Posted: 7/4/2012 1:10 AM
Post subject: Why are we publishing BizPuck movies as .tas?
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NitroGenesis
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Ok, so it makes sense for Psycho Fox, Quartet, and Zanac, because they were submitted as .tas. But! [2066] SMS Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse by Tee-N-Tee in 12:48.54 and [2025] PCE Dragon Egg! by adelikat in 07:11.58 were submitted as .bkm, yet published as .tas. What's up with THAT, man? I thought people agreed that .bkm was the suitable extension, and then you go and publish .tas's.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Posted: 7/4/2012 2:05 AM
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Actually, Dragon Egg is a bit more confusing - the download link is labeled "BizHawk movie file (.tas)", but when you download and extract it you get a .bkm file...
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Posted: 10/3/2012 5:49 PM
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Is this ever going to be fixed? It makes sense for the early BizHawk movies, but not for the runs published after the file extension change. This should be an easy fix, too. Could someone at least answer instead of just ignoring the question?
Posted: 10/3/2012 5:58 PM
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CoolKirby wrote:
Is this ever going to be fixed? It makes sense for the early BizHawk movies, but not for the runs published after the file extension change. This should be an easy fix, too.
Basically, there are two things that could be done: 1) Change the extension stored in the database for type code 7. - This would cause all Bizhawk movies to change the reported extension. 2) Create a new type code for .bkm and then edit the relevant movies to use this code (as well as editing the movie parser, so future publications will have it correctly). - Unfortunately, free type code entries aren't exactly plentiful.[1][2] [1] I haven't looked at what it would take to expand the type code space... [2] Best guess would be that expanding the type code space would be relatively easy...
Posted: 10/3/2012 6:04 PM
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Thank you for your quick reply, Ilari. The second option would probably be the best, since it would also be the most correct (the first 2 or 3 BizHawk runs used the .tas extension). Are you planning to create a new type code for the new extension, then?
Posted: 10/3/2012 7:07 PM
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CoolKirby wrote:
(the first 2 or 3 BizHawk runs used the .tas extension).
Actually, there are 4 .tas runs.
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Are you planning to create a new type code for the new extension, then?
Yes, but the amount of testing needed is by no means trivial (so it is going to take some time at least).
Posted: 10/3/2012 11:22 PM
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Ilari wrote:
Yes, but the amount of testing needed is by no means trivial (so it is going to take some time at least).
I understand. Thanks for taking the time to fix it.