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^Fixed (note: this occured when selecting an invalid number of players. TCI should behave as NOP regardless.)
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[3577] SMS Psycho Fox by The8bitbeast & Sonikkustar in 02:11.87 I think you can get some good commentary from this one. 'Press pause to go faster' is pretty funny and something I don't think many people have seen before.
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Aw man, I didn't know it's already been done, well probably no one wants to see a repeat, even if it's on console now.
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Ok so the original one has the same sound chip as Intellivision, not sure about the 'pro' version. Should be easy enough to implement.
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So someone made their own hardware add on to expand the capabilities of the ColecoVision? Now that is serious commitment. The memory management stuff looks easy. I'll need to find out about the sound chip though. I wouldn't expect this to happen anytime soon however.
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[1686] NES Mega Man by Shinryuu & finalfighter in 12:23.34 NESHawk and Mesen agree that a slightly modified version of this run should work on console. I think this run would provide a lot of interesting commentary about how NES works, what the NMI glitch is, and how TASers exploited it. It's the same basic glitch throughout the run, so 12 minutes should be more then enough to cover things at a reasonable pace. You could even explain the basic idea with some visuals or something fun. This might be more technical risk then you want though. If you are intereseted, you might to have TASbot run through this file up to the first glitch in Ice Man stage. If it can hit the glitch consistently (which both BizHawk and Mesen do, so it should be fairly stable) maybe it's consistent enough for the event. It still needs to be re-synced to BizHawk though. (you can truncate the movie to right after the delaywatercurrent glitch, it's only synced to there) http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/44988607938034213 Also, I can help with anything NES or BizHawk related if it's needed. Also I like keylie's idea, that sounds cool.
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I guess its possible that your NES is running slightly faster then normal. Everything comes from the same master clock including the signals that control the TV signal. Could be some kind of frequency drift I suppose. It's pretty hard to account for 13 frames otherwise. Also I did test that simplified movements without paper deliveries does not effect the level time. So, it seems certain that the same amount of frames are passing here. The question seems to be how much real time each frame is taking.
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Interesting. I tested your movie in the most recent BizHawk version and it still syncs, so it's not an emulation difference there. I tested it in Mesen and it did de-sync, so that is a strong indication that something is up. The game uses CNROM which isn't anything too special. I'll look into it. EDIT: Some initial results: Car Honks and Crashes in the game use the DMC channel meaning some DMC DMAs happen at those times, but I didn't see anything that would cause slow down there. Mesen ends up 3 frames behind BizHawk by the time of the restart, I haven't tracked down why yet (probably some ppu timing thing since Mesen starts a little differently.) Whatever the case may be slower isn't helping us here. EDIT 2: I'm not seeing anything here that would cause an error of 13 frames. My suggestion would be to send this run through a console replay device. If there is a consistent de-sync it might point out where emulation is going wrong, but right now my guess is that it would in fact sync (at least some of the time) and that the error is somewhere in the video processing. EDIT3: I added 3 frames to the movie right before pressing start to restart the game after the intentional crashes. After doing this the run synced in Mesen all the way up until Friday (~38000 frames.) This is pretty strong evidence the emulation is correct to much better then 13 frames every level.
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Ah, ok it's fixed.
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Can't find the (J) version. What's the hash? With that I can add it to the DB.
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Kurabupengin wrote:
Hello. Um... I made a palette. This palette replicates Nintendo's 3DS Virtual Console palette that they use for their rereleased games. https://files.tasvideos.org/dekutony/3DS%20Virtual%20Console.pal Maybe it can be added to the official BizHawk palettes folder with the others, since I didn't saw this palette in there. You can add it if you want to of course.
Does it really look brownish tinged like that? Here is what I am seeing:
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I tested this out and Moon Patrol seems to work ok for me. At least, I didnt see any regressions between versions. I think Virtu just needs a lot more work. I'll put up an issue on the tracker though since DK defeinitely doesn't work.
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That's true I editted the title for SMS. Also I'm playing at 60hz since this game has a brazil release, and I'm a bit skeptical about the (E) flag since the music sounds too slow when played on 50hz and the game doesn't seem to adjust it.
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After a very long and boring re-sync process, here is the complete re-sync of Psychic world by dammit. I didn't really keep track of where I gained and lost frames, timing was slightly off throughout the run, so any improvements will be based on this: http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/45319699143100821
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arkazal wrote:
Hey, thanks for the post, Alyosha. I tried it in 0.6.1, but it's the same sound. It's particularly bad in Magical Houshin, but even other games sound slightly... fuzzy compared to VBA-next. I don't know what endrift's issue tracker is though. I just saw this thread about mGBA and thought I would post what I know.
https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues You can post your issue there, that way endrift (mGBA author) can take a look at i.
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How do you jump? The only manual I found online says press 'A' but that doesn't work and I can't get by the first ditch on 1.11.8.2
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arandomgameTASer wrote:
Isn't there some button Prince of Persia needs to run that isn't implemented or something?
These might be the 'white apple' and 'black apple' buttons, which aren't implemented. Also I tested DK on stand alone Virtu, and it's also unplayable there as well, so maybe this core just really isn't that mature.
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^ Make sure you try the most recent version of stand alone mGBA (0.6.1). If the bug is still there, report it on endrift's issue tracker. This isn't likely something we'll fix on our end since we just port the core. Also I don't know anything about save RAM.
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DK seems to be buggy on all tested versions going back to 1.11.0, what is an example of a game that worked before but doesn't now, and what version did it work in?
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^ I think that's just a result of memory mapping.
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But, I think this discussion is better continued elsewhere (like the BunnymodXT thread).
I don't even remember seeing that thread before. Seems cool though. We're probably out of the loop on a lot of these tools that individual communities have developed, I bet there is a lot of neat stuff out there.
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Augusto wrote:
Thanks very much Alyosha for reply. QuickNES is fast, but not start several games. QuickNES is more accurate than Nestopia ? "For A7800, nope EMU7800 is gone for good." The slowdown is accurate. Right.
I believe Nestopia is more accurate at least for it's most recent releases. Yeah QuickNES has low compatibility but that's not really it's goal. A7800Hawk is much more accurate yes. But it's also slower just because it's in C# and I haven't really optimized it at all since finishing it.
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^ Fixed. I think I actually remember considering whether this edge case would ever come up and deciding to ignore it, that's what I get for doing that.
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^ issue is known and there is already a issue for it in the tracker. Most likely a savestate issue related to mapping out the BIOS in memory (there was a near identical bug in EMU7800 a whle back) but not sure when it might get fixed.
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GJTASer2018 wrote:
#2 is not a game, but one of the required pieces of firmware for Intellivision emulation (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
Do you (or anyone) know if the intellivision outputs anything if it is turned on with no game inserted?
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5 to go! I'm about 50% through re-syncing Psychic world, hopefully I can start making iprovements somewhat soon.