Recording ScummVM games

Balious5 · Post by **Balious5** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:03 am

Hello everyone. I would like to do a playthrough of some of my fave games like Beneath a Steel Sky, Sam & Max hit the road and other games but I can't seem to find a recorder that works with ScummVM. I tried Fraps but that doesn't appear to work.

Does anyone know of a solution to this?

Freddo · Post by **Freddo** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:51 am

You could play the games in DOSBox instead and use it's internal video recording function.

LogicDeLuxe · Post by **LogicDeLuxe** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:48 am

This might be helpful: http://www.adventure-speedruns.com/sites/tutorials.php

SimSaw · Post by **SimSaw** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:44 pm

ScummVM had supported such a feature in the past. Unfortunately, it got broken and thus disabled. It doesn't look like it's going to be fixed soon.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:05 pm

Actually, I am pretty sure ScummVM never had support for such a feature...

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:57 pm

I think he means the action recorder thingy.

LogicDeLuxe · Post by **LogicDeLuxe** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:48 am

Jonatan wrote:I think he means the action recorder thingy.

Original SCUMM has such a feature, which was used on the Monkey Island 2 demo.
It isn't suited for recording the entire game, though. I guess, it doesn't record random events.

Balious5 · Post by **Balious5** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:44 pm

Thanks everyone. I see if any of the options work for me.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:31 pm

LogicDeLuxe wrote:
Jonatan wrote:I think he means the action recorder thingy.
Original SCUMM has such a feature, which was used on the Monkey Island 2 demo.
It isn't suited for recording the entire game, though. I guess, it doesn't record random events.

The LucasArts SCUMM engine (SPUTM) may have had that, but ScummVM never had. So I stand to what I wrote

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Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:36 pm

fingolfin wrote:
LogicDeLuxe wrote:
Jonatan wrote:I think he means the action recorder thingy.
Original SCUMM has such a feature, which was used on the Monkey Island 2 demo.
It isn't suited for recording the entire game, though. I guess, it doesn't record random events.
The LucasArts SCUMM engine (SPUTM) may have had that, but ScummVM never had. So I stand to what I wrote .

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=418822

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:35 pm

Gotcha

. Yes, correct, we had an event record, and its parts still lurk inside our code base, happily rotting along and not serving any useful purpose! Sorry, Jonatan!

Not that the event recorder wouldn't have helped the original poster, as he apparently is trying to record a video, not an event stream...

Balious5 · Post by **Balious5** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:04 pm

I tried Camtasia from the adventure-speedruns site and that seems to work perfectly. A shame I only have the trial of it so far.

Thanks again everyone for helping me

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:57 pm

Camstudio is free, isn't it? Though I hear bad things about it constantly. I never had any problems with it myself.

Balious5 · Post by **Balious5** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:18 am

Not from the site I got it off.

Post by **criezy** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:39 am

Balious5 wrote:I tried Camtasia from the adventure-speedruns site and that seems to work perfectly. A shame I only have the trial of it so far.

MusicallyInspired wrote:Camstudio is free, isn't it?

Camtasia and Camstudio are two different software doing the same thing. Camtasia is indeed not free, but camstudio is. I have never used Camstudio so I cannot discuss on the merit of each one.