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Прикол в том, что мы уже поговорили, и мое мнение - нам нужно знать, как выглядит эта игра на телевизоре (и подобные ей). Если там добавляются полоски, то сам понимаешь. Если нет, поменяю тот пункт в гайде и переделаю энкоды. Но проблема в том, что там надо того, у кого есть сега и хотя бы одна игра, работающая в лоурезе.
И да, не "сеньор публикатор", а старший паблишер. Мы ж не в Италии :D
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To find out how it should look, one needs to see how it looks on TV+console.
As for the guide, this line has been there since 2010-07-09, as in, from the very beginning. I guess sgrunt contacted some people who were around back then, and they decided to disable aspect ratio correction. I wonder if it was actually wrong.
EDIT:
Found the trace of it. Also, by sgrunt, 2010-04-08 (heh, I wasn't even around yet):
http://tasvideos.org/diff.exe?page=DeletedPages%2FEmulatorResources%2FMakingAVI%2FEmulatorSettings%2FWindows&rev=20&prev=19
See the footnote at the bottom.
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If the game predominantly uses the low resolution mode, uncheck Graphics -> Proper Aspect Ratio in low-resolution mode.
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Bobo the King wrote:
Can a run be vaulted not for being technically unimpressive or lacking interesting gameplay but simply for being ugly as sin?
You mean the game?
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mz: Hi there, for the first time we meet :)
Emulator code being total trash is a problem, but it's a development problem. As for TASing, if there's no one who can make a decent run with (current) mame-rr, then its movies can't be accepted. But if there is a geek who can finish it, why not?
Sure, we'd be using a better alternative, if there was one. I don't know if you're still interested in this project, but it'd be amazing if you were. For instance, I was interested in hacking pcsx (that's how I started learning C), it helped with some terrible problems regarding encoding. As soon as the most ugly problem was solved, I let pcsx go. All the rest was just a hobby.
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Nach wrote:
I think quality of the game in question, especially in terms of if it's a good port of an existing game or not deserves to be looked at too.
I can agree with it being accepted, but I really think someone should edit the source, turn the difficult way up and make a more exciting TAS.
Shiru is registered here, I think he can add a difficulty level if we ask well :)
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
I think I don't need to say that nobody ever heard of Alter Ego here, most importantly about it's NES port.
Not exactly comparable. While being of the same level of unnotability, no one ever took Alter Ego as a port of something all know. It looked exactly as a brand fresh game. Here, the impression is spoiled by how absurdly famous the original is, hence the fame of the port kind of fades, even if it betters the original by more than in the Alter Ego case. However, I'm not stating any preference here, just the facts how I see them.
Mothrayas wrote:
I would say you definitely should take what I wrote into consideration though, as well as the reasoning behind it. (This applies to other people's statements as well, of course)
Right, as soon as I count your (and turska's) opinion on how the provided data is a proof of notability, I notice people thinking it's not enough.
You know what? This port is better than Alter Ego by all means. It's not some crappy self-made piece of FRENDSHIP we want to avoid publishing. I actually think it deserves being accepted!
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This is exactly how I see it. Back then (before heavy mapper abuse was invented gosh was it long ago) NES was that limited, and it was maximum it could give. 9 active objects including the players.
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It's interesting, even after unrejecting, all I can see in this thread regarding how worthy the game is is uncertainty. A handful of people think it's a decent game (and popular "enough"), some think it's not. Yes, we have people out there that like it, it is known, but I don't think it fits into what we want from a game and a TAS of it, especially having people looking at the original and preferring it.
My personal opinion is that it's decent and known, and has something one may like, but while being known, it doesn't actually look unique and notable. If no new people appear who still think it is, I'll reject it in a few days.
Senior Judge thinking it is notable is another issue. Should I blindly rely on that?
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Want an explanation? There you go.
I already watched (and accepted) the any% run of this game, and I have a strong certainty that this run is of the same technical quality. So accepting it is the most probable scenario, but I need to make sure all the coins are really picked.
And no, I'm not getting tired of judging, like, ever.
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What?
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Thanks, will accept it as soon as I watch it through.
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Is there a way to check that there are no missed coins?
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WST wrote:
Проще попробовать понять, что именно сбилось, и написать программу, которая пересчитает все пиксели должным образом. Хотя… Посмотрю, сейчас не до этого.
Проще, чем заюзать кодек? Это так толсто, что даже тонко :D
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Беспотерьные кодеки юзай, плеер может неправильно распознать RGB, которое твоя система намалевала. Lagarith или Camstudio.
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Do you think I was requesting it because I don't know what's happening? I know.
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Какой кодек?
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xnamkcor wrote:
I thought the policy was to play on hardest difficulty.
Tried reading the thread?
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Or rather winning in the -world on FDS (includes wall entering) and why it can't be done on NES?
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Spikestuff wrote:
feos wrote:
But he uploaded an improvement (was it not just removing blank frames?), however this improvement's optimality is what I want to discuss now.
2^3 Things.
1 - 8050 was the old one (excluding blanks), it's now 7978
2 - You're good at checking things >.> (This is sarcasm)
3 - Muffins.
4 - Yes, it's an update. Why didn't you validate this?
5 - Did I really have to make you state that point?
6 - Are you making me pull your teeth?
7 - WHY ARE YOU BEING EVIL!?
8 - This point is just here to make what I wrote not make sense anymore.
I just went through all the current movie and couldn't improve anything. You spawned some random passages, but never answered the question about whether he fixed the ladders or not. He did.
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В ВК ответил тебе.
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ars4326 wrote:
Good stuff, Bisqwit. I wouldn't mind watching you do a whole series on breaking down TAS tricks.
+1
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Different ports are already being published separately for a few years, obsoletion only concerns actually identical ports, which are rare on old consoles.
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