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Status update: The next release of bizhawk will have the N64 trace logger!
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Hooraaaaaaaay!
drops all duties to watch this
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Samsara, I downloaded both links I provided and Genesis ROMs load perfectly for me in both. Are you trying fresh unzips or just dropping the new exe over the old one? Because it won't magically create a gen+gx dll that way, which is int he package, but was missing from my other interims.
If you simply replace the exe, at least replace all the dlls as well.
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Samsara wrote:
So maybe we should go with something like "Assist Points"... or "Credit Points", since I've been using the word "credit" three times per sentence anyway. Offer these new points for doing things that may not have anything to do with actual TASing, but are still useful to the site. Make a yearly award out of it, even. "Contributor of the Year" or "User of the Year" has always been an award I'd like to see, just for the people that don't TAS but are extremely kind and helpful toward the community. This could be a great way to initiate that award and get people to start offering more contributions.
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Mothrayas wrote:
Maybe quantify their productivity in some other way. For example, it may be possible to keep track of statistics for game resource/article edit counts, uploads of scripts or other relevant files, etc. But I think player points should be for the actual TASers only. Otherwise the term gets diluted too much.
I think being a part of the run with your research is a good thing, having some separate currency that would be additional to player points is also interesting, but I'd just replace it with a single rank (Researcher) without assigning researcher points, because such points would 1) compete with player points in prestige, lose that battle and end up being meaningless (you can't evaluate quality of help by mere quantity), 2) be faceless, due to not being tied to games that bring those points, unlike if researcher is added to a team.
I'm not sure what Samsara means though, being a part of the team or just getting those points by site database juggling?
I think the best solution would be just adding a guy to the team. Little input contribution is no problem when being added, hence significant research contribution shouldn't be either.
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Are youtube modules broken just for me?
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Even in that build?
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It's the recording mode (read+write). You record during it. It records buttons you press. Haven't you ever tased the old way?
The hotkey is Q by default, but there's a checkbox.
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I should announce that the recent builds (that are now automatically updated in the OP after each commit) I finally added the Recording mode in TAStudio. TEST!!!
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RGamma wrote:
In fact I'd appreciate a Nach or adelikat post here concerning general guidance.
When we met in person with moozooh last winter, he told me about the problem: Nach wants to run linux-driven things, probably comparable with what is used now, and adelikat wants to use C# and co. It could be run on linux, but the concept would be totally different.
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The split reflects the rules used for each metacategory:
Additional branches have to be entertaining and can obsolete each other based on that, in addition to speed (which isn't the main factor)
Any%/100% should just be optimal and only obsolete based on that (probably difficulty settings and similar things can affect things too)
The split represents records with due highlighting. Right now, we only highlight what is cool to watch, and discard what is not, so speed optimality (tech level of the run) gets lower promotion compared to entertainment. But for a run in current Moons or Stars, speed optimality (being a record) is just as important (if not more so).
The split serves as an additional indicator of "legit any%" for games with a branch faster than any% due to things like newgame+, unlockable modes, and stuff like that.
Mothrayas wrote:
Even if splitting speed and entertainment runs is non-ambiguous or non-arbitrary, what is the purpose of splitting them? What benefit is there to putting, say, Super Metroid 100% on the other side of the site as Super Metroid RBO? Why does there need to be a split of this nature?
It won't be the other side of the site, if we go game-based. Just like right now, if you observe a publication for a given game, the tree below the pub module lists all branches for that game (and their history), showing both tiers, regardless of how they are split in the Movies page links (which will become obsolete probably).
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Mothrayas wrote:
feos wrote:
Mothrayas wrote:
What is the speed-entertainment split for, then?
All the problems that post lists are resolved if we move from tiers to metacategories.
What is the purpose of a speed-entertainment split?
Ummm, are you in a loop? The point is (and has been from the start of the "Vault Tier Discussion" thread) fixing all those problems.
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There's a setup for libtretro cores in bizhawk, the fba one was reported to be working, so you could use tastudio on this game. But you'd have to figure out the setup yourself, by reading bizhawk docs on the wiki and asking questions in its forum section.
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Mothrayas wrote:
Maybe quantify their productivity in some other way. For example, it may be possible to keep track of statistics for game resource/article edit counts, uploads of scripts or other relevant files, etc. But I think player points should be for the actual TASers only. Otherwise the term gets diluted too much.
I think being a part of the run with your research is a good thing, having some separate currency that would be additional to player points is also interesting, but I'd just replace it with a single rank (Researcher) without assigning researcher points, because such points would 1) compete with player points in prestige, lose that battle and end up being meaningless (you can't evaluate quality of help by mere quantity), 2) be faceless, due to not being tied to games that bring those points, unlike if researcher is added to a team.
I'm not sure what Samsara means though, being a part of the team or just getting those points by site database juggling?
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These are all other ideas than a speed-entertainment split. What is the speed-entertainment split for, then?
Right, you've never read my response to you. Here it is: Post #421751. All the problems that post lists are resolved if we move from tiers to metacategories.
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And by "unpromoting" Vault runs, that does promote Moon runs relatively compared to Vault movies, which is precisely the point. There's no difference between promoting one or unpromoting the other, as there is no absolute rate of "promotion".
And I said unpromotion, because we don't showcase Moons any batter than before the tier system, we simply hide Vault. It sounds like it makes sense, but the problems it causes are heavier than the benefits it brings.
I remind, that speed-entertainment split is not ambiguous or arbitrary: all "fastest possible" and "full completion" runs go to Coins, if their submissions are optimal, all the rest branches go to Moons, and published if they are optimal and entertaining. Stars are cherry-picked from both.
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I'd prefer to hear counter points to using C#. It's interesting to follow which one's benefits outweigh the other's.
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Mothrayas wrote:
I think this devalues the idea of "player points". If you did not actually participate in TASing a game, you should not be receiving player points.
That might sound solid, but there are cases when a researcher helped to move the TAS to an entirely new level of optimization. We want to encourage researchers, because research is mandatory for a really good run, but very few people have the skill to dive into game internals and develop scripts based on that.
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I am against any idea that splits the site into speed and entertainment regions. It ruins the original concept of the tier system, which was devised to let outstanding runs get more exposure, and only means you get two 'halves' of the site that would be more or less equal in the hierarchy, which means there is no point to splitting them in the first place.
Just to address, Stars were supposed to remain, as were all the flags, one of which is newcomer rec. There can also be a list of best rated movies. So you still get 3 ways to promote good runs. Right now all of these can be used, but the rest of the system doesn't promote Moons any better than they were or could be promoted, instead it just unpromotes vault.
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You don't really have to look for reasons of actions done by insane people.
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Well then, I don't think open bus is emulated.
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At least not in this section.
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