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So now that Pokémon has been defeated, when does the massive Chrono Trigger game begin?
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Or one could just backport the patch. IIRC, it was just a simple mathematical operation.
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You know HTTP?
Well, a group of developers got together to destroy it citing improving it as their cover story.
And if you're wondering, the changes they're proposing will bust things we actively use at TASVideos, and are also used frequently at other sites too, probably way more than we use them.
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Chamale wrote:
Note: It's possible to create a shorter input file that wins the game in a longer time.
I liked this one better. Seems so unreal to beat the the final boss this fast. The other is for people who solely care about when they see the input stopped message appear. I'd go with the other if it was a matter of waiting for the final hit to connect. Not when a whole series of actions needs to occur, and it looks less masterful.
scahfy wrote:
My favorite suicide was the Yoshi sacrifice over the chasm in Vacant 3rd Wheel Factory. Yes vote!
Indeed that was excellent!
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Looks like a PJM to me.
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Done.
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Average game with multiple endings has best ending and not best ending. This TAS in particular achieves best ending.
Games with more than two generally don't have their endings targeted. If a run just targeted a particular ending which wasn't the best one (or best is arbitrary), why target an ending at all?
Only thing I can think of for games like those is an "All Endings" run.
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Radiant wrote:
There are many RTS games in the world, and only few games where the designers put in a hidden difficulty mode that's intended to be completely impossible.
There are many games in the world with certain routes intended to be completely impossible. That has never stopped us before.
thatguy wrote:
Let's not forget what Stars are for. They are there to give the best possible impression to first-time visitors to the site of what TASing is all about, and of how great TASes are.
That's what Stars used to be for. Now Stars is a tier.
Rather we now have a recommend for newcomers label.
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feos wrote:
Should difficulty be exclusively mentioned as a branch or just as a movie tag?
We always play things on hardest difficulty. We don't make a habit of mentioning it.
feos wrote:
Also, how about starring this movie?
I feel a bit conflicted over starring this. I'm leaning on not starring it because there is a lot of repetitiveness and the action half the time is hard to make out.
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Patashu wrote:
I tweeted the TAS to Daniel Remar (maker of this game, Iji, etc) and he approved
Let's hope his next game includes Tseralith difficulty mode.
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Tseralith wrote:
It's true I didn't beat MC himself, but that wasn't he goal of this run. You see, this is the hidden side quest where you can destroy MC's manufacturing facility instead, which is cleverly disguised as Mecha Santa's workshop. How did you think MC managed to mass produce all those luggages, weapons, toaster, mines, cars and whatnot for his show?
As seen in the run I did manage to destroy the facility and thus is eligible for acceptance.
Okay, I understand now. I guess this run is indeed eligible for acceptance then.
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Tseralith wrote:
Nach wrote:
I didn't see that, I guess there's too many enemies on the screen. Also, you seemed to skip the item tallies at the end of each level where you get to flex your arm muscles.
What? You mean flying through the air propelled by the explosion you just caused behind you isn't good enough? I can go as far as flexing my legs as I soar through the air if that'll make you satisfied.
My point wasn't flexing your muscles. My point was seeing the items tallied, I want to see which fabulous prizes you collected. Did you get a year's supply of meat? Big money big prizes, I love it.
Tseralith wrote:
Well... considering I just blew up that part of the universe, I'm unsure whether Daisy is available at all for the second quest. Maybe you have to enter a secret code to access her? I don't know that code though.
There's a whole bunch of codes listed when you beat the game. Although, did you even beat the game? Until the MC himself is dead, the game ain't over.
If you in fact did not beat MC Mutoid Man, can we even consider this run as beating the game? Runs have to complete the game to be eligible for acceptance.
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Tseralith wrote:
Nach wrote:
Anyways, after I watched this run, best choice is to vote no, for the following reasons:
Should've played with Daisy at the same time.
You did not acquire the travel luggage.
You did not acquire the 2600 inch television.
You did not acquire the exciting home game.
Of course I acquired those three! I got the travel luggage at 2:48, the television at 7:30 and the home game at 9:35.
I didn't see that, I guess there's too many enemies on the screen. Also, you seemed to skip the item tallies at the end of each level where you get to flex your arm muscles.
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I couldn't manage to play with Daisy at the same time however since she was busy waiting for the gifts SHE would've gotten for christmas.
That makes sense for the first quest, but you really should TAS the second quest with Daisy (or is it Dizzy in this universe?) unlocked.
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QuizmasterBos wrote:
Nach wrote:
For starters, you should be thankful for the miracle that so many devices you have actually work wirelessly. Just like you wouldn't expect a cordless phone from one company to ever work with a cordless base from another company, you should never expect better results from various devices and a router.
The different manufacturers have put a lot of effort into wireless interoperability, but we're not there yet. Different devices support different standards. Sometimes a device implements a standard in a slightly different way than other devices. Then there's room for all kinds of options in the implementation regarding frequency and certain features. Some devices will simply implement things in a more robust manner than others, giving broader compatibility with other devices despite some flaws those other devices may exhibit.
Of course, that is true, but I get a feeling this can be fixed. The router is relatively new, only about 2 years ago it was first manufactured and my laptop is from roughly the same time. I'd find it odd if the device wouldn't work appropriately, especially since the internet DOES work when I reset, but just vanishes at random.
I've seen similar issues with modern hardware.
QuizmasterBos wrote:
Distance isn't solving anything. I get just as many dropped connections sitting mere inches from the device as I would from 10 feet away. I tested that several times with my ethernet cable, which isn't being registered by my laptop for some reason.
