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Under the RTA rules, Any% is the highest category which includes all sorts of allowed glitches, including the invincibility ones.
Under our rules, game breaking glitches are only allowed in a glitched branch, any% can't use them. So if skips and game over abuse are considered game breaking, then any% should avoid both.
Just describe what would be needed for a full competion kind of run.
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Don't forget to use lossy compression.
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Hmm, then probably we may skip "Glitched" in the branches at all, using no branch for the fastest one, "Impossible" for a run like yours, and "All rooms" for glitchless warpless.
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Yes, I'd love to see an improved version of the Impossible run. The thing is, the more you try to optimize scenes, the newer tricks you find, and improve in geometric progression.
But I'd still want to figure the rules for possible TAS branches. If Glitched version uses invincibility, any% must avoid it. Skipping rooms will be different in them, so it may be allowed for both. Checkpoint abuse is free for all. What about Warps? I'd allow them as well. That can leave a room for a run beating all rooms.
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Frames lost in rooms this movie played through in the same conditions as Kurikinton's WIP:
The same tendency was noted for later levels. For example, the birds manipulation in GnG level is WAY worse. The author says later levels were optimized better, but it seems frame comparison was not done at all, and frames were lost in all possible places of level 1 at least. If someone wants to object my claim, please provide the same comparison for later levels. Otherwise, this movie is considered too sloppy for acceptance.
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The creepiest thing in this vid is the guy himself :D
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The branch for this movie seems to be "Glitched, Impossible". But what would be considered the glitched run features? Room skips? Death+invincibility? Both? What would any% run be allowed to do?
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As I finished with all regular encodes now, I will start putting things together for the 'gameplay only' encode.
BizHawk script:
Download SuperMetroid-DoorlessCapture.lua
Language: lua
while true do
-- Items, Doors, Elevators
istop = memory.readbyte(0x7E0009)
dstop = memory.readbyte(0x7E05F5)
estop = memory.readbyte(0x7E0E18)
if istop+dstop+estop == 0 or istop+dstop+estop == 0x6F then client.unpause_av()
else client.pause_av()
end
emu.frameadvance()
end
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It is impossible to have THREE runs of the very same game stared. Either this run, or any%. RBO isn't gonna lose the star I think,
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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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The same tendency was noted for later levels. For example, the birds manipulation in GnG level is WAY worse. The author says later levels were optimized better, but it seems frame comparison was not done at all, and frames were lost in all possible places of level 1 at least. If someone wants to object my claim, please provide the same comparison for later levels. Otherwise, this movie is considered too sloppy for acceptance.