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The game author doesn't have to define the "all items" goal as long as he defines what items are officially, which can then be inherited by a speedrunner or ignored. I'd say official definitions have value.
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Thanks for clarification! Some goal that could result in tons of destruction and violence would look like a much better candidate in my opinion, Metal Slug vibe. Would fastest bad ending be like that?
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I watched this and the published any% run side-by-side using this amazing service:
https://viewsync.net/watch?v=MZLeKvwdnw0&t=0&v=-jtb7r-uo0o&t=0&mode=solo
And I think gameplay looks mostly identical, with a few route tweaks and several-frame delays here and there. It's clearly not as different as Ultimortal is. I would expect this run to be as entertaining as any%, but it's just due to vast similarity.
So I ask the audience, people please compare this to [3937] Windows Iji by Matslo123 in 27:41.87 and tell how many substantial differences you see that make this movie unique and unexpected after the any% run.
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Haha it's perfectly fine, I'll word it further without problems now!
As for the screenshot, just pick a timestamp in the encode above, since I don't even know where that place is.
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After some pondering I think this movie is fine and it can be considered full completion. Having to play 2 modes at once feels odd, and the challenge mode is very questionable in a TAS, because it doesn't represent too much unique gameplay on its own. But unlocking everything that this game has locked as a bonus is a solid goal, it feels uniform and complete.
Obsoleting/superseding the any% branch isn't the most pleasant option, since some people might get confused, so we will need to explain that this movie contains the old one and should be watched at least for the Arcade mode completion.
All in all, looks good to me.
As for entertainment, the Arcade mode was awesome and I want to vote Yes, but I can't really enjoy the Challenge mode, so I have to vote Meh.
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Dolphin workflow has been updated (for FFMPEG/FFV1 versions):
Post #483848
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feos wrote:
Conclusion
Dolphin must switch to ffmpeg -c:a pcm_s16le -c:v libx264rgb -qp 0 -preset ultrafast -g 30 -pix_fmt rgb24 -f avi
Recently we did some tests and commits to Dolphin, and turns out
ffmpeg -c:a pcm_s16le -c:v ffv1 -pix_fmt bgr0 -level 1 -g 1 -coder 1 -context 1 -f avi
is the most compatible thing on the planet, it even works in VirtualDub and AVISynth as long as the decoder is installed (we haven't figured out which one exactly tho).
But AVISynth requires a little tweak to import it as lossless:
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Thanks! Do you have any screenshot suggestions, and maybe a publication description suggestion too? I don't know the game so I won't be able to describe it sensibly.
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Darkdevil, stop messing with the Workbench.
If you submit another movie that is so sloppy that it gets rejected, your submission privileges will be revoked.
If you cancel your next submission before we can judge it properly, your submission privileges will be revoked.
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The HD encode has finally arrived, please check if it looks (and sounds :D) good.
Link to video
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7 rates against 75, I'd ask for more enthusiasm.
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As I said in the userfile comments, we'll just set the accurate movie time in the database for this submission (and publication if it happens). It will have to be verified of course.
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Lua callbacks for memory read/write/execute, and input poll are extremely useful in TASing, so if we ever want to make use of mame for TASing in any way in future, we should request that those are implemented. Or implement them ourselves, sending a pull request. The infrastructure for memory hooking is already there, it's just a matter of exposing it to lua. Dunno about input polling, it is at least not trivial IIRC.
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That makes me want to wait longer for more rates.
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I was talking to ALAKTORN, not you.
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ALAKTORN stop it, this is not funny :U
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Because I didn't have doubts?
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The main question is: is picking barrels limited in this movie, and if it is, how?
Also, in Moons we explicitly allow esoteric goals as long as the definition feels solid and the movie is entertaining, the guideline you quoted existed long before we created tiers, and can't be taken as a rule in such cases.
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We don't have a workaround rule for "annoying boot-up sequence", and I don't think we should, because scenarios one might want to work around could be endless, and having an exception for every iffy case would mean no solid rule is even there. So it's annoying but we'll have to deal with it.
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07:10:33 <Warepire> feos: The Dolphin smart Idle skipping PR might have broken determinism in Dolphin
07:10:42 <Warepire> (it was merged recently)
07:10:55 <Warepire> It should be noted somewhere.
EDIT:
This has been sorted out and should be added to the OP I think?
Dolphin revisions from 5.0-10039 to 5.0-10093inclusivelyshould not be used for TASing due to non-determinism exposed by tweaks to idle skipping. It was fixed in 5.0-10095.
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I checked it out and I think it's a decent goal definition. The gameplay difference is very apparent; the main question becomes "but you still go fast without running and rolling in a few places", but it's legitimate since it's not running, or rolling. In Sonic "no zips" Aglar clips through things and people noticed it and it was questioned, but the result was still very entertaining, technically no zipping was involved, and it was published with a potential way to be obsoleted by a slightly different goal. Here it feels the same, maybe it'd feel more "walkathon" without going fast at all, but gameplay would look largely similar to this movie anyway, just a little bit slower.
I think walkathon is the best name, even if it's not 100% perfect. It should just be mentioned that we define walkathon as no running or rolling which is what the Y button does.
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Nevermind, fixed.
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