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Donkey Kong (TAS Desync): Mario dies to fireball #23

Closed sarospa closed 7 years ago

sarospa commented 7 years ago

This is a new type of issue that specifically highlights an issue with a TAS movie. The TAS in question will be linked in the issue description.

The movie in question is here: http://tasvideos.org/1352M.html

If you play this movie back in arachNES, Mario dies from touching a fireball in the second level. Of note is the fact that if you play the movie in FCUEX with 'new PPU' selected, the movie will fail in exactly the same way. It could be that the problem is with a quirk of FCEUX...will have to look at this more closely to be really sure. Worst case, I can make my own movie.

sarospa commented 7 years ago

WON'T FIX

Trying to run FCEUX movies turned out to be a minefield that depends just as much on FCEUX's quirks as arachNES's. I'm not interested in emulating how FCEUX improperly emulates the NES, so I'm considering this branch of the project to be an irreconcilable failure. I may still use this for testing purposes, but I'm not going to aim for making it work consistently. At best, I might end up adding functionality for recording movies myself. But it's clear that this is less feasible than I originally hoped.