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Frequently asked questions

General

Why and how	How are these movies created? Why do you create them? Art? Entertainment? How about competitive gaming?

Cheat FAQ	Fake? Hoax? Cheated? Legit? Video edits? What tool-assisted speedruns are and what they are not.
Glossary	What is tool-assisted? TAS? What is a savestate? Emulator? And other terms, defined and explained.
Movie rating	How can I rate movies?
TASvideos Name	TASvideos? NESvideos? What is going on?

Emulators

Emulator resources	All emulator related pages.

Playback

Codec problems	Why is there sound but no video? Help with AVI file problems.
Desync help	Why is movie playback broken? What does it mean when the movie desyncs?
Downloads	Summary and instructions on different kinds of downloads on this site.

Movie making

Boss fighting guide	Boss tactics.
Common tricks	Some tricks that work in many games. Good general education.
Game resources	How does this glitch or trick work? Tricks, glitches, and password generators for Mario series, Mega Man series, Rygar, Metroid, Umihara Kawase, and others.
Generic tips	Beginners' guide for movie making.
Guidelines	What do we aim for? What should I try to accomplish in my movie? Guidelines for movie making.
Hex editing	How to edit early parts of the movie without destroying what comes after that (does not always work, though).
List of ideas	Any idea which movie I should create next?
Memory search	How to find interesting values in the RAM and use them to your advantage.
Route planning	A small guide for the making of a route or course a game.
Rules	When making movies and submitting them, you must read this page first.
Submission instructions	How do I submit my movie? When submitting movies, read this page first.

BitTorrent

Banned torrent clients	What does “403 STOP!” mean?
BitTorrent problems	BitTorrent does not work. Help!
Helping	Which files need seeding the most? The page is updated every minute.
Why BitTorrent	How do I play a TORRENT file? Why is BitTorrent used?

The TASVideos website

Contributing

Editor guidelines	If you edit pages on this site, please read this page.
Encoder guidelines	This page explains how to make AVI files of the movies. If you want to help this site by creating AVI files, you should also read the Publisher guidelines.
Recent changes	An excellent resource to stay up-to-date in pages that need editing and submissions.
Full recent changes	A full version of Recent changes. Another excellent resource to stay up-to-date in pages that need editing and submissions.
Helping	How can I help? Seeding, editing, donating, submitting movies. More details on this page.
How to make PNG	This page helps creating and optimizing PNG files (screenshots).
Judge guidelines	If you are a judge, please read this page. Judges are users who decide which submissions are going to be accepted and which will be rejected.
Publisher guidelines	If you are a publisher on this site, please read this page.
Sand box	Any registered user can experiment with the site markup on this page.
Text formatting rules	This page explains how the markup used on this site works. Bold, italic, etc. We do not use html or bbcode here.
TODO	The TODO list of this site.

Contacting

Discussion forums	A place where to discuss things.
Interviews	Archive of interviews.
IRC Channel	A place where to chat.

Miscellaneous information

Forum rules	The rules of the discussion forums.
Links	Links to other websites.
Movie statistics
NesVideoAgent	Our helpful robot.
Site technology	The technology behind this site.
TAS Snapshot	Snapshots of the entire site's content are available.
Users	The maintainers of this site.
Wiki orphans	Which pages are not linked to?

FAQ last edited by Bisqwit on 2008-02-20 13:23:41
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