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Posted: 10/11/2018 4:34 PM
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I probably posted these two in the past. Link to video Link to video
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Posted: 10/11/2018 1:26 PM
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HappyLee wrote:
This submission, I said, is not for publication, but still is a serious submission
Just to double down with Masterjun.
Movie Rules: Movie Must Be Good wrote:
A speed-oriented movie must beat all existing records If your movie is going to beat something, be sure it beats it. If your tool-assisted movie is not faster than the non-tool-assisted world record for the same game, aiming for the same goals, your movie will be rejected. The movie's technical quality must be acceptable Don't be lazy. We will try and beat your movie. We should hopefully not succeed. See the Guidelines on how to make a movie that meets the site's standards.
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Please ensure your movie is good. Do not waste the judges' time with movies that have obvious mistakes ― read the guidelines!
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Posted: 10/11/2018 11:35 AM
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xnamkcor wrote:
Do you know who does NDS encodes? Still one of the few systems capable of high res emulation that we don't have high res encodes for.
Yeah, that's banned cause the HiRes is complete garbage since it can't get certain effects working. TL;DR: feos placed it in 3 publications (2015) ,adelikat caught wind of it. Not allowed. (Same reason for the PSXjin version of this, which is even worse since it does incorrect transparency.) Encoders Corner is a great place to check if you're going to ask questions like that. Special case here since a new topic was made recently which was then pointed to the post that said it became banned.
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Posted: 10/11/2018 2:17 AM
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mtvf1 wrote:
This is not first AI(maybe not AI) movie submitted. l remember this #4955: wcgbg's NES Pac-Man (Namco) in 5:08:39.15
Yeah and that one is one of the worst bots in existence (in my biased opinion) compared to others that have been pointed out already.
EgixBacon wrote:
Looks like someone just flunked CS class.
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Posted: 10/10/2018 2:14 PM
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pirate_sephiroth wrote:
perhaps there should be a category only for bot players, with bot judges
Well in that case if it was done by an actual decent bot this TAS would be rejected straight up. Especially since this one is generational learning instead of brute force.
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Posted: 10/10/2018 2:11 PM
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Masterjun wrote:
Happy April Fools Day everyone, right?
Look at the calendar It's April somewhere in the world I guess? Hmm, maybe Universe might make sense since then if a day like April Fools exists somewhere in the Universe then maybe, just maybe...
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Posted: 10/9/2018 3:21 AM
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo And that concludes my thoughts on this TAS.
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Posted: 10/7/2018 1:58 PM
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Deliberately using the QuickNES core cause it's "faster" than accurate (NESHawk)? So the purpose of using a core that is worse (which seriously needs the bucket kicked off the multicore by now) was just cause it loaded up a frame (well two, since restart) faster. Well you want to know the good news, those crying out for "accuracy dammit!"? The movie syncs with the more accurate core. I'd argue for the sake of emulation to use the more accurate core at all times. This is one of those times. Overall this is still a Yes in my books, short sweet. Wished I had a translation on that YouTube video... and that I won't have to rely on Google Translate. And actually hoped you used the better core instead of using something worse for gain.
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Posted: 10/6/2018 9:05 AM
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I like to play this game called "what is your system specs." whenever someone complains about stuttering on BizHawk. So. What is your system specs?
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Posted: 10/4/2018 2:13 AM
Post subject: (For a more actual response with VDub)
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^ Also do it by 2's so 200%, 400%, 600% etc. It's going to look 1:1 tho not 4:3. So do another Resize Filter and Select "Compute height from ratio" and make the value that went down (y value) be 100% since the x needs to be changed in that bit. Also for this bit use Lanczos3.
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Posted: 10/3/2018 7:39 AM
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[GUIDE] Easy HD Temp Encoding (Updated 9/19/2016)
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Posted: 10/2/2018 1:27 PM
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For something that saved only .5 seconds (tastime). [3777] PSX Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee by Samtastic in 13:06.00 What's the improvement? Can you actually point to the improvement or create a sidebyside.
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Posted: 9/30/2018 4:21 AM
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TommyeAsY wrote:
This link is broken.
Blep, should be fixed.
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Posted: 9/30/2018 2:18 AM
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TommyeAsY wrote:
Did you press anything for that?
The same button when you kill a pig and want to get on with it. Also again, I did provide my input. (Probably wasn't noticeable in the large of text I provided, but yeah.)
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Posted: 9/29/2018 5:24 AM
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PAL games after the release of Medievil require SBI files with the bin/cue combo. For Syphon Filter check with the Core Octoshock is based on, mednafen and see if that works (since that's a game without an SBI requirement).
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Posted: 9/29/2018 2:46 AM
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Memory wrote:
5-7 minutes of improvements were found that are not included in this TAS, but they were found after the movie was completed and would require redoing almost the entire movie to include these improvements.
I have to ask out of curiosity. There's a few known before this TAS was submitted that wasn't used such as the Starman skip (which you're now well acquainted with) which requires stutter walking. And when encountering Buzz Buzz compared to other movies of EarthBound there was a delay before approaching it. I'm just curious on where these two land. We're also having probably two EarthBound TASes being made which will probably be done before the new year but with new and old/unused methods (treading the line of glitch vs stutter). Where does this stand in line for this TAS assuming hypothetically this gets blown out of the water by 10 minutes compared to a single minute this one produces?
