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Posted: 10/8/2018 11:59 PM
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Making renewed progress here now. I fixed the virtual pad and included tilt controls. Unlicensed games from Wisdom Tree are now supported. The GBVideoPlayer tech demo is only one timing bug away from working, though it now correctly loads and plays the video, just a bit garbled. I know what change needs to happen to fix it, just not 100% sure of the proper implementation yet.
Posted: 10/7/2018 7:23 PM
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Thank you for the continued testing Glitcholog. It really helps make sure things didn't slip by me.
Posted: 10/5/2018 1:54 AM
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Neat! Not as smooth looking as Blue where you just walk away to victory,but interesting none the less that such a complicated serious of events can now be console verified. Yes vote from me.
Posted: 10/2/2018 11:27 PM
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Definite yes from me, cool improvements .
Posted: 9/30/2018 3:11 AM
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I have rewritten interrupt handling for the z80 CPU core. This is a major rewrite that was necessary for the CPC core currently in development. Please test the heck out of it. I don't want there to be a bunch of regressions like last time. I tested all the relevant ZX spectrum test roms I could find. They all still pass, which means I didn't mess up anything too serious. But I would appreciate anyone who has a spare minute who can load up a GG/SMS or Coleco or Spectrum game and ensure it still works. Thanks!
Posted: 9/26/2018 10:42 PM
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@MESHUGGAH: I don't see anything that those memory ranges can access. The only things that do weird stuff are the pokey and high score bios. If you know for sure something that should be accessible there let me know.
Posted: 9/26/2018 1:41 AM
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I'll be back to making commits here sometime in the next couple days. First I have some z80 stuff to work out but I hope to start knocking out CGB test roms after that.
Posted: 9/26/2018 1:40 AM
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So when does the game actually copy the save files back to disc? If it never happens because they are corrupted then I guess this is only a temporary corruption, which would be a nice coincidence. What happens if you hit reset in the emulator after the game returns to the title screen, is the corruption still there? I admit I haven't looked at the SRAM code in FDS in quite a long time so I'm not familiar exactly with what it's doing.
Posted: 9/25/2018 10:35 PM
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Out of curiousity, what happens when you reset the console? $0790 is just ordinary RAM, so unless it's written back to disc somewhere it looks like the corruption should clear up upon reset. Pretty interesting either way, yes from me.
Posted: 9/22/2018 9:26 PM
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I missed this earlier, but neat run, definitely a yes vote . Although no lag clips just reminds me how far off N64 TASing still has to go. But of a shame but oh well, still a fun watch.
Posted: 9/22/2018 2:54 PM
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My opinion here is that as TASing encroaches on more modern games and systems, it simply won’t be a free ride anymore. If that puts it outside of TASVideos paradigm , then there just isn’t much that can be done about it. If people really want TASes of DRM protected games and can find a way to make them, they’ll just end up somewhere other then here. Same thing for TASes that require some physical medium. Most hobbies require money, and this one is getting there too (beyond the obvious pc + Internet part.) And I would say there is way more incentive today then ever to play by the rules and maybe even work with developers to get tas tools then to rely on pirates. If you want your hard work to be on something high profile like twitch you’re not going to start off by saying ‘this is all pirated and illegal.’ But as to the original question of whether cracked and pirated pc games should be allowed here, I would say no. I would prefer to see things like libTAS gain us some positive publicity instead. Maybe even gain some good faith from indie developers who would want to see their games get TASed.
Posted: 9/20/2018 12:28 AM
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This has been fixed in the dev build.
Posted: 9/18/2018 2:20 AM
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Not uninitialized RAM. Paperboy runs a loop from power on that basically measures how long it takes to get an NMI (or some other ppu condition I forget exactly.) FCEUX adds a frame at the start of every movie which is basically a dead frame. I don’t know why exactly since this is not console behavior. This is also why you have to typically delete one frame from a FCEUX movie if you convert it to BizHawk and try to sync it up. So FCEUX gets a very incorrect count hence strange house positions. This Probably effects at least some other games that we just aren’t aware of yet. Edit: if someone out there has a NES and paperboy, it would be cool to just repeatedly power up the game and see how many different House variations you can actually get .
