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When I try to save a 10-second gif of the wonderful game Tera, it simply saves a blank file to the desktop rather than a .gif

Using 0.2.0f on Windows 10 Home Edition

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Pico-8
  2. Open the Splore interface
  3. Search Tera: Mind Over Matter
  4. Run the game
  5. Play the game for at least 10 seconds
  6. Press F4 to save a gif

I expect to find a .gif file on my desktop called tera_0.gif
Instead I find an empty file (0 bytes) with no extension called "tera"

I have not tried this for very many other games, but the games I have tried do not have this issue.

"|I'd show you a gif of the bug happening, but...y'know...
-- you, probably "
--JWinslow23

EDIT:

I found the problem. It's the title of the game. The ":" character messes it up. I found another game in splore with a ":" and it does the same thing. Games with "/" in the title refuse to save gifs (as they probably should), though it would probably be beneficial to truncate the name of a game if it has problematic characters in the title for the purpose of generating .gif files. You can try with "Valdi: Shadows" and "Snek: Turrets and Powerups".

P#75877 2020-05-05 20:20 ( Edited 2020-05-05 20:49)

It has been pointed out to me that the "orbiter suite.gif" file looks like it's a .gif of Tera, but it is not. The background is leftover from exiting Tera before I launched Orbiter Suite from splore to see if other carts did the same.

P#75879 2020-05-05 20:31 ( Edited 2020-05-05 20:32)

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