TAS Movie Editor

TAS Movie Editor official versionIt is a professional and outstanding practical software that can record game clearance videos. The official version of TAS Movie Editor is very full-featured. Players who clear TAS Movie Editor can record various strange game clearance methods, such as clearing Contra without firing a single shot, clearing Green Fortress using only melee combat, and other wonderful operations. Some of the incredible game operations we see now are all recorded through this software. By exporting the video recorded in the simulator for editing, it becomes their own "hand-made" operation.

TAS Movie Editor Instructions for Use

​ 1. Open TAS Movie Editor and import the game video recorded by the simulator.

2. Achieve some incredible effects through frame-by-frame editing or paragraph editing.

What is TAS?

TAS (Chinese name "TAS"), also known as "tool-assisted operation technology". It refers to a technology that uses an emulator on a computer and cooperates with auxiliary software to achieve unconventional game operations without changing the game rules (such as program code and memory status) at all.

Broadly speaking, this is a way to use game auxiliary tools to enhance the fun of the game. But TAS is different from Goldfinger. The cheat directly destroys the original data of the game to achieve impossible phenomena, such as the protagonist's vitality is always 100%, unlimited money and ammunition, etc. The spirit of TAS is not to change the game data, but to use the emulator to faithfully record the game buttons, and then use the emulator's playback function to reproduce the game process. Theoretically, under extreme conditions, these processes can be achieved on real machines. People like TAS because besides being surprising and incredible, TAS still has a sense of reality. Because even if the probability is close to zero, with a probability of one in a billion, these superb game skills are indeed possible. Therefore, TAS focuses more on entertainment rather than racing. Many TAS writers invest in creation and put their TAS videos on the Internet like works of art for TAS enthusiasts to appreciate.

After clarifying the structure of the Tas file, you can analyze the principles of its production and playback. No matter which point you start from, you can't do without the platform, games and operations. TAS-Info window interface

There are three files as carriers. The only difference between production and playback is that production records the player's operation content into the TAS file, while playback releases and restores the player's operation, so what you see is not a record of the image, but a record of the operation. As long as you have the same platform and game version as the player, you can play back the player's scene normally. Even if the platform and game version are not exactly the same, since there is a lot of compatibility between the TAS platform and the game, it can be completely reproduced. In addition, I have also analyzed before that a standard TAS file starts from the beginning from Start/Power On (including a hardware reset pulse), continuously records the operands in the middle, and does not record other additional information until the end of the file. Therefore, the standard TAS file cannot be cheated. So when you see a surprising TAS, don't first think "this is a cheating thing". In fact, even if you want to cheat, it is impossible.

TAS Movie Editor update log

1. Fixed other bugs;

2. Optimized software compatibility.