AVI recording fix for v1.51 (WinXP) ?
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:38 pm
Hi, so, here's the situation, in detail so I don't miss anything important:
1. I was using some (unknown) version of SNES9x that I found online awhile ago. Presumably it was v1.51 for Windows (I'll explain why, in a bit).
2. I regularly recorded movies, then replayed them to record AVI's. I just pieced together a pretty awesome movie that I had not yet saved as an AVI.
3. I wanted to watch a similar movie from TASvideos, so I downloaded their movie file and found out that apparently each version of SNES9x speaks a foreign language to each other; the movie would not play at all, stating that it was the wrong version (I needed 1.43).
4. In my dismay over the lack of backward compatibility, I downloaded another SNES9x emulator (1.43) which overwrote my old one -- I figured I could get the old one back at a later date if necessary.
5. When I went back to record my original movie, mentioned in #2 above, I found that 1.43 (surprise) could not read the movie file. I grabbed v1.52 online and got similar errors from trying to read the movie.
6. I finally found that v1.51 COULD read my movie file (!); unfortunately any time I try to record an AVI with the newly downloaded v1.51, SNES9x.exe crashes immediately (standard Windows program crash window), regardless of whether or not I'm playing back a movie.
7. I found that other users had a similar problem with 1.52, which they remedied by downloading a fixed version of 1.52. I am wondering if there's a fixed version of 1.51.
In all honesty, I never thought it'd be this difficult to simply get back the emulator that I had been using. If it helps to know this... for whatever reason, the 1.51 and 1.52 emulators that I've downloaded recently from the popular links, do not start in Fullscreen mode (i.e. they take up my screen but leave the Windows taskbar visible), whereas the version of SNES9x that I had been using with no problems (in #1 and #2 above) started in fullscreen by default (to the best of my knowledge, anyway).
Other stuff... as already stated in topic, I'm using Windows XP, and my hardware more than passes the basic sanity checks. Honestly, I used whatever version of SNES9x without a hitch whatsoever (recording movies and then recording AVI's) until I overwrote it with 1.43, not realizing that I would need to get it back due to the insane lack of compatibility between versions, nor that it would be so difficult to do so.
Thanks in advance for the help, and though it probably goes without saying, please add movie playback reverse-compatibility to the wishlist for future SNES9x fixes. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with 3+ versions of a single emulator on my computer just so I can read everyone's movie files.
1. I was using some (unknown) version of SNES9x that I found online awhile ago. Presumably it was v1.51 for Windows (I'll explain why, in a bit).
2. I regularly recorded movies, then replayed them to record AVI's. I just pieced together a pretty awesome movie that I had not yet saved as an AVI.
3. I wanted to watch a similar movie from TASvideos, so I downloaded their movie file and found out that apparently each version of SNES9x speaks a foreign language to each other; the movie would not play at all, stating that it was the wrong version (I needed 1.43).
4. In my dismay over the lack of backward compatibility, I downloaded another SNES9x emulator (1.43) which overwrote my old one -- I figured I could get the old one back at a later date if necessary.
5. When I went back to record my original movie, mentioned in #2 above, I found that 1.43 (surprise) could not read the movie file. I grabbed v1.52 online and got similar errors from trying to read the movie.
6. I finally found that v1.51 COULD read my movie file (!); unfortunately any time I try to record an AVI with the newly downloaded v1.51, SNES9x.exe crashes immediately (standard Windows program crash window), regardless of whether or not I'm playing back a movie.
7. I found that other users had a similar problem with 1.52, which they remedied by downloading a fixed version of 1.52. I am wondering if there's a fixed version of 1.51.
In all honesty, I never thought it'd be this difficult to simply get back the emulator that I had been using. If it helps to know this... for whatever reason, the 1.51 and 1.52 emulators that I've downloaded recently from the popular links, do not start in Fullscreen mode (i.e. they take up my screen but leave the Windows taskbar visible), whereas the version of SNES9x that I had been using with no problems (in #1 and #2 above) started in fullscreen by default (to the best of my knowledge, anyway).
Other stuff... as already stated in topic, I'm using Windows XP, and my hardware more than passes the basic sanity checks. Honestly, I used whatever version of SNES9x without a hitch whatsoever (recording movies and then recording AVI's) until I overwrote it with 1.43, not realizing that I would need to get it back due to the insane lack of compatibility between versions, nor that it would be so difficult to do so.
Thanks in advance for the help, and though it probably goes without saying, please add movie playback reverse-compatibility to the wishlist for future SNES9x fixes. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with 3+ versions of a single emulator on my computer just so I can read everyone's movie files.