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The sense of the rule about allowing only 2 branches for the Vault is the following:
People can start making tons of movies with arbitrary goals for tons of games, like "does jump left in level 3 once" or "shoots 30 enemies in level 5" and we will not be able to reject them, if any branch is acceptable for Vault. This is about boring movies. If one is NOT boring, any goal run can have it's place in Moons or Stars, as long as people enjoy these arbitrary goals. I hope you understand that we can't allow ANYTHING boring for Vault, and this restriction isn't pointless.
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I said I'm an inclusionist personally too, but this hardly affects the situation.
EDIT: I added the proper info to Submission Instructions, as it only was present at the Vault wiki page.
http://tasvideos.org/SubmissionInstructions.html#Tiers
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Vault was introduced to host time records that are not interesting to watch. Before, such runs were merely rejected. Time record is the only excuse to host boring movies, and if it contains time/entertainment tradeoffs, it's not a time record. Movies people like go to Moons and there it doesn't matter if it's a time record or a playaround - it''s accepted. This is how it works currently.
Staff wasn't too enthusiastic about making these rules obvious and noticeable for everyone, so if you don't look for this info, you won't find it. But still, one is advised to post his WIPs on forum and collect feedback to make sure his run is worth submitting without disappointment afterwards.
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Was anyone encoding it? Ilari: do you want a dump?
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I'm a bit captious in how much does the game have to offer to interest me. This is the exact type of games I don't like at all - run right and jump all the way through. This is what I expect the Vault to be for, except... it took no damage and did no kills for some reason!
I support pacifist for the games where you can get interesting damage boosts off the enemies you'd otherwise just kill and not care. I *can* understand no damage in games with billions of enemies hard to dodge. But in such games you have to do much kills to maintain the action density.
Ninja Giaden pacifist no damage was one of the most boring ideas I saw implementer for a TAS. And I voted No for this submission, unexpectedly for the author I think :D
The odd thing here is that Vault can not accept the runs with time tradeoffs. And this submission has the same amount of Yes and no votes so far, which can't be considered a Moons path. Will wait for more feedback though.
EDIT:
A funny youtube comment:
"Quick smurfs, Gargamel has kidnapped our only female... again!"
"Y'know I always wondered what he does with her... Also, how is it possible that we haven't produced at least one other female yet?"
"That's because she won't sleep with anyone."
"...We're going to go extinct soon aren't we?"
"Yyyyuuupp."
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You guys mean it was already encoded?
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GoodCodes wrote:
[a] This is simply an alternate version of a ROM. Many games have been re-released to fix bugs or even to eliminate Game Genie codes (Yes, Nintendo hates that device).
I see no problem actually to use such a version, especially considering it was never even released. Just not sure about the official attitude.
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Uh, the run desyncs for me. IN the red zone when there are black balloons chasing you the arm that needs to kill you won't appear.
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Weird, this submission actually used California Raisins, The - The Grape Escape (U) (Prototype) [a1].nes ROM and desyncs on [!].
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BTW, corner collision must be tested further. I remember I bumped the LEFT SIDE of the platform and started flying under it, not the bottom of it. Maybe there is some pixel in the corner that can be reached sideways. Some platforms don't allow to bump them from below, but could be useful in the flight trick.
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We have this brilliant feature for Windows that has AviSynth and its motion estimation plugins. But what about Linux?
Linux seems to have https://github.com/avxsynth. Some people attempted to write motion estimation tools for Linux. But we don't have any centralized place to discuss this, so let it be one.
Ilari said he also wrote some deblink tool ("phase-change deblinks (two variants)"), but he seems to keep that in top secret. Please discuss and suggest!
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They forced me to, they got my passport!
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Got it running by switching video memory. Still crashes in between if I watch with sound, so not sure how I can Dump it. Bernka, how did you capture the video with these crashes? Or the sound is present in the capture afterwards?
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Nahoc wrote:
This is 22:58.48 faster than the previous movie by adelikat!
I think there should be 2 branches for Glover; any% and all-stages. This movie should not obsolete adelikat's.
Which branch is this one?
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Crap, I can't handle windows tases anymore, this game crashes, syobon action doesn't start...
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I can't believe it was finally done by someone! Will you do a 100% version?
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I still think Turrican can be unrejected since it was submitted before the final date.
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That's what a Demo tier would be for.
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It's kinda odd that you can internally select the final checkpoint right away.
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A/Start is not a cheat code, right? Right?
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My system is probably broken, I can't run this game through Hourglass.
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It's not the save that determines whether the game was finished or not. It's comparing how the game normally acts when it is finished and how it acts after a glitched run. Otherwise we will literally be able to trick the system by calling some kind of a false ending.
SMW normally allows you to do NOTHING after the game is finished. And it does not change after the glitched run.
Pokemon (as we already know) allows resetting and makes a save. Masterjun says this save is in fact corrupted in the p4wn3r's run. But the game DOES PROCEED in general the same way it does as if it is actually beaten. Slight glitches during the process do not lock it up. This run brings it to the infamous infinite loop that does not allow to proceed normally.
If there were no infinite loop in this TAS, I think I would consider it completely legit. Trying to make a save, but having the glitched data, skipping this action and still moving forward - this is what is acceptable to me.
PS: I'm always open for discussion and want to see my decision reconsidered if it was wrong. However, I still think it was right. Will investigate the hell out of MESHUGGAH's posts about game endings. He did some to Battletoads, he must know.
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