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Can you save during a recording and continue recording later?
Or would you have to make a few 'episodes' to do that?
BTW, ctrl-q to quit during playback.

TheMormegil wrote:Can you save during a recording and continue recording later?
Or would you have to make a few 'episodes' to do that?

As soon as you enter the save screen recording is stopped. Because RTC records *every* mouse movement and key press, if it didn't then when you played the game back, it would save the game possibly over-writing an existing save game that you wanted.

There is however nothing stopping you making multiple recordings during a game - so start recording, save, start recording again (to a new file), save, etc etc...

Anyway, saving during a recording is cheating isn't it - surely you're meant to do it all in one go

CSBwin does allow saves in the middle of a recording
and does, indded, overwrite the save file if it exists.
I always considered this a feature because:

If I delete a save file halfway through the game then
I can recreate it by replying the recording. If the
recording has several saves into the same savefile
then I edit the recording and truncate it after the
save that I want to recreate. A kind of backup of
all the save files created during play.

Also, I can edit the recording to remove the
saves if I want to release the movie to the public
in a 'cleaner' state that will NOT erase any save
files on anyone else's machine.

I also arranged that editing the recording leaves
indelible marks so that anyone looking at the recording
can see that it was edited.

Of course there is also a program available to splice
together the recordings from several sessions to make
one long movie and those splices also leave
indelible marks in the resulting recording.