I'm not. Buuuuut Grunz and Bloob are because the TAS was started long before bizhawk had the N64 core and m64s can't be easily ported.
Which I did say already on this page... so why are you not reading?
No. I'm just wondering why not redo on a more stable emulator than continue on one that's crap. And before you ask, I have restarted runs like that on other games several times before, and despite the annoyance, it's still sometimes better to do so.
The technical rating seems basically "How hard was it to make this TAS?" And I don't know because I've never TASed - even if I had, it's hard to make a judgement unless you've attempted to TAS the same game. So for me it seems like it should just be the number of rerecords (lots of them = high technical), with maybe a few modifications for if the TAS does something really crazy/slightly sloppy.
Luckily, it's ok to simply rate on entertainment and leave the tech rating blank; in fact, if you clicked on the ratings for a movie with x.5 votes, you'll usually find one or more users who didn't leave a tech rating.
Every time spongebob says 'WOO', it gets better. I like the speedrun overall. Maybe the length is a bit long but numerous glitch abuses keep it entertaining. I throw my yes vote here (though it's pointless now).
I just wonder how did you keep in track and find the exit when out of screen, like in Sea Cave or Trench Bottom.
Trail and error while still recording the input on a copy of the movie file. :P
Although this means probably shorter exits exist; though I fail to find them.
I found out it is possible to beat the final boss after all:
User movie #10498514182923544
My apologies go to adelikat for proving him wrong.
At least now the game has a much more acceptable ending point.
Devil's Advocate: The J version of SM64 is harder than the E version because it fixes BLJ (and I think some other things). If a well done run came along of SM64 120 star on the J version, would it obsolete the currently existing run because it is a 'harder difficulty'? Or are 'harder difficulty by design' and 'harder difficulty due to less glitchiness' different?
On the other hand, I fear this sets a bad precedent if every movie on the site could theoretically be obsoleted by those clever enough to find the best initial hardware state for their TAS,
That's not actually the case, since the vast majority of games do initialize their hardware properly before reading from it.
Also, if that was indeed the case, I'm just surprised how runs like Tetris was able to be console verified several times by different people. :P
I don't care whether the game gets technically finished or not, from the encode it clearly appears that Cheetahmen dies on the final boss and restarts at stage 3, then the encode abruptly cuts off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPoLBTaJ2JU
I could understand if Cheetahmen dies and you reach a credits screen or something, but that's clearly not the case.
The game has no ending, it was not programmed in the game. The fixed version simply transitions to a game over screen as if you died. I achieve that same "ending" by....dying.
Vykan12 wrote:
On the other hand, I fear this sets a bad precedent if every movie on the site could theoretically be obsoleted by those clever enough to find the best initial hardware state for their TAS, which increases the amount of technical knowledge required to make a TAS. We should be looking to decrease the learning curve for new TASers, not increase it, make it as accessible as possible.
If that honestly is a concern, then simply ban RTC while you're at it since knowing how RNG is affected by system time " increases the amount of technical knowledge required to make a TAS."
Can we see the movie so far? I mean how many frames ahead are you? It would be sad for all this tasing to go unseen I mean I doubt you'll tie your previous manipulation (according to your post)...
I remember getting huge differences in lag during cutscenes with majoras mask but when I would play the file back I would get a bunch of desyncs back then so I don't know if what you are observing is actually true or just the emulation being buggy...
I'm just curious now on what emulator is the TAS using. :o
The castle collapse cutscene completely destroyed our entire motivation. We simply can't tie the manipulation of my old run and combined with the fact, that this is the most boring and annoying shit ever to TAS (makes cuccos feel like the most enjoyable thing you've ever done) we didn't really work much on the run for the last like 1,5 months......I just started doing attempts again, so pray that the game will be nice to us today.....
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Care to elaborate on what was incompatible? Since you mentioned the cutscene, is this run done on Mupen? Since the submission text mentioned about desync errors caused by it.
Yeah, none of them obsoletes the harder difficulty run which is exactly the matter here. If people prefer speed over all the rest (once they didn't), it will be accepted. If they prefer the difficulty (and the U version), I"ll have to reject it.
Thanks. Knowing this, I think the hardest difficulty should be used since I usually find using tool-assistance on the easiest settings usually doesn't show clear, superhuman play (of course, there areexceptions, but this situation reminds me of Megaman 2's case).
The answer is: I don't know.
I managed to save 3 frames through better positioning during the fall, but then I lag more at the circular torrent thing. This may take a while.
Since this thread is getting quite long, can any of you mind posting your findings in the Games Resource page? It would be nice to have all the tricks and information in one page rather than spread across the thread. :)
I was in somewhat similar situation with this movie:
[1930] NES Zen: Intergalactic Ninja by feos in 11:34.21
The previous one used the medium difficulty, and if I switched to hard, my improvements would become uncountable, due to losses in different places. So I picked the same difficulty to know for sure what I improved and what I didn't improve.
However, this run was accepted as a tech and entertainment improvement over the predecessor:
[945] Genesis Gunstar Heroes "2 players" by arkiandruski in 35:28.92
despite of being slower in real time for using the hardest difficulty.
Well, there are 7 movies listed that uses the easiest difficulty. I wonder if any of those cases could be applied here in one way or another.
Wait....does that apply exactly the same even for the NES? What about other consoles? If it does, to what extent? Because like for some games, there are runs that may never encounter such emulation problems since it's route doesn't involve any use of glitches/tricks that may utilize said problem.
For example, I'm sure if the any% SMW was improved, the error seen in the glitched run would not cause issues in console verification.
The movie goes on even after the Hard level is cleared, idling on the menu for sometime and then showing the story. Is this on purpose? Without that the video would be half as long.
I've just watched it on the TASVideosChannel and can confirm the encode does needlessly idle for some reason. What was the purpose of it? Did the encoder AFK'dpassed out thought the music was nice and noone would mind?
