Redwall Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 (edited) Doing a playthrough of dondon's hack. I'll record videos or make screenshots if there is interest, but for now, I'll just type some notes. Chapter 1: 8/8 turns Recruited Barth on turn 1 and set up a Rescue-chain to send Hector up the left, following the hint in dondon's topic, to recruit Dorcas on turn 3. Barth and Astor went up the right, but I needed Astor to slow down a bit to take a Vulnerary from Barth; I can't see a way of otherwise getting a Vulnerary to Astor without taking an extra turn. Back towards the LHS, I set up another Rescue-chain on turn 4 to get Hector a bit further up. I used Matthew to Rescue Serra during turn 6 and pass her to Oswin for Hector to recruit on turn 7. Dorcas and Oswin teamed up for five attempted hits on the boss (two Short Bow hits during turn 7 EP, two more during turn 8 PP, and one Short Spear from Oswin on turn 8), with four needing to connect. Hector recruited Lucius on turn 8 from the escape square. I picked up all the chests and got all the conversations, but was not satisfied with the item allocation: Matthew and Astor ended up with the Shine and Physic, respectively, at the end of turn 8, forcing me to start Chapter 2 in an uncomfortable way. For this reason, I'll redo the level. In dondon's topic, Silith's posts and screenshots suggest it is possible to recruit Lucius on turn 6 (while sending Hector up the left) and get both the Shine and the Physic on him by the end of the clear on turn 8. Hmm. Edited October 18, 2013 by Nessie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKL Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I'm interested in vids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 there's some trick i saw that involved having hector talking to lucius on the same turn that he waited on the final square (unless this is a different build of the hack than i'm used to, which i doubt based on your description) idr how to pull it off though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwall Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 there's some trick i saw that involved having hector talking to lucius on the same turn that he waited on the final square Yeah, that's exactly what I did; the issue is that this prevents Lucius from starting Chapter 2 with the Shine and Physic, though I guess it's possible this doesn't slow down the Chapter 2 completion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 hmm maybe i should finish this some day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Yeah, that's exactly what I did; the issue is that this prevents Lucius from starting Chapter 2 with the Shine and Physic, though I guess it's possible this doesn't slow down the Chapter 2 completion....right i'm good at reading the implication, though (totally intended) was that there's a way to recruit lucius on turn 7 (again idr and i'm not 100% certain but i think there is) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refa Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Videos would be cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwall Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 I recorded Chapter 1 and the output video (saved as a .mp4) was a whopping 1.4 GB in spite of me only taking 6.5 minutes in the video. Hmm. I'm using a different emulator from most of you guys, but what is normally done to trim down file size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKL Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 What did you use to record first of all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwall Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 (edited) I used my emulator's built-in video-recording function. According to Wikipedia, my emulator (Mednafen) is more or less based on VBA, which I think most of you use. Maybe this has something of relevance? Initializing sound... Using "ALSA" audio driver with SexyAL's default device selection. Bits: 16 Rate: 48000 Channels: 2 Byte order: CPU Native Buffer size: 1560 sample frames(32.500000 ms) Latency: 1560 sample frames(32.500000 ms) Period size: 60 sample frames(1.250000 ms) Starting QuickTime recording to file "ch1dd.mp4": Video width: 480 Video height: 320 Video codec: cscd Sound rate: 48000 Sound channels: 2 Edited October 21, 2013 by Nessie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstraLunaSol Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 render it with a software like camtasia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 are you prompted with the option to output the video in a compressed format? whenever i record, i tell VBA to use the ffdshow video codec, which outputs approximately a 100 MB file for 10 minutes of recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espinosa Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Nowadays I select Microsoft Video 1, which results in pretty big output files (~2 GB per 12 or so minutes of footage), which I then render with Sony Vegas uncompressed (~100GB) and convert into .divx format for YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwall Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 Thanks all for the suggestions. I've rendering the output video as AstraLunaSol suggested but got essentially a blank video; I think I can figure this out myself, by the time I upload the next video (this is with kdenlive, not Camtasia). For Chapter 1 I went with a pretty low-tech solution: a desktop recorder. Reliability can be improved somewhat by getting the Shine to Lucius, but I haven't figured out how to do that while clearing in eight turns. I've settled for having the Shine end on Serra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 If I had to guess why Astra's suggestion didn't work, it's because you're using the CamStudio codec (look up cscd). I'm not sure how to optimize it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 You should really just illegally torrent download camtasia. Set the video to quality % and set it to 75%. Then hit record and play at leisure. I'm serious, Camtasia is like recording for noobs, even I can do it and I suck at everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espinosa Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Sadly it won't record the sound (well) if your PC (sound card?) lacks stereo mix compatibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwall Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 Raven is supposed to be recruited with Lucius, right? If he's to be recruited with Hector, then that kind of ruins my plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 yes, only lucius can recruit raven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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