At 8:37 -0500 9-01-1999, bwmott@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> One thing that is missing from any 2600 emulator, is a record/playback
>> feature like the one that is present in MAME. Think about what could be
>> done... a complete walktrough of Indiana Jones, or Adventure could be
>> recorded, and saved to file for others to see..
>
>So does it record the user's controller state or does it create something
>like an AVI file?
It records the user's controller state. The files it produces aren't very big.
> If it records controller state how does it work with
>games that contain random elements?
Well, I think that there isn't anything really random in an emulator. It's
a deterministic system, the random number generators are based on a seed
that is always the same when you boot the emulator.
Ciao,
P.
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