TASEmulators / TASEmulators/BizHawk
Bizhawk doesn't always prompt before opening TAS Studio
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Description
Summary
Just lost a significant save due to this, accidentally clicking "TAS Studio" instead of LUA Console, and only being prompted with
"Detected disabled BIOS during movie recording. It is recommended to use a BIOS for movie recording. Change Sync Settings to run with a BIOS."
instead of the message that says it will reload the core and clear SRAM. Clicking it seems to randomly prompt that it will clear SRAM. However it seems like something like clearing SRAM should always prompt, even if the sram is considered blank.
Repro
- Click Tas Studio
- It Should Prompt and warn about clearing SRAM
- It doesn't prompt most of the time
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue through TAS Studio and compare it with opening the LUA Console, noting when the BIOS warning appears versus the SRAM-clearing prompt. Trace the code paths that reload the core and decide whether SRAM is blank; done means opening TAS Studio consistently warns before clearing SRAM.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100