.
Is there a way to get Dolphin to read the 3.0-191 dtm's length instead of the length of a loaded 223 savestate from a previous session? Since my TAS will be about 6 hours long, I don't think I'll be able to handle playing my movie from the beginning every 1-2 minutes of the movie that I'll be checking for desyncs. I know from rog's testing that you can't get the savestate to work by hex editing its frame count, and I know from my testing that replacing the .dtm part of the 223 savestate with the finished 191 movie will make it not play at all.
