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As far as I understood, the main menu of the DS isn't accessible during gameplay and so during a TAS (as it is in firmware.bin).
But what if we need to change the system time from this main menu within a TAS ? I don't know if it will be ever useful or faster but it is a possibility.
We can begin this way and when the problem comes up for a specific game we would see how we deal with it...
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Memory wrote:
I feel that with the exception of ACE that we have hard rules about, we shouldn't impose any total bans on techniques in this category. And in my opinion, the important thing is that a run can be classified in this way, not that we come up with the specific rules for each game. So theoretically two people could come up with different no major skip glitch run rules and we could accept either maybe..
But in the case that two such runs are submitted, we would only accept ONE of them to Standard. In order for both to be published, we'd need one to go to Moons.
What I meant was about banning others from Standard not from the all site. So I totally agree with all what you said. So probably the only one acceptable to Standard should be the fastest one and others only acceptable for Moons for now.
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To me this is a different category entirely. That is "Heavy Glitch Abuse/Forgoes time-saving glitches". We want to implement new goals one at a time. I'd definitely be interested in considering such a goal but with each goal we add we need to revisit the entire list of rejected publications. In order to not completely overwhelm ourselves and try debating about too many different things at once, I limited things to one at a time.
Didn't mean to consider the others situations where it is considered as "Heavy Glitch Abuse/Forgoes time-saving glitches" as I knew we need to consider each case one at a time but ok thanks for the answer.
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The problem here can be a little bit tricky.
In the case of only one major-skip glitch I also think that not only in the situation where it causes a major skip glitch but also in any other situations, the glitch needs to be forbidden. Because I feel it unjustifiable to avoid a glitch only in a situation where it leads to a major-skip. But maybe we will need to call it differently if we go on this because other situations where it's not a major-skip, we could argue that the glitch isn't a major skip so maybe "Forgoes glitch that leads to major-skip" ?
In the case of a combination of glitches that leads to a major-skip, there will need some more discussions but maybe if there are 3 glitches used alltogether that leads to a major-skip, only the use of the 3 alltogether needs to be forbidden and using 2 of the 3 during the all run is acceptable.
Example : glitch A, glitch B, glitch C : the TAS is only allowed to use "A, A+B, B" or "B, B+C, C" or "A, A+C, C".
Another possibility is the disallowing of any of the glitches of the combination in all situations of the game.
This is then a case by case basis and hard to define preciselly.
EDIT: This is probably out of context but does the use of a glitch in many situations that aren't major but the accumulation of the use of it making it major can be considered as well here ?
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My original point was talking about what flags should be displayed on the main page's list of new publications. In that, displaying the Fastest Completion flag seemed insignificant. 2/3rds of the publications that would show up in that list from this year, had that flag (at the time of my search). That doesn't really seem like a unique quality. Even now, 2 months later, that stat remains the same: 67.4% of the 138 non-obsolete TASes from this year, have that flag. However, if people feel that it is a highly valued quality nonetheless, then I've got nothing against it being displayed along side the others. I don't hold strong opinions on it either way.
And to clarify, I never said I wanted to delete the flag, as in getting rid of it completely. I was just responding to the suggestion about what flags to display in that particular list of new publications.
Oh sorry I misunderstood both of your points about the fastest completion flag and thought it was about to delete it from the all site ^^', you understood my misunterstanding. Then, about it in the newest publication list, I also agree that it is pointless to have it.
I see my suggestion was ignored. Can anyone please at least implement the Moons icons? As the site is now, it's only displaying Stars icons, effectively putting Moons tier on the same visibility as the new Standards tier. We don't want to hide Moons just to make the lowest tier look less crappy, so pretty please implement the Moons icon in the recent publications list.
I agree with this.
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Bigbass wrote:
I'm not sure Fastest Completion is necessary, at least not right away. Perhaps as more categories are published, this will become a more notable flag. Of the 106 non-obsoleted movies published this year, 67% of them have this flag.
In my opinion Fastest Completion is the only flag that makes it cluttered, and I think it would be perfect without that one.
I disagree with this one tho. Even if the flag was probably introduced too soon and that it is not really useful right now, It really helps to differentiate the fastest from full completion categories and later when it will be implemented other categories that might end up in Standard. I see no reason to delete the flag and then re-introduce the flag when there are more categories acceptable in Standard.
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Salut,
les versions (US) (USA) et (U) sont en faite la même chose : la version USA que l'on peut aussi nommé NTSC-U.
Il en est de même pour les versions (J) et (JP) qui sont la version japonaise que l'on peut nommé NTSC-J.
En ce qui concerne les versions (E) (EU) et (PAL), les deux premières sont les versions européennes, quant à la version (PAL) suivant les consoles, cela peut-être Europe (Australie étant inclue), Chine, Brésil et toutes seront nommé PAL.
Il faut juste donc vérifier que la version de la ROM/de l'ISO utilisée correspond au paramètre de la région qui sera le plus souvent correspondant au framerate (nombre d'image par seconde) de la console (NTSC tournant à environ 60 fps et PAL à environ 50 fps) mais il peut malgré tout y avoir des spécificités sur certaines consoles.
