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Posted: 6/11/2013 11:34 AM
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I liked it, it is also faster than the latest 1P Super C movie: [105] NES Super C "1 player" by Genisto in 12:39.42 Doing a fast encode. One question: jumps don't seem to slow you down in this game, while they cost 1 frame in the original one, right? EDIT: The trick in the last level is amazing, can it also be applied to the 2P branch?
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Posted: 6/11/2013 11:25 AM
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What is this stop for?
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Posted: 6/11/2013 11:05 AM
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We don't do blind obsoletion (unortunately there are still some examples of such). It's not just another branch, it's also an unfair advantage code run. I already explained that all, why repeat the same arguments all over again?
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Posted: 6/11/2013 10:38 AM
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Correct, this run is still more entertaining than the published one. But the tier system is set up that way so we can accept only a certain range of content to Vault - the games that have plain speed records, which can be interesting to watch to certain people, and there these games are. Being a speed record with NO trade-offs is what justifies expanding Vault. There are SOME runs that contradict this initial Vault system, but 1) that's another question, and 2) past mistakes don't justify repeating them in future. Even if this submission does obsolete the published run by entertainment, there's no reason to replace/obsolete anything, since these 2 runs belong to different branches. If you finally make the any% run, it will definitely obsolete the current one. As for what variety over the existing run this one represents, if we had a Demo tier, I would gladly move this submission to there just to show off something. But there's no Demo tier. And this can't be published. dunnius, your feelings and intension are known, no one disqualifies them. But the current system isn't suitable for such manifestation of them.
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Posted: 6/11/2013 3:45 AM
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It would be possible for them to co-exist (this one being a side branch) if this submission had good feedback that would lead it to Moons (the place where categories other than any% and 100% can exist). But the feedback here is quite bad, and using this cheat means it can not become legit any% category, so unfortunately it can not be published neither in Moons nor in Vault for now. I can't imagine the branch that would be liked by the audience, even though I understand that this cheat improves the time very much. But TASVideos can't accept everything, there is still some bar explained here: http://tasvideos.org/Guidelines.html#Tiers http://tasvideos.org/JudgeGuidelines.html#TiersAndGoals
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Posted: 6/10/2013 3:37 PM
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Okay, then for this branch it must be optimal. I actually think the votes are OKAY enough to go to Moons (and the content does look nice), but that's just me. Any more opinions anyone?
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Posted: 6/10/2013 2:41 PM
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That's just insane! AnS would be happy about what TASEditor does in skilled hands! It's funny how he once said that it would be cool if someone would strike in here and there and shave off a few more frames where traditional method didn't help. MESHUGGAH appears to make these dreams come true. Wow!
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Posted: 6/10/2013 3:22 AM
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Cheat and debug codes are also built into games by devs. Being built in proves it's not a glitch. Then it's a sort of code giving unfair advantage and reducing the difficulty.
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: 6/9/2013 1:09 PM
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What we would need to know is whether that "easter egg" can be considered a glitch or a cheat code/debug mode/whatever that gives an unfair advantage not directly obtainable through gameplay. If the former, this would most likely obsolete the current any% branch, otherwise it would be rejected due to being badly received.
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: 6/9/2013 12:28 PM
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I see, but there is no point in entering a wall if you still jump out of it and still lose 1 frame. You just need to try this strat throughout the run and avoid more jumps.
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Posted: 6/9/2013 12:21 PM
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http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/my#uploadfile
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Posted: 6/9/2013 11:55 AM
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I see NO ingame lag even in Yunshui's movie! Only between the scenes. You will also see it if you turn on lag counter (press "/") which you seem to be not using. I have no idea why lag was mentioned in his submission decision at all, because old fceu did not have lag display! Only the gun level-up looks like a misoptimized thing. Moving inside walls doesn't slow you down either, the screen always moves at 1 pixel per frame (RAM address 0x46).
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Posted: 6/9/2013 11:26 AM
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This movie looks like a borderline between Vault and Moons, which is always hard to make a decision about, since it is either mooned or rejected. For now I only think this submissin can be improved by performing wall-clips instead of jumps, like the older movie by Yunsui did. The response from the viewers is too poor to determine if it is generally a liked or a disliked movie. For a non-standard goal that may be critical, while "fastest by any cost" will be published anyway if optimized enough.
