Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Some people asked me before how I make a ghost replay video for the SM64 TAS competition.
While I explained the basics, I think it is more useful to just have a recording of the process. As you can see it's quite bodged, and I'm still looking for ways to improve the workflow, but it isn't too bad currently.
The screen recording is sped up roughly 20 times. Before the recording, I downloaded the results and background music. After the recording, I rendered and uploaded the video. The video shows everything in between:
- extracting Mario's state from .m64s
- dividing the entries into separate groups
- recording the camera movement
- rendering a .jpg sequence at 60 fps
- removing lag frames
- creating the overlay text / thumbnail
- editing in Vegas
The final result can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=6VTjTEO97MM
Some people asked me before how I make a ghost replay video for the SM64 TAS competition.
While I explained the basics, I think it is more useful to just have a recording of the process. As you can see it's quite bodged, and I'm still looking for ways to improve the workflow, but it isn't too bad currently.
The screen recording is sped up roughly 20 times. Before the recording, I downloaded the results and background music. After the recording, I rendered and uploaded the video. The video shows everything in between:
- extracting Mario's state from .m64s
- dividing the entries into separate groups
- recording the camera movement
- rendering a .jpg sequence at 60 fps
- removing lag frames
- creating the overlay text / thumbnail
- editing in Vegas
The final result can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=6VTjTEO97MM
