Recording Gameplay

[Nike.]

Yes I know there are other ways of recording matches, but I think Brawl needs a setting so you can keep records, like camera mode on melee except instead of a camera it's a camcorder. The Madden series has saving instant replays on it, drawing a HUGE crowd for the game.


so, uhh yea, discuss

 

[Doc Chronic]

i agree, that would be a cool feature to record matches

 

[TaikaAli]

This have been brought up many many times if im not totally wrong but anyway i always have liked this idea because some matches are really worth watching again.

 

[Banks]

they probably will have that feature, it seems logical with all the memory card capabilities of the wii

 

[ToXn]

No hard drive.

 

[teh_nuke]

No hard drive.

video files arent huge and it could save to SD card easily...

 

[Doc Chronic]

video files arent huge and it could save to SD card easily...

exactly, this feature would be relatively easy to include

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I don't think they would put that feature in the game because besides for people here on SWF who else would ever use this feature? It just seems like a lot of unnecessary work for them do.

 

[ToXn]

exactly, this feature would be relatively easy to include

No It wouldn't. Do your homework first. The wii is NOT powerful enough to do this.

On top of that 512 is Lousy and If we wanted to make "Game demos" (where you it's a special file that replay's the game for you, so you insert brawl and it basically replicates the video, resulting in taking less space). If we did use game demo's we would still need to get it on the computer, resulting in us recording it anyways.

On top of that Wii Can't access SD card Slot Except for music, so have fun transferring files all the time.

 

[PukeTShirt]

umm, the wii COULD access the SD card for more than just music, it just hasn't happened yet. Replays are still in the cards

 

[DeathBySpoon]

Recording it would be incredibly easy, the game would just record the button presses of each player and save that, which would be tons less space than an actual video. That, plus a Wii Connect 24 trade thing, kind of like Elebits with custom maps, and that'd work great. It could easily read them off of the SD card, you already can put save files for games on them and transfer them to the Wii, and a replay would just be another kind of save file. The whole groundwork is already there, they would just have to allow us to save the replays, which is not a big deal at all. I would love to see a feature like this in Brawl; watching tournament matches can be very entertaining.

 

[RyokoYaksa]

What kind of video quality are you basing this conjecture on? Video capture is a *very* demanding task for a computer, especially if some of the available resources are already being used (ie. playing the game). It's not feasibly possible within the Wii hardware to record gameplay at any acceptable quality.

The best you can do in this area is have the option for match replays, where the game recreates all of the events in a match by saving all of the button presses and stage happenings and replays them in the proper sequence. This opens up a whole other can of worms, because keeping all of that consistent and true to the match of origin is again, a challenge to the hardware.

 

[super.smash.camel]

Recording it would be incredibly easy, the game would just record the button presses of each player and save that, which would be tons less space than an actual video. That, plus a Wii Connect 24 trade thing, kind of like Elebits with custom maps, and that'd work great. It could easily read them off of the SD card, you already can put save files for games on them and transfer them to the Wii, and a replay would just be another kind of save file. The whole groundwork is already there, they would just have to allow us to save the replays, which is not a big deal at all. I would love to see a feature like this in Brawl; watching tournament matches can be very entertaining.

thats a really good idea..., if the wii just records the button presses it'll hardly take up any space at all

but if they do include it you NEED to be able to play it back in slow-mo XD

 

[Grimwolf]

This would be an awesome idea but I dunno like someone said no hard drive might make it more difficult. I know that Halo 3 has a feature similar to this where u can save kills and deaths to watch them over and see what happened.

 

[CartooN]

Well for people saying that video capture would be difficult for a wii. Yes it would but you could record maybe to another file type, one that just records what players are doing, not an actual video file, just the actions. Then the file would be relatively small, at least then you would have a copy that you could replay and maybe record that again later.

 

[Ronin686]

video files arent huge and it could save to SD card easily...

It wouldn't be a video file. It would be a replay file.

Replay files are much much much smaller than videos. They could have an option to "Render as WMV" or something, then put it on your SD card and then onto your computer.

 

[killbeast301]

If it's a matter of recording and replaying button presses, we could also operate the camera angle ourselves during the replay too, which would be a +.

 

[Baha]

it'll be just like recording a replay of Warcraft 3 or Starcraft. Not hard at all and very light

 

[Vanusk]

Woah, WMVs suck. Its either .avi if you are uploading them to websites or if you have a low end computer, or .mp4 if you have a middle- high end comp and don't plan on uploading them to streaming sites (I've yet to come across a site that can handle the supremeness of .mp4, although Stage6 comes close in terms of quality for anything other)

I'm rather disappointed at watching Movie Maker videos, its just terrible in every way possible.

 

[Baha]

Woah, WMVs suck. Its either .avi if you are uploading them to websites or if you have a low end computer, or .mp4 if you have a middle- high end comp and don't plan on uploading them to streaming sites (I've yet to come across a site that can handle the supremeness of .mp4, although Stage6 comes close in terms of quality for anything other)

I'm rather disappointed at watching Movie Maker videos, its just terrible in every way possible.

Just a question. What software do you use to edit videos? lets say, recorded smash games?

 

[ToXn]

They could have an option to "Render as WMV" or something, then put it on your SD card and then onto your computer.

Lol it's the wii. Look at the hardware and tell me that's possible.

 

[Doggalina]

I have an idea. How 'bout we use our computers and equipment to capture video. It can be expensive, but Kso4351 posted something on how to record videos for under $30 (computer, console not included) http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=107705

Oh, and I'd just like to throw in the off-topic notion of saving camera mode pictures as jpegs for convenience.

 

[Truegamer#1]

Yes I know there are other ways of recording matches, but I think Brawl needs a setting so you can keep records, like camera mode on melee except instead of a camera it's a camcorder. The Madden series has saving instant replays on it, drawing a HUGE crowd for the game.


so, uhh yea, discuss

something out of like halo 3 instead of discussing that I did the Meta-knight combo,
i would have video footage,

a good suggestion on Brawl...

 

[_Phloat_]

Well, what if the game at least saved the last 10 seconds, so when you do an great combo on a friend, you can pause it and show it to him again and again and again

Melee has 100 upon 100's of matches up and it had no recordings, dont worry to much about it.