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: 6/9/2013 7:38 AM
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Each jump provides a 1 frame movement freeze as you touch the ground again (falling from a block too), so basically, one should avoid jumps as much as possible. This means getting into obstacles will be faster than jumping on them or falling from them. Also, dodging the bullets must be slower than killing the enemies, especially considering that obstacle condition, where enemies don't allow you to enter the wall. And I don't know if no damage is also faster than taking damage. Why people keep using this goal, no damage + pacifist, when it can't even go to Vault if the run was not liked? I would make the fastest possible run to make sure it is done okay in the first place, and only then make a pacifist one, if it represents enough variety over the main branch.
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: 6/9/2013 6:39 AM
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Since this submission doesn't imply any judgment decision anymore (nothing to accept or reject), I'm thinking of setting it to delayed until you guys come up with something more or less final. Then as I said, there shall be a new submission crediting all the actual authors, and this one will then be canceled/rejected. What do you think?
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: 6/8/2013 7:09 AM
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Voting No, this made just no sense for me.
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Posted: 6/8/2013 6:47 AM
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Anyone knows what affects their behavior? Having a list of RAM addresses could help to figure out.
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Posted: 6/7/2013 5:13 PM
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Why is this cross-goal obsoletion obsession still alive?
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: 6/6/2013 2:31 PM
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BadPotato, post the latest workflow you have,I want to test one thing.
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Posted: 6/5/2013 3:41 PM
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If you already know the address that is used as RNG by the game, you must set a write breakpoint on it. You would also want to figure out how much it gets hit: once per few frames, every frame, or several times per frame. The next thing to do is to trace the code: you get to the frame where RNG will change, set up trace logging, start logging to a file. Then you run emulation and it must automatically pause at the breakpoint. Stop logging. Now in the log file you most likely have the events that CAUSED the RNG to change. Logging with displaying registers values and other info is recommended. Then you go to a page that lists all 6502 (or whatever CPU it is) commands. You try to interpret the code, to understand the logics. You ask the advanced people if you have problems during this step. The answers will most likely be too advanced, but it actually is the way people learn: discovering new stuff and working on understanding 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: 6/5/2013 2:22 PM
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I second this suggestion. It would be beneficial for all :)
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Posted: 6/4/2013 5:06 PM
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I guess the action isn't intense enough, and the obstacles aren't so frequent as in Gremlins 2, for example.
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Posted: 6/4/2013 4:48 PM
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I see, then this submission will most likely be accepted with no branch in a few days. I said I would try to find improvements, but after some of them were already applied and now people don't come up with more suggestions, I can try improving the already published movie as well.
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Posted: 6/4/2013 2:36 PM
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So what about this suggestion:
MURPHAGATOR wrote:
6-2 is also probably the only place in the game where taking damage might save time on the conveyor section. Without the pause thing it would save time during 3-2 since you wouldn't have to wait for the waterfalls. I took damage on purpose several times during the platforming, but those aren't really relevant to a TAS since they were mostly for consistency.
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Posted: 6/4/2013 1:44 PM
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Being a lua noob has nothing to do here, since it is debugger stuff :D The address $01A5 gets incremented to 1 and decremented back to zero every frame (2 changes per frame, both occur on non-lag frames). And on lag frame it gets incremented once more. So the first function (DetectLag) detects if it incremented the second time, or, address $C373 (increment $1A5) was executed while the value of $1A5 was ALREADY 1. So when this value becomes 2 actually, I set my variable to true, otherwise it is false. Then the second functions gets registered when the routine that polls controllers ends ($C323 is RTS for this routine). It is when FCEUX sets its own lag flag. So when my variable is true, it forces FCEUX to set lag flag in itself at this point. If input isn't polled, FCEUX lag flag isn't overridden and it most likely still sets its internal one. This is why you will see a small diff between the old lag script and this one. The old one showed me a few less lag frames, it maybe didn't count the frames that were marked as lagged by FCEUX itself.
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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