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Posted: 9/28/2018 3:51 PM
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Ok, now unfortunately we're at the end of this submission. ~38 seconds improved from Start to Hogshead for a test file. I've made a few mistakes which is evident in the mission by mission comparison with yours: Link to video There's one hidden issue and it's related to what the game does with controllers. I put in the analog controller thinking I would need to use it. Best controller choice is D-pad. Every time a mission is loaded the game checks and spends time figuring out what controller is inserted, d-pad is the quickest. (That's what I'm hypothesizing is the case) When doing a simple convert (which worked) when placed for a longer period of time, the game will decide to desync. Again. This is a well created first timer TAS but the issues are hard to overlook with just a quick pickup. I have provided my input for you to go over if you'd like but I do heavily suggest go over this game again and take your time from scratch. Move towards the enemy. Walk in a better direction. Don't always go full blast. Don't go on the towers. Angle your shots. And Poison chain multiple enemies. After all, it gives a sneaky victory and less effort.
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Posted: 9/28/2018 3:35 AM
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2 Things. 1) Hogs of War requires an SBI file alongside the bin/cue combo in order to get past the Piracy Check (PAL at least). 2) I've taken a look at the first level. Comparing to just our shots alone and not showing the AI's (which is pretty much the same for the most part). I didn't do the animation skipping (what appears to be) as you did, since I didn't know about it, but it can be spliced in simply (hopefully, it is just can't do ASAP since the AI acts worse). So my initial hypothesis of a low rerecord count for this hour long TAS came out unfortunately true. This is a good ground work TAS but not an optimal one unfortunately. Usermovie --- Edit: Oh, and on another note.
TommyeAsY wrote:
There is a major glitch called "Half Heath" which is PAL region exclusive.
You may have wanted to clarified this point better. The half health glitch isn't region exclusive. From your YouTube:
Николай Кузнецов wrote:
1/2 HP works in the North American version ”HoW” (NTSC), the only difference is that it does not work right away, but it's necessary to boot from the mission saving.
I'd argue that PAL is more beneficial in the use compared to NTSC. Also this game is one of the cases of PAL was developed and published first before the look over and polish on the NTSC version.
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Posted: 9/26/2018 10:17 AM
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TommyeAsY wrote:
I assume that you saved menu using animation cancel. Unfortunately, I have to agree that I didn't do that at the very beginning because I figured out that's a thing after few missions.
I'm sorry. I'm going to have to call you out on that as you actually did do it on a few sections in the first few menus. And you don't have an explanation on character choice as it hasn't been addressed? Which I'll assume the answer to is due to the event that your run for the Hogs are based on the Soviet Union.
TommyeAsY wrote:
For example, if you get PP (promotion points) after missions, but do animation cancel, it also might cancel (or even dupe) PP, which affect future gameplay.
The cancelling can be figured out further in that section and be addressed correctly when it either brings out the worst or better for it. But if shaves frames here and there (away from duping) then that might be an important enough revision to treat this as your first attempt and to remake a new one.
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Posted: 9/26/2018 7:27 AM
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ReyVGM wrote:
Description should mention "Advanced bus level timing" must be on.
Month late response. :V At least you didn't have to figure out what the sync requirements were.
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Posted: 9/26/2018 1:48 AM
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Light Spike: 50096107847681419 (2607 frames) My one concern about this TAS is that low rerecord count alongside that hour of a 3D PS1 game. Actually Question.
Team color: red (Piggystroika). Team name: Wan Wan.
Why not just choose the first choice (Tommy's Trotters) and have a single letter default team name (or writing your alias or TAS) instead of that? The latter question is asked since naming conventions usually make sense. "Wan Wan" doesn't make sense. Edit: And on the topic of the menuing... That menuing is slightly sloppy which puts concerns at other bits of this TAS for me. Here's a small clipet on just the naming your team. - Here's my input. And here's a streamable on the first menu.
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Posted: 9/25/2018 8:54 AM
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What. Yes, and shotgun to pubs.
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Posted: 9/20/2018 4:05 PM
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To quote Sour on the 0.9.7 release.
Sour wrote:
This will almost certainly be the last release for 2018. I'm leaving on a trip in just a little over a week, and won't be back home until early December.
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Posted: 9/19/2018 5:19 PM
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Yeah we know about it. The bot is poorly made. (Not to mention that the author deleted and reuploaded the video on YouTube and acted like this entire debacle never happened on YouTube. His last hurrah here was a post saying he reuploaded it and gave key points on what he liked in the video and has never returned to the forums since.)
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Posted: 9/18/2018 2:25 PM
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mtvf1 wrote:
What's the rule said the difference of movie length is important for Multiple games in one movie? Or if I use a similar time length movie, do you think it shoud be accepted?
Let's see best example that's published shall we: [2636] NES Super Mario Bros., 2, The Lost Levels & 3 by agwawaf in 08:49.78 The big two in this that goofed around in this are SMB and SMB3. Could've easily just gone and defeated Bowser and GEG the game but nope, 8 minutes of faffing about. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit: From looking (not playing, this is important), the field loop hits at the end of round 5 and cycles through in this order. 1,2,1,3,2,1,3,2,1,3,2,1,3,2,1,3,2 -- and so forth. This TAS ends at 4, a stage too early according to stage layouts. This is from looking. From playing, you will have to figure out if you can copy and paste your inputs over to each stage loop and see if you need to modify it based on the difficulty presented by the game. Once the input is straight up copied then trim back before the input being consistent and that should be where it ends. Which in this case is 17. (This is how you find the loop in NES Pac-Man btw, as a fun bonus fact.)
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