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You create a repository for your files on some version control site. You commit files to that repository and keep its copy on your computer. When you edit a file that is already committed, you then commit the edit. The miracle is that all of your interim files are still alive, you can then backup any revision you wish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
Oh, and I personally failed to understand what happened to you with fceux. I understood that you discovered tons of new tricks, but what was the workflow and how did you proceed to get stuff lost?
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Downscaling (with LanczosResize) is done when the dump was captured at higher resolution from 3D games, which does antialiasing. So no matter what the dump resolution is, for SD it is downscaled to 320x240. For HD it is upscaled with PointResize to be above 1080p (twice for 720p and 960p).
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II'm looking to understand what width and height number are important. I want to create an algorithm that solely works with width and heights, not concepts of handhelds and approximations.
If you want to obsolete manually specifying handheld/TV console, I don't think you will succeed, because it can only be done so that you list resolutions and it knows which is for what console type, but Windows, Arcade, and maybe some Computer games may have resolution matching the ones listed as TV consoles, but you don't want to apply aspect ratio correction to those. Is there any other way to automate detection of ARC need? Or did you mean something different at all?
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For now I agree about unobsoleting the fastest branch for Vault and marking the other as "all gems". More opinions?
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Seems that these 2 last posts break the "concensus", isn't it? And I'm not mentioning IRC discussions.
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Then try MPC...
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Heidman wrote:
I have issues playing this codec... any tips?
Update Media Player Classic, or use VLC.
Also:
Link to video
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Since huge changes are announced in the News, I'll use this thread to post small updates of the workflow.
Tests with rc-lookahead setting showed that it does not give any size profit (if several kilobytes isn't profit for you), while it gives a huge memory load, especially for higher resolutions. In some cases using lower values gave even smaller files. And there is some speed boost for higher resolutions with lower lookahead.
So we decided to remove rc-lookahead setting from encoding commands. This way it will be set to default value of 40 which is okay.
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True wrote:
But seriously, this is a site for TAS and very little electronics happens here. There are a LOT of wonderful resources on the internet for what you seek. I can send you a huge list of beginners electronics resources if you desire. Why post this thread here?
You seem to never have seen this thread. Electronics thread has way more to do with TASing that than one :)
EDIT: I'm late to the party, so nevermind.
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In theory, yes. In this case - I don't know.
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Yes vote, suggestion Moons, and also suggesting that a Knuckles any% done on S3&K obsolete this.
I'm going to judge this applying the quoted proposal. People in this thread prove that the impression of S3K and SK is nearly the same, just S3K is better. But this run is good too, so Moons. Any more opinions?
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In theory, your movie may be restored from the latest savestate you did. Uncheck Bind savestates to movies, start recording a new movie, and just load the state. It must bring you to the frame it was saved on, and if you stop your movie then, it will be saved to disc. Didn't try that myself, should work.
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Even snes9x 1.43 runs won't be obsoleted based only on accuracy boost, if real gameplay improvements are not found. Accuracy doesn't beat TAS optimality. So unless some real improvement is found (either on snes9x 1.51, or on bsnes core), a published snes9x 1.43 run won't expire ever.
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I'm recalling the story with NeXT computers...
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Unique features are what makes emulators be loved by people.
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May I suggest that you look at the Genesis version of Maui Mallard (also with Donald)? It's way harder than the SNES one and greatly differs overall. And unlike the latter it has running, and few other interesting features to speed up over the SNES version.
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What I'm saying is that "Heavy glitch abuse" is not the same as "glitched" branch, because any branch can have "heavy glitch abuse" and not be "glitched" at the same time. So we can't just make a tag and throw away the goal statement.
If anyone has such huge problems finding the fastest branch for some game, we can add a flag (linking to all current published branches for certain game, or to all fastest branches of all published games). And for those who fail to read all descriptions to know HOW is fastest completion achieved (by 2 players, by warps, by game breaking glitches) we need to have visible branches for all runs.
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Currently it's RAM viewer. Will be editor soon. Including access to all memory regions and all registers.
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My point is that adding branches just to categorize items in the database, not to help viewers understand the exclusive goal, is wrong. To point out something is the fastest of all branches we can use some flag. Branches are statements of what is the run's goal, be it "glitched" or "100%". If 100% is the fastest, it must be flagged as such, but for best recognition is must still keep its branch as 100%.
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MrGrunz wrote:
It is completely arbitrary to label a movie with any%, that is not the fastest movie of the game. There is only one logical definition for any% and that is beating the game as fast as possible. This being said, I totally agree with what most people wrote in here:
The fastest movie always has to get the label any% and all other movies published of the same game, need an extra label, that easily describes the difference between the 2 movies.
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I personally disagree with removing "glitched" from branches that are faster than "any%"s, or if they are the only existing branches. This term has always been a great way to label the exclusive contents of the run, and to make it clearly distinguishable from other goals. It is a good tradition and it has practical value for all. While removing "glitched" not just serves some categorization purposes, but adds in much confusion to what was traditional.
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Audio streams and subtitles can be added to Archive items if they are in SpeedRuns collection, or the creator is alive.
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I agree.
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