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I'd want someone else to try replaying this to at least get the movie to run. Also when you start the remake, please post interim versions so others make sure in advance they work properly and sync and stuff.
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I match the config, but once I start the movie, Dolphin instantly says "Movie end" and nothing is happening.
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Samsara wrote:
We should almost never be giving authors tons of extra work just to appease our rules, we should be thinking about how to change our rules to better fit what TASers are submitting naturally.
It's part of the reason why I quote them. "Proper/definitive ending" is always a scale, and it always consists of flags and triggers. Just like with the Ship of Theseus, there's no way to define when exactly it's "definitive enough". But cases like this sounds like a great reason to make the spirit of the rule more apparent, and to discuss what this spirit actually is.
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The only time in which I would find it acceptable to recommend "fixing" an ending is in arbitrary code execution TASes, where it may only be a matter of mere frames to change a horribly corrupted ending that crashes into an ending that plays through perfectly fine, but that's kind of a different topic altogether.
Can't we discuss it now?
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Note on eligibility: completing the second to last area of the game, Midway, sets flags to move Robin’s brother Elro into her house. This is required for the end cutscenes to play out properly, and as this movie skips Midway entirely, the game will fail to reach the credits after completion. As this is still considered a valid run by the RTA community and saves several minutes, I choose not to make the detour to remedy the issue.
I can't remember any cases where we accepted a movie that uses a major skip glitch and it causes the ending credits not to appear. There's [3822] DS Super Mario 64 DS "jumpless" by Adeal in 55:05.13 where the credits start but can't finish due to an unintended situation that is caused by the movie goal, but there's no way to stick to that goal while still letting the credits fully run. With this game however, it only takes a few minutes to make the credits properly run, so I don't think the RTA consensus is automatically a good reason to not reach the credits in a TAS.
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Your submission must beat the game, or reach the most suitable endpoint the game allows. Single-level or otherwise incomplete movies are not allowed. Examples of suitable endpoints are:
A definitive ending, such as a credits sequence.
A kill screen, assuming it is impossible to complete even when TASed.
At the very least we need to have a discussion with our community and staff about the ending in this movie, and potential future movies that don't reach the proper ending. I personally don't think that it should be freely allowed to save a fraction of time by disabling the ending sequence. If the run is well made, and there's enough support for the lack of ending, it could probably be acceptable as is if new movies of this branch include the proper ending.
Opinions?
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Radiant wrote:
So if I understand correctly, these "playground" runs get their own threads in the forum but they don't get a publication page?
Correct.
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Since it's just a warning, I just need to make it not block launching the game.
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A couple seconds after your encode ends, there's a sound similar to an in-game dialog appearing. Would you mind checking if it's possible to skip through it in the dark and maybe make the ending continue in some form?
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The movie is running now!
I needed to run sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic to run DepotDownloader, is that correct? Also I needed sudo to use DepotDownloader itself, which resulted in having to run sudo chmod +777 ./Chowdren.
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annotations.txt in this movie is not a file but a folder containing config.ini, editor.ini, and input once again, and these are different from the ones in the main movie.
Version used: Linux 1.15 (August 2nd 2018), 64-bit, DRM Steam
The current Steam release (also labelled as 1.15) is not the correct version
How do I obtain the correct version and how do I identify it?
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Noxxa wrote:
The site already used to maintain a 13:7 ratio between entertainment and tech in order to calculate the overall rating for every movie. If every user rating is merged to the same ratio, then it would keep every movie's overall rating (mostly) the same. That should be the way to go, imo.
Agreed.
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Info Teddy wrote:
Alright, so, I can confirm that the game runs fine under libTAS if I'm using the XFCE desktop environment. I can also thus confirm that this movie syncs on libTAS v1.4.2 stable.
Thanks!
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I'm not exactly sure if they still apply as I know the movie rules were rewritten and vastly simplified a while ago (judges feel free to correct me), but the libTAS section in the legacy movie rules goes into detail about sync instructions.
Sorry! First time submitting on here and I wasn't sure how much info was necessary, and poking around a couple other PC submissions I didn't see any syncing info.
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Yes please!
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
A more "complete" ending would reduce questions of legitimacy, and it's perfectly fine as a personal choice.
Agreed.
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ikuyo wrote:
Maybe a name like Sandbox? (or waterbox amirite HA)
Sandbox is technically a subset of Playground if we look at original terms.
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chilsie wrote:
I like the idea of Playground, but I prefer the name “Showcases”. Playground seems like a more… casual term? idk exactly how to word it, but Showcases just comes across as a more fitting term, since this could be used for LOTADs and the like. I just wouldn’t be able to take something uploaded to a “playground” seriously compared to something clearly dedicated to showcases.
maybe I’m just nitpicky tho lol
The problem is Showcase is a planned new name for Moons. See this discussion Post #511194.
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warmCabin wrote:
So I've got a 4K encode of an old Mega Man 2 TAS that I'd like to submit to the YouTube channel (still need to add the logo and the disclaimer). I'm trying to follow this guide to get a feel for how the sideloading process works, but all the links seem to be broken. Is there a replacement for the Encoder TASVideos Channel Manager?
There's no replacement but it's not used anymore either, because we don't store encodes on the server anymore, we upload them directly to yt. If your encode is good, upload it to mega or any other fitting file hosting and we'll grab it from there.
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Only actual gameplay is considered to be an improvement. If your movie has 600 fewer frames solely due to version differences, your total improvement must be more than 600 frames.
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benstephens1000 wrote:
I don't entirely follow. I'm not necessarily saying this is something that ought to be applied across the board. I think it's pretty safe to say that different communities have different ways of doing things. However, the post you are linking to suggests that only categories with "unique goals" ought to be branches. Wouldn't that be applicable in this case? Because from my perspective, the movie that this discussion thread is dedicated to does not have a unique goal, whereas the current branchless movie for this game does have a unique goal, i.e. not going out of bounds. It sounds like we are both in support of the same thing, I'm just not exactly sure why this is something that wouldn't or has not worked. Is it because of the bit of not updating branches on obsolete movies?
The agreement about this submission was that it doesn't need the label, because the technique mentioned in that label is commonly used when speedrunning this game, and "inbounds" is an exception goal, which is what we mean by "unique".
I just meant that in general, treating any% as blank branch won't work here at tasvideos, because it leads to all sorts of weird branch labels and even less consistency in what those labels mention.
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benstephens1000 wrote:
I am not at all a part of the Luigi's Mansion community, but generally I agree that branches should not be based on what glitches or techniques a category does use, but instead those it excludes. AKA the fastest category is your baseline, and any runs that add objectives or ban glitches or techniques should be branched and specified as such.
We tried this and it didn't quite work.
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Copy this file into the "Undertale v1.0 Linux" folder.
but doesn't explain what file.
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There won't be any definitive policy on reencoding standard definition videos. Encoding is a volunteer job, we don't tell encoders what to do, we only tell them how to do it. There are some TODO lists for those interested in helping. But since overwhelming majority of our viewers watch on youtube, archive.org is mostly for medium quality backups, so low priority.
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Sand wrote:
adelikat wrote:
media links have mostly been moved to files. All wiki pages should be updated accordingly, and forum posts (that had non-broken images before go-live
Thanks, that's great. One small bug: revision 71 of Text Formatting Rules fixes the example markup to refer to files.tasvideos.org, but revision 70 had already removed the live markup for the image.
Restored the pic.
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Oh well. There's no easy to obtain info what's going on here. I'll just continue with my judging.
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