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Posted: 9/16/2018 3:41 PM

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r57shell has some knowledge of opengl. I saw you questions on IRC, and he shared some ideas, but I couldn't catch you there live. He's occasionally on IRC, but you can try forum PM too.

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Posted: 9/16/2018 2:48 PM
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Note that for future purposes, testing this workflow is still encouraged.

It means when it works stably in libtas, it may be allowed, so just do tests and report bugs.

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Posted: 9/16/2018 2:08 PM

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What I'm asking is, if that glitch is applied to the old movie, will it work and save time? At least a single frame?

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Posted: 9/16/2018 1:15 PM

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So what is even the type of gameplay that's been improved? ThunderAxe31 said this game has no randomness, and you imply that as far as gameplay physics are concerned, it's just a resync. So what is it then? ACE setup itself?

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Posted: 9/16/2018 8:05 AM

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You mean it's impossible to improve the old SML2 run using VBA v24?

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Posted: 9/16/2018 7:16 AM

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Before we rebuild dolphin with ffmpeg, can anyone test if this movie syncs on Linux? EDIT: Here's the source code for the version used: https://github.com/dragonbane0/dolphin/commits/Zelda-Edition-5371 ffmpeg patch: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/3451

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Posted: 9/16/2018 7:09 AM
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http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#UseCommonLinuxDistributions

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Posted: 9/15/2018 12:50 PM

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15:38:58 <Quibus> ah, so Mothrayas and EZGames69 are brothers 15:39:01 <Quibus> it seems 15:39:07 <Mothrayas> Quibus: we're not 15:39:15 <Quibus> oh, cousins? 15:39:20 <Mothrayas> not related 15:39:30 <Quibus> but same last name 15:39:32 <Quibus> ? 15:39:39 <Mothrayas> I don't know what his last name is 15:39:44 <Quibus> or is EZGames69 2 people... 15:39:57 <Quibus> Author's real name: Colin & Wout van Poppel 15:39:57 <Quibus> Author's nickname: EZGames69 & Mothrayas 15:40:03 <MESHUGGAHTAS> lol 15:40:17 <Mothrayas> Quibus: Colin LastNameNotProvided & Wout van Poppel 15:40:20 <MESHUGGAHTAS> first of all Mothrayas is a dog (Woof von Puppy but in dutch) 15:40:25 <Quibus> ahhhhhhh 15:40:28 <MESHUGGAHTAS> second EZGames69 is a script writtne by Masterjun 15:40:34 <MESHUGGAHTAS> please don't spread false informations 15:40:55 <Quibus> OK, that was a bit ambiguous :-) 15:41:14 <Mothrayas> yeah, I can see how you could read it that way lol 15:43:56 <-- Mothrayas has quit 15:44:56 <Quibus> ragequit!

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Posted: 9/14/2018 10:03 PM

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feos wrote:

We can't use a real world image for it, even if we clean it up. The extra image must be generated from scratch, so we don't depend on real world CDs.

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Posted: 9/14/2018 3:20 PM

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So what's NK's plan with this submission? We can't use a real world image for it, even if we clean it up. The extra image must be generated from scratch, so we don't depend on real world CDs.

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Posted: 9/10/2018 7:14 PM

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Where do I say linking it elsewhere is banned?

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Posted: 9/10/2018 6:35 PM

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http://tasvideos.org/PlatformResources.html

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Posted: 9/10/2018 6:20 PM

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Да, круто конечно. Весело видать тасить на двиге в котором даже знание всех условий не помогает :D

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Posted: 9/10/2018 2:46 PM

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WST wrote:

Я лишь знаю, что это возможно, потому что один раз это со мной приключилось, но так как я тратил многие тысячи циклов перезаписи на попытки воспроизвести этот трюк в серьёзных проектах, я на него забил.

Так а зачем уповать на удачу? Если запись этого трюка есть, просто бегаешь по форуму и всех просишь раздебажить. Вот если записи нету, там да, сложно.

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Posted: 9/9/2018 9:33 AM

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Right, which is why I want to actually ensure this is just an arbitrary password option, rather than proper internal mode.

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Posted: 9/9/2018 9:29 AM

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My take on that is that it's not a fastest completion branch, but a demonstration. For the purpose of this concept demo, it might make sense to stop DK3 before the layout loops, because it fits how the other games are played, and it's the only way to make DK3 playthrough look reasonably comparable to the rest. But I may ask opinions of others on this exception.

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Posted: 9/9/2018 9:24 AM

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If there was an easier in-game difficulty that would maximize your health, it would also be a valid option to choose that. However this is just a guideline anyway. The actual problem is the very fact that you basically hard-code your HP to minimum through a password. Since the game stores progress in passwords, rather than unlocks special features, it can't count as unlocking this pre-existing difficulty mode which doesn't seem to exist.

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Posted: 9/9/2018 9:03 AM

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Even then, if all this "difficulty" does is lowering your HP, for such cases it's advised to use easiest:

Guidelines wrote:

Good reasons to use easier difficulties are:
More health for damage boosts

And indeed, the current publication Takes damage to save time.

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Posted: 9/9/2018 8:53 AM

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Have you checked the strats used in this submission? #5993: klmz's NES Donkey Kong 3 in 00:48.00 Would they change the length of this movie?

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Posted: 9/9/2018 6:04 AM

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creaothceann wrote:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

I guess he wants #22 there?

Intel Core i3-7350K @ 4.20GHz 	2,439 	$195.95

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Posted: 9/8/2018 8:44 PM

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J wrote:

Something that came up on IRC today, the TAStudio state sizes for C64 games seem unusually large for a machine which has 64kB RAM. I tested a few roms, they seem to use either 0.26MB, 1.04MB or 4.26MB: [...] From that relatively small sample size, seems like any floppy disk image will use 1.04MB, any (raw) tape image will use 0.26MB and most cartridges will use 0.26MB, but some use 1.04MB, few even 4.26MB. Any idea why or how? * There're two tape formats for C64, .tap (which is a raw tape file, shows up as a supported format in BizHawk's Open ROM dialog) and .t64 (which was originally designed for C64s, doesn't show up as supported but still works, it just loads as a floppy image) From the cartridge ROMs I tested, one didn't seem to work, it just booted into normal C64 startup. Tested on fresh Vice, worked fine: "Leaderboard Golf (1986)(Access Software).crt"

Finally fixed! States are within 277KB now!

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Posted: 9/8/2018 3:49 PM

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All I know is that you need a CPU with faster cores rather than more of them, because bizhawk cannot into parallelism. HDD or SSD probably won't matter much, as we try to make saving tasprojects quicker anyways, but SSD won't hurt. As for RAM, just please get above 4GB :D Videocard will likely not matter if you don't need N64 plugins.

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Posted: 9/8/2018 12:40 PM

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If such a SRAM-anchored movie is going to be really entertaining, then just make a TAS. There are no codes/passwords to unlock those levels, right?

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Posted: 9/8/2018 8:07 AM

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What if you unlock them all in a verification movie, and then use that SRAM to actually TAS them all in one movie? Will they all remain the same as they originally were?

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Posted: 9/7/2018 3:41 PM

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Archanfel wrote:

Кстати скрипт чето не работает, наверное галку Disable HTML поставить забыл.

А какой работы ты от него ждешь? Он же ничего не делает, просто читает объекты.

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