Topic: dink's FBN Development & Fixes thread

[dink]

So many great additions are being made.
Congratulations to everyone involved in this project.
These games of bullet hell made by Cave, like DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkats and Deathsmiles, there are so many bright colored lights, that gets to irritate. The classic DonPachi is so much better!

well, nothing beats the original DonPachi IMO  

[SirHenrythe5th]

well, nothing beats the original DonPachi IMO

Wingleader to Base: full ack!

[dink]

Wingleader to Base: full ack!

\o/ yea!!

[dink]

Dear friends & fans of FBNeo

Rewind feature is in!

Set up your rewind and rewind cancel keys or buttons in the inputs of _anygame_ and copy it into preset.ini*
or just use the hard-coded Pg-UP button for Rewind.  either way!

*(config\presets\preset.ini)

Inputs -> Rewind Settings, enable / set memory for rewind

Don't forget about Rewind Cancel
Whilst holding the rewind button/key, if you've gone back too far - the cancel button will undo the rewind.

Rewind + Fast Forward?
Yes

.....Rewind + cv1000, at 168+megs per frame/state?
no.

Rewind + Recording?
From Power-On: Yes
Not Power-On: Yes (was BE CAREFUL.  if you rewind before started recording, it will EXPLODE like a ruski ammo depot!)

Notes:
When memory limit is reached, it will go back and delete every 2nd rewind-frame from memory, to free up new rewind-spots.
In the debug version of FBNeo, you can see when this happens in the debug console (Misc -> Options -> Show Debug Console)
If you get studders every once in a while with rewind enabled: reduce the amount of rewind memory.

best regards,
- dink

[SirHenrythe5th]

Not Power-On: BE CAREFUL.  if you rewind before started recording, it will EXPLODE like a ruski ammo depot!

LOL, made my day!!!
Thanks a lot for this great feature Dink!

[Neildark]

Great, a huge addition to FB Neo, especially for fans of TAS, and also modern shoot 'em up. Thank you very much for your effort! 

[dink]

LOL, made my day!!!
Thanks a lot for this great feature Dink!

No smoking next to the salt peter!! XD

[dink]

LOL, made my day!!!
Thanks a lot for this great feature Dink!

Great

Great, a huge addition to FB Neo, especially for fans of TAS, and also modern shoot 'em up. Thank you very much for your effort! 

both: you're welcome!

best regards,
- dink

[Al82]

Dear friends & fans of FBNeo

Rewind feature is in!

Set up your rewind and rewind cancel keys or buttons in the inputs of _anygame_ and copy it into preset.ini*
or just use the hard-coded Pg-UP button for Rewind.  either way!

*(config\presets\preset.ini)

Inputs -> Rewind Settings, enable / set memory for rewind

Don't forget about Rewind Cancel
Whilst holding the rewind button/key, if you've gone back too far - the cancel button will undo the rewind.

Rewind + Fast Forward?
Yes

.....Rewind + cv1000, at 168+megs per frame/state?
no.

Rewind + Recording?
From Power-On: Yes
Not Power-On: BE CAREFUL.  if you rewind before started recording, it will EXPLODE like a ruski ammo depot!

Notes:
When memory limit is reached, it will go back and delete every 2nd rewind-frame from memory, to free up new rewind-spots.
In the debug version of FBNeo, you can see when this happens in the debug console (Misc -> Options -> Show Debug Console)
If you get studders every once in a while with rewind enabled: reduce the amount of rewind memory.

best regards,
- dink

Outstanding work!! Thanks for all the hard work on this!

[dink]

Outstanding work!! Thanks for all the hard work on this!

You're welcome!

I'd love to know what you and everyone thinks about it after testing it out!

best regards,
- dink

[Neildark]

Hello! I've been testing the new rewind option, and it works great, but... when recording play and then replay input it tends to get out of sync  . I've tried it with several shotem up, like Blazing Star, and with old games, like Black Tiger, and it happens with all of them. I have tried with different amounts of memory, selecting, in case it had something to do with it, in short files -two minutes- and long ones, and it always happens if you abuse the option a little. In any case, thanks for your work.

[dink]

Hi Neildark, thanks for letting me know about the problem - will try to fix it asap!

best regards,
- dink

[dink]

Neildark,
Problem w/rewind & recordings is solved!  Please give it a try, it needs some more thorough testing

best regards,
- dink

[dink]

Had to replace the dynamic huffman compression in the input recordings with raw (uncompressed) for several reasons:
x too many file writes when using rewind (this is bad for sdd's)
x leaky, buggy, slower
x source is impossible to maintain or fix

The downsides to using raw/uncompressed is..
x size, f.ex: 1 level in blazing star: 6k (compressed)  14k (raw) ...basically a non-issue these days
x new exe's won't load old .fr recordings

but, it's faster, more reliable, only writes data at the end of recording or state save (none during rewind!)
Also it makes possible to edit the input data for tas-ing.  (if someone writes an editor)

Any help testing this new code by recording something and making sure it plays back OK will be appreciated!

best regards,
- dink

[Gab75]

Thanks a lot for your hard work!

The downsides to using raw/uncompressed is..
x size, f.ex: 1 level in blazing star: 6k (compressed)  14k (raw) ...basically a non-issue these days
x new exe's won't load old .fr recordings

Indeed, since we are talking about few kbytes, it makes little sense to "complicate their lives" with compression algorithms!