jetsetdanny Posted Saturday at 07:18 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 07:18 PM Thanks, Andy! 11 minutes ago, Spider said: Video 1 was recorded in Spectaculator (last) , video 2 and 3 were recorded in ZXSpin. Also I noted that Spectaculator seems to playback at a higher speed, or its an optical illusion. Why didn't you just record all three files using the same emulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDuck Posted Saturday at 09:48 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:48 PM We've previously done a lot of research on emulator timing for speedrun fairness purposes. BizHawk, Fuse, SpecEmu, Spectaculator, Spud, and ZX Spectrum 4 all run at the same speed as the original hardware. ASpectrum, EightyOne, kjspeccy, Speccy, and Z80 Stealth all run at different speeds from the original hardware. There were others we couldn't test for various reasons. Spider and jetsetdanny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted Monday at 12:27 PM Author Report Share Posted Monday at 12:27 PM On 3/29/2025 at 9:48 PM, DigitalDuck said: We've previously done a lot of research on emulator timing for speedrun fairness purposes. BizHawk, Fuse, SpecEmu, Spectaculator, Spud, and ZX Spectrum 4 all run at the same speed as the original hardware. ASpectrum, EightyOne, kjspeccy, Speccy, and Z80 Stealth all run at different speeds from the original hardware. There were others we couldn't test for various reasons. I only have (and use) ZXSpin and Spectaculator. There are reasons mainly boring ones why these two, I think it was also either Fuse or Zero I had before the reinstallation a few months back as that had very advanced breakpoints which I needed (break on value increasing or break on register change etc) On 3/29/2025 at 7:18 PM, jetsetdanny said: Thanks, Andy! Why didn't you just record all three files using the same emulator? It refused to 'accept' full frames to record an .avi despite retrying it the next day too. It has its quirks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted yesterday at 01:02 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 01:02 AM 12 hours ago, Spider said: It refused to 'accept' full frames to record an .avi despite retrying it the next day too. It has its quirks. OK, I get it. I never really tried to record an .avi file straight from the emulator, so I wouldn't know about the issues that may arise, even though I also use Spin and Spectaculator (and nothing else; Spin to record games and Spectaculator play them back). Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted 20 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 20 hours ago 17 hours ago, jetsetdanny said: OK, I get it. I never really tried to record an .avi file straight from the emulator, so I wouldn't know about the issues that may arise, even though I also use Spin and Spectaculator (and nothing else; Spin to record games and Spectaculator play them back). It can freeze gameplay (usually at a critical moment!) , at least for me due to disk writing/caching. If I just want a quick video of play normally I'd do an .rzx, then play it back and record the playback as an .avi. Regarding rzx's in general: I'm the opposite, I record in Spectaculator and otherwise generally use ZXSpin. In this case I needed to record in ZXSpin because I could disable contention*** , but for .rzx the reason I use Spectaculator is simply as taking a snapshot doesn't pause the action something ZXSpin seems to do which is annoying. 🙂 *** I think I'm capable (just) of doing it for real but its a fair bit of work. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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