While I wait for my TAS to finish being judged, I have made this other TAS of a SMW Creepypasta Hack. I would like to send it as a submission, but because of its gore I have doubts whether it will be admitted or directly canceled for this same reason. Is this Hack admissible? Link to video
hello, wanted to ask a question about a movie for beatmania 2ndMIX i was thinking about submitting, but wasn't entirely sure if i should. it's normally an arcade rhythm game, which would usually probably warrant something like a max score run with a lot of showiness in extra keypresses, due how the game works involving scoring and bonuses. but, the movie i made uses a hidden code/button combination in the game's song select to skip playing any songs at all, jumping straight to the ending (detailed more here -- normally, this allows you to play any song in the game). would something like this be worth submitting, or should i just abstain and try for something a bit more interesting? i'm not entirely sure if using something that technically falls on the category of level select (even though in a rhythm game, you pick the songs freely) such as that would be considered not OK.
Skipping everything and simply calling an ending sounds like skipping any and all gameplay, which then raises the question "what are you even speedrunning?" But yes, skipping straight to the ending has been disallowed for a very long time.
In-game codes that add gameplay are allowed for a separate branch, as long as such codes are used optimally. Codes that modify or disable in-game mechanics are not allowed, unless they unlock an in-game item or a skill that does that.
KI Gold speedruns have 2 categories on speedrun.com , one that is very fast with cheats for faster speed and removing blocking as well (i really dislike the fact they remove blocking), and one which is cheatless in the fastest speed possible for cheatless( which would be the second best speed, behind only the cheated speed). What would be acceptable in tasvideos? Cheatless and cheatfull? Cheat for speed only and not use the other cheats to make the game easier? There's a faster speed without cheat codes but it's not the fastest. you need to use button codes to access these other options and it's a billion of them
In-Game Codes: In-game codes that add gameplay are allowed for a separate branch, as long as such codes are used optimally. Codes that modify or disable in-game mechanics are not allowed, unless they unlock an in-game item or a skill that does that.
Only the run without using the cheat would be eligible for Standard class publication. I believe the run using cheats may be acceptable for Alternative class, if it garnered enough entertainment value; but I’d need confirmation from other judges to be sure.
I wanted to ask a question if the game hack, Grand Poo World 3, was accepted. I looked on the internet and SMW Central about the hack in November 2023, but it was rejected several days later because of minor bugs, although the ROM hack is playable. I made two WIP movies of this game: the first movie (User movie #638401726796647053) is an unimproved version of all exits, while the second movie (User movie #638442731540730749) started from scratch and made all exits and completed the hard mode of the game with improvements. As I was thinking about starting an improvement, do I have to overwrite the movie from the load point in the middle of it? This game didn't appear on the SMW hacks list, so I found one on the user's filebin of SMW Central. It belonged to Barbarian (or BarbarousKing), and I don't know if it was accepted when I submitted this movie. The first two Grand Poo World versions of the series appeared on the list.
As I was thinking about starting an improvement, do I have to overwrite the movie from the load point in the middle of it?
Reset right before reaching here, then using password to get back here after waiting a bit at the main screen above for better RNG. There's 32 stages, so 32 restarts + passwords.
DrDk29 on discord asked for more context, so I will repeat it here:
When you get a gameover, you are shown an option to continue, along with a password:
This is the password for instance, that I will use to get to stage 2-2 after beating stage 2-1 and resetting. The run itself will never see this screen, since I won't die. But as a player myself, I can die outside of the run, see this password, then use it during the run.The run itself will never see this screen, since I won't die.
I've started work on a TAS using BizHawk Dolphin Core, but it is starting to look like it might not be able to sync on regular Dolphin. To be clear, the TAS syncs absolutely fine on the BizHawk build - just not on the corresponding official Dolphin build. Would this be acceptable to submit to the site?
