Activity seems to be low all-around these days, so I'm whipping out one of my old consoles and playing a game all the way through. Using a random number generator, I decided I would play a PLAYSTATION game!
My Playstation collection also happens to be my smallest, so I figured I'd turn to the internet for votes. Which game shall I play?
Most everyone knows all of these titles by now, but I should mention that Tear Ring Saga is a Fire Emblem game by another name that was only released in Japan. Here's a screenshot to cement it.
Xenogears would be boring. SOTN and FF7 are overdone. I voted for Tear Ring Saga because it's something I've never heard of before, but I agree with the majority that Harvest Moon might be the most fun game for an LP.
Ooh, an actual LP, I should try that.
My current tools include a mic built into my computer (I might have a better one elsewhere but I don't know), CamStudio (which I've used for twovideos before when I did some Earthbound challenges), Audacity in case I need to mess with my voice or background noise, and [s]ePSXe[/s] totally a Playstation.
If anyone wants to recommend a Windows tool I will merrily listen with a glass of juice. I'll be experimenting with this for a while, probably.
No can do!
It seems that neither of my computers are up to snuff for LP material - One's a Vista, the other's XP, both are laptops, and neither of them can record Stereo Mix at all. I can't record audio directly from my gameplay, only from my mic, which is unacceptable.
(I've tried recording in CamStudio and Audacity, but this is apparently a problem with my computers, not the software or the mic.)
In retrospect, the recording I did for my Earthbound videos was on a... Dell XP desktop, I think. That worked just fine. Laptops just don't.
I'm not about to buy a new computer just for a Let's Play series, though, so all I can say is Sorry, everyone!
When you say none of them can use Stereo Mix, do you mean that the option for it doesn't show up in the Volume Controls? I know for a fact that Vista hides the option away for Stereo Mix even if your computer is capable of it.
I'm familiar with this problem and found a way around it (which involves your method and using Audacity's Preferences -> Audio I/O tab), but I still didn't receive any sound when I recorded. And I tried it on Windows XP, too, where the option is there in Audacity, but I still can't get any sound.
If you don't mind squeezing a Linux partition onto your hard drive (pretty easy to do these days) The PCSX emulator plus the gtk-recordmydesktop program might suit your needs.
Baconlabs wrote:Does that program record both the video and audio? Because it's the audio I'm concerned with.
Yes, I have used it for all the playthroughs I have recorded.
One gotcha is that on some computers you have to change the sound device. On some you have to use hw:0,0 and on others you have to use plughw:0,0 and if you use the wrong one, the audio lags behind the video. Very frustrating when you have recorded for 20 minutes before you notice.
Also, when the recording is complete, and it starts compressing it, the cancel button is highlighted by default. Frustrating you happen to press enter right after you click the "stop recording" button. I am always paranoid when finishing a recording on it. Careful... don't... touch... enter... key....
