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Balimaar The Bass Fish wrote:
Although one game that springs to mind (I played the death out of the shareware version YEARS ago) Jazz Jackrabbit (if I am remembering the name correctly that is).
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A very belated yes vote, took me a while before I had time to watch this.
Fantastic TAS, really enjoyed the new route, it's a lot more entertaining due to the extra luck manipulation.
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This was stunning, and the commentary was quite informative as well. Great job, well made and highly entertaining. It looks so much more like a TAS now.
Voted yes.
We already researched and concluded on IRC that those games are 16-bit, and therefor not possible to support in Hourglass. Hourglass operates on 32-bit only as it is now. 64-bit is possible, if someone puts the work in.
For 16-bit games, you need Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 installed in JPC-rr.
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Weatherton wrote:
Feos, I thought there had been people who had TASed a flash game of snake (iirc). Are you saying it's not yet possible? I thought there may be a way to create an executable from a SWF.
I haven't seen that, if you can find a link to it, maybe I can find out more.
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A very interesting and well done TAS, unfortunately the Zombie Prince glitch combined with the length of the TAS kinda made it overstay its welcome in terms of entertainment.
Voted meh.
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I'm afraid I am not going to bring better news than this:
That's an annoying problem a lot of games experience, sometimes it only happens on Windows 7 and up, other times it's a complete failure. I haven't quite found a solution to it yet.
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Here's a post I made about steam games in another thread, with a little cleaned up wording:
Steam games are a a grey area filled with "tread carefully".
Currently most Steam games don't run, but there is nothing technically holding them back from running given the correct WinAPI support is added.
However, TASing Steam games with any form of internet connectivity is possibly the worst idea ever, since games usually communicate with the Steam servers in one form or another, and when they travel in time while doing it... It's just going to be a mess. If a lot of people do this, Steam will most likely see it as a DDoS attack.
Some games apparently run fine with no internet connections, others will probably not. Meaning that a "hacked" Steam DLL needs to be used for those cases.
This is not something that Hourglass will do for you for as long as I am a driving member of the project, as bypassing the Steam DLL is a type of copy protection violation, and I would really not want to get sued by Steam / Valve. The same surely goes for any other contributor.
That game needs attention, I don't care which event it will be.
I do wish that we could do this one but Warepire brought up some really good points on why it won't sync. As noted above, if there's sufficient reasons and it can be explained well enough I'm willing to accept SGDQ ideas that can't be console verified but I'd really prefer to save this until the aforementioned issues are resolved. Still, very cool run idea!
I should point out that there is no way the current Hyper Princess Pitch TAS can play back in -Resurrection once we gotten far enough to actually fix that issue.
I think your best bet is trying to borrow a laptop where it works and use that.
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That was superb. I have been longing for the completion of this since the first WIP. Well done and entertaining as hell! The commentary was also informative, though a little fast in some places.
I vote yes.
It's not down, directory listing is just disabled, as it should be.
Copy the URL, then copy the name of the appropriate BizHawk build from the code block, add it to the end of the URL, and paste it all in a new browser tab/window. Profit!
