Tom Jackson
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Update 3/10/18 - WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
🕑 Added 2018-10-03 00:56:09 +0000 UTC Hey folks, long time no see, sorry for the radio silence but coming at you with an update full of good news.There will (hopefully) be two remixes this month, I'm pretty underway with both of them right now and can't see them taking longer than the rest of month.
So what's with the delay?
It's a somewhat long and boring story so I'll put a TL;DR at the end but read on if you're itching for the details.
Breath of the Wild has a lot of text on screen which is a big no no for me in my videos as I find it very distracting when rapidly cutting between different shots. Because of this I originally intended to do a quick video for the Breath of the Wild track using mostly scenic shots, similar in style to Dark Souls III, Journey etc. The problem was that while going through my footage I realized Breath of the Wild has a LOT of text on screen, so much so I didn't actually have enough footage to edit a video together without re-using a great deal of it. There's also no settings in the game that allows you to turn off subtitles or HUD elements leaving me with not a lot of options......or so I thought.
I started doing some sleuthing and eventually found a reddit post where a user had uploaded the raw video files with no sound or subtitles, unfortunately it was a little too good to be true and the link was broken.
I was unable to get a hold of the user who uploaded the vids but this got me to thinking that the video files must exist inside the games file structure and if I spent a little time cracking it open I'd have exactly what I needed.
So I spent a couple of weeks in some shady back alleys of the internet where I downloaded a dump of the switch cartridge and a bunch of nerve wracking .exe files before learning all about the games file structure and security. Finally after tinkering away I managed to get to those sweet sweet video files only to find a lot of stuff seemed to be missing. When comparing the video files I found to my own captured footage I was missing a great deal of important cutscenes and super useful footage so I dug a little deeper and eventually discovered to my great dismay that the footage I was missing was rendered in-game.
At this point I nearly gave up and was ready to just cobble together something with the footage I had but the guardian angel that is youtube came to the rescue. In my suggested videos was a clip of someone emulating BotW for Wii U at 1080p which had me intrigued and after doing a little digging I found the emulator in question has some mods which can disable all HUD and text elements within the game. The perfect solution had finally arrived with only one problem, I had to play Breath of the Wild again in it's entirety.
So now instead of 2 minutes of video footage I have about 80 hours worth which is more than I could've asked for and is finally coming together to make a quality video.
My apologies for this large delay, the video will be out relatively soon along with a couple of new tracks so hopefully the wait will be worth it.
Cheers.
Tom.
TL;DR: I emulated BotW and played through the game again in it's entirety to get footage of the game without text or HUD elements.
Comments
Malastrome
Geez man. I'm sure it'll be worth all that effort.
Avery Blue
Master hacker Liltommyj is on the case!