Try turning off all wireless things you have around. Cell phone, cordless phones, computers, etc...
With your computer the only device on in the vicinity and right next to it, is it working? Try changing wireless frequency to see if any other frequencies work better.
It's also possible that your router has a limit on how many devices it can handle at once before something fails. There's well known issues with routers forgetting to clear tables, and work until RAM runs out, or allowing more devices to connect than it has electricity for.
QuizmasterBos wrote:
Network settings might be it, but I don't recall making any actual changes to the router or my computer's settings other than disabling Bluetooth. I've reenabled it now to see if that changes anything.
There's many more complicated settings that could occur than whether bluetooth is on or not. I strongly recommend trying a Live CD with another OS so you can see if some funny setting somehow got enabled. The fact that you said Ethernet doesn't work either suggests some strange setting.
Also as I mentioned above, try to update all firmwares and drivers.
And as I stressed earlier, some devices just refuse to work together (or under certain settings). At a place I used to work, we ended up getting two identical routers, we set one to 802.11n only, and the other to 802.11g only. This was the only way to ensure everybody's laptops to get online, and some could only use the wireless connection from one router, and some the other (and some could work with either).
You really should be testing different protocol settings to see if it makes a difference.
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Radiant wrote:
And here's the scene for Iji, where RJD is stated to beat some game while juggling three cakes and doing the laundry, and to complete the game Jumper without pressing the jump button...
Bah, that's nothing, Cranky Kong beat the game using only three frames of motion while in a straight jacket inside a safe buried underneath the ocean floor.
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Thank for the info.
Anyways, after I watched this run, best choice is to vote no, for the following reasons:
Should've played with Daisy at the same time.
You did not acquire the travel luggage.
You did not acquire the 2600 inch television.
You did not acquire the exciting home game.
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Radiant wrote:
Yes. Reallyjoel is (the internet nick of) a friend of Daniel Remar, creator of this game, and one of his common betatesters. For an earlier game, I think it was Iji, at some point Remar created a very high difficulty level, and RJ jokingly remarked that his dad could easily do something even harder.
Thanks for the explanation.
Radiant wrote:
So from that point on, every Remar game has a Reallyjoel's Dad (or in this case, Mom) joke difficulty that explains how RJD
It actually says in game that RJD can play it this way?
Radiant wrote:
is doing it blindfolded with only one foot on the controls
I approve! :D
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I approve of Super Smash TV.
Can someone enlighten me as to who is Reallyjoel, and what is this reference to Reallyjoel's Mom? Is she supposed to be some insane gamer?
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A commentary in Portuguese will see less interest than a commentary in English, but our Portuguese speaking visitors will appreciate it nonetheless. If you are fluent in Portuguese and English, you can do both.
Anyways, Portuguese aside, we have quite a bit of users who understand non-English languages. I imagine Spanish, French, and Japanese commentaries will all be well received.
Edit:
Judging by our special language forums, it seems that French may be the second most popular language on the site.
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There's no reason why you can't submit a commentary in your native language. We can have commentaries as in many languages as our users are willing to make.
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For starters, you should be thankful for the miracle that so many devices you have actually work wirelessly. Just like you wouldn't expect a cordless phone from one company to ever work with a cordless base from another company, you should never expect better results from various devices and a router.
The different manufacturers have put a lot of effort into wireless interoperability, but we're not there yet. Different devices support different standards. Sometimes a device implements a standard in a slightly different way than other devices. Then there's room for all kinds of options in the implementation regarding frequency and certain features. Some devices will simply implement things in a more robust manner than others, giving broader compatibility with other devices despite some flaws those other devices may exhibit.
If you have never gotten a certain device to work with your router long term, you may never get those two to talk to each other properly. First you should ensure that your firmwares and drivers are up to date, as those often include specification bug fixes and compatibility improvements. If that doesn't work, you can try switching to different protocols, such as other authentication methods, wireless speeds (802.11g), or frequencies.
As mentioned above, everything may work fine and you just have interference. See how the distance of your device to the router makes a difference. Another possibility is that you have some interesting network setting in Windows messing things up. Try using an Ubuntu Live CD or similar to see if its a setting or the device itself.
But as I said above, with all tweaking, if it boils down to a hardware compatibility issue, it may never work. I've seen cases were devices refuse to talk to each other, constantly drop connections, lock up, or only work properly over protocols from way back when like 802.11b, despite all devices in question being relatively new.
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xxNKxx wrote:
the sad thing with me SF or MK or turtles got fame not on NES, where have TASEditor with powelful helped me fix my ugly actions for make TAS. I tried alot times with some other games on other devices, but they look so bad
Sad, I falling in love with TASEditor :(
TAS Joy Mecha Fight, it's for the NES!
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feos wrote:
where no official NES fighting game was known, except for TMNT TF
What? There are several officially licensed NES fighting games other than TMNT TF.
As I mentioned above Joy Mecha Fight which is Street Fighter like. There's also Yie Ar Kung-Fu, and probably others I'm not familiar with.
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Warp wrote:
there's no Street Fighter 2 for the NES, but this isn't April 1st, and Mothrayas' explanation that it's an unlicensed bootleg game
Street Fighter 2 is one of the most influential games of all time. It single handedly revitalized the arcade scene. It had 5 editions made, and even recently, a 6th. It was one of the top selling SNES games. It had many bootleg versions at the arcade and on various consoles. Some of its bootlegs even had bootlegs. It caused many to create clones. The Mortal Kombat series was probably inspired by it, even though it's not a clone. It received numerous sequels, many of which were well received too.
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