Screenshots saved on SD card onto PC?

[benwest96]

To someone who has the game:

Can saved screenshots saved on an SD card be viewed and edited on a PC?

I'm curious because I'm thinking that they may be saved in a special format so that they're only readable in Brawl.

Thanks.

 

[S.R. XXVII]

And videos too, can they be saved on an SD as well?

 

[Icarus Descent]

Yes,but you may need to buy a SD Card reader I think thats what it's called.Luckily my computer came with slots where you can insert different memory cards,cool huh.

I don't know about vids though.

 

[jonkil]

dang vids are the most important :/

 

[S.R. XXVII]

I have an SD card reader... i need those vids....

 

[Chaosblade77]

It depends on the format it saves the images in. It might be some special format you can only use to view them on Brawl, but even if it is, it would only be a matter of time before someone came out with a converter.

It would also depend if it saves them outside of the main Brawl file.

 

[Doopliss_Swe]

I thought about this too, but it has to be some special format, or else one could view normal pictures on brawl too...

 

[Eszett]

Given that it allows for three minutes of what is supposedly "high-definition" recording, I wouldn't imagine it to be a video file at all.

I'm thinking it'd merely be a sequence of button inputs for each character and a log of the random events that occured during that span of time. Should that be the case, one would need to burn an ISO file of Brawl, emulate the Wii architecture and get it to read the SD card and use the file data to reconstruct the match. Some sort of screen capture device or stream dump would then be in order to create a usable video format file.

In other words, the file itself might not contain any video whatsoever.

 

[kamekasu]

Given that it allows for three minutes of what is supposedly "high-definition" recording, I wouldn't imagine it to be a video file at all.

I'm thinking it'd merely be a sequence of button inputs for each character and a log of the random events that occured during that span of time. Should that be the case, one would need to burn an ISO file of Brawl, emulate the Wii architecture and get it to read the SD card and use the file data to reconstruct the match. Some sort of screen capture device or stream dump would then be in order to create a usable video format file.

In other words, the file itself might not contain any video whatsoever.

That's what I was thinking, a la Halo 3.
It's much more prudent to do it this way.
Then the console doesn't have the pressure of capturing the footage and compressing the video file. It can just memorize the actions taken by the game, and replay them.

As for screenshots, it's the same deal. In Melee it was just a bit of code that memorized the situation the characters were in and produced an image of it.

 

[OoNoiRoO]

a special format so that they're only readable in Brawl.

Bingo, unfortunately =(

I have tried already.

 

[Eszett]

Bingo, unfortunately =(

I have tried already.

Can you determine whether the files themselves contain video data in a propietary codec, or are a simply a sequence of commands that the game reconstructs?

At any rate, this shouldn't be much of an issue. A high-end video/sound card will accept a Video/Audio In to allow for direct recording from a Wii. If the computer somehow cannot support showing a live capture to allow for gameplay, a match can be recorded on a standard TV and fed through the Video/Audio In ports.

 

[drengist]

****ation!

 

[holizz]

Unfortunately, it seems that both replays and photos are in novel formats. Also, you can only send things to friends with Brawl. Since you can pause the replays and move the camera around it won't be a video, more a list of who did what.

The directory structure looks a bit like this (where / is the root of the SD card):
/private/wii/app/RSBJ/al/al_080202_2040.bin
/private/wii/app/RSBJ/rp/rp_080202_1725.bin
/private/wii/app/RSBJ/rp/rp_080202_2039.bin

Where al is photos (album), and rp is replay. 080202 is the date in YYMMDD. I'm not sure what the second number is, since it doesn't match the time displayed.

Note that both videos are exactly 1024 bytes (different number of characters, both stock so different time lengths), and the photo is 99456 bytes. This makes me wonder about the photos being like the videos, a description of who is where, and makes me wonder if they're actually some kind of image. If it is an image, then it should be possible to convert it to a normal format somehow.