Record MAME AVI???

[DinoRoger]

Does anyone know where I can find an old version of MAME32 that allowed recording play to avi or are there othre methods to recording MAME playback to AVI.

[Jakobud]

Check out a program called SnagIt

www.techsmith.com

[Howard_Casto]

Recording out of mame doesn't work too well, use a third party program like jakobud suggested....

These are the settings you want:

Turn off hwstretch, direct3d and direct draw

Set window mode to 1 and max to 0

Now the game will pop up on your desktop in it's native resolution without "blending" issues.

Select the window with your capturing program and your all set.

For capturing settings I suggest a modest 10fps with the sound  at 22 khz or less. These are the settings peter and myself use.

[papaschtroumpf]

You can use FRAPs (http://www.fraps.com/download.htm) look at the different versions and decide which one works for you. It works great even with DirectX based games. I've never tried it with MAME but I can't imagine that it wouldn't work.

[papaschtroumpf]

That could make a cool screensaver instead of static screenshots. Unfortunately I've never found a free screesaver that would randomly pick movies from a list/directory and play them. If anyone knows of any let me know.

[Howard_Casto]

Hehe I use emusaver so I get to see the actual games running instead of avis and I can play them if I see one that's interesting.

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus

[Jakobud]

... jokobud ....

Hope that was a typo

[Howard_Casto]

... jokobud ....

Hope that was a typo

oops sorry dude... i'll go fix it

If I wanted to insult you, I'd be less subtle.

[Jakobud]

If I wanted to insult you, I'd be less subtle.

Yes I figured as much