1. Should pirate games, fangames and clones be included in Game groups?
2. Should we really add every submission with no Game linked to a Game entry?
I don't think that I would put 8 Eyes with Castlevania, though, since they had separate development teams, publishers, and commercial releases.
I am also leaving out ROM-Hacks because I assume the way they are dealt with will change as Playground is implemented.
Is there a reason why Auto-restore on Mouse Up only has been removed?
#5997: EZGames69's Uzebox Melli's Retro Land in 04:38.92 This was rejected due to game choice and being too trivial. However I feel like the triviality reason could be relooked at for this, and perhaps game choice too since Uzebox games are pretty much all considered homebrews anyway.
- Generally speaking, me and the community for this game prefer to make any% the baseline and anything that deviates from that has additional descriptors and criteria to go along with it. That being said, TASVideos is not the community for this game and shouldn't have to accommodate the way we've done things historically, for obvious reasons. - If this TAS is not branchless, I do not know what TAS would fill that role if it was ever created. The "beat Ganon" speedrun of this game is very unpopular because it is essentially the exact same run except you wrong warp to the final boss instead of the credits. It's mostly uninteresting, is not unique, and is simply longer. I do not anticipate any TAS would ever be submitted that would ever adequately fill a branchless role except maybe a glitchless TAS if that ever happened? - I am somewhat using the discussion/decision that happened here to base this situation on: https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Topics/22944
I for one do not see the problem with having no branchless videos of a game at all. Not everyone would know what the 'baseline' is for any given game, and it seems to me that there is nothing to be gained from leaving videos branchless?
In fact, we never published a new branch that isn't at least 50% different than any other existing branch, so I wonder how did you come to that conclusion.
Well, a movie that forgoes using major skips could probably be considered branchless.
- Unlicensed and homebrew games need to meet a minimum standard of game quality. They should be complete and original.
- Bootleg games must not be direct clones of a licensed game on the same console. Unlicensed ports with unique gameplay, such as demakes, are allowed.
Link to video kreated custom characters have way better combos for speedrunning, how exactly could i use some of them into a TAS? you gotta buy their moves, but only few moves are needed for this infinite, only 3 HPs and a special move, so athe TAS could have a movie for verification just to prepare for the run
Keep getting an error opening my TAS project. I've had the error a bunch of times now and usually i just restart/reload project a bunch of times or restart my computer and it goes away. Its kinda getting annoying now though. This error blocks out the input editor from working. Game is Spider-man web of shadows/DS emulator Bizhawk Version 2.8 ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.TAStudio.TasView_QueryFrameLag(Int32 index, Boolean hideWasLag) at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.InputRoll.SetLagFramesFirst() at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.InputRoll.SetLagFramesArray() at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.InputRoll.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
If anyone could help get the fix merged into upstream ruffle, it would be greatly appreciated.
If a hack is a lot different from the original game, can it be accepted? It has same sprites (slight modification) New fresh physics Different genre of game Gameplay is good A bit of entertainment value
I like the implementation, but I’m not sure I fancy having everything centrally on one page. I think having game forums, which can not only have discussion forums for their playground runs pinned, but other threads for discussing technical aspects underneath, would be cool. Or even just a distinction between runs, I just think with this system it’s easy for runs to get lost. Unless I’m completely missing an intention here lol
This game, MORTAL KOMBAT 4, has 2 interesting modes, Arcade and Endurance. Endurance is harder and shorter, as you only have 1 round for each fight and keep the HP levels between fights. Should Endurance be used instead of the Arcade mode? I feel it might be a little off-putting to use the mode that isn't the main mode for the game. There's also the settings, since in this game you can change round count, which would make both modes very similar.
Download midilogra.cLanguage: luafunction logs(s) local logfile = io.open("midilogra.txt", "a+") logfile:write(s) logfile:close() end function dooutput (msg) local timestr = msg[1] local i = 3 while (i <= #msg) do local evtype = msg[i]:match ("^.") --io.write ("##", evtype, "\n") if evtype == "c" or evtype == "d" then logs (timestr..",".."0000"..msg[i + 1]..msg[i].."\n") i = i + 2 else logs (timestr..",".."00"..msg[i + 2]..msg[i + 1]..msg[i].."\n") i = i + 3 end end end for line in io.lines ("midilog.txt") do -- for now, try ignoring special messages if line:find ("sysex") then local msg = {} for token in line:gmatch ("([^,]+)") do table.insert (msg, token) end dooutput (msg) elseif line:find ("finalizing...") then local timestr = line:match ("(%d+)") local channums = {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"} for i, v in ipairs (channums) do logs (timestr..",00007bb"..v.."\n") -- all notes off end end end
^ build by simply running gcc midilogra.cLanguage: c#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> int totalbytes = 0; void decode (unsigned time, unsigned event, FILE *f) { static unsigned lasttime = 0; static int laststatus = 0; int status = event & 0xff; int d1, d2; if (status & 0x80) { laststatus = status; d1 = event >> 8 & 0xff; d2 = event >> 16 & 0xff; } else { d1 = status; status = laststatus; d2 = event >> 8 & 0xff; } unsigned delta = time - lasttime; lasttime = time; // write varlen char writer[4] = {0, 0, 0, 0}; int pos = 0; while (delta) { writer[pos] = delta & 127; if (pos) writer[pos] |= 0x80; pos++; delta /= 128; } if (!pos) { writer[0] = 0; fwrite (writer, 1, 1, f); totalbytes++; } else { while (pos > 0) { fwrite (writer + pos - 1, 1, 1, f); totalbytes++; pos--; } } // aren't actually writing out running status switch (status & 0xf0) { case 0x80: // off case 0x90: // on case 0xa0: // aftertouch case 0xb0: // controller case 0xe0: // bend fwrite (&status, 1, 1, f); fwrite (&d1, 1, 1, f); fwrite (&d2, 1, 1, f); totalbytes += 3; break; case 0xc0: // program case 0xd0: // channel aftertouch fwrite (&status, 1, 1, f); fwrite (&d1, 1, 1, f); totalbytes += 2; break; default: fprintf (stderr, "OH MY GOD\n"); exit (0); } return; } int main (void) { FILE *f = fopen ("midilogra.mid", "wb"); char buff[256]; char bigheader[] = {'M', 'T', 'h', 'd', 0, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1}; // midi clocks per quarternote fwrite (bigheader, 1, 14, f); char chunkheader[] = {'M', 'T', 'r', 'k', 0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef}; fwrite (chunkheader, 1, 8, f); // tempo event (microseconds per quarternote char openevent[] = {0x00, 0xff, 0x51, 0x03, 0x00, 0x03, 0xe8}; fwrite (openevent, 1, 7, f); totalbytes += 6; while (fgets (buff, 256, stdin)) { unsigned time; unsigned ev; if (sscanf (buff, "%u,%x", &time, &ev) != 2) { fprintf (stderr, "NO WAY MAN\n"); exit (0); } decode (time, ev, f); } // end of track event // lets give ~10 seconds // 10000ms = 78, 16 (ce 10) char endevent[] = {0xce, 0x10, 0xff, 0x2f, 0x00}; fwrite (endevent, 1, 5, f); totalbytes += 5; fseek (f, 18, SEEK_SET); char scratch; scratch = totalbytes >> 24; fwrite (&scratch, 1, 1, f); scratch = totalbytes >> 16; fwrite (&scratch, 1, 1, f); scratch = totalbytes >> 8; fwrite (&scratch, 1, 1, f); scratch = totalbytes; fwrite (&scratch, 1, 1, f); fclose (f); return 0; }
It's hard to tell without seeing the Hourglass inputs