Par exemple la GameCube et la Wii peuvent tourner en PAL60 (donc les versions Europe tournant à 60 fps), la Master System pour les versions brésiliennes tournent en 60fps etc...
N'hésite pas si tu as d'autres questions, quelles soient plus spécifiques sur le sujet ou d'autres sujets ;)
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Hello,
I feel like this movie should be changed into Moons considering the global 7.2 rating of it.
The judge at the time considered it was worth a Moons but decided to put it in Vault because he didn't have arguments against people that didn't find the movie enough entertainning for Moons.
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Why am I always saying that I won't participate in the next DTC and I then come back on my decision and signup at the end... I should stop saying that.
So I sign up as an individual for now but like others when the game comes, I can lose all my motivation and just be like a dead body...
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I saw that you uploaded the wrong file on a first submission, it wasn't necessary to cancel it, you could just have asked to a judge to replace the movie with the good file by uploading it on userfiles and linking it on your submission text or in a message.
Anyway, in concern of the TAS, I found it pretty good and entertainning with all these glitches. Yes vote.
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We can't even prove that we've completed everything we needed without going "just remember that there's X of these, now this is how they are being completed"?
From what I've undertood, the only thing that proves it are end-of dungeon unique items which can be necessary to send off to Valhalla and so not in your inventory anymore and nowhere to be listed to be able to get the A ending...
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First of all, I found this movie entertainning for the gameplay part and like a "film" for the rest of the movie (a really long film) but even if less entertainning, pretty interresting.
So I give it a Yes vote.
For the problem that we have, I already discussed on discord so I will summarize my pov of the situation :
- For this movie, I feel like the B & C endings aren't the proper endings for this game, by the way the devs named the endings (A, B & C) and that we can't consider B & C as completing the game (C is for sure because bad ending but not all will agree for the B ending). -> This would mean that this submission could be considered as "no branch" and accepted to Moons without beeing obsoletable by a full completion TAS.
- For full completion on this game, this current submission can't be considered as full completion to me because it skips some content. I so come up with 3 different solutions to define it and I begin with the ones I like the less and don't really agree anymore with :
* Doing 3 runs for the 3 endings with the proper difficulty to then complete all dungeons of the game once (if available in 2 different game only do it in one of them), getting all end-dungeon items and characters.
* Completing All dungeons of the game while getting their items and also characters + finishing the A ending. means a game on eazy to just get the item of the eazy-only dungeon and also items or characters only available on eazy if any and then the third solution.
* Doing a run on hard for the A ending while getting all characters and end-of-dungeon items.
For all solutions, sending any characters or items off to Valhalla doesn't have to be a problem, we can do as we wish, the only thing that matters is getting them at one point in the run.
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Always good to see a new TR TAS from you ! as always very entertainnning and funny.
I would like to see a full completion TAS but as I already know, this one can be very long, difficult to define the criterias for it, and technical. I understand that you went to secrets only which makes it anyway a very interresting TAS.
Yes vote.
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Good movie and improvement over your previous TAS, I really liked the entertainement you put in the autoscrollers. Sadly, there is too much of them and I have to put a "meh" vote. Great job on the game anyway.
Looking forward to see the improved 100%. But if possible, be sure to make it and next submissions to a more recent version of BizHawk with the GBC BIOS enabled (The best would be 2.6.1 in GBA mode to permit console verification of your movie).
Note : in your level table, I think you made a mistake by adding the 13 frames lost of the first levels to your total saved at the line of the "Train (end)". The total saved column can count frames lost from the first levels as well to avoid mistakes.
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Hello,
I'm thinking about making a full completion TAS of Asterix: Search for Dogmatix but i'm unsure what criterias should I take to define it.
To remember : the game has 6 Worlds with :
- 3 levels containing 3 keys, money, and letters of the characters.
- 1 mini-game : unlocked by getting all letters of the World in the levels.
- 1 Boss unlocked by getting all 3 keys in levels.
- 1 tavern to buy HPs, password to "save" the progression.
When you get all letters of a World, a special sound is played to inform that the mini-game of the world is unlocked. By playing the mini-game : you'll only earn money (that will probably never be used).
So the options are :
- Only considering that getting all letters of the worlds is enough to consider full completion.
- same as above but while playing the mini-games as fast as possible (so "all levels" ?).
- Having thought about getting the maximum of money in a world but the problem is that letters respawn in levels after you get all of them so you can redo the mini-game as you please, otherwise coins are unique in levels.
- None of these options are acceptable and so full-completion for this game is not definable.
Thanks in advance for the reply.
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Seeing an any% is always interresting for my part. But of course, if you don't have the motivation at the moment, don't begin it to just stop mid-run ;).
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Well, maybe wait for an answer from artbreeder who will cancel or ask this submission to be delayed, and if there is nothing from him reject the movie because of known big improvements ?
