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I cheated a bit to get the 99% on history, I printed out a map and a map of the ancient world before I took the test.
But I loves my slide rule, and I had a job converting Fortran code to C for a short while.
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moozooh, there is parallax scrolling all over the place for much of the screen, the trees move at a different rate from the background, which move at a different rate from the clouds, which move at a different rate from the blimp....
The trees have lots of little holes all over the place, which makes the screen look like a blurry mess if it the bitrate isn't high enough.
As far as the indoor segments are concerned, I just don't know why it's so high, there is that one warp part that is horrible, but that's the only thing I can think of. It's just the outdoor segments and the x264 codec just doesn't mix, at least not as well as most video games (which have ridiculously low bitrates typically.)
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Flygon was remarking at how poorly this movie encodes so I thought I'd give it a shot. I wound up with an average bitrate of 700.... ugh
And... what's with the blimps in the background?
As far as the gameplay. Meh. The main character moves like a mix between Mario from Donkey Kong and the guy from Kung Fu.
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http://tasvideos.org/SuperMetroidTricks.html
"With enough energy, it is also possible to retain control of Samus during the metroid cutscene. All that is needed is having 700 to 999 energy (must be current energy, not in reserves) and de-equipping the Varia Suit before Mother Brain uses her final attack. The game will still attempt to put Samus into the kneeling pose a few times during the cutscene, but this can be circumvented by being in mid-air each time the game attempts to enforce Samus's pose."
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Saturn, I'm actually already encoding it. :) Just so you know, duplication of labor any everything is bad. And I'm already on the final video encoding pass.
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The sound doesn't desync, at least not in my player, I always make extra special sure of that. :)
Just to make sure, I checked for you, first battle is synced and so is the last battle.
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I might as well try my luck.
I remember my mom's boyfriend renting this game for the Sega Genesis when I was in 4th grade, (I'm currently 24 now, so about 14 years ago.)
It was a platformer, I remember it being 4 different characters you could play and I remember them being color coded (Yellow, Red(?), Blue(?), and Green(?))
I also remember the boss of the Yellow character's stage was a robot of some sort that had a satellite dish(?) on it's head, when you broke the dish it started shooting big honking lasers that took up most of the screen.
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Perhaps the issue came up with a recent update, but that's the issue, something is stripping your requests of the referrer field. You need to make it quit doing that.
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moozooh wrote:
This game surprised me in a number of positive ways, including but not limited to decent (especially for a franchise-based game) music selection and graphic violence: meowing cats exploding in fountains of blood is not something you would expect from a SNES-era Nintendo game.
The TAS was pretty cool, although I wondered if the underwater areas could be optimized further.
I noticed that too, there's a lot of slopes that it seems that they can be ran down that cpadolf seems to miss. Also bounces on enemies while moving down. But that's rather minor, the run was very entertaining.
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fsvgm777 wrote:
p0rtal_0f_rain wrote:
Okay, I did watch the MKV. I didn't reach the end until last night. If this gets published, this will be one of the longest TAS's of all time, not to mention Chrono Trigger and Lufia II.
According to the Movie Statistics (not to confound with the stats of this movie, I mean the general movie statistics), the longest run is FFVI for the SNES with a time of 4:05:52.87 (not including credits). So if this movie gets published, this will be the longest run at TASVideos and the AVI will exceed 5 hours, as the credits go for more than 10 minutes.
The MKV is 5:05:02 and it's actually about 50 MB less than the FF6 encode. :D
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pirate_sephiroth wrote:
thechucknorrisofNSMB wrote:
fsvgm777 wrote:
No, he means which graphics card is built into your computer. DirectX is just a graphical frontend required for a lot of games. Go to Start->Run, then type in "devmgmt.msc". Double-click on Graphics Card, and there you are.
Ummmm... It's not there.
WinKey + R, desk.cpl, ENTER
The name of the card will be there somewhere...
Best way to get this information is through devmgmt.msc, under display adapters, if it just has a generic adapter then you'll want to go under properties and over to details, and paste the hardware ID into google. Or here, and I can look it up for you.
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I cheated a bit to get the 99% on history, I printed out a map and a map of the ancient world before I took the test.
But I loves my slide rule, and I had a job converting Fortran code to C for a short while.
