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To get a better idea of what kind of impact this would have, I decided to look at a number of NES games and see which access uninitialized RAM.
I modified Bizhawk slightly to monitor the RAM usage. If the game read from a RAM address before it has written to it, I recorded that. I also recorded what addresses were written to.
I took a list of NES games that the site has movies for, ran them for 600 frames each in that modified Bizhawk, and then outputted the data collected. I then turned the data into images to make it easier to digest the information.
Here is the image set (warning: large/long images)
Each 8x8 pixel block represents a RAM address, starting at 0x0000 at the top left, and ending at 0x07FF at the bottom right. The colors mean the following:
Black - RAM was not read from or written to (still uninitialized)
Green - RAM was written to first
Red - RAM was read from before it was initialized, and still hasn't been written to (still uninitialized)
Orange - RAM was read from before it was initialized, but has since been written to
Keep in mind that this data is from only 600 frames of the game, and with no input. The results may change if input is given or the analysis is run for longer.
You can tell from the images that a large number of games access uninitialized memory, but I'm not sure what they are doing with it. As other people have said, some games start up in a different way depending on the initial state of the RAM. Being able to control this initial state might be beneficial to movie authors, but I'll leave that up to other users who know more about each game to determine. This data was simply to get an idea of how many games might be impacted by this new policy.
Also, if anyone is interested in seeing my changes to Bizhawk or the raw data I made the pictures from I'll be happy to post it.
Though, I only remember one game that can be improved using this feature: Friday 13th.
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Won't it result in a Pulseman game situation, where fastest speed is barely watchable, and there is a run that avoids that movement glitch and is way more enjoyable?
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hegyak wrote:
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feos wrote:
It still has those insane empty spaces, right?
Yeah, still a ton of blank space on the sides and underneath.
This is probably a Text Size issue for Windows.
Or/and DPI not being 100%.
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It still has those insane empty spaces, right?
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It looks like your system just doesn't care, the font is also wrong. zeromus probably knows the reason, as it's not really tastudio related. I don't know if he's still following this thread, post in the Bugs one if he doesn't show up here in a few days.
Anyway, try pixel hunting and find that border between branches and markers, that border is movable.
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Are you sure you watched the real encode of the movie? That's exactly how it looks like.
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r57shell wrote:
Need to describe more detailed?
Submission #5251 wrote:
What feos and Koh1fds have done to the xipo's run.
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r57shell wrote:
feos wrote:
r57shell wrote:
why this video called alternate encode?
For lulz.
How it's even related?
After submitting the movie, I was so happy that I suddenly started singing that song, and decided to post it as a primary encode while the actual one was still processing. Related enough?
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r57shell wrote:
why this video called alternate encode?
For lulz.
r57shell wrote:
is it possible to use same glitch for other levels?
There's no falling ceiling there.
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How is that possible?
Also, it doesn't sync for me with fresh 1.11.7 unzip and matching rom (even with SyncSettings removed).
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I don't get it. Steps please?
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[22:34] <Warepire> aldelaro5: Python is basically google and copy+paste until it works.
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Last time we did this.
Aktan wrote:
Okay, I took a look at it. I only found a workaround. Add this to the AVS:
Language: avisynth
AssumeFPS(60, 1)
The fact you changed the framerate slightly for x264.exe doesn't matter because the timecodes file will be used for the real times when you use mkvmerge.exe
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Cool stuff right there.
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How often do you do it that way?
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Could you redo it yourself probably? Must be prepared for the worst scenario :)
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Need more posts about this one.
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feos wrote:
You're fantastic! I'll try to make the ending a bit more entertaining though...
Killed the whole evening on this, was redoing everything over and over, and no luck whatsoever, neither in speed, nor in entertainment. My initial ending looked the best, can't even get close to that.
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3. You should really give the improved subtitle exporter in bizhawk a shot. And if it fails, report it for me to fix.
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You're fantastic! I'll try to make the ending a bit more entertaining though...
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17:35 Spikestuff Spikestuff
17:35 Spikestuff Yes?
17:35 Spikestuff Did you delete the screenshot accidently?
17:35 Spikestuff Yes.
17:35 Spikestuff Were you dropped on your head?
17:35 Spikestuff No.
17:35 <- Rolanmen1 отсоединился (Ping timeout: 260 seconds)
17:35 Spikestuff Commits Seppuku
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To me, Alien Soldier is like Gunstar Heroes with 90% of gameplay replaced with boss fights. That game is of supreme quality, but it's basically a boss rush, with this neverending EMERGENCY. Boss fights are probably creative, but there's too many of them to let them all be totally unique. So there's unexpectedly quite some repetition in that run, while still looking like a Gunstar Heroes sequel.
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