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Tompa
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Probably to have both parts in one movie. But yeah, not that neccesary to do right now anyway, whatever. You got an awesome looking WIP at least, Carl. Great work!
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The egg juggling was very entertaining. Keep up the good work, the WIP looks very promising both the technical and entertaining side.
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I noticed a few spots where there's a moving platform (in the direction you're running) that you didn't run along against, but besides that, it looks very awesome! definitely what I want to see in an Any%.
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Comicalflop wrote:
I noticed a few spots where there's a moving platform (in the direction you're running) that you didn't run along against, but besides that, it looks very awesome! definitely what I want to see in an Any%.
Yeah, I'll definitely be doing that for all subsequent horizontal platforms. Unfortunately, I learned that running along those platforms increased Yoshi's Speed after missing one of them :P
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Yeah, I'll definitely be doing that for all subsequent horizontal platforms.
You can fix it in your WIP by using TASMovieEditor. That is unless this fix would affect the game's RNG, but I kinda doubt it.
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Vykan12 wrote:
Yeah, I'll definitely be doing that for all subsequent horizontal platforms.
You can fix it in your WIP by using TASMovieEditor. That is unless this fix would affect the game's RNG, but I kinda doubt it.
I know Nxcy and Baxter have had very little luck finding ways to redo sections without it totally screwing the game up. They need a much more finely tuned run since they're doing 100% though (random star movement, etc). Can anyone elaborate?
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Wow, that was very good! I first thought that the any% wouldn't be able to stand up to the 100% in entertainment, but you really did a good job on that. I especially liked the music synchronization, which I think has become something of a rarity lately. Excellent entertainment choices overall! And the glitches didn't disappoint either. Keep up the good work!
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Nice work. So many awesome tricks and time-savers I never new about, especially pushing the W2 boss off the other side. I remember actually trying to get over him to do that but without the knowledge of wall-jumps it was impossible. I'll be sure to watch the completed run.
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spezzafer wrote:
Nice work. So many awesome tricks and time-savers I never new about, especially pushing the W2 boss off the other side. I remember actually trying to get over him to do that but without the knowledge of wall-jumps it was impossible. I'll be sure to watch the completed run.
OMG it's Spezzafer! :) I really, really enjoyed watching your run when I first discovered it many years ago =D It's awesome to know that you're watching my TAS.
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Any progress Carl?
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spezzafer wrote:
Nice work. So many awesome tricks and time-savers I never new about, especially pushing the W2 boss off the other side. I remember actually trying to get over him to do that but without the knowledge of wall-jumps it was impossible. I'll be sure to watch the completed run.
Nice to see the great Spezzafer, author of 2 of the best TASes of history! YI and SM64.
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Sonikkustar wrote:
Any progress Carl?
On 3-6 atm :) Just got a new any% real-time SS record (1:49:27 SDA time), so I'll be shifting my focus back to the TAS here soon. For anyone interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvOzzA2Jb4
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For anyone interested, I'm about to enter World 5, ~7500 frames ahead of the old run :)
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Wow, you're speeding along. I await the completed run.
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Continue like that, I can't wait for this movie. I'll watch it for sure.
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Well, school has been incredibly tame so far this semester, so this run will be finished within a few days :) Can anyone advise me on how to easily go about making the .smv into a good quality movie file? I did a pretty bad job last time -- my knowledge of such things is extremely limited.
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  • get and install Lagarith or the CamStudio codec
  • start emulator
  • set audio sample rate to 48kHz
  • load game & pause emulator
  • start AVI recording (select file (e.g. 00.avi) and codec)
  • select "play movie" and load the file
  • unpause & wait until TAS & ending is finished
  • stop AVI recording
  • edit .avi in VirtualDub if necessary ("Video|Direct Stream Copy")
  • convert video to h264 and audio to MP3 (e.g. via x264vfw & LAME ACM codec & VirtualDub) ("Video|Fast Recompress" & "Streams|Stream List|" + right-click stream + "Full Processing Mode" + right-click + "Compression" + select "Lame MP3" and bitrate, e.g. 256kbps)
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creaothceann wrote:
and audio to MP3 (e.g. via x264vfw & LAME ACM codec & VirtualDub) ("Video|Fast Recompress" & "Streams|Stream List|" + right-click stream + "Full Processing Mode" + right-click + "Compression" + select "Lame MP3" and bitrate, e.g. 256kbps)
Actually, you should be doing audio to aac or ogg. aac is preferred though. Use the Nero encoder.
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Then you'd need command-line knowledge and a different container (.mkv/.mp4)...
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Edit: Figured some encoding stuff out at least a little bit. Anyway, the deed is done. I'm awaiting a final review, but basically the run is complete. Just under 20k frames ahead of Spezz's old run by the end. Video coming soon.
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If you wish to make an TAS from scratch You must first, invent the Yoshiverse.
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OmnipotentEntity wrote:
If you wish to make an TAS from scratch You must first, invent the Yoshiverse.
ROFLROFLROFLROFL :D Run submitted. And of course I forgot to end the .smv on the last frame of input, so I'm off to a good start. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqsERYfwkHA
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Wow, you even optimized the ZIP's file size! :) Oh, and the ROM info:
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File: D:\games\Nintendo SNES\roms\USA\Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island (USA).sfc Name: YOSHI'S ISLAND Speed: 20/SlowROM ROM Map: LoROM Type: 15 Kart contents: ROM+RAM+BAT+SuperFX Header ROM Size: 16Mbits Calculated ROM Size: 16 Mbits SRAM size: 32KB (256Kbit) Actual Checksum: 132C Header Checksum: 132C Header Checksum Compliment: ECD3 Output: NTSC 60Hz CRC32: D138F224 Licensee: Nintendo ROM Version: 1.0 Region: USA/Canada
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I'm just wondering if there's been any new progress so far on the 100% run. Hope so. It's definitely one of the most anticipated runs.
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Here is a comparison video of the two Yoshi's island any% TASes: Link to video
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