TASEmulators / TASEmulators/BizHawk

BizHawk no longer saves bk2 movies upon creation

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App: EmuHawk Repro: Regression from 2.9.1 Waiting on dev consensus
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Description

I noticed this with the workflow File > Record Movie followed by Tools > TAStudio. I think it'd be preferable if they were initially saved at least once when they were created.

TAStudio does prompt:

Convert movie
TAStudio will create a new project file from the current movie.
The current movie has unsaved changes. Would you like to save before closing it?

but I would argue creation is not a change per se but just the base state upon which changes can be done.

This was not the behavior in 2.9.1, and this seems likely to be a recent change.

Host env.
  • BizHawk dev build at ed676cda391d25bdb1728ada13b7df21c0a974df; Win11

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Research direction

Reproduce the File > Record Movie followed by Tools > TAStudio workflow on the reported BizHawk build, then trace the movie-creation and conversion flow. Done means a newly created .bk2 movie is saved at least once and the conversion prompt no longer treats that initial state as an unsaved change.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

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Tech stack
csharp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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