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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
A more "complete" ending would reduce questions of legitimacy, and it's perfectly fine as a personal choice.
Agreed.
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ikuyo wrote:
Maybe a name like Sandbox? (or waterbox amirite HA)
Sandbox is technically a subset of Playground if we look at original terms.
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chilsie wrote:
I like the idea of Playground, but I prefer the name “Showcases”. Playground seems like a more… casual term? idk exactly how to word it, but Showcases just comes across as a more fitting term, since this could be used for LOTADs and the like. I just wouldn’t be able to take something uploaded to a “playground” seriously compared to something clearly dedicated to showcases.
maybe I’m just nitpicky tho lol
The problem is Showcase is a planned new name for Moons. See this discussion Post #511194.
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warmCabin wrote:
So I've got a 4K encode of an old Mega Man 2 TAS that I'd like to submit to the YouTube channel (still need to add the logo and the disclaimer). I'm trying to follow this guide to get a feel for how the sideloading process works, but all the links seem to be broken. Is there a replacement for the Encoder TASVideos Channel Manager?
There's no replacement but it's not used anymore either, because we don't store encodes on the server anymore, we upload them directly to yt. If your encode is good, upload it to mega or any other fitting file hosting and we'll grab it from there.
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Only actual gameplay is considered to be an improvement. If your movie has 600 fewer frames solely due to version differences, your total improvement must be more than 600 frames.
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benstephens1000 wrote:
I don't entirely follow. I'm not necessarily saying this is something that ought to be applied across the board. I think it's pretty safe to say that different communities have different ways of doing things. However, the post you are linking to suggests that only categories with "unique goals" ought to be branches. Wouldn't that be applicable in this case? Because from my perspective, the movie that this discussion thread is dedicated to does not have a unique goal, whereas the current branchless movie for this game does have a unique goal, i.e. not going out of bounds. It sounds like we are both in support of the same thing, I'm just not exactly sure why this is something that wouldn't or has not worked. Is it because of the bit of not updating branches on obsolete movies?
The agreement about this submission was that it doesn't need the label, because the technique mentioned in that label is commonly used when speedrunning this game, and "inbounds" is an exception goal, which is what we mean by "unique".
I just meant that in general, treating any% as blank branch won't work here at tasvideos, because it leads to all sorts of weird branch labels and even less consistency in what those labels mention.
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benstephens1000 wrote:
I am not at all a part of the Luigi's Mansion community, but generally I agree that branches should not be based on what glitches or techniques a category does use, but instead those it excludes. AKA the fastest category is your baseline, and any runs that add objectives or ban glitches or techniques should be branched and specified as such.
We tried this and it didn't quite work.
Post #510912
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Copy this file into the "Undertale v1.0 Linux" folder.
but doesn't explain what file.
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There won't be any definitive policy on reencoding standard definition videos. Encoding is a volunteer job, we don't tell encoders what to do, we only tell them how to do it. There are some TODO lists for those interested in helping. But since overwhelming majority of our viewers watch on youtube, archive.org is mostly for medium quality backups, so low priority.
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Sand wrote:
adelikat wrote:
media links have mostly been moved to files. All wiki pages should be updated accordingly, and forum posts (that had non-broken images before go-live
Thanks, that's great. One small bug: revision 71 of Text Formatting Rules fixes the example markup to refer to files.tasvideos.org, but revision 70 had already removed the live markup for the image.
Restored the pic.
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Oh well. There's no easy to obtain info what's going on here. I'll just continue with my judging.
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What time is this run meant to be? https://github.com/TASVideos/tasvideos/issues/808 says it's wrong but it's not mentioned what it should be nor how to verify it. The movie doesn't contain this info either.
Also we can't accept a movie with hard dependency on a Discord download. There should be a way to obtain the runner reproducibly from a versioned release, because we're meant to verify that it's legitimate.
Does it sync on libtas 1.4.2?
Wiki: MovieRules#GameplayMustBeAccurateToHardware wrote:
If a game is not emulated well at all, it may not be accepted until the accuracy improves.
Your submission must be reproducible. Judges and Publishers will attempt to verify that your input file syncs on an officially released build of an accepted emulator. If your run fails to sync on an official release, it cannot be verified, and thus cannot be accepted.
Aside from hopeless situations like Dolphin (where you have to use interim builds for years just because official releases are insanely rare and not always functional for your games), we require using official releases of emulators, because interim builds may contain bugs that affect gameplay and compromise its legitimacy. I know libtas is not an emulator, but it's functionally similar as far as our policies are concerned.
There's also a question of whether variable framerate is legitimate in this game.
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You are not allowed to run a console or PC game in an unintended environment, including modifying emulator settings for unintended speed advantages.
If the developer(s) didn't mean to allow changing framerate on the fly, forcing it to arbitrary values as you go is technically similar to running it on incompatible hardware or overclocking your console. However compromising this kind of legitimacy should be okay for Moons as long as the movie is entertaining.
Finally, all the sync notes should be put into the annotations file of the movie itself:
Wiki: EmulatorResources/LibTAS#DocumentSyncRequirements
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Added your build to the release.
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Alyosha wrote:
https://tasvideos.org/3944M
Not sure if this is specifically related to the new site, but this publication should be the Ubi Soft game, not Taito.
Fixed.
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Fixed author.
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Nice! What guide did you use to build it?
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Added rules links to Standard and Moons.
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That obsoletion chain features old approach to hacks, but we haven't decided what we want to do with hacks in the future, especially considering the level of freedom Playground is going to give. I'd leave this obsoletion as is for now.
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Thanks! Turned out you could get autogenerated Japanese subtitles from yt, which I already used in googletranslate, just didn't have a person actually speaking Japanese to confirm.
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Since we want the movies to end as soon as possible while reaching the credits, I tried to optimize skipping the dialogs so no further input is required, yet the input file is as short as possible. Please check if you can optimize those dialogs more without too much effort.
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/637778718340253948
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keylie wrote:
If you think that this needs to be answered, I can try other runner files and see if I can replicate the glitch.
That sounds like even if it works on some launchers, a major part of the movie would have to be redone (if not the entirely of it). On the other hand we can't confidently say the "porting" process doesn't affect gameplay at all, if there's this discrepancy that may affect movie time significantly. But proving that it's possible with other launchers is also not an easy task at all.
I honestly don't want to reject this well-made run just because of potential bad luck. If you're interested in checking this, I can wait with judging. If it would take too long, I'd like to err on the side of accepting this movie, but the answer would be needed when a new TAS is made.
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Aktan wrote:
Which one becomes a tiny bit blurrier?
All the converted ones.
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At 500% zoom I notice that some parts of the BG become a tiny bit blurrier, but I can't notice any difference in quality between all the encoded converted variants.
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weils wrote:
documenting my little rant
it kinda feels like the moons page is a bit vague. i was looking at it and it kinda felt like the page was worded rather complexly (not a word but idk the actual word lol) and there was only actually brief information on the class itself. I feel like it could potentially do with a slight rewrite just to make it more clearly show what moons entails, eg. What would actually qualify it with examples, clearer explanation of the rules that get it in (audience feedback, types of goals) and a deeper explanation of what the class actually is.
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