Hello, glad to see the interest. I'm preparing them for submission right now but there's a couple of questionable moments
1. End of E1M8. This entire movie tetralogy was meant to be a proof of concept, and it ended up proving that it's not possible to finish the game without taking damage. You're obligated to have 20%> health in order to finish E1M8, so the only way to make it fall under the "no damage" category is to use a mod that removes all health pickups and sets player's HP to 1.
2. Getting damage with an invulnerability powerup. Technically it's still damage, but the player doesn't lose health. All damage effects, such as momentum, still affect the player, and i used an enemy attack to increase my speed one time. What do you think about it?
3. Is it worth it after all? It's the first movie in the category, merely a proof of concept.
Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about those future Ultimate Doom submissions?
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1) Make a couple of different savestates, i.e. occupy additional slots.
2) Sign them the way you want in your notebook or list, like "Savestate #5 is the end of level 3". If a lot of keys are assigned already, you can make a savestate and clear the hotkey for it. Then reassign the key to load that savestate again.
3) Start the movie in Read-only mode and load the wished savestate (a.k.a loadstate). Your movie will play from that point till the end of your input.
4) When you got to a wished moment, set to Read+Write mode, make another savestate where you want to continue, load it and here you continue your movie.
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Nice to see someone is trying to improve this obscure game.
Lagging is fine. Most console cores produce more lags for more accurate emulation. So, don't be afraid if a perfectly done room is slower because of lags. BTW, lag reduction is a honorable deed.
Did you try to skip 1 or 2 frames before entering a room to get better RNG?
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I have made a 100% Nightmare TAS that beats the whole game in less than 1 hours. It's a fanmade movie, not the fastest possible and there are some minor mistakes.
Link to videoUser movie #63404054620389365
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Я не делал такого.
Вообще, в Колде 4 вроде как есть запись реплеев и возможность установить нужный таймскейл (то бишь, замедление времени). Не знаю, куда делся тот длинный видос с ТАСом (как и сам канал-родоначальник), но в оригинале там каждая миссия записывалась по отдельности (и без сохранений), а потом все видосы автор объединил в один.
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Wow. Finally, someone has made an improvement! What about that weird glitch shown in AVGN's video when Rambo falls through the bottom of the screen and gets to a completely different location? I'm wondering if it can save even more time.
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PCSX2 1.6.0 has been released.
https://pcsx2.net/293-pcsx2-1-6-0-is-out.html
TAS Tools are disabled for now to fix some issues. I hope we'll get them back in 1.7.0 and another platform will become more open for TASing. Regardless of its possible disadvantages, I wanna spend some time on some popular games.
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Goes out of sync at the beginning of Episode 1. Episode 0 works fine
Seriously, I'm out of ideas where do you get a special version of firmware. The one from emu paradise is the only one I managed to find
In short, don't bother!
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EZGames69 wrote:
There’s two different firmware.bin files that I discovered that exist. One of them contains the DS splash screen and the other one doesn’t. It’s likely slamo used the one that doesn’t have the DS splash screen as it’s currently the only verified dump of the firmware in bizhawk.
Probably. I tried it without firmware.bin and the results are the same.
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slamo, you last TAS goes out of sync at the first stage. Bizhawk-2.4.1. There is also a mismatch in firmware.bin, maybe that's the reason.
sha1:22A7547DBC302BCBFB4005CFB5A2D426D3F85AC6 NDS Firmware (note: given hash is with blank user data)
Which one do you use?
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I remember the was "MKV writer" in Bizhawk after selecting "Config and record AVI/WAV" and the option to choose Matroska loseless. What should I install to have it?
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Spikestuff wrote:
Man it's like this game also came out on the Wii and this exact same person would rather not play on that version for whatever reason.
There's a reason, and it's blatantly obvious.
Anything this user does is treated like a walkthrough. They'll never make an actual TAS on any series that they pick up.
If they did actually care about making an actual TAS they'd be using the Wii version, plain as day.
But this is a walkthrough and they will choose whatever they want and for whatever reason they want that is their motivation.
It's a "Perfected" Walkthrough thanks to Tools to Assist them.
It's like it's called a Tool Assisted Playthrough.
I don't know why, but Dolphin can't launch the game beyond the copyright screen. He has masterized PCSX2-rr, so he is not likely to drop it. BTW, most games he has TASed were not released on Wii or Gamecube.
His Manhunt TAS looks pretty cool in terms of speedrunning (comparing to his other works, of course). I mean, usually, he tries to kill whoever possible on his way.
TAP is a rare abbreviation while TAS can be treated as Tool Assisted Superplay.
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feos wrote:
How fast do you need it to be and why?
For example, I have a long TAS and I want to fast forward the movie to a ambiguous moment which I think can be improved or requires some testing. It concerns various cores when "Speed: 400%" or fast-forward gives you 70 fps.
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