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Back when Ti_ and I were studying the stick glitch, we found out the main reason for it: the game processes object slots on 2 directions, from first to last and on the next frame from last to first. This is done to make them blink every frame to overcome sprite limit (and maybe for some other reason too). If the process is interrupted for one frame, some flags can carry over to unrelated objects. Lag helps with this, but the main trigger seems to be the second player: he was not tested too thoroughly and inherited more bugs that the first player. I don't know how exactly he influences flag corruption, and it's mostly just broken sprites, but sometimes things get nasty.
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I don't think Steam completely makes those up regardless of what the game authors think. Also it involves peeking into the game engine to be able to tell something has been accomplished, I doubt Steam forcibly injects itself into the game code. What I do think is that it's a part of Steam API that the games may use. It just happens to lack any in-game indication. Anyway, no one is saying Steam 100% must be our goal.
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Yeah, the verification movie is absolutely necessary. Also, there's no way to access this highest difficulty aside from completing the game, right? Passwords or cheat codes would be allowed if they unlock a difficulty.
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The game seems to define all achievements as 100% (INKredible).
https://steamcommunity.com/stats/385710/achievements
Though coins are the only collectable, and getting them all (INKognito) should be a sensible way to define full completion, since other achievements are there just to track things basically.
The proper branch label would be "all coins" I think.
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But does it have to be exact? If sync of the save anchored movie fully depends on prior gameplay that can't be replicated, we can't accept a movie since it can't be verified.
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I don't understand the question <_<
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Oh, so this is just a setup and not a real save anchor! The actual TAS doesn't depend on any prior completion at all, so it is perfectly legitimate. In your case, this "verification" movie could be replaced with simply manually listing all the steps that configure the settings the needed way. Then anyone would be able to replay the TAS without this secondary movie. We do this quite a lot in Linux TASing.
So yeah, just add the setup steps to the submission text and we're good to go.
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It's not us, it's youtube doing ridiculous shit. When the video name is 1 character too long or more, they would replace it with 5 characters [...] to make it shorter.
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First of all, why does a save file even has to be needed? We don't publish movies that require a save anchor if the same goal can be achieved without a save anchor.
And if the save anchor is required according to the movie goals, first you need to make a movie that generates this save file. It doesn't have to be optimal. It should just be a guaranteed way to make the actual save anchored movie play properly provided this save file.
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There's no rule against less accurate emulator as long as it's accepted. There's preference for users that can afford the better one, but for those who can't, we still allow submissions on less accurate ones. As far as obsoletion is concerned, there's no such restriction either, we just make sure the completion times are compared properly and emulation differences don't interfere.
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After looking at the pages I don't have any opinion on this. Such a huge pile of links will always be messy.
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When we can TAS machines for Windows or Linux games, we will require starting from power on too.
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Hourglass and libTAS are not emulators, so they don't emulate the hardware. They intercept the game workflow and control it. Since they only work with applications, their movies start when the applications start. It's impossible to include anything else.
JPC-RR and all the rest are emulators, so the movies start as soon as the hardware is turned on along with software we're running on it. There's no easy and obvious way to say "the game launches right here" about any moment in time.
For those curious, no one forbids posting movie time calculated from game startup, but the movie system (and therefore, submission system) have never been designed to account for the difference between bootup time and actual game startup time.
I'll see if the rule wording is outdated.
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I think there's no ambiguity in the actual rule talking about starting point in the general sense:
http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#MovieMustPlayTheGameFromTheBeginning
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I find it extremely boring.
Gameplay is if obscure genre compared to most of our content, and for someone not familiar with the game, it's impossible to understand what's going on.
As a result, I can't see any superplay value in the movie with an untrained eye, so I can't find it impressive and appreciate the effort.
Lastly, total absence of music adds to the obscurity feel that this game has.
No vote.
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This is as much as we can do to help this problem.
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This means if someone redistributes your work without crediting you, they are breaking the license. Therefore, you should be able to set up a strike against them using whatever service they use to redistribute it. If the service even allows such a thing of course, but I think if it lets them earn money from that, it also supports strikes and taking down videos.
But on our site, there's no way to share your work under a different license. For example, you can't forbid commercial use of the movie that you upload.
But you can make a derived work off of your movie, for example an encode, and share it under a license that forbids commercial use. Archive.org allows such an upload. If someone reuploads that and starts earning money from it, you can set up a strike, as I mentioned above.
Note that when we publish your movie on TASVideosChannel, we don't use Creative Commons licenses, we use youtube license. And that license does not allow taking videos made by other users and reuploading them. So you can set up a strike once again, saying that the movie file is your original work, and the youtube encode is a derived work that is not allowed for reuploading to youtube.
Putting curses into movie description may lead to even more confusion, so you need to be precise in what you say. We seem to need to discuss further which part of your work may be reuploaded and under what conditions.
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Uploading this movie's video by the people except TASVideosChannel and me calls republishing. Republishing is allowed. But republisher's whole family shall die!
What is that supposed to mean?
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Any wishes that to fix in mame-rr for more comfortable TASing?
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I don't understand a word but it's just perfect. German music let me go or I'll die from an overdose!
Link to video
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Yeah but does it have the same effect as in CaD2?
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I mean just look how many tools hawk supports already, and for how many cores they work already. Retroarch would have to be completely redesigned to support all our stuff, it's not just movies and savestates (which they don't really care about).
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Sonia wrote:
Would it be any feasible to make a rerecording build of RetroArch?
The reason is that RetroArch supports more cores/systems than BizHawk. Arcade, MSX, NDS, PSP, PC-98, Sharp X68000/etc are among them. It already has its own movie format (.bsv) and it even supports rewind within movies (but not save-states yet). Plus it's free and open-source under GPLv3.
Here's some useful discussion:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/543
I don't really know anything about their internals or whatever else that's relevant though, so no idea if this would be realistic/possible or not. I'm sorry if this sounds like a stupid idea.
Retroarch is not an emulator, it's just a client to all the infinity of cores that exist independently, and some cores developers even hate retroarch/libretro (but because of open source, they can't forbid it)! As far as we're concerned, nothing in retroarch usage has ever depended on absolute determinism of general play, and nothing has ever needed perfectly deterministic savestates in any of libretro cores. This framework is targeting real-time play, including netplay, and it's decent at that, but it's no one's goal to make it any deterministic. Also because of libretro nature, you either torture developers of the cores to make their cores (and savestates) deterministic, or you set up an external waterbox-like environment that snapshots the memory of the entire retrorch application. We're trying to figure out how to use libTAS for that. Bizhawk's waterbox approach is much more narrow, but it's super early in development, and no one knows if it's even theoretically applicable for retroarch.
Tell me one thing. How many tools like Lua, Hex Edtior or RAM Watch does retroarch have?
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I think it was related to a bit of misunderstanding, aiqiyou resigned from the authors to apologize to the author of the previous submission. And though it's unfortunate that it had to be rejected, I think no hard feelings remain, so there's really no need to be too hard on oneself. An improvement has been made, and the authors deserve credits. I would agree that forced co-authorship was unnecessary, as I believe we would be able to convince aiqiyou to return :)
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I'd be really interested in seeing such articles!
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