Posted: 1/1/2022 8:42 PM
(Edited: 1/1/2022 11:46 PM)
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Bigbass
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Console verifications have many uses in TASing, such as improving emulation accuracy, and proving that what we see in emulators, really does work on console. TASing is an art, and seeing that art displayed on the game systems we love, is such an exciting experience. Through this work, we help preserve that art, and help preserve that love we all share. This year has seen huge progress in verifying TASes! We have more than doubled the total number of verifications in one year, compared to all previous years combined (from 137 to 306). In 2021, 7 individuals, have collectively verified 169 publications across 7 different systems: NES: 122 GB: 19 GBC: 23 A2600: 2 SNES: 1 N64: 1 FDS: 1 Special thanks to all of the wonderful and dedicated people who recorded these verifications (in alphabetical order): Alyosha, Bigbass, CasualPokePlayer, Kosmic, rcombs, TiKevin83, and ViGreyTech. There is still much work to be done! But I am confident the progress will continue. Finally, we must thank the creators of these TASes. Without them and their hard work, this site and this community, would not be here. Thank you all, and happy new year! (You can look at this spreadsheet for a full list of all known verifications, including for movies and demos not published on TASVideos. Please let me know if you spot any errors.)
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Posted: 1/1/2022 9:04 PM
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dwangoAC
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Bigbass wrote:
Special thanks to all of the wonderful and dedicated people who recorded these verifications (in alphabetical order): Alyosha, Bigbass, CasualPokePlayer, Kosmic, rcombs, TiKevin83, and ViGreyTech.
I'm thankful for everyone who contributed but I'd especially like to thank Bigbass for all of the heart and effort he put in to new work while I was distracted with other events and real life issues. You rock!
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 1/2/2022 4:16 PM
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Alyosha
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I didn't realize just how many verifications happened in 2021, that's pretty cool. Thanks to Bigbass for making things more organized as well, it really helps with getting a big picture idea of where work needs to be done. NES verifications really accelerated last year, and there is still a lot of potential left, I'm really hopeful 2022 will see some more high profile games too like the Mega Man series. It also has to be said that a lot of the easy stuff is done now, a lot of difficult work lies ahead to advance verification into new consoles, but that's also where the fun is, I'm looking forward to it.