Ever been disconnected from a game you were clearly winning and wanted a second chance? Ever wanted to play your favorite pro game moments out with your friends? A programmer in China has brought these dreams to life.
PlayRep is a program which essentially allows you to save any moment from a replay and convert it into a multi player save game, allowing you to load that game and play yourself. This means you could actually play virtually any game to ever be released onto replay. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Disconnections from games will no longer be an issue; simply save the replay at the moment of the disconnection and play again.
How to use:
1 Run BW, begin watching a rep at online mode (2 or 3 watchers).
2 Run playrep.exe, click "Enable". If you are the game creator, please have "player1" checked, otherwise, have "player2" or "observer" checked.
3 Switch to the rep, the creator call the main menu, save.
4 Switch to playrep before exit the rep, click "Disable".
5 Now you can use the save file (.mlx) to play.
2 Run playrep.exe, click "Enable". If you are the game creator, please have "player1" checked, otherwise, have "player2" or "observer" checked.
3 Switch to the rep, the creator call the main menu, save.
4 Switch to playrep before exit the rep, click "Disable".
5 Now you can use the save file (.mlx) to play.
The official post about the release is on YaoYuan, along with the download link. There is also a post from Gemo in English that can be found at TeamLiquid's Brood War forum. Use the links below to get to each of these places.
The community has been very delighted and amazed with PlayRep, so we can expect this very interesting and powerful tool to be perfected in time.
Links
YaoYuan.com - Official Post in Chinese
YaoYuan.com - DOWNLOAD PLAYREP
TeamLiquid.net - Source in English
