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Posted: 4/20/2019 10:30 AM

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feos wrote:

you have the attention now, so do all the preparations in a dedicated game thread and make sure your work is complete.

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=50

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Posted: 4/20/2019 10:22 AM

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TheProJamer wrote:

Golf has 21 courses, but you can only play 18 in one game - the "Special" holes are isolated from the others. Would it be better to have a "Golf, 18-hole game" and "Golf, Special course" category, or to slam them both into a larger category?

Isolated in what way? If they only become accessible after having completed (or tried) the 18-hole game, we'd only accept a movie that plays Special alone if those are entertaining enough for Moons. In that case, it'd be better to play all the golf courses in one movie. If they are accessible independently from the start, they can be played independently and be acceptable, but given the nature of the game, I guess playing all the golf courses in one movie still makes the most sense. So yeah, just do all golf courses in one movie.

TheProJamer wrote:

When first booting up the game, you're usually forced to play through an altered version of the Skydiving game mode before you can do anything else. The game doesn't even count it towards your progress - in an All Sports TAS, you would still have to play through it again later. Given the inconvenience of this, would it be acceptable to just have a verification movie attached for some TASes so that they don't have to do this?

How long does it take though?

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Posted: 4/19/2019 5:53 PM

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Darkdevil wrote:

Would I cancel this submission, or just upload the new file when it's done?

Don't use the submission queue (workbench) for movies that can be easily beaten. Do due research and have all due discussions beforehand, make a movie that's not questionable, only then make a submission. Sometimes making a submission is the only way to draw people's attention and actually discuss the project, but you have the attention now, so do all the preparations in a dedicated game thread and make sure your work is complete. This also goes to other people reviewing Darkdevil's movies: please participate and help him figure things out.

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Posted: 4/18/2019 6:37 PM

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Why 2 loops though?

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Posted: 4/18/2019 4:15 PM

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Okay try the latest dev build (link the the OP).

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Posted: 4/17/2019 3:15 PM

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That one is a command line tool, what you need is a VideoForWindows encoder that can be seen in this menu

Lagarith doesn't work well with youtube, Camstudio codec isnt recognized by bizhawk 2.x, so your best bet is x264vfw, with either lossy or lossless mode. See here for where to get it and how to configure it: http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CustomEncoding.html

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Posted: 4/16/2019 8:40 PM

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Agents are go! Checked out the game and it's absolutely ridiculous. It's so boldly and unbearably stupid that it's amusing, I hope I don't go off the rails after having judged it. The movies are yet to be watched.

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Posted: 4/16/2019 7:45 PM

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From what I can tell, no one on TASVideos is pushing for instant tape loader for movies, and it's unlikely to ever be allowed due to our purism. For casual gaming, by all means, just like skipping the BIOS.

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Posted: 4/16/2019 6:44 PM

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Bizhawk only accepts CUEs for PSX, while other PS emulators only accept BINs. What's written in the submissions depends on that factor, and also maybe on human error, and also the hash of the BIN is more important so maybe people were just sharing that?

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Posted: 4/16/2019 6:37 PM

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Here are the SD encodes so far. https://archive.org/details/finalfantasycrystalchronicles-tas-wobmiar HD will require some HDD space I need to cean up, hopefully this week.

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Posted: 4/16/2019 4:20 PM

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If you enable Capture OSD in AVI/WAV menu, you won't have to record the screen to make a video. http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/VideoDumping.html#Windows

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Posted: 4/16/2019 4:13 PM

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We had a staff talk and couldn't find solid reasons for banning team-base sports games from Vault if they provide enough freedom for the player and can be meaningfully TASed. The former blanket ban for all team-based games was a result of some slight oversight and lack of good examples. It seems deviations from traditional rules in usual fixed-time team-based games are fine. So this game is acceptable now. http://tasvideos.org/diff.exe?page=MovieRules&rev=380

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Posted: 4/15/2019 5:36 PM

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Your best bet is finding the code in your game (or games) that polls input, and attaching a lua hook to that code. That way every time input is about to be read, you could feed it precisely. The question is, do they even allow to attach lua functions to reading memory? I'm looking at their luaengine code and I can't tell at all. https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/frontend/mame/luaengine.cpp#L791 Their lua docs are known for being miser: https://docs.mamedev.org/techspecs/luaengine.html And the implementation is known for being absolutely incomprehensible, so all you have is asking crazyc, the author.

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Posted: 4/15/2019 5:01 AM

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Great reason indeed.

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Posted: 4/13/2019 7:08 PM

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This movie has some blank frames at the end, we usually don't leave those in because they give false impression about input length. While checking this I found that the very last input can end sooner too. Haven't tested earlier ones. Here's the movie. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/54530816263675334 Chef Stef, what do you think?

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Posted: 4/13/2019 4:21 PM

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Doomsday31415 wrote:

Question about the category tag "Uses a game restart sequence": Does this include pressing reset at the very beginning to skip the intro?

The definition includes all cases: http://tasvideos.org/MovieClassGuidelines.html#UsesAGameRestartSequence

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Posted: 4/13/2019 12:30 PM

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Comparison (no frame diffs since it's already written, and no time is lost): Link to video

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Posted: 4/13/2019 11:13 AM

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Whenever this game is finished Link to video Link to video

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Posted: 4/12/2019 3:32 PM

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For significant updates it's welcome to make new posts, that way people get notified via email and can keep up-to-date. Editing the post doesn't send email notifications, so use it when you don't mean to inform people about new finds or when something doesn't require additional discussion.

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Posted: 4/12/2019 4:54 AM

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Who's saying it is?

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Posted: 4/11/2019 5:08 PM

Post subject: Re: How Perfect does RNG have to be?

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PlayPatrice wrote:

My question is - At what point can RNG intensive sections of a game be considered "Good Enough"? Do I need to use my "Optimized" day 1 solution as opposed to my Non-Optimized "Swag" start, even though the SWAG start gives me a better RNG sequence on day 2? Without help from someone in terms of RAM watch or RNG reverse engineering, spending another 100 hours trying to brute force a solution that /Might/ be faster than what I have doesn't sound like an effective use of my time considering I have another 1.5-2.0 hours of gameplay I need to do frame inputs on.

No movie is unimprovable, so yours doesn't have to be. But make sure we can't easily beat your time. For that, achieve as good time (overall) as you reasonably can. If you can't beat your own time anymore, it's usually a good indication the movie is well done. On the other note, there is a page that provides some hints on Wiki: ReverseEngineering. It's not all that hard when you know what you need to do.

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Posted: 4/11/2019 2:53 PM

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I wonder if this could fix TP?

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Posted: 4/11/2019 2:52 PM

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MESHUGGAH wrote:

And how is this relevant to pressing the reset button on platforms where the game execution halts, leading to corrupting the save file, which could be potentially used as code?

It's related directly to your thought:

MESHUGGAH wrote:

- If a TASer want's to complete a game, he should at least use the same process as the game wants. Imagine completing a game released in 2010 but the audio used is from 1999. Imagine completing a game that act differently according to volume (for example PC Tonsil Terror). If the game waits for input from a microphone, than you shouldn't allowed to make a compressored audio sitting on 999 dB, in case if it's simply impossible to do with a microphone plugged in to a PC. Imagine a game acts differently according to various data of a sound (for example visualizers).

The game wants us to not reset during saving, and we ignore that. If it wants you to say a certain word into the mic, we're not obliged to care, we just do what works optimally.

MESHUGGAH wrote:

Why a CD requires "ever going game execution without suspending even for a moment" while abusing "save games" (or more like resetting the game (edit: or even the console, where even minutes can be passed without ever getting to the "game code"...) at the right time while it tries to write it) are allowed to stop the game and as we know, even start from a said save game.

You're allowed to reset and power off for CD games as well, including during saving.

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Posted: 4/10/2019 9:32 PM

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As DrD2k9 said, if you just start a movie from a save file, you need a legitimate verification movie and your main run has to be entertaining enough for Moons. If it's not all that entertaining, it will be rejected. If you want to guarantee that it's published, regardless of feedback, do everything in one movie. And as theorized, it might end up being longer overall than that published movie.

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Posted: 4/10/2019 3:47 PM

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MESHUGGAH wrote:

So if I have a PC with 3 drives where thr game CD is in drive 1, then I don't need to comply wih the rule?

As long as you don't interrupt the main game execution, and don't swit to run code from those other CDs instead, it's fine.

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