CheatMSX and MrHydragon updates

Van Daemos

Paragon (1972)

19-05-2016, 17:39

Its getting big and good. Awesome work.

Van Hydragon

Paladin (718)

19-05-2016, 17:43

Getting also closer to my 2016 goal! 371/400 YT videos.
Keep the content coming.

Van Lord_Zett

Paladin (807)

19-05-2016, 19:33

still no bounce mania vids? ;p

Van Kai Magazine

Paragon (1418)

19-05-2016, 19:35

Good job!
Great work to support the msx community
Keep on!

Van only_69

Hero (565)

20-05-2016, 19:05

I think MSX Solutions can help you.

Van ARTRAG

Enlighted (6845)

21-05-2016, 08:11

Uridium in 8 minutes, respect!

Van Hydragon

Paladin (718)

21-05-2016, 08:18

ARTRAG wrote:

Uridium in 8 minutes, respect!

Yeah I create this Uridium replay like I do with most replays, lowering cpu and use reverse in openMSX, it's a great way of creating a full gameplay for Youtube, so people can enjoy the full game, including the ending etc in it's full glory.

I also created a replay of Aleste, but it seemed something did go wrong, since when I loaded the replay, it was justa black screen at the beginning and only the ingame content showed up, so that is a project that will need a do-over for example.

But yeah in the end, lost of hours have been spend in creating these videos and I enjoy doing this.
For now I've had a few new requests for my videos, of which are menace and bounce mania.

Keep the requests coming. As a sidenote, to follow the updates on the videos and downloads on the website you can like CheatMSX @ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/cheatmsx

Van ren

Paragon (1928)

21-05-2016, 11:35

Nice collection of replays.. You always play without any blurring or (special) scalers?
From time to time I play with these settings, but yeah, I mostly revert to simple/no scaling, or apply just a slight blur (though SDLGL-PP creates too much blur already with a value of 1 IMO) because it's never quite to my liking. I do wish openMSX would have some kind of ('perfect') monitor simulation setting, or a 'monitor' scaler.. (next to the already existing 'TV' ) (which is too blurry for me). A CRT simulation feature request does exist however (some very nice examples exist), but I don't think that's high on the priority list, or there's a lot of motivation to work on it for that matter

Van Hydragon

Paladin (718)

21-05-2016, 11:40

ren wrote:

Nice collection of replays.. You always play without any blurring or (special) scalers?
From time to time I play with these settings, but yeah, I mostly revert to simple/no scaling, or apply just a slight blur (though SDLGL-PP creates too much blur already with a value of 1 IMO) because it's never quite to my liking. I do wish openMSX would have some kind of ('perfect') monitor simulation setting, or a 'monitor' scaler.. (next to the already existing 'TV' ) (which is too blurry for me). A CRT simulation feature request does exist however (some very nice examples exist), but I don't think that's high on the priority list, or there's a lot of motivation to work on it for that matter

Thanks ren, and yes even when I stream on twitch, I use the default settings in openMSX.
No extra blurring or whatsoever.
Only thing is: Those gameplays are not as good as the ones I create for YT.
But live gameplay doesn't have to be flawless after all

Van ARTRAG

Enlighted (6845)

21-05-2016, 12:02

I have to send you the full uridium map.

Van Hydragon

Paladin (718)

21-05-2016, 12:30

ARTRAG wrote:

I have to send you the full uridium map.

That sounds amazing!

Van Manuel

Ascended (18844)

21-05-2016, 14:22

ren: it also depends on what kind of scale factor you use and which screen mode. E.g. scale factor 1 on full screen is blurry in textmode 80.

The settings I use look very much like my Sony KX-14CPI1.
(renderer: SDLGL-PP; every one should use that)
scaler simple
scanline 25
scale_factor 4
glow 20
noise 2.0
blur 30

Van ARTRAG

Enlighted (6845)

21-05-2016, 15:42

In the uridium video the coder is missing one frame out of two.
You can see the problem watching at enemies: at full rate they should appear with 3 colors, but in the video they appear of two colors and something of the black overlay prevails

[edit]
I was wrong. It was the mobile version of the youtube player.
On PC you have the full rate and the 3 color effect works.

Van ren

Paragon (1928)

21-05-2016, 16:26

@manuel: cool, will have a look / try it out!
I did notice some irregularities in regard to display settings between SDL <> SDLGL-PP which I don't think have seen before (using dev build on Windows).. But I have to investigate further + compare with official release. Will let you know later.

Van Manuel

Ascended (18844)

21-05-2016, 22:02

Sure. There are differences, as not everything is supported on every renderer, as documented here: http://openmsx.org/manual/user.html#videoeffects

Van ARTRAG

Enlighted (6845)

15-05-2017, 16:38

Experiments on the colecovision version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrwB5gj5YI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ-EG7-jqwc&t=15s

Van ARTRAG

Enlighted (6845)

15-05-2017, 20:53

this is the ending with a 105 color image 256x128
video