I collect it in my runs because the starting track for this game is agonizing and I would play worse if I had to listen to it for the entire run. Worthy sacrifice for me, but not for the TAS. :P
I told you yesterday in chat, but for those who weren't there, I dumped perfect maps of the game with gravity fields included. I'll be making an interactive map viewer for my website when it is done being migrated/upgraded. Will likely not be done for another week or so. The maps don't have the CDs included, but the gravity fields will be useful for planning "slingshots" which the TAS will definitely want to be using. It'll also have the destinations of every pipe and teleporter, as well as CD thresholds and warp destinations. For some of the stages I looked into in more detail, I made a crude outline of all the CD clusters to make it easier to visualize. I'll make those public as well. I'll give more thoughts as they come to me!
1.a -> Masterjun had a good point on IRC, that this is about tie-breakers for submitted movies, not for obsoleting a published movie with a newly submitte movie with same time. I guess this case is not allowed, right?
1.b -> Oh, that extra requirement (Need to be a different branch) should be added to the rules in my opinion.
1. Obsoleting published movie without improvement: 1.a - Resubmitting vault movies without improvement but different (entertainment based) input? From Wiki: Vault: Opportunities to entertain the audience where it does not affect time is not a requirement. However, it is encouraged and can be used as a tie-breaker for two equally fast movies. --> I think there should be more preconditions or something. I mean there's for example NES Trojan with constant bunnyhopping, so very little efforts can be done to make it more entertaining, so the resulting submitted movie would be near identical in it's whole. Just want to know more informations before attempting to spam reworked published movies for this goal of bad games.
1.b - What about "vault to moon" attempts? From Wiki: Vault: "It is possible for a faster movie to be published in this category while a slower but "more entertaining" movie is published in another tier." ---> So all I need to is find enough speed/entertainment tradeoffs and be entertaining enough for good comments/views/judge opinion, right?
2. No adult only games allowed Wiki: MovieRules.html#AdultOnlyGamesAreNotAllowed - According to ESRB, there's 27 currently rated as AO, amongst them PC Manhunt 2, so I guess it's on the rejected list? - What about PS3 God Of War 3 (nudity + sex minigame) or other games with strong sexual contents? In this case, not all nudity can be skipped.
4. RAM ADDRESSES. RAM SEARCH. I CANNOT FOR THE EVER LOVING LIFE OF ME FIGURE THIS SH** OUT. SOMEONE HELP ME! Seriously, I'm high functioning Autistic, my grade school listed me as GIFTED. Hell, I did research and found out I'm akin to the Age of Aquarius; that means technically I'm a freakin' celestial being [kind of.] . I have the intelligence of two dolphins combined, and dolphins are telepathic. And when I drink Death Wish coffee? That intelligence gets boosted so frickin' high that I can see hexadecimal values in furniture, and I know what they mean. So why the frick can't I figure out RAM addresses?! For chrissake all I want to know is whether that slime is gonna drop an herb or a mithril sword!
Be fair A judge has the greatest control over the content of this website in the long run. All judges must act towards the goal of having an encouraging and rewarding atmosphere for both the players and the audience. You must be fair towards both.
Excuses do not change the requirements.
Desmume does not put this peripheral input into movies. It doesn't even attach it in any way like other emulators attach save files to movies. Doesn't even flag the movie as something that requires a sound sample. What desmume does: in the menu, you select what sample to use whenever a game asks for sound input. That's all. You can change this on the fly at any time, the movie doesn't care.
So what should we do? We should respect gameplay requirements and the author's effort to follow them precisely. Maybe there's some way to trick the game by using unintended things here, but that's up to whoever discovers and abuses this.
But how do we handle this, since the movie can't possibly include this data, unless we hack the emulator? There's only one way - we host it on the site separately.
Can this set a complicated precedent? Of course it can! If a game requires us to feed it copyrighted audio, we're screwed. So all we can do here is dealing with such cases as exceptions, case-by-case.
This other version doesn't take my old .tasproj files, WELP RIP 6 days of work I guess gotta start all over sigh...
I happened to visit the front page, and I was intrigued when I saw a fighting speedrun in Moons. That's why I watched it, and that's why I commented. It seems like the decision was affected by a lack of feedback during the judging process?
When that happens you go back to level 1 ($7035 == 0), and barrels speed doesn't seem to change. I player up to level 11 and nothing changes at all. Your speed is the same, enemies speed is the same, enemy spawn speed is the same. The game seems to track how many loops you've played, but I fail to find any difficulty changes.Language: asm81B4: INC (IX+07h) AF:0044 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; increment global level counter ($702E + 7 = $7035) 81B7: LD A, (IX+07h) AF:0000 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; load the result to A 81BA: CP 05h AF:0500 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; check if it equals 5 now 81BC: JR C, +04h AF:0542 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; if true, jump to $81C2 81BE: SUB A, A AF:0542 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; else, reset A to 0 81BF: LD (IX+07h), A AF:0042 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; write that 0 to global level counter
STEP 10: The fun never ends . . . When you reach the top of the elevator screen, the game continues to cycle through the screens-- but the action gets harder as you go! Keep playing until you run out of Marios.