I have been TASing Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for about 8 months now, and I am considering making a warpless TAS to see if it will get accepted. However, I am very new to the TASvideos site, and I am not 100% sure how the submission process works. Under game versions, the North American and European versions of the game are listed, but the Japanese version is not. Does this mean the Japanese version is not accepted for TASes, or is it because it hasn’t been used in a submitted TAS yet? Whether or not I can use the Japanese version will influence my TAS because the Japanese version has some tricks that are not possible on the NA/EU version.
I have been TASing Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for about 8 months now, and I am considering making a warpless TAS to see if it will get accepted. However, I am very new to the TASvideos site, and I am not 100% sure how the submission process works. Under game versions, the North American and European versions of the game are listed, but the Japanese version is not. Does this mean the Japanese version is not accepted for TASes, or is it because it hasn’t been used in a submitted TAS yet? Whether or not I can use the Japanese version will influence my TAS because the Japanese version has some tricks that are not possible on the NA/EU version.
Generally, various NTSC releases would be equally considered valid/the same (discounting language based time differences) and only gameplay would be compared in regards to preferring one run over another for publication/obsoletion
If, however, there are tricks/strategies available in the Japanese version that aren’t present in other versions, and it changes the approach to how aspects of the game are played; there’s potential (but not a guarantee) that the Japanese version could be published along side the NA/EU version(s).
I’d encourage you to go ahead and submit the run. Just be sure to use the submission notes to emphasize the unique strategies that are only present in the JP release.
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KingKappa wrote:
Does this mean the Japanese version is not accepted for TASes, or is it because it hasn’t been used in a submitted TAS yet?
It's the latter. Game information, including specific versions, isn't required for submissions, that's something we catalog ourselves when relevant submissions come in.
Actually, we get asked this a lot, so I might as well ask a question in turn: Is there a way we can communicate this better to new submitters? I added a few lines to our submission instructions page but if there's anything else we can do to clarify it then I'd be happy to make the changes.
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