Rayman Designer on Emulator

[Dimentio]

Okay, I don't know if I spelt Emulator right, but I don't really care. Anyway, since last year (the best year of my life), I've been working on my levels on Rayman Designer. I've seen Youtube videos with good quality, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D88uHoLGrvE

And I've seen bad quality, if anyone knows what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWo4p1kX ... re=related

The link above isn't a Rayman Designer Level, it's the R2 BETA. But the guy used a camera or something didin't he? Well I was thinking that is this how people get good quality videos, if anyone knows what I mean? By using an emulator? And can you copy your levels from your acual game, to the emulator with a floppy disk or something? If I could, then that would be great. I could post my levels on youtube, once I get an account. I've always wanted to show off (which is something I don't do normally) my levels.

[spiraldoor]

And can you copy your levels from your acual game, to the emulator with a floppy disk or something?

Do you...actually know what an emulator is?

[Droolie]

He obviously doesn't, but there's no problem with that, I didn't know that myself 5 or 6 years ago. Or maybe I did.
An emulator is a program that lets you, partially or completely, play games that you can normally only play on other consoles, on PC. For example, Project64, a Nintendo 64 emulator, lets you play N64 games on PC. There are also emulators that let you play games from consoles on other consoles. For example, Snes-Station is an emulator that lets you play Super Nintendo games on Playstation 2.

You can record videos from games for PC with FRAPS or another video recording program. Normally, games like Rayman Designer would not require an emulator, because they already are for PC. The problem is, Rayman Designer is for DOS. To record videos in DOS, you DO need an emulator: DOSBox. To record videos in this, you do not need any video recording program ( I think ). You just need to press CTRL+ALT+F5 in DOSBox, and then your video will start recording...

[Dimentio]

Okay First of all, I do acually know what am emulator is. I was obviously wondering if you COULD copy levels with a floppy disk. And Second, what does DOS stand for? And Thirdly, thanks for the advice Drolpirat, but can you put the Video once you recorded it on Microsoft Movie Maker? And Fourthly, this is just something I'm keeping my fingers crossed for, I hope my Dad will acually let me download it. Then I guess I'll have to learn how to use it.....

[spiraldoor]

I hope my Dad will acually let me download it

Why don't you just download it anyway?

[Rsandee]

I hope my Dad will acually let me download it

Why don't you just download it anyway?

Where?
I searched whole piratebay and mininova and those other torrents sites but no one seems to have RD!!

[spiraldoor]

He was talking about Microsoft Movie Maker, not Rayman Designer.

~I downloaded it once, but I can't remember where from. I found it with Google, if that's any help...

[Dimentio]

I hope my Dad will acually let me download it

Why don't you just download it anyway?

I don't live in my own house you know...

[syntheticgerbil]

Of course you can save your levels out. Haven't you had to save your levels to even play them?

This webpage has everything you need to know:

http://www.kmgassociates.com/rayman/maps.htm

Also you can download more "semi-official" levels from that webpage. Notice they are all .mp2, .mp3, .mp4 etc. files. Note that these are not MPEG encoded files, but that the file names just correspond to your map style. So .mp2 is a Bandland level, for instance, since it's the second world in the game.

[spiraldoor]

I hope my Dad will acually let me download it

Why don't you just download it anyway?

I don't live in my own house you know...

What do you live in, then?

[Cairnie]

MS-DOS = Microsoft Disk Operating System

I cannot believe you didn't know what that stood for.

And shouldn't Windows Movie maker already be installed in a typical windows PC?

[Joshua822]

By the way, you can actually copy the files from your floppy over to your hard drive. Just make sure that the directory you're placing them in is accessible to DOSBox ! Then you should be able to mount the files in DOS and use them in Rayman Designer.

[Dimentio]

Can the DOSbox be copied onto a floppy disk and copied onto PC Windows 90-95? Because my PC windows 90-95 is obviously old and doesn't have internet access.

[syntheticgerbil]

Can the DOSbox be copied onto a floppy disk and copied onto PC Windows 90-95? Because my PC windows 90-95 is obviously old and doesn't have internet access.

Wait, back up a second here. There is no Windows 90, unless you mean like Windows 3.1 or 3.0.

And no, don't use DOSBox on a Windows 95 computer. All of the Rayman 1 stuff was designed for Windows 95. so it makes no sense. If you are well versed in Windows 95, it should be able to quickly handle anything DOS related and run a nice DOS shell within your OS that later Windows versions are nearly incapable of doing. This is exactly how Rayman, Gold, and Forever all run: they come up with a basic menu designed to run in Win95 and then open a DOS shell for the setup.exe and the games. I don't even see how DOSBox would work on a Windows 95 computer that already runs DOS shells with the Config.sys and Autoexe.bat stuff set up within your shortcuts. It would be like running a Nintendo 64 emulator on a Nintendo 64.

If you really want to record stuff via DOSBox, I recommend you try it from XP, which is the OS it was designed for (unless work was started in the 2000 era).