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So I read the proposed changed to the bill along with the original sections under discussion.
It applies to those who make a copy of a copyrighted work, and there's also a discussion of those who make a profit off of that copyrighted work.
In our case, we're not copying the copyrighted work, we're producing a video from it - which is okay under fair use in most cases. Further, we're not making a profit off of these videos.
Sure, it's a problem if you make a video copy of a movie or something, but that's not what we're doing. Who thought this had to do with streaming video produced from a video game?
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Jungon wrote:
Wow, you [extremely spoiling]
..you first glitch the game to avoid fighting Brock and then you start getting rid of easy pokemons and so, Find a missingno but it was a fake one that turned to be a Rhydon in disguise and then, you manage to earn a badge while dying from poison, you were already epic enough at this point, but suddenly, you find another missingno and decide to ignore it!, reach places surfing with a bicycle, and incredibly catch Mewtwo and a bunch of other high leveled pokemon with regular pokeballs, and not being enough, you skip the real Moltres and find a baby one!, and after all the glitching, you find pokemons with level above 100, catch them, catch missingno, completely bugs the game, but then you unbug the game, which is beyond godly!, at this point I was guessing which pokemon would be the last one, and I was almost right, Onyx was in the final list, and I had Nidoking in mind since you threw Nidorino and Nidorina on any box =P I swear I woke up completely at that part were you unlearn Take Down to learn Toxic, I really, really want to vote Yes again ... +D
Now Missingno was unmasked, he in reality is the baby Kangaskhan, the son of Mama Kangaskhan, that enraged one from the anime! O_o
Also, it's not a he, missingno is a she, and that's why you made this Brock Obama picture, because he always wanted to catch a girl O_o is this post starting to look familiar? I drew missingno! @__@
(the impossible looks so possible now, what have you done to the world??) +D
What the heck is this? A CIA document?
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sgrunt wrote:
I approve of the branch name.
In other news, watching.
Same here :D
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<scrimpy> Wait there are permissions for bathing?
<scrimpy> Why don't people tell me such things?
*adelikat promotes scrimpy to Bather
<scrimpy> ooh, crikey
<arukAdo> and its contagious !
<scrimpy> So I actually get to BATHE now?
<scrimpy> Holy crap I'm so excited
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NitroGenesis, your description is a lie.
I am proud to present the first PC TAS!
No it isn't.
We already have 13 PC TASs published: http://tasvideos.org/Movies-DOS.html
ShadowWraith is correct, but further, I have to kill you now.
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Thank you very much Toothache! ^_^
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There's also my method, which is randomish and doesn't require you to make a lot of posts.
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If you want exactly one to the other, it's possible.
Are you asking for something more dynamic?
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Metal Slug X still needs that star.
X is more entertaining 3, and probably more well known.
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Derakon wrote:
If I recall correctly, Metal Slug 3 was SNK's last hurrah
Pretty much.
Was their last Metal Slug game though.
Derakon wrote:
So they tried to pack as much stuff into it as possible. Perhaps too much. The last mission definitely drags on.
They could've been more honest about it though.
Level 5 ends with killing the impostor after the convoy section.
Level 6 is all the space areas until the walking part in the mothership.
Level 7 is everything up to the queen.
Level 8 everything after that.
That'd make it only two levels longer than their other games. Or rearrange it a bit and make it 7 levels total, which would be respectable.
Still doesn't help with the other insanity though. There was way too many enemies coming at you from all over all at once quickly all the time, especially during the last half of mission 5.
Just to compare, first time I played Metal Slug 2, I beat the whole game on two quarters. First time through Metal Slug 3, I needed 17. Big difference.
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henke37 wrote:
The final mission is half the game. They should at least have added a mission change at the abduction.
The final mission was like 8 levels.
Here's the parts:
Air
Convoy
Space
Flying in the mothership
Rescue bad guy
Go fight off the alien horde
Rescue friend
Escape
Then of course all the bosses too:
Mr. "ha ha ha, ha ha ha"
The alien in a bad guy costume
Mothership
Queen
Friend in a cocoon
Queen take 2
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On top of all that, this game introduced many varied paths through the levels. Unlike the previous games, it introduced a trillion enemies coming at you all at once from all sides all the time.