Posted: 9/17/2018 10:08 PM
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There are 2 examples I know of: [2599] A2600 Seaquest by morningpee in 01:39.80 [749] NES Paperboy by Randil in 11:30.78 These are emulator bugs. Last I checked the FCEUX one is still present. [2821] A2600 River Raid by Lord Tom in 1:22:47.90 is also basically one big emulation error but it at least looks passable. I’ll try to remember some more examples that I have happened upon in the course of working on BizHawk. EDIT: [3407] A7800 Scrapyard Dog by Noxxa in 11:04.14 contains obvious and fairly annoying graphical errors. I basically wrote A7800Hawk to fix this because it bothered me. [2585] A2600 Dodge 'Em by yep2yel & morningpee in 00:52.93 and [2226] A2600 Superman "pause glitch" by jlun2 in 00:11.42 need updated movie files and encodes but the runs themselves produce correct results. [814] SNES Star Fox "maximum score" by YtterbiJum in 19:47.37 the publication even says the game is not emulated correctly.
Posted: 9/17/2018 9:53 PM
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Warp wrote:
I think the idea was to unpublish the few TASes that might still exist that are clearly and blatantly against the rules (such as not completing the game, or is known to be using faulty emulation). I have no idea if there exist any such TASes that are in a published (non-obsolete) state.
There are 2 examples I know of: [2599] A2600 Seaquest by morningpee in 01:39.80 [749] NES Paperboy by Randil in 11:30.78 These are emulator bugs. Last I checked the FCEUX one is still present.
Posted: 9/17/2018 9:34 PM
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^ noted, I’ll add it to my TODO list, it will be a couple weeks though.
Posted: 9/17/2018 1:50 AM
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I think this is an interesting thread. My fear is that a lot of the work already done will likely get lost and there will be a gap in institutional knowledge . At the same time I can see that tasvideos is poorly equipped to deal with such fluid environments. Maybe a separate website would be better suited to focusing all the work and getting it out for general distribution? Like TASLabs instead of TASVideos. At least you could forgoe all the formalities and document and categorize things as you please. Oh well just a thought I had while reading through the thread.
Posted: 9/16/2018 10:29 PM
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This is an amazing advancement in TASing. I would not have guessed at the start of the year that a Shovel Knight TAS would be possible right now . Great TAS and great work to keylie and anyone else associated with libTAS for making it happen. Yes vote.
Posted: 9/16/2018 3:08 PM
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Oops, I guess I shouldn’t have submitted it then, and it should have been rejected. My bad.
Posted: 9/16/2018 2:50 PM
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No, the inputs are unique, I still had to find them. Otherwise it would work the same in both cases. But my point is that the uniqueness is not due to me being somehow better. The emulator was better.
Posted: 9/16/2018 2:14 PM
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No. It’s the same glitch it both movies. The setup is only different due to emulation differences.
Posted: 9/16/2018 2:09 PM
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That was a fun watch, yes vote . How long did it take to make out of curiousity?
Posted: 9/16/2018 1:52 PM
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It’s an IRQ timing related glitch. So emulated timings dictate how / when the glitch is possible. In other words, I didn’t ‘improve the gameplay’, I just found the glitch on a different emulator which is much more accurate, and it happened to be shorter .
Posted: 9/16/2018 12:54 PM
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feos wrote:
You mean it's impossible to improve the old SML2 run using VBA v24?
The button presses in the current run certainly wouldn’t work in VBA v24. Just Like the button presses in the original run doesn’t work in GBHawk / Gambatte. I don’t know if it’s impossible, since it’s just random button mashing until it works, but I didn’t know that the sequence of inputs that worked in GBHawk would be shorter ahead of time .
Posted: 9/16/2018 12:32 AM
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MOD EDIT: Posts originally moved from the discussion thread of #6023: TiKevin83's GBC Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version in 1:36:42.94. -Mothrayas
</hr> Sorry for the late reply but I found this conversation interesting enough to post to. I’m glad the movie file got updated. This is state of the art stuff, and making sure things are correct to the furthest extent possible I think is pretty important. Just as food for thought, I’d like to point out that [3746] GB Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins "game end glitch" by MUGG, Masterjun & Alyosha in 00:46.08 is a ‘resync’ in exactly the same sense that this movie is. It is pure happenstance that it ended up being 9 frames shorter so that it superficially met the requirement of being an ‘improvement.’ But really it’s just slight timing differences in emulation. Also, the behavior that was missed in the original Pokémon run is very significant. Personally I think that not having it emulated puts it in ‘technical foul’ territory. Sure nobody knew at the time , but luckily Pokemon people had good R&D to move things forward .
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