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Posted: 9/23/2014 1:55 PM
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packsciences wrote:
Ok, should I delete the TAS ?
There's a Cancel button on the submission editing page, unless you want more feedback, of course!
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:45 PM
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That item switching made my evening! Totally Yes vote.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/20/2014 7:28 PM
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Дальше читай CasualEncoding.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/20/2014 2:37 PM
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http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CustomEncoding.html
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/20/2014 12:35 PM
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If you have time, and my case can't be helped.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/20/2014 11:17 AM
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What am I doing wrong?
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Posted: 9/19/2014 2:44 PM
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Feel free to contact the author and tell him to uncancel it.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/19/2014 2:37 PM
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scaryice wrote:
Shadow Lords appear on wave 16, so I'd say you should play through that level at least.
Please participate here! http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=387053#387053
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/19/2014 2:36 PM
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I mean I'm in the NES version. Just saying that it doesn't get any harder only after wave 42. BUT: after wave 20 it gets REALLY REALLY old. So I'd like to stop somewhere sooner, or it will be a dead vault run. The guy in the other thread said it should stop after shadow lords appear... I summon Nach in this thread!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/18/2014 8:19 PM
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I'm at wave 20 right now, and I can say that things do differ! Different platforms disappear, at wave 16 shadow lords start spawning. But while after wave 16 there's no unique content, only after wave 42 it's no longer more difficult! As in, that is the first wave where all enemies are shadow lords. http://seanriddle.com/jwaves.html
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/18/2014 2:27 PM
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Resubmit, new stuff, new encode, new votes. Can you encode it?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/17/2014 2:38 PM
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LOL. When all enemies die right after spawning, there's no increase in difficulty no matter how many waves you play. Pterodactyl shows up only if you don't clear the wave for too long. You are not going to see if they are moving faster or slower because they don't. But if you will feel more satisfied only after a few more waves like those, I have no problem adding it. However, I'm surprised you never even tried to request adding it before making a decision.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/17/2014 1:44 PM
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It'd be a good idea to find the author of the first (ever) total control run (luckily it was for GB too) and pull into the project.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/15/2014 5:34 PM
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Dimon12321: I mean that kind of determinism an emulated system core must guarantee to a TASer.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/15/2014 3:30 PM
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Post subject: What actually breaks determinism?
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This appears to be quite important for us (if not even critical). But what kind of beast is it in fact? How much do we know of it, can we teach others to fight it? I mean, we now have guides for effectively every matter related to TASing:
  • The process of TASing
  • Making Lua tools
  • Dealing with RNG
  • Debugging
  • Emulator tools required for TASing
  • Guidelines on movie file
  • Guidelines on savestates
So if one wants to TAS a game on some new platform, he can learn everything it takes to make it possible, from the lowest level, except... making it deterministic! Our experts surely have an idea of how to find causes of non-determinism and fix them, and that means they must be able to tell something about it, then we could make up a list of things to look into in general cases of simply movies not syncing, and possibly even some more interesting ones too. I'm not asking to figure out why some things still desync, if it's yet not known. For complicated platforms it may be too much heavy lifting. But I believe 15 year old hardware is predictable enough to fall into at least one of the known desync causes. So what emulator authors (or hackers) should get rid of, in hopes to make their system TASable?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/15/2014 2:53 PM
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Re: this run. Recently I asked the staff on IRC about which movie files are considered to "sync", and the Judge guideline was brought up:
The input file should sync properly on an approved version of a rerecording emulator. Being an approved version means it can be downloaded from the official website as a packaged release. Development builds don't count as such (unless it's a messy base like Dolphin). Any settings necessary for sync should be documented in the submission properly (edit the submission to include this information if necessary). The settings chosen must be considered legal, and not used to hack the game in some way. If the submission does not sync on at least one official release, it must be rejected (unless there is an unavoidable exception). If it syncs for someone other than the author, it is still valid (so that games/emulators that require similar OS/computer specs to be deterministic have a chance).
I'm really curious how someone earlier have said that runs that don't sync on any official emulator builds (except it's a special case like Dolphin), but only sync with a savestate, are legit. Probably mednafen is such a special case, but still, it should have been an emulator fixed to sync this run, not the savestate way. Please discuss!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/15/2014 2:07 PM
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Whenever in doubt, http://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-advance/x-men-the-official-game__
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/15/2014 1:49 PM
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So what's your general plan, guys?
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Posted: 9/14/2014 12:49 PM
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http://feos-tas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Misc/fceux.7z
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/14/2014 7:15 AM
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Here: http://tasvideos.org/ReverseEngineering.html
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/14/2014 6:47 AM
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Yes, it appears savestates are mostly present for different drivers, but some are incomplete, hence not sync-stable. Frankly, adding proper savestates to drivers is on MAME's own list of easiest things one can contribute to the initial code. But there's nowhere to ask them, if they would want rerecording internally, so we should enjoy adding it in a fork for now. They say, most drivers _were_ designed with savestates in mind, but not all of them have them complete. So it's not "adding savestate logic from scratch to everything". http://www.mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php?title=Save_State_Fundamentals
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/14/2014 6:41 AM
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Tangent wrote:
With two players and the only major dependency being making sure you're in position for the last enemy of a wave, it seems honestly pretty trivial.
And it was :) Took me only 2 evenings. Dealing with 1 player needing to fly around, manipulate shit and delay killings, would be way harder (and it was, until I found 2P is possible), but probably it wouldn't look like a domination over the challenging game. But who can guarantee what the 1P version feedback will be?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/13/2014 2:32 PM
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The game usually seems to be going as follows: 1. Normal enemies in the beginning, all platforms. 2. White enemies appear (faster), platforms disappear. 3. Platforms return. Repeat 2-3 for a while, then introduce blue enemies that are even faster. That's all. One can spawn blue enemies by letting the white enemy eggs lie untouched.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/13/2014 4:36 AM
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Warp wrote:
Please insert a rickroll somewhere in there. That ought to elicit some laughter.
I keep seconding this.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 9/13/2014 4:27 AM
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Awesome!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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