The boss was rarely on the same segment of game that led up to it.
The bosses made no sense. Are we fighting off an enemy army or an alien one? What's with statues falling from some crashed wreckage of different aliens? What's with a flying money head?
While the game is really loaded, I feel the game suffered from bad game design, they went overboard in too many areas.
Four and five toned down the insanity a bit, but four had its share of ridiculousness too. Good luck beating the final boss in four without taking a hit. The weaponry that boss had was insane.
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hegyak wrote:
Nach,
Metal Slug X also runs on the Giga Spec hardware instead of the Max 330 Mega Pro-Gear Spec hardware. Try Mission 1 in Metal Slug 2 in real time and after the three towers mini boss the exploding wall should lag the game. Meanwhile, X does not lag there.
I know full well, I played both games hundreds of times.
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X2poet wrote:
Nach wrote:
By more, I think he meant he would like to see you TAS other games in the series: 2, 4, 5, 6, and so on.
2? Is X the optimized one to 2?
X is a remixed version of 2.
X remixed some of the music, and redid a lot of the artwork. The maps were altered a little bit in a few places. The enemy placement in X is very different from 2. They even moved some bosses around and brought in a boss from MS1. X also added on some new weapons and changed weapon placement around also.
X2poet wrote:
Is 2 acceptable?
Sure, it's a different game. They may have a bunch of similarities, but they're not the same game. You'll need to rethink your weapon management strategy for effectively playing 2.
For those that didn't see it above, there's an improved torrent available:
http://tracker.tasvideos.org/mslug3_TAS_by_x2poet_fixed.avi.torrent
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ShadowWraith wrote:
2 is just a shittier version of X though. :(
That's one way of looking at it.
Another way of looking at it is that it's an awesome game, which was later remixed into an even more awesome but different game.
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X2poet wrote:
If shows more,there would be more lags.
And there is no space to show any tricks.
By more, I think he meant he would like to see you TAS other games in the series: 2, 4, 5, 6, and so on.
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Dada wrote:
publishers have to take the arguments people make into account as well.
Judges, not publishers. And we do, it's not a big issue. The fact is, comments mean a whole lot more than just votes.
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If you're having trouble getting FBA to accept your archive, or sync, make sure you ROM images match:
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I realized we didn't have a thread to discuss our APIs, so I'm making one. Perhaps we should also have a page describing the available XML APIs, and perhaps some examples of what you can do with them.
If you have any desires for API additions or modifications to the site to retrieve information easily, please list them here.
If you have questions regarding API usage, ask here.
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I've been considering allowing each RSS feed of a movie which obsoletes others to list them. Maybe using atom:contributor? Thoughts?
There's also been a request to provide a per submission feed. Any additional data you want it to serve?
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Noob Irdoh wrote:
This already happened in the past but now with DarkKobold's 8-hours movie we have a blatant example, of people voting without watching the movie. Unless they had access to earlier WIPs, the three people who already voted on this after only 2 hours didn't have the chance to watch it. Ok, maybe two people since DarkKobold himself is allowed to vote on his own movie. However this was just an example as it happened several other times in the past, especially with hours-long submissions.
I would like to counter this seeming *fact*.
An 8 hour run would seem like it needs 8 hours to watch, but in fact this doesn't hold true. If someone sets his emulator (or video player) to double speed, he can watch an 8 hour run in 4 hours. Before you think that is absurd, for slower paced games, I'm surprised there are people who aren't considering doing that. For any game where the action is slow, I generally increase the frame rate a bit to watch the run faster if the emulator supports doing so. For the MKVs/MP4s we produce, MPlayer and other video players support increasing the frame rate.
For those watching a movie, and already know the game, quite often, they'll skip cut scenes too. I can't remember the last time I downloaded an MKV/MP4 of a Mega Man game where I didn't fast forward past the "you got weapon" scenes.
Now I'm not saying that's what happened in this case (8 hours -> 2 hours), but it's something to consider, especially for an RPG filled with cut scenes.
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