The first thing I did was creating a vast article in Wikipedia. I've shown it to AnS & moozooh, and they liked it a lot, fixed old stuff & added new.

As I always adored High Definition TAS encodes on YouTube, I got a dream to study it. I contacted Flygon & Mister Epic to work it out, then tried to learn Standard Definition encoding, but never finished a single SD encode. Though, I made some HDs, sgrunt approved them, and I started posting them in threads.

When I accumulated some quantity of HD encodes, I wanted to embed them to actual publications, that's why I was made a Vested Editor like WebNations, who also mirrored TASes with his YouTube Director's Account with no timelimit.

By the way, I am the third HD encoder of TASVideos, and the beginner of the "reencoding old runs in HD" tradition. New encoders continued this work, while I've done almost all I wished in reencoding. I then started encoding for submissions I was interested in.

Since I became a Publisher (2012-07-04), I felt I needed some simple to use setup for all-in-one encoding. So I released the TAS Encoding Package that is used in Hybrid Encode Guide. It includes AVS and BAT files developed by the community:

• encode.avs
• global.bat

I seem to have become a Senior Publisher 2013-08-13.

Friday the 13th, 2013, I was a senior publisher, and published [2458] GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) "100%" by Dragonfangs in 1:00:46.28, and emptied the queue.

I was made a Judge 26.01.2013. I loved that work, because it involves deep understanding of TAS optimality for particular runs, investigating the sense of submissions and expanding the gaming outlook. And I like to make well-grounded decisions.

My judging era ended 2015-02-21.

But in 2016-11-11, exactly 5 years after my and MESHUGGAH's Battletoads submission, I returned as a Judge, attempting to grow up upon my previous attitude that gained me demotion. The basic idea now is to get super hungry for factors to account for while judging, to address them all verbally, and to put them into unbreakable logical chains in the judgment notes. This resulted in me getting into this list.

Senior Judge since 2018-05-14.

I do some code hacks here and there to some rerecording emulators:

PCSX

• Features for the resync workflow
• Fix for Abe games sprite transparency bug
• Some fixes for GTA2 audio and Rayman

• Practicing coding on my own version of a hex editor
• Custom backdrop color
• Hotkeys to toggle layers
• Right click menu

• readword and writeword lua funbctions
• Dendy mode
• Overclocking
• Prescale filter
• PAL filter (WIP)

• Ability to dump at high resolution

July 8 I finally started committing to BizHawk. All my commits except that first one are tastudio (or Lua) related. I didn't expect myself to say that, but I like how IDE operates in C#, and objects weren't as painful as Internet uses to picture them. My main job was to hunt tastudