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Dimon12321
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Now, let's deal with the final boss in your TAS. It should make sence anyway. I'm looking for neither extra player points nor additional nickname mentions. Instead of it, try to improve your TAS yourself! Maybe, Spikestuff will do that for you if he is satisfied with your input =) Personally, I don't find it bad. All is through the frame advance. The final boss' HP is hidden under RAM address 2BD8 (at least, it works for "USA, Europe" version of Dark Arena). Having this address in RAM Watch or RAM Search will show his health at the moment. While TASing the game, go to Tools and choose RAM Watch. Then choose Files -> Open... Download this file User movie #49391617752546579 and choose it. The default directory is Bizhawk/Tools After that, you'll see the address. Alternatively, you can go to Tools and choose RAM Search. Then do what is shown in the screenshot: choose Specific adress, enter 2BD8 and press Search. Good luck. The tactic is simple. Find a spot, shoot at the boss and see if your fireballs reach him. If the address value changed, the game has registered your hit. It's not essintional even to go inbounds. Just make sure all your fireballs deal damage and you attack him at first possible frame.
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Dimon12321
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Wow! Just in time! I was following your speedruns and even did a short TAS of Serious Sam Advance (i'll join you, if you will TAS the whole game). I'll check later, but I think some of your clips are slow. Final boss can be improved, of course. We have to deal with the ending first. Since, you're getting OOB through the whole game, the only difference is shooting at boss for longer time. I've tested this thing: on hard difficulty we must find additional ammo on the way to the boss since it's not enough to kill him with eqiupment lying near the start point only. The framerate doesn't seem to drop of playing on hard comparing to easy (1 input frame, then 3-4 lagged frames). The only difference between endings is the text: easy - you technically die and can't escape; medium - you escape being barely alive; hard - everyone is dead and you escape freely. The deal is, what is acceptable on judge's opinion? Should we separate TASes with "Bad ending", "Good ending", "Best/true ending" or TAS the game for only once? Though the lags are predictable, they might not suit the input if we copy the input from 1 TAS to another or the same one, so TASing the game on different difficulties fastly might be impossible. But, it's ideas for now. I'm voting Yes!
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Now it works fine.
TASing is like making a film: only the best takes are shown in the final movie.
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So have I. There seems to be no 60 fps videos on my channel. Some of them have saved their smoothness, but it may be just me.
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The moment of my life! I couldn't imagine someone will TAS the whole game. First steps were done by MTA, who TASed first 4 maps in 2011-2012. It impressed me and I decided to TAS the whole game drawing on current speedrun technics. In 2014, I submitted this: #4267: Dimon12321's N64 Doom 64 in 41:22.45 It was tearred down, but I had impressed many people anyway. Later, I decided to reTAS the game on Be Gentle! with Graviton together, but I dropped it. In 2015, MTA and Graviton attracted me to TAS the whole game again. Sadly, our team lasted for only 2 weeks if I'm not mistaken. The result is this: User movie #22952445841349675. A pair of maps were TASed by IcySpeedruns in 2016, but it seems to be a fun work. And now, in 2018, Headshot is submitting a great work that we all haven't managed to do! It is colourful headshot to my old submission! I'll delete my encode when your TAS is published. I think, your TAS automatically worth an award! I'm still impressed of how fast you are beating the game though I know that Doomguy moves faster than in any other port and I'm really shocked how long you've been running with 1 HP kinda I forgot it's TAS. The game is pretty dark and I don't think in-game brightness even work. So, for those who hasn't watched the video yet, I'd recommend to download the Bizhawk, the ROM and watch it with increased emulator brightness. Also I vote for publishing a brighter TAS since some people may complain about the game is so dark. I have only one question. Did my TAS inspired you to make this run? What inspired? BTW, Doom 64 was my first TAS too. Yes vote from me! Let me hug you guys!!!
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It's damn good for me that I've never played it. It's so crappy! Even TR: Legend can be TASed for Wii since it's possible to get OoB by simply jumping forward and backflipping. Yes vote!
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Headshot wrote:
Huge news: I've just completed the TAS! Regardless, I will respect whatever decision will be made, whether or not it is published. I do plan on making a new TAS with lag clips once these emulation issues are solved and lag clips are better understood.
I'm on the 7th heaven now! Great news!
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Looks nice, at least, all those numbers poping up. I'm not a fun of RPG games since there are so much atributes you have to keep in mind. Voting meh. Nevertheless, I think you've done a great work!
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Wow! The plant on the thumbnail is very similar to the plant from Crash Bandicoot =)
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Is there a ROM hack that unlocks Shang Tsung or any other special character? For Genesis? If so, you have to use it.
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grassini wrote:
Btw, my problem with encoding this remains, it keeps cutting off and i have many avis instead of one long coherent one
So do I. The emulator segments the video after each fight. Maybe there is a special lag that can't be bypassed while dumping or the emulator is set(-ted) by the developer to cut the video after each fight.
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Link to video Wow! I enjoyed the movie. I'm not skilled in dumping videos since there is no internal upscaler in lsnes, but I tried the best. I upscaled it in 3 times using Vegas Pro smart upscale effect and then it was upscaled again by YT to 1080p. I decided not to record the last battle because it doesn't show the TAS work. I also have doubts about letting Kano (CPU) to beat the player. It looks nice, but not everyone will enjoy it since it's not acceptable for TAS rules.
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Is there a good video tutorial of how to upscale a video? I do everything like CustomEncoding says, but the video becomes even worse then just rendering in Vegas Pro.
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Work is abandoned! Everyone can continue it. Actual WIP: http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/35103248897279529
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OLE, OLE-OLE-OLE: Link to video
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I never imagined this game would be improvable. Nice work!
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Ignore everything! That discussion has gone far beyond the movie debrief. Just judge the movie and accept it if it fits all the criteria for being accepted. All I'm saying to you is, it can take very long time for the discussion to be concluded. You don't have to wait for it.
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You do the revolution, guys!
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"Nothing is accepted now and may not be accepted ever" Fall apart, guys(
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Aqfaq, are you here?
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TAS Editor, I suppose. However, I am wondering how 4-player TASes were made, such as http://tasvideos.org/1613M.html
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The game stucks on "Firebird presents SAVAGE probe" with a wizard, if I press any key. Then, neither Kempston nor keyboard reacts. At least I have stable 50 fps there. Title screen doesn't provide a demo gameplay, so I can't tell for sure whether the game works fine. Nice music, nice art... and that's all. Please, give a link on wiki that has essentional info about all Spectrum games, especially about controls! Who will play Spectrum since it's complex even to start a game?
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Front page now works fine.
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What is "HTTP 500" section on the front page?
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I can tell you (in strict confidence) that everyone can record movies and upload them on any video hosting. TASVideos just publishes only high-quality of them.
TASing is like making a film: only the best takes are shown in the final movie.