Posted: 6/9/2022 5:28 PM
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During the week of this year's SGDQ, TiKevin83 and I are planning to bring our TAS replay equipment to casually show off some verifications in the Practice and/or Casual rooms. While TAS verifications have been showed off on stream before, in the last two events I went to I never really saw any TAS content being shown outside of the main event. So this year I'd like to take some time to just replay a bunch of TASes with the hopes to show off TASing and verification in a casual environment, where people can ask questions or just enjoy the wild crazy things created by this amazing community. While we could just replay random movies, I'd like to ask all of you for suggestions. Ideally we'd want the most entertaining, insane, or silly runs that are replayable. (Though I may also try out some unverified TASes while I'm there.) I'll for sure be bringing a NES, and TiKevin is bringing his Gamecube (GBI; for GB and GBC games). I'll provide some quick links below for the different verified movie lists: - NES - Gameboy/Color For example, one movie I have in mind is [2816] NES Final Fantasy "stairs glitch" by TheAxeMan, Inzult & Gyre in 06:58.24. Despite being obsoleted, it's a silly amount of walking up and down stairs! Note we may not be able to replay every suggestion, but all are appreciated.
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Posted: 6/9/2022 5:54 PM
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I actually don't remember if this was in any GDQ showcases yet but one of my personal favorites in how memorizing it still is on rewatches is: [3943] NES Arkanoid "warpless" by Chef Stef in 11:11.18 Botted extensively and yet it still produces some really beautiful ball bouncing movements.
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Posted: 6/9/2022 8:19 PM
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Battletoads 2 player warps: cool glitches and RNG manip (especially wind enemies on the last level.) Prince of Persia: not the most exciting but really cool work went into it, good for discussion.
Posted: 6/9/2022 8:48 PM
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Tooting my own horn but Blackjack is pretty silly. https://tasvideos.org/4650M
Posted: 7/14/2022 5:01 PM
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So what did you guys end up showcasing? Was there any feedback on what people found interesting?
Posted: 7/14/2022 5:40 PM
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Alyosha wrote:
So what did you guys end up showcasing? Was there any feedback on what people found interesting?
Yeah sorry, forgot to update this thread. TiKevin tested positive for COVID just before the event, so he wasn't able to attend. I did spend roughly 3-4 hours in the practice room replaying NES TASes. There wasn't too much interaction with other people honestly. One person at the start stayed to watch for awhile. A few people would pass by occasionally and ask what I was doing. There was one person who said "Hey! This is tasbot!" which I promptly corrected and we talked for a short while about what console verifications are. There was someone in the row behind me that I saw briefly look over and say to himself something like "oh hey that's neat". The practice room was quite full most of the week, and only half the room this year had CRTs. So it was hard to find a spot to use most days unless I went there at like 2am, and I was pretty tired on the days I volunteered anyways. I think it was a positive experience nonetheless. The people I interacted with thought it was cool, and so there was some exposure. Also it taught me that I desperately need better tooling for dumping TASes on-the-fly. I didn't have many dumps prepared ahead of time, so I couldn't really replay anything made with BizHawk (e.g. a 20minute TAS would take at least 20minutes to dump). Additionally, there's just a lot of little steps involved in making a dump that I'd like to condense as much as possible. Even just for use when I'm at home. Dumping multiple TASes takes a lot of work.
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