With better technology 5 years later, 50 MB larger doesn't make much sense...
The exact same settings I used here saved 50 MB from previous SK3 encode, so I have no idea what you are trying to say.
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Forgot to start uploading. Will be here
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The run is okay, the game is cool, the sound effects make just no sense!
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/me looks at Nahoc >_>
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Okay, they should have been put in the beginning of the first level. I'm curious who will reencode all 8 of them now.
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Wonder if it's possibly to pause the music during transitions as well, as having the music skip around did get on my nerves for a little while. Not sure if one can exercise that much control over the game's behavior through LUA scripts, though.
It is perfectly possible, but not easy at all. Requires good hacking skill. You may try requesting it in SM thread.
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All SM encodes I did had subtitles at the first gameplay room.
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The subtitles should appear within the movie once gameplay has started, while not blocking any relevant parts of gameplay.
Nach wrote:
Which violates our rules.
So you are telling me that entering the first gameplay room (Ceres it is called?) is an automated cutscene?
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I know that V0 is the best/maximum. But what about minimal transparent setting for ogg?
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AngerFist used to request HQ encodes with overkilled settings for some TASes: lossless audio and overscaled video. The file size was respective. RGamma was making such encodes for him lately.
Today I published Super Metroid with usual 10bit encode, but used q10 ogg audio, just for AngerFiset (regards only the alternate encode). He said that he sees and hears no disadvantage over the usual HQ encodes he requests, just is surprized by the file size.
I propose using better audio settings for 10bits, since they already have lossless video, having near-lossless audio is logical. People can resize the encode with pixel filter and see the same lossless video they see in emulator. But audio was always suffering. Why not make it better?
The only question is, what setting is the best? Since it is a chiptune, neither lossless, nor q10 are really needed. But what would be the transparent minimum?
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All four encodes will have alternate versions.
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Under the RTA rules, Any% is the highest category which includes all sorts of allowed glitches, including the invincibility ones.
Under our rules, game breaking glitches are only allowed in a glitched branch, any% can't use them. So if skips and game over abuse are considered game breaking, then any% should avoid both.
Just describe what would be needed for a full competion kind of run.
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Don't forget to use lossy compression.
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Hmm, then probably we may skip "Glitched" in the branches at all, using no branch for the fastest one, "Impossible" for a run like yours, and "All rooms" for glitchless warpless.
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Yes, I'd love to see an improved version of the Impossible run. The thing is, the more you try to optimize scenes, the newer tricks you find, and improve in geometric progression.
But I'd still want to figure the rules for possible TAS branches. If Glitched version uses invincibility, any% must avoid it. Skipping rooms will be different in them, so it may be allowed for both. Checkpoint abuse is free for all. What about Warps? I'd allow them as well. That can leave a room for a run beating all rooms.
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Frames lost in rooms this movie played through in the same conditions as Kurikinton's WIP:
The same tendency was noted for later levels. For example, the birds manipulation in GnG level is WAY worse. The author says later levels were optimized better, but it seems frame comparison was not done at all, and frames were lost in all possible places of level 1 at least. If someone wants to object my claim, please provide the same comparison for later levels. Otherwise, this movie is considered too sloppy for acceptance.
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The creepiest thing in this vid is the guy himself :D
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The branch for this movie seems to be "Glitched, Impossible". But what would be considered the glitched run features? Room skips? Death+invincibility? Both? What would any% run be allowed to do?
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As I finished with all regular encodes now, I will start putting things together for the 'gameplay only' encode.
BizHawk script:
Download SuperMetroid-DoorlessCapture.lua
Language: lua
while true do
-- Items, Doors, Elevators
istop = memory.readbyte(0x7E0009)
dstop = memory.readbyte(0x7E05F5)
estop = memory.readbyte(0x7E0E18)
if istop+dstop+estop == 0 or istop+dstop+estop == 0x6F then client.unpause_av()
else client.pause_av()
end
emu.frameadvance()
end
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It is impossible to have THREE runs of the very same game stared. Either this run, or any%. RBO isn't gonna lose the star I think,
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I can publish it once I'm done with Super Metroid (5 more encodes).
Also, the music will be okay after using my own savestate.
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It then becomes some kind of Longplay. The longer it is, if it is still fast and optimized, the better it is considered :)
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FractalFusion wrote:
feos wrote:
This issue keeps bothering me without sympathy. It somehow ended up having the least appropriate branch name of all available.
Don't start believing in Saturn now.
But just because someone blindly insists on "100%" does not mean that his opinion needs to be respected.
I don't know what believing in Saturn has to do here. I see an untrue branch, I suggest improving it. I criticized Saturn's opinion on it. And asked for opinions.
FractalFusion wrote:
It really shouldn't bother you.
Why it shouldn't, and what should?
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I liked the run.
But the glitched version seems to have some more rooms skipped. Did you compare your run to it?
I will post precise comparisons on the rooms both movies run through later.[/list]
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The same tendency was noted for later levels. For example, the birds manipulation in GnG level is WAY worse. The author says later levels were optimized better, but it seems frame comparison was not done at all, and frames were lost in all possible places of level 1 at least. If someone wants to object my claim, please provide the same comparison for later levels. Otherwise, this movie is considered too sloppy for acceptance.