Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Site Owner, Expert player
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Mednafen is a multi-platform that emulates 11 platforms:
This includes all variants of Turbo Grafx:
TurboGrafx / PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD-ROM² / SUPER CD-ROM² / Arcade Card CD-ROM
In addition, it supports 5 other platforms currently not TASable with any other emulator:
Atari Lynx, Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color and PC-FX
As well as the following platforms:
NES, Sega Master system, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance
Currently only TG-16 is rerecordable with for Windows users.
The src is maintained via github. Project homepage: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/Mednafen.html
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Let me just get this out of the way...
The emulator's name sounds like a headache prescription that includes "May cause high blood pressure" in the list of symptoms.
There. That's out of the way.
A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.
I downloaded mednafen.exe from the google code page and tried it. It didn't work. I made all sorts of command-line arguments to try to run adelikat's PCE submission, and the only thing it ever says is "The system cannot execute the specified program."
I am using Windows XP.
Edit: With Windows Vista, I got a bit further, but haven't tested much yet.
Let me just get this out of the way...
The emulator's name sounds like a headache prescription that includes "May cause high blood pressure" in the list of symptoms.
To me it sounds like a name of a Swedish―German language lesson book.
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Location: Gone for a year, just for varietyyyyyyyyy!!
I tested recording something with Splatterhouse and everything worked fine mostly, but some annoyances were encountered:
Is it necessary to make an auto-backup every time a savestate is loaded? I don't really need all these 900 .bak files...
Is it possible to resize the frame counter font? In full screen mode, the frame counter is rather tiny.
Mednafen crashed once upon loading a savestate, reporting "SDL failure". Sorry for the lack of details about the crash.
Also, the instructions wrote:
Save State To Slot 0-9: Shift - F1-F10
Load State From Slot 0-9: F1-F10
Save Current State: i (the letter i)
Load Current State: P
Load State 0/9 F1/F10
Save State 0/9 SHIFT-F1/F10
Is there something listed twice?
FractalFusion wrote:
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Site Owner, Expert player
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FractalFusions issue has been resolved. Anyone with that issue just needs to redownload.
As for the backups, no they aren't necessary but they are probably a good idea for now. I wouldn't trust Mednafen too much with keeping a good copy of your movie. I think we weeded out most of the major bugs with my Dragon Egg TAS, but I can't be sure. Dealing with 1000 backups is better than losing your TAS.
I've never had the crash issue relating to your savestate problem. That's concerning but I have no idea what might be happening there.
EDIT: For the frame counter issue, try -pce.xres 640 -pce.yres 480, or whatever size you prefer.
I appreciate all the hard work adelikat and company have put into this emulator.
Just want to report that closing the emulator window doesn't close the program at all, and that to start another instance requires destroying the process in task manager.
Mednafen crashed once upon loading a savestate, reporting "SDL failure". Sorry for the lack of details about the crash.
Got that one time, the savestate is not affected and i could reload it after reopenning mednafen without trouble, sound like a display/graphic crash
adelikat wrote:
EDIT: For the frame counter issue, try -pce.xres 640 -pce.yres 480, or whatever size you prefer.
When i do that i get a gigantic frame, so huge it doesnt fit on my dual screen lol, anyway, even in that gigantic window the frame counter typo is the same size, generaly i use -pce.xres 2 pce.yres 2 (or 3, 4), screen is bigger, but counter still display like i use 1:1
Doc say its a multiply of original resolution
Hum, i suggest a parameter in cfg file for counter size :p
Just this past night, I've been talking to the developers and as it turns out, I am now somewhat able to encode (and possibly publish) PCE runs, maybe even runs of other supported consoles. For now, it's all very hack-ish and SDL only, as far as I can tell. They were almost able to implement Bisqwit's nesvideospiece algorithm, but unfortunately, it's throwing Segfaults when converting a frame from 32 to 24 bpp. :(
I was trying to make a test avi (TSSC/PCM) last night.
However .kkapture locks up Mednafen and I got some strange artifacts if I use Fraps.
What did you guys use for the "unofficial" YouTube video of Granzort ?
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How do you exit the emulator without forcing it?
Pressing ESC does nothing, also after reconfiguring the exit (esc) hotkey.
For some reason I have to setup controls each time I run the emulator as if they aren't stored in cfg file.
How do you exit the emulator without forcing it?
Pressing ESC does nothing, also after reconfiguring the exit (esc) hotkey.
For some reason I have to setup controls each time I run the emulator as if they aren't stored in cfg file.
OK, this is definitely some bug I guess.
Official Mednafen don't have this problem.
FYI GameBase frontend works like a charm with Mednafen. :)
This version disables the reset and power-on hotkeys.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/679973/mednafen-disabled.zip
If you still get an accidental reset or power-on, do the following:
Find the frame number where it resets.
Multiply that number by 11, and add 256.
Go to that location in the movie file and you should see a 01 or 02 there. Change that to 00.
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adelikat wrote:
Um, because it is a commandline emulator?
Oh.
Forgive me for my utter stupidity/noobishness.
Is there anywhere i can learn more about how to operate a commandline emulator? There is a game i want to test on the Lynx for TASing capability.
Find a file named "cmd.exe" located in WINDOWS/System32 folder, and copy it to Mednafen folder. Double-click the cmd file, type "mednafen" in the command prompt and press enter. You should see something useful.
Alternatively, press Start -> Run -> type "cmd" and press enter, then navigate to the mednafen folder using "cd" command (the disadvantage is that you must do that every time).
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
