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I can publish it once I'm done with Super Metroid (5 more encodes).
Also, the music will be okay after using my own savestate.
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It then becomes some kind of Longplay. The longer it is, if it is still fast and optimized, the better it is considered :)
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FractalFusion wrote:
feos wrote:
This issue keeps bothering me without sympathy. It somehow ended up having the least appropriate branch name of all available.
Don't start believing in Saturn now.
But just because someone blindly insists on "100%" does not mean that his opinion needs to be respected.
I don't know what believing in Saturn has to do here. I see an untrue branch, I suggest improving it. I criticized Saturn's opinion on it. And asked for opinions.
FractalFusion wrote:
It really shouldn't bother you.
Why it shouldn't, and what should?
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I liked the run.
But the glitched version seems to have some more rooms skipped. Did you compare your run to it?
I will post precise comparisons on the rooms both movies run through later.[/list]
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[2339] SNES Chrono Trigger "completionist" by Saturn in 5:44:58.18
This issue keeps bothering me without sympathy. It somehow ended up having the least appropriate branch name of all available. How inappropriate it was was was described by Saturn here. But I don't want to talk about it, it is not as bad a thing.
What is more interesting is, what to replace it with? I had a long talk to Saturn some months ago, he insisted on "100%" the hardest. My personal suggestion at the time was "Max%". Some guidelines propose more options.
Let's look at the options then.
"100%" is technically pointless for Chrono Trigger, since it does not count percentage. Moreover, there is no single convention about what to consider "100%" here. SDA defines it like that:
CT SDA Page wrote:
Complete all optional side quests mentioned by Gaspar so that he tells you the only thing left to do is defeat Lavos.
Essentia, the "100%" run author wrote:
SDA defines 100 % for Chrono Trigger as completing all sidequests that Gaspar (the guy at the End of Time) mentions, which are the following:
- Cyrus's ghost
- Rainbow Shell
- Geno Dome
- Sunstone
- Ozzie's Fort
- Sunken Desert
- Yakra XIII
- Black Omen
100% for Chrono Trigger in legit/glitchless conditions. This 100% completion requires:
- getting at least 1 of every Item/Weapon/Armor/Helmet/Accessory (186 unique items)
- collecting all Power/Magic/Speed Tabs (except of LV99 Pink Nu reward)
- opening all the Sealed Chests (Black Boxes) / Sealed Doors in every time period
- finishing all sidequests
- defeating every boss
- defeating every form of Spekkio (except LV99 Pink Nu - separate demonstration of that form available here)
- learning all Single/Double/Triple Techs for each character
Some people elsewhere can as well appear to have their own definition, and nothing would prevent them, because there is NO way to track completion percentage present in the game. Anything goes! Which actually does not work here, where we aim for clearness.
My old suggestion, "Max%", does not make much more sense either, because percentage is still never counted in the game.
Technically, the only really sensible branch would be namely "Max completion". Because it is really a run aiming for max completion for teh win.
But Saturn strongly dislikes both Max options, because he feels the most convenient with his (fairly) arbitrary "100%" branch. I would like to rely completely on the author's choice here, but I still can not. Because "100%" has just nothing to do with CT gameplay (which I never played honestly). And it is inaccurate judging by our standards here.
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I think BH now has the feature to pause avi capture from lua, so if I am given the address to rely on, I can make a door-transitionless encode. But only after traditional ones I think.
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I agree with saving the animals suddenly. Why no one thought about this tradeoff?
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TASeditor wrote:
But why didn't you tased the whole game?
Seems to require beating all 3 remakes.
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Making all encodes.
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To do it I'd need to destar 2 movies with the lowest entertainment rating
http://tasvideos.org/Movies-Stars-RatingE.html
or something that already has 2 similar runs starred. Feel free to suggest destar candidates.
Also, not enough rating for WC2 to maky any decision.
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I can't see the rating agree with either opinion about starring it.
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Thanks. Now how do I check that the savestate you posted belongs to your movie?
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The movie looks awesome. Though I have no clue about this game, why it needs a savestate and why Rockman Megaworld (J) [!].gen ROM was not used (which it does not sync on btw). Can someone explain?
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Just use Windows context menu Properties, and the Hashes tab.
EDIT: The ROM you pointed to is similar to the one I used, but is different from what you actually used :D
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I'd be interested in such a movie. Hopefully it will even be liked enough for Moons.
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Yes, I am trying to find why a rare event occurs. I noticed that only certain enemies (there is some kind of formula, and RNG involved) have a semi-rare invincibility drop, something like 1/20. I was thinking that could possibly be used to improve the current movie, so it should be worth it. Thanks FractalFusion.
What game is it? What info you already have? Someone can do the job and then describe the steps it took, so you would also come up with similar finds following such steps.
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ROM links are forbidden. Also, it successfully synced on what I used.
CRC32: 72D21A8E
MD5: 44C22D035C7302E9EEB0349AFFA6BD2B
SHA-1: D449A569B1E875B3A20227FCB18431B1BF3FC2DC
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What is a correct ROM checksum? I got NTSC-U and it told me checksum mismatch.
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This game does have an ending, so even if it loops, that looping is similar to such in, say, Contra or Ghost'n'Goblins. And boosting the score seems to not contradict with the speed goal, since the speed is almost always constant.
I wonder, why in early levels you don't touch other cars, but near the end you start crashing them?
Then, this submission uses Buggy Popper (J)[p1][!].nes ROM, while Bump'n'Jump (U) [!].nes should have been used. Luckily, it syncs on both, so no problem.
But I noticed that you finish the tracks at different points, farther ahead or back from time to time. Looks like you did not jump as soon as possible to land just on time and finish the track sooner. For example, I improved your level 1 by 6 frames just by jumping sooner. Level 2 can be improved by 17 frames. Level 4 was improved by 3 frames. So this submission is just sloppy and can't be accepted.
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Wiki: ReverseEngineering
Another attempt to create a guide based only on practical experience. It is also important to have it, as TASing requires heavy luck manipulation, figuring out what affects what and how to abuse it.
Please do whatever you want with the text, I hope you got the idea. I'm not sure how it should be developed further.
Please post what emulators have debug tools (lua or dialogs), this is critical for the guide.
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@MrGrunz: that’s a good point, does anyone know if it would work? basically pressing left then right so fast that the game registers them at the same time
No, it would not work. There's common convention to poll joypad input by "strobing", which is reading input port only once per frame and storing the current state in memory. So it doesn't matter if you manage to press/release any buttons between two strobes, the game will only register those buttons that were held at the very moment of making a strobe.
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