Hi. I'm Ready Steady Yeti. I have always loved speedruns and TASes, and there's this game I've been obsessed with since age 7 (I'm 16, almost 17 now). The game is called Donkey Kong Country 3 for the GBA. I've discovered most tricks and glitches in the game myself, and have made many, many test TASes of the game and have also been doing "dry speedruns" as I call them (speedruns that were not recorded and were done for fun, without ever necessarily intending to ever record them at the time).
Anyway, so now I want to record a 103% speedrun of the game. Technically, the WR right now is 3 hours and 21 minutes by Avanor, but when I timed myself doing a "dry speedrun" the other day I got 3 hours and 5 minutes because of the extra glitches and such that were used. I really want to record it so I can prove my skills and stuff to people.
But there's just one issue. I have looked everywhere online and cannot find a direct GBA capture device. I've tried just using an emulator to non-TAS speedrun it (don't know if that's even allowed here anyway), but I was messing up on a lot of stuff there that I'd NEVER mess up on on the console. I have two GBA SPs, and three copies of the US version of the game, which is the fastest version anyway. I also tried recording it with a webcam (since I don't have any kind of real camera, except on my phone which definitely wouldn't work), but you could barely if at all see what was going on in the game and the sound was out of sync by a hair.
Anyway, so is there even ANYTHING that any one hacker has done to be able to just record straight off of the console? This would be incredibly useful for me because I've always done "dry speedruns" on the console, and clearly doing it anywhere else isn't working for me. Can anyone please help me?
Anyway, so now I want to record a 103% speedrun of the game. Technically, the WR right now is 3 hours and 21 minutes by Avanor, but when I timed myself doing a "dry speedrun" the other day I got 3 hours and 5 minutes because of the extra glitches and such that were used. I really want to record it so I can prove my skills and stuff to people.
But there's just one issue. I have looked everywhere online and cannot find a direct GBA capture device. I've tried just using an emulator to non-TAS speedrun it (don't know if that's even allowed here anyway), but I was messing up on a lot of stuff there that I'd NEVER mess up on on the console. I have two GBA SPs, and three copies of the US version of the game, which is the fastest version anyway. I also tried recording it with a webcam (since I don't have any kind of real camera, except on my phone which definitely wouldn't work), but you could barely if at all see what was going on in the game and the sound was out of sync by a hair.
Anyway, so is there even ANYTHING that any one hacker has done to be able to just record straight off of the console? This would be incredibly useful for me because I've always done "dry speedruns" on the console, and clearly doing it anywhere else isn't working for me. Can anyone please help me?
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