Testing SPS to XPS conversion

[boombexus]

Hey JB!

So how does this work? Please note that I am completely illeterate when it comes to computers. Do you have a guide for dummies?

Very nice, indeed. I can't wait to use this. I've been dying to see if Mr. Holland has been cheating all this time! j/k Mischa.

 

[jbschumacher]

It's a GUI application, not a commandline Win32 console (DOS look alike) program.

The information about how it's done was for anyone with programming experience that wanted to know how it was done.

 

[boombexus]

Well, JB. I DL'ed your program. It's really easy. I can convert from .xps to .sps and save to my memory card. Then, I load the replay and am actually able to view it, but the person controlled car just goes nutty. The AI cars do fine, but the racer is just bouncing into walls and doing all sorts of crazy things. Am I doing something wrong here or what's happening? Any thoughts?

 

[Robin2]

its had the dick...

 

[Talentless]

i never loaded a replay, i recorded a replay.

 

[boombexus]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. It's not working!

 

[sukerkin]

Hi Boombexus, the gist of the problem is that, like Mr. Schumaker said, NTSC video runs at 50Hz and PAL video runs at 60Hz.

The GT3 replays are not as far as I know recorded video (it's fantastic compression if they are !) but are a copy of the vectors created by the user when driving the race.

When played back, the PS2 reconstructs the race from these vectors. Now (again as far as I know) the PS2 uses the frame rate as a timing device for GT3 so if it rebuilds an NTSC replay from the stored vectors and the system plays it back at the PAL frame rate, the car will be performing apparently random motions as it is trying to drive on a track when it's in a different place than it 'thinks' it is.

Now this is something that is perfectly avoidable if you're a huge, multinational company with hosts of programmers and technical wizards in hand but little old SONY ... er ... oh well !

 

[boombexus]

Hey sukerkin! How ya doin matey?

Yeah, oh well. Damn those Sony bastards.

 

[made in holland]

Yeah, Sony Bastards!!!!

* Thank god, now Boom can't see my replays and find out i'm cheating almost every race *

 

[boombexus]

Originally posted by made in holland
Yeah, Sony Bastards!!!!

* Thank god, now Boom can't see my replays and find out i'm cheating almost every race *

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!!!

 

[made in holland]

Originally posted by boombexus





I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!!!

Sshhh, don't tell anyone!! It's a secret

 

[sukerkin]

Hi Boombexus

Not doing too badly at all right now (in response to your question as to how things were going). My net connections being playing up for the past couple of days though, which is how come I took some time to nip back with a reply.

I'm trying to rebuild my shattered ego after having been absolutely nailed in the first race of a European Touring Car series I'm in over at the Numbers (I came 5th - my blushes have just about died down now !).