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It was brought up a year ago, now we can resume that discussion. My first question is, are "warp glitch", "out of bounds", and "zips", the same thing?
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This will need some accompanying notes according to Post #355723, as well as feedback.
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The goal is having a YT alternative that's easy to use and high in quality. Archive can only stream 4:2:0 h264 inside mp4, and from my tests, it's not perfect at seeking, and may even be too slow with playback. Honestly 4:2:0 makes this option look shittier than on YT.
I tried out the DASH format today. Even without the .mpd file, dash stream loads much faster on Archive than regular mp4. So I wonder if your tool will be able to support dash mp4+mpd taken from another site like Archive. That would probably solve a bunch of problems.
Overall, due to problems with 1x subtitles, I'm not sure if we want to use the soft-scaling functionality to resize 1x encodes. But I like how much better it looks compared to the best format Archive can stream.
And yeah if it can only work with files I have locally, it hardly compares to just watching it on YT, because as the poll shows, almost nobody watches SD encodes anymore. They are slow to download and don't really look that good if chroma is subsampled (at least below 4:2:2).
One of the reasons we're switching to 480p is to fully control resizing. Some games have weirdly wide or narrow resolutions that need to be normalized for the TV look. Some games have scrolling pixelated backgrounds that look jumpy if we don't upscale them evenly or with some amount of blur. Could it be possible to stack different scale filters with this player? Like point to 2x and then lanczos to 4:3?
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Good now.
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What command do you use to make those encodes?
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Good now.
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For a vertical arcade game meant for a sideways CRT TV, aspect ratio should be 3:4.
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I feel the second subtitle entry is way too late. If you split subtitles into 3 or 4 entries, won't there be enough space at the very bottom?
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The last screen in this encode is actually the first screen of the game again. fsvgm777, should it be trimmed away?
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Haven't read the thread, only the OP. How about this:
Any user can make a submission and set it to a certain status (not just New or Canceled) that would mean the same as sending it to the Showcase class. After that it won't have to be judged, but would still have its own dedicated discussion thread (you can't even subscribe to userfile comments right now), properly working submission page with all the usual stats, etc.
In the relevant game related page like http://tasvideos.org/Game/nes-battletoads.html such submissions would show up in their own tab. I think it would be fitting to call this tab User Playground. Or just Playground. And different branches would need to be grouped together somehow.
Yeah I suggest calling this whole concept Playground, and make it fully managed by users.
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While I prefer subtitle positioning in this video, and breaking the first subtitle entry into 2 if there's a ton of lines, this is not bad enough to redo IMO.
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Samsara wrote:
What do we gain by explicitly adding alternate routes as a Moons goal?
Are there any drawbacks?
We give people more creative freedom, and hopefully inspiration on making great things. If this means allowing more movies that are not so good, I don't mind that if this leads to also more movies that are incredible.
This reminds me of how USA pilot seats was redesigned at some point. If you design the whole system to perfectly fit an average human, you end up with a system that perfectly fits nobody. Because people are too different in a ton of different aspects, and an average human does not exist!
So if we want to make people's talents shine, we need to create an environment that's inclusive to diversity. We should let the ideal of the average go, and we should design the system to the edges instead. Here's a great video about this approach:
Link to video
I don't know how to implement this approach yet, but this is really some concept that we don't want to keep missing.
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Radiant wrote:
I mean, I'm sure there's history behind it, but it doesn't seem like a clear-cut way to distinguish two separate branches.
Which of the current branches look too similar to 16 stars?
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ikuyo wrote:
* Any method of skipping the 30 star door other than MIPS clip is banned.
Well I'm not highly familiar with this game, but this restriction strikes me as arbitrary.
Arbitrary is not the same thing as bad or pointless. Moons were created to allow some freedom in what goal people feel like setting.
For example we had these co-existing branches in Moons for several years:
[2202] SNES Super Metroid "low%, Ice Beam" by Saturn in 42:37.13[2220] SNES Super Metroid "low%, Speedbooster" by NameSpoofer in 44:18.62
In Moons, bad or pointless goal is what reduces enjoyment of the movie. Sure we also tried to aim for Moons goals that are easy to define and comprehend. But it is also up to us (the community) where exactly we want the borderline to be. If we don't find enough harm in allowing a bit more things, but enough benefit, we should be able to allow them.
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Looks almost good to me because I still prefer subtitles to be aligned with in-game HUD, but still not bad enough to redo.
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