Mysterious Song Pre-Orders Are Open!

[nodtveidt]

Holy shit, I come back to the forum and it's exploded like this...pages upon pages of arguments.

Peperocket, I got your PM just now...I didn't get an email notification so I didn't know you had sent me a PM. I have not been here in quite some time. I will get your refund to you as soon as possible. We've been having a LOT of problems with both Paypal and eBay, so the original account had to be closed and the money transferred elsewhere. We're hoping for a resolution by Wednesday but in the meantime, we're pretty much f*cked thanks to their ineptness. And this isn't the first time they've tried to f*ck us either. Regardless, I can send it via a different method if you wish.

Someone mentioned in this thread that I'd been on on the 18th...sorry, I wasn't here on that day. My wife, however, occasionally visits this forum on my account, so she was probably here in the last couple of weeks.

In any event, today is my first day back on duty at FU. There's a lot of catching-up to do, so I'm going to mostly be over at the FU forum as well as on IRC. If anyone needs to reach me right away, I'm going to be on efnet #frozenutopia and #utopiasoft for awhile, as well as freenode #palib.

[peperocket]

No problem I can wait. Refund me when you've resolved the paypal problem.

Thank you.

[nodtveidt]

It's been suggested that we do some video previews of the game. I am going to work on this, and I will post a few on youtube soon. I don't have the best setup for it, and I don't have real hardware to test with, so I will be using mednafen together with camstudio. It should give fairly decent results, but we'll see how it turns out.

[RoyVegas]

It's been suggested that we do some video previews of the game.

Excellent suggestion oldskool!

[Senshi]

Rover, what is the name of the youtube account you'll be posting the video's on?

[oldskool]

Huh?  What did I do?

[nodtveidt]

Rover, what is the name of the youtube account you'll be posting the video's on?

Don't know yet...I might just use my Eponasoft channel but then again, it might be better to use a new one for Frozen Utopia.

[TheOldMan]

Rover, save yourself some trouble; use ootake for the videos. Not that I prefer one emulator over another (I really don't), but ootake lets you save the keystrokes while playing; that way you don't have to waste a lot of time trying again and again to get a good capture of the neat stuff you want to show off. You can just tell ootake to re-play the saved game, and tweak capture settings until you are content.

Arkhan played insanity dozens of times trying to get the sequences he wanted for his you-tube videos. Would have been easier (and quicker) to get the right run-though and play it back...

[nodtveidt]

It's an RPG, not an action game, so capturing the right video isn't going to be difficult. Plus I can't really figure out ootake...does it support isos? If not, then it's useless to me. We've used mednafen for ages because of its high accuracy level and built-in support for cuesheets.

[Arkhan]

Ootake is a bit more happy as far as ISOs actually.

You don't even NEED a cuesheet.  You can just mount an ISO in daemontools and itll think its a real CD.

The cuesheet is needed however, if you want to have your background redbook audio playing, lol.


so you would mount the cuesheet instead of the iso I suppose.


But yeah it lets you record a video while you are playing.  Granted it is a emulator video, so you have to replay it IN the emulator and it'll repeat what you did.

It works out pretty nice.   You can also do a wav dump of the PSG, but that may not help you too much.

For what it's worth, Ootake is pretty accurate too.   Sound wise you'll barely notice PSG differences, and play-wise, I've yet to notice anything weird in Ootake!




No luck on the rerecording of mednafen?

[nodtveidt]

I just haven't gotten to it yet. Mednafen doesn't record video files I can make use of and, apparently, neither does ootake. Oh well. But regardless, I have a way of making videos already, so no worries.

[Arkhan]

man, I should find out how people were making youtube videos with mednafen lol

[TheOldMan]

Wasn't actually thinking about doing the captures with ootake - I didn't even know you could. But you're gonna get real tired of doing the same thing over and over to show off the game; that's where ootakes keystroke capture/playback helps.
Yeah, ootake supports isos - we use it and medafen to make sure code works on both emulators. In general, ootake -is- more accurate, but that's just my opinion. (quite honestly, neither of them gets the vsyncs quite right)
Figured you were doing some kind of screen capture/video capture for the video. So long as you don't get stuck re-playing the game over and over to get just the right compression :-)

[nodtveidt]

Nah, I already got it down, it's all good. But trust me...I got real tired of doing the same thing over and over again just to TEST the game during development...running it a few times for some videos is gonna be a walk in the park.

[nodtveidt]

Mysterious Song will be on demo at the CCAG this weekend, courtesy of Arkhan. Also, we may have a second game on demo there as well.