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Here's the guide.
http://tasvideos.org/Translations.html
The question is, how do we present the translation links? With no text at all around them? With a header above them? With simple bald text? Anything else?
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How hard they are to make affects the desired difficulty setting that makes the run more impressive, and usually more entertaining.
"More of a Superplay" doesn't mean much to me in this case, since we evaluate 2 main aspects of the run: technicality and entertainment. Hardest difficulty, when used well, improves both. Faster speed alone doesn't change those, and in my case, it also looks less real and authentic, since like pretty much everyone else, I'm used to the regular speed, so I can comprehend and enjoy more stuff as a human.
Still, this requires input from other people too!
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
The site staff took some effort and now we can properly organize all our translations in a semi-automatic way!
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Radiant wrote:
Using a higher speed makes the game harder for a human player. Therefore, selecting the fastest speed means you're playing on the highest difficulty level, which is appropriate to a TAS.
Like I said. It doesn't make it harder to TAS, since you just apply the routing and tricks that will work exactly the same on other speeds, you just have to adjust the length of each input. I don't think it's what we use difficulties for.
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What I personally dislike is using the faster speed. From the SegaCD submission:
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feos wrote:
Challenger, so have you tried other speeds? My take is that the original one is better due to feeling authentic, but what impression do other speeds give?
Well, increasing the speed to 1 (fastest), looks nearly like the Superfast Super Mario Bros (NES Hack). But I prefer using original speed on games (expect for text messages).
For the sake of authenticity I'd prefer the default speed here too. The argument that speed 1 is harder doesn't apply to a TAS, where it's equally easy once you've found the optimal strats. Maybe this assumption is wrong though.
Guys, please express what you think in terms of this speed being more or less entertaining than the default one.
Voting Meh.
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AcolPavel wrote:
but this is no WIP
How do you know that?
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Bump of interest.
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This is a cute little game, I found it pleasant to watch, voting Yes.
Link to video
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
I can't jump neither at 1.0, 0.0, -1.0 ypos
You're watching the wrong value.
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Latest bizhawk would probably be easier to console verify.
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Koh1fds wrote:
Two weeks ago I discovered new technique that saves time. If you have dash status in the air -> then pause the game -> then change direction -> then unpause the game -> you still keep dash status
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOBZaXAY58
Maybe it can be used for something else
Also you can do same thing while dashing on snakes.
Direction change isn't instant, and you need at least 1 frame between the pause presses.
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Done.
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Applied your tweaks, check please.
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Then improve it when you have time before submitting.
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It's non-trivial when you actuallyinvestigate input, because this movie beats the game at frame 4467. What's your point again?
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Masterjun wrote:
Cancelling, as this movie does not reach the end of the game and thus is not a complete movie.
Except it reaches the same point as the published run.
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Doesn't sound like a clear cut to me, dunno if that is even possible here.
What I don't have doubts on is that we should use emulator settings and dependencies that match the emulated game. But the case of this platform is now even closer to the C64 situation IMO: we just have to check the game and how it runs, as well as look for the relevant info on the web. But if some release only works on EU machines, we should allow it if it uses a PAL machine and looks like a PAL release. And those should be obsoleted by NTSC runs when such are done.
Figuring out originality is hard and is based on assumptions, so the only way to make it safe is to just prefer NTSC unless there's a compelling reason not to.
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As I mentioned, my biggest issue is, do we have some authoritative source of info about every MSX game release where we could check what we're looking at? The lack of such resource caused c64 to become an exception from the PAL/NTSC rules.
If we can know what region a game is designed for, it's fine, we just check. What if we can't know that?
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I agree that it's better to replay the Pokemon ACE on hardware if it's possible even in the far future. But if the future is too far, it might be good enough to just run it on an emulator.
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MrWint wrote:
I want the rules to reflect that, because currently they sound like a firm "yes, reject immediately" to me.
They sound like "yes, reject immediately, except maybe not, I dunno, maybe".
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Nach wrote:
For the phrasing itself, I prefer "not allowed" over "not preferred" because it makes things simpler. Don't bother with a PAL game unless you know it's the only or it's substantially different. A weaker wording like "not preferred" will just lead to a lot more submissions that will be rejected, and players will feel they had no warning.
Then we're getting back to clarifying the criteria. They are only listed in this thread so far.
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Please split the posts so we don't lose them, I'll ask Quibus these questions later.
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Fog wrote:
feos wrote:
Looks like we need some notes about MSX too.
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=458992#458992
It's easy to miss because of the variety of machines, so every time it should be verified explicitly that the ROM and the machine belong to the same (or compatible) region.
But this is for BizHawk, not openMSX.
It is also c64. I'm just posting it here because the rule is relevant.
Mothrayas wrote:
How is this different from the usual NTSC/PAL console/game scenario on systems like NES/SNES/etc?
C64 is an exception from these, just because it's hard to know what region the game belongs to. For regular consoles it's easy to know what region you are emulating, just by checking a simple option in the emulator. For MSX it's harder, you have tons of machines, and you have to research the one used in the movie. I don't know how hard it is to obtain verified info on every game release, but I'd presume it's not as easy as for consoles. This all should be sorted out somehow.
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This will save time in ALL branches that use this glitch!
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Direction change isn't instant, and you need at least 1 frame between the pause presses.