Creating and playing log files (guide)

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This is a guide constructed from two posts by Gambit:

The process is something like this:

1) Start a new CSB Win game and set it to record (from the menu at any point from the dungen entrance to during a new/saved game)

2) Stop your game at some point - that is, save and quit (this automatically stops it recording). You can also stop the recording by unticking the option on the menu. A .log file will be produced, with the next concurrent number. YOU CANNOT HAVE MORE THAN 99 LOG FILES. Delete old files if you reach this limit.

3) Playback your recording -- it will play the game exactly as you just recorded it.
To playback the file should be called playfile.log. Make sure that you copy the *.log file to the same folder as the CSBWin .exe file and rename it as needed. Then when you run the .exe, select 'Dungeon' from the menu. When you get to the entrance to the dungeon, you can select 'Playback' from the Misc menu, and the game should then read the .log file and play it back.

You must make sure you use the same dungeon.dat/csbgame.dat and csbwin.exe to playback or else this will not work

4) When the playback finishes, CONTROL RETURNS TO THE PLAYER and you can carry on playing from the point the recording finished

5) There is a programme called CSBSPLICE.EXE that allos you to create a longer movie from several sessions, as long as you are creating a direct chain from a single dungeon.dat/csbsave.dat to several concurrent .log files

NB. Note some dungeons can have the log file automatically generated each time the CSBwin file starts. In this case, do not alter the initial csbgame.dat you use, save to a different saved game slot during that session or you will invalidate the log file generated.