Posts for Muhahahahaz

Posted: 7/24/2015 1:57 PM
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Muhahahahaz
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Location: Southern California
ais523 wrote:
My guess (I don't know the rules for certain) is that a TAS under those rules wouldn't be published as part of the site, but could be hosted in userfiles (which is normally used for route demos and works in progress) and would be worth posting in the thread about the individual game. People who are interested in the game might well want to watch it.
Cool, thanks. I didn't know about userfiles or anything like that, so I'll have to check it out. :)
Posted: 7/24/2015 1:27 PM
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Muhahahahaz
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Cool, thank you xy2_ and Samsara for such quick and useful information. I will make sure to give co-authorship to the other TASer when I submit. :) Also, I just realized that I should make a movie for 100% as well, considering I speedrun that category, but there isn't a TAS of it yet. It's only about 3 minutes longer than the 8 minute Any% TAS, so it might be a good place for me to learn some TASing from scratch. :D By the way, is there any room for "Theory TASes" on this site? Theory TAS meaning a TAS that is supposed to represent a run that a human could actually achieve (as opposed to one that uses TAS-only tricks). I already made one for the game in question as a tool for the (admittedly few) speedrunners of it, but I didn't have anywhere to post the FM2 file.
Posted: 7/24/2015 12:07 PM
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Muhahahahaz
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I'm not sure if this is the right place, but since this is a sticky regarding the submission process, here it goes. I was wondering what the rules are regarding improvements on an existing movie? I'm more of a speedrunner than a TASer, but I've found a few improvements on an existing TAS for a game that I speedrun (the improvements are of the routing and game mechanics nature, as opposed to "execution"). The game is for NES, so I know how to use the FCEUX TAS editor well enough. Also, I have most of the relevant RAM addresses, so I could theoretically create my own movie from scratch. However, that would take a lot of time, and I'm not sure if it's required. Also, I'm mainly interested in speed rather than adding any "entertainment", so any brand-new video I made might be boring. I've already managed to improve the movie by 18 frames, and there may be more on the way. It's a rather small amount, I know, but considering that the Super Mario Bros. TAS (with Warps) was improved by a single frame by HappyLee (and the obsoleted movie was by someone else), I can see that small improvements may be relevant. Anyway, considering that a majority of the inputs in "my" video will be the work of someone else, I have no problem seeing it listed under their username or whatever (though I would hope to have my name mentioned :-P). But as a newbie here, I just have no idea what the protocol for such a thing would be? Thanks in advance. :) (And of course, I would have no problem contacting the original submitter if it becomes relevant. In fact, I've PMed with him once before, although it was in regards to my speedruns of the game as opposed to TASing.)