Battle replays

**Tony Furze** · 01-15-2008, 01:49

Is it possible to make battle replays for Shogun Total War? I find it useful for screenshots.

**Drisos** · 01-15-2008, 02:40

Yes, though I recall people saying that it didn't work for them, or didn't work in certain situations.

I'll look it up.. ehmmm..

Recording battles

It is possible to vieuw record and playback battles you played, beneath is information how to do so:

- Go to your shogun main folder.
- Rightclick at 'shogun.exe' and leftclick on 'create shortcut'.
- Do the same once again.
- Rightclick on one shortcut, and leftclick on 'change name'.
- Name the first shortcut 'record'.
- Do the same once again with the other shortcut and call it 'playback'.
- Rightclick on the 'record' shortcut and leftclick on 'properties'.
- Leftclick in the 'target' box and move the cursor to the end of the text in the box.
- Add a space and 'ER'.
- Click 'Apply'.
- Rightclick on the 'playback' shortcut and leftclick on 'properties'.
- Leftclick in the 'target' box and move the cursor to the end of the text in the box.
- Add a space and 'mEP'.
- Click 'Apply'.

To record a battle you must run shogun from the 'record' shortcut, the saved battle will be in your 'dumplog' folder. But shogun only saves the last battle in that folder so to save the battle you must cut it and paste it into whichever other folder. To playback the battle which is in your dumplog folder at that moment, run shogun from the 'playback' shortcut. The file in your 'dumplog' folder must be called 'replay', the 'dumplog' folder is in your shogun main folder.

well.. I'm intrested, did it work? good luck!

**Puzz3D** · 01-17-2008, 17:06

You can rename 'reply.dat' and leave it in the dumplog folder. When you want to watch it you can rename it back to replay.dat. Don't forget to rename it again if you don't want it to be written over by the next recorded battle you play.