Great stuff, I hope all this research will pay off!
The only thing I'm worried about, is if all of the varialess Magmoor stuff will also work with accurate loading.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
I just switched to the newest Bizhawk, which required me to get a new prereq file as well. There are two things I noticed:
1. On the "Release history" page on TASVideos, the prereq link is outdated. On the main page of the emulator, it directly starts the download of the newest version.
2. I know that you can't include BIOS files. But could you at least create the firmware folder automatically, just so it's a bit easier to get started? Every small thing like this can prevent one of those question threads being created here by first time users.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
I see, so hard mode would mostly be a novelty thing.
Regarding SRAM: I'm sorry if it came off as rude, it's just that I kept seeing people bring up the issue when talking about various games lately. It frustrates me when ideas for TASes are immediately answered with "but it starts from SRAM", as if that would automatically be a bad thing.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
I really wish this community would start to get over this. If people want to start from SRAM and provide a verification movie, where's the problem?
0% hard mode would be like the coolest way to show off this game, imagine how crazy this concept would seem for someone who only played it casually!
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
I'll take FF9 as an exemple as I'm familiar with it, just watching the intro, we are already 7 seconds behing the RTA times and that's only after 2 minutes. In an 8 hour movie, we're talking 20 minutes lost on loading times at least.
A PS1 emulator shouldn't be designed to emulate a PS2. If you want that, use a PS2 emulator.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
100% is already routed well enough. I don't know where you got that route from, since it's outdated and suboptimal. If you're interested to see how the current route looks like, I suggest watching some of the more recent RTA runs. The TAS will probably not change too many things about that route.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
This looked even faster than Episode 1! Some might say it's repetitive, but for a 3 minute run, you can't go wrong with a speed like this, specially if it involves frame perfect Nazi shooting.
Ich stimme JA!
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
If not for the fact this uses arbitrary code execution, I'd complain about the Spiderman 2 glitched password thing being rejected.
With that said, this is the first time I've seen a password screen used as an exploit. I wonder any other games with passwords have exploits?
It's great that this TAS was made. Now there is something to compare a new attempt to, and with those improvements, it will surely be good enough for a submission.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
Why are people going so crazy over Discord, I don't get it. You still need an account to do anything useful and it doesn't do it's stuff better than other software. Well, at least it makes less people use the terrible thing called Teamspeak as a voice chat (even though they should actually use Mumble).
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
It's great that you want to finish this, regardless of some stuff not working yet. If Bizhawk is overall closer to console, it's still worth it. This TAS is too good to just stop, it deserves a publication on this site!
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
For a Master Quest TAS do you use BizHawk or Dolphin? And did you use the ROM ripped from the ISO image or did you use the ISO image itself as a whole?
N64 allows for shorter load times and lower death count.
GCN has longer load times and dying is faster than resetting when necessary.
Note: The longer load times is only used after selecting the game in the game select screen.
There never was an official N64 release, so it would have to be GC, even if it's slower.
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.
I think your work with this game raises a good question, Alyosha. Should we replace published runs that were done on outdated emulators with newer, slower files that are accurate?
I think we definitely should do that, accuracy is very important for TASing!
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There are no N64 emulators. Just SM64 emulators with hacky support for all the other games.