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Thank you. Now 1000fps has some actual details defending it. I'll finish watching the movie, replace it, and render the final decision.
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the increased velocity is negligible after around 300 fps
Can you elaborate on this? At which point increasing the framerate stops giving any advantage?
Also, are there any TAS differences between aiming for real time compared to aiming for in-game time? An example where it matters is Sonic games where in-game time allows fair competition regardless of how much real time the score tally takes. For this game, I expect it not to matter all that much.
Progress report: I'm watching the movie suggested for replacement. At 15fps.
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I looked at the ratings and it's not that most people rate it as crappy, it's just a few ratings around 6, and then a single "no, it's crap" rating. We still acknowledge this as important, but right there it looks more like an exception, while overall the movie is mildly entertaining.
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Mzscla, please check your private messages.
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That's right, the one level I remembered diverging paths in was then played by your movie the same way as in the other one, so everything is contained in "all levels".
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It was my intention, and I see that some people actually feel that there should just be one term that covers all cases relevant to us (like this "RR environment" idea which I definitely saw before). I just think that everyone is so used to "emulators" and "emus" that "environment" won't help to make it clearer and simpler.
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Also, "environment" is what emulators are as well, so it doesn't help to answer the main question: If X is not an emulator, than what is it? And I mentioned Wine for a reason: it's an API translation layer just like libTAS, but it's not a rerecording environment.
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The game and the movie look not bad at all! It was a bit too long to keep me entertained, but it still looks like a Moon.
Since this game has no credits, only the cutscene with the queen, and then the usual congrats screen with a password which goes after every level, I think it can be encoded without the last Start press, so there is some feel of completion and the music track can play fully.
This was done an a Russian translation judging by the bk2 header, but syncs on the USA ROM, because all the text is skipped right away.
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SmashManiac, did you know that the main point of TASing is superhuman play? Superhuman play only has value when it happens within main gameplay contents of a given game. You can't call something a TAS if it does absolutely perfect menuing in a platform game, but plays the actual platform content sloppily. Of course menuing should be reasonably optimized, but the main point of a platform game TAS is superplay applied to platform contents of the game.
The goal of this movie is imposing limitations that make TAS contents of this movie highly entertaining. Superplay is being applied exactly where it belongs: primary gameplay content of the game.
Then, the ending is reached properly. The game has been beaten. All the challenge this game has to offer has been completed at supehuman level.
It happens so that what we do, actions not expected by the developers (which is another critical point of TASing), cause the ending routine we don't have control on to glitch out. Despite of being fully beaten, the ending absolutely can't process further. It tries to process, and has all the needed flags set, but some tiny logical flaw made reaching the very end of the ending fundamentally impossible without hacking.
You say we should declare this movie not entertaining, not having superplay, not reaching the intended gameplay end, not triggering the ending routine? The rules demand that the movie is completed:
Your movie should begin from the console power-on and end when the last decisive action has been delivered. There are no specific rules for an exact endpoint but it must adhere to the following rules:
It must beat the game.
Single-level movies that don't finish the game are rejected.
Where applicable, the movie must reach an ending screen that positively signifies a game is finished successfully. Reaching a game-over screen is not considered beating the game. If a game shows the same ending screen regardless of success or failure, reaching it is not considered successful completion.
Reaching an easter egg that by itself ends the game is not considered beating the game.
It must be able to reach the credits or end screen without requiring any further interaction; all input must come solely from the input file (e.g. configuring the emulator to autofire after the end of playback is not allowed). An exception has been allowed for Rygar.
Please read those closely if you're unsure of TASVideos goals regarding game completion. If you disagree with some of the above rules or if you think they haven't been met, speak up.
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That's a sane option as well. It's just rare to have caps in Linux files.
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Level passwords are only allowed when they unlock something not normally available, or harder. Obtaining the password and then restarting from it doesn't preserve the game state, so you're not exactly resuming where you left if you use it. Granting yourself just more resources by using a password is the kind of unfair advantage that we disallow, unless it's a part of some highly entertaining and difficult goal that could justify it, but that's extremely rare.
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We don't use "game end glitch" if save corruption is involved in the primary game breaking glitch used in the movie. We use "save glitch" then. So right here, it's accurate to call it GEG.
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How much time will be lost if FPS is set to 60?
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Вспомнил что яжмод! Вырезал в отдельноую тему.
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I thought of another tweak.
The whole thing is still called libTAS. The executable is called libtas, so you don't need symbolic links or caps, and it's never confusing what you're calling or naming. And libTAS.so would be the injected library. Caps are no problem with it because you don't load or call it manually.
This means, only a single confusing part has to change: linTAS -> libtas.
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I love your icon, and I admit that I also like the current name. The only problem I had was typing caps in the terminal. Which can be resolved by installing a symbolic link or something.
And yeah, everyone views libTAS as the app name I think, even tho the current executional is named differently. Since Linux is case sensitive, the app could be called libTAS, and the .so file - libtas.so.
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It's up to you, but I was planning to give some advices in the rejection message.
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Tried last level. Saved 108 frames on a 22-second segment.
Movie.
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Does it even desync within segments?
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Yes, as long as the whole chain starts from a non-save-anchored movie.
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To throw something on the table...
Environment a PC game runs within should be legitimate
While IBM PC architecture was open and allowed to use infinite variety of compatible hardware and software components, the games weren't designed to support this infinite variety. Each game usually targets some known specifications and can potentially work on a few deviations of those. Other specifications may be totally incompatible with a given game, and on some variations it can glitch out and not be fully playable.
Means of improving the game's appearance, sound, and alike, without affecting the gameplay, are allowed. This may include in-game options, console commands, launch arguments, in-game codes, environment hardware and software tweaks, etc.
In-game settings and environment parameters that are explicitly supported as modes are allowed. This means there are limited non-arbitrary options the game was designed to work with, for example a few speed variants. Explicit support can be proven by in-game options, official PC spec recommendations, release notes, source code logic and comments, etc. Burden of proof is on the TAS author here. If this information is completely unavailable for a given game, use the environment specs that were common and popular in this game's era.
In-game settings and environment parameters that have arbitrary nature and don't belong to point 1 should be left at default values. Deviations from those are disallowed from Vault. For example, if the game allows to set arbitrary speed factor (even limited to some range), picking arbitrary values can only belong to side branches, not to fastest completion (and%) or full completion (100%).
If arbitrary tweaks don't belong to primary branches, we'd need some branch label they could use, as well as some movie class describing them. While branches can address the specific parameter that was arbitrarily picked, for example "CPU overclock", generalizing all the tweaks under one movie class isn't simple. The thing we want to say is "Abuses unintended environment", "Uses arbitrary environment", but these sound weird.
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Movie.