Slippi is without a doubt here to stay. Information technology'due south non only granting players immense amounts of information about our own matches but we tin at present scrutinize the analytics of top player matches as well. Slippi's replay functionality is obviously what virtually of use it for, however rendering replays through Dolphin doesn't grant us simple tools like rewinding that scrubbing through traditional video has. Thankfully, obtaining an AVI file of your sets past using Dolphin's congenital-in frame dump allows us to mixdown clips in real-fourth dimension! Unfortunately this method doesn't capture sound from the match but what better way to launch your music career than to pair it upward with sick nasty Melee clips?

Big shout out to the homie @RococoSSBM for indirectly helping with the creation of this tutorial! If he hadn't posted to Reddit showing how this method works, I would still be screen capturing in OBS at a chunky x fps. (shouts to my old processor)

First, open up Slippi Desktop App and navigate to Configure Settings > Advanced Settings. Copy the path shown and open up it in explorer. Navigate through Users > Dump > then create a folder here called 'Frames' without the apostrophe. This is where our VODs will exist created and then I would recommend creating a shortcut to this path.

Next, open back upward Slippi Desktop App and navigate to your Replay Browser. Pick which replay you'd like a VOD of and exist ready to return it in real time. This next office is crucial: hitting play and so immediately pause the replay using the Dolphin 'Pause' tab.

*Note: I suggest yous don't change the scaling of this Dolphin window to exceed its borders (no blackness bars above/below or on the sides of the replay.) I experienced what I assume is a bug that changed my frame dump resolution resulted in AVIs that had the correct 1/three of the game clipped off. Keeping this window affluent against its borders was the only solution I could discover.

Go to Options > Graphics Settings > Enhancements and select an internal resolution that will maximize your graphical fidelity while notwithstanding assuasive you to dump frames. Retrieve of this as rendering the game plus light video capture software running behind it, thus the ameliorate your computer, the higher resolution you can choose. I personally use x1.5 resolution to maximize prototype quality while still viewing a clean 60fps return. Some compression is used when mixing down these AVIs merely information technology'south zippo worse than a lot of streams dorsum in 2010.

Side by side, hop over to the Advanced tab and move down to Utility. Cheque off the box for Full Resolution Frame Dumps. This enables a college resolution for our AVIs thought I haven't actually eyeballed a departure when having this checked versus leaving it off. Still, I'd say bank check this off as information technology should be making a difference I simply haven't conceived.

At present that you've got your settings tweaked just how you want them, it's time to start making VODs! Close out of the graphics bill of fare and click on Motion-picture show > Dump Frames. From now on, this volition be checked by default when loading a Slippi Replay. Sentinel the replay in existent-time and when it's all finished, printing Finish to cap the AVI and shut out of Dolphin. If there's a serial of matches you want recorded in the same AVI, it's possible to intermission, load up a dissimilar replay, then resume while keeping everything in the same file.

If you ever want to sentinel replays without making a VOD, but break the game earlier the friction match starts, uncheck this option, so resume play.

Something odd nigh this method of video capture Dolphin ordinarily won't let you take more than one framedump0.avi in your Frames folder… but sometimes will. I haven't figured out what causes the cosmos of framedump1, 2, ect… merely often times, these clips incorporate only moments of the 'waiting for game' text. Anyways, to get effectually this problem, I rename VODs and move them to a separate folder. I also keep a shortcut to this VODs but folder in my Frames folder so afterwards I rename a video, I tin can elevate and drib it over.

So in that location y'all become — a method to turn your replays into VODs without OBS or audio for that matter. Maybe soon we'll accept a Dolphin build that has built-in screen capture! Or peradventure we'll all get better CPUs that tin can handle the chug of Dolphin 1080p + OBS 720p. Heck, perhaps we'll go none of this and nosotros'll all be frame dumping like crazy for years to come up. No matter what future we take to await forward to, I'one thousand merely happy we have the nigh competitive Melee environment and growing most 20 years after this game'southward release.

Thank you, everyone, who helped keep the dream live!

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