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Not to be a contrarian, but more than 2 games at the same time is too confusing to watch.
True (that's why I don't watch those), but won't really matter for a crowd that hardly imagines several games ever being beaten with one input, let alone actually simultaneously. Also, they can release the footage of that event with several audio tracks easily, which would people want to rewatch afterwards.
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andypanther wrote:
The SMB quad-run would be very impressive to the viewers, but I guess it would be a bit excessive to set up. Besides this, I don't remember any console verification of a FDS game.
THIS!!!
Heck, how didn't anyone come up with it? So obvious and... cheap way to entertain masses. FDS not verified? Just drop it and show the rest 3!
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CoolKirby wrote:
I don't think we generally replace screenshots because the current one is how the game looks at that point on FCEU.
It looks so only in old versions of fceu. In 0.98.28 it will look more like on tha new screenshot. It actually can be snapped right from there, dunno how Kurabupengin got his one.
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natt wrote:
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So what do you guys think of my own function? I'm already encoding with it. The only not yet automated part is importing the files by name. If PSXjin had an option to not append the resolution to the name, it would be completely solved to me. I even can do it myself, I just don't have the proper access.
It forces you to handle all resizes in the same way (lanczos with no cropping and no position offset parameters). In some cases you might want more control.
What are those cases? How do you know you should crop the picture and then still apply aspect ratio correction? For example, Crash 1 outputs 12-pixel borders on top and bottom, and you cropped them in the encode and then did ARC of 512x216 to 4:3, right? Doesn't sound the same as ARCing 512x240.
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Anti-aliasing has been our highest standard for encoding 3D (polygon-based) games for quite some years. It was possible with Dolphin (internally), Mupen64 (via special plugins) and PCSX (via special plugins). BizHawk added mupen+ core, and also pugins that can do antialiasing. There's also a build of PSXjin that has an anti-aliasing plugin embedded.
The point of this technique is to dump video at high resolutions, making the plugin recalculate the polygons and improve their look significantly. The video is then downscaled to SD using something like LanczosResize, and for HD it is upscaled to whatever resolution Youtube is fed (if one's monitor doesn't allow dumping at that res right away).
My recent tests show that for SD encodes, it's mostly better to still dump at native resolutions! Because otherwise it will look redundantly blurred. But for HD encodes, prior anti-aliasing is still obviously better.
So to come up with a guideline, use whatever looks better for SD encodes, and anti-aliasing for HD.
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I guess if you want a Japanese version, you should use Splatterhouse Part 3 (J) [c][!].gen, the one with a [!] good dump mark, as those are the site's standard.
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Reencoding webnations is wasteful to the community. By your logic at least. I appreciate your hate towards good-looking encodes, but I wanted to make it possible not only for Dolphin/Mupen/Bizhawk/PCSX. Also, what exactly do you suggest? And how would your suggestion help making existing psxjin runs look better?
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NO U
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Especially since I already have all the encodes :)
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I'd say one only needs to know X and Xsub for the knife. And for that, you could do the following: calculate the usual stuff (time left before it spawns, speed), then find out how long ago the last interrupt happened, predict how many frames will be eaten by the future interrupts before the knife spawns (rather easy actually), and then tell what will be the speed and when. Iterator isn't needed: once the tosser spawns, it won't use spawn iterator for knifes. Direction can also be predicted by RyuX - BitchX and spawn timer easily.
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Cheat the RNG itself?
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It was very long ago, before I started reversing that function. I also tried to predict it, but gave up after seeing that it would need to include interrupts that you don't know how many will happen and when.
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Silencement, are you actually working on this?
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/me always forgets to doublecheck.
Working on it... Should work now.
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I advised him to. Because Fog is missing, but he had some issues with dumping it.
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Warp wrote:
One idea for a total control hack would be something that seems at first glance impossible to do on the target console. I'm thinking of how demo programmers time and again seem to defy what seems possible with limited hardware in those old consoles. Or, perhaps alternatively, show some picture that seems to be of much higher quality than what the console is capable of. (There are tricks that can be used eg. on the NES to make an image look like it has much richer color palette than usual. I'm sure on the SNES this could be taken much further.)
Of course I understand that making such a demo, game or even image would be a lot of work, so the suggestion may well be unrealistic in practice.
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Один может обзолетнуть другой только если версии для разных платформ целенаправленно идентичные, как сейчас делают.
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Будет опубликовано отдельно.
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Ha! As long as it can be left alive, we should leave it! Would add more interest to the run, many people don't even know about that.
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What's demon's head?
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Nah, most likely Fog didn't even finish, so let's save him a bit of efforts.
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Awesome!
Just don't cancel it yet, you can upload it to userfiles and I'll replace the submission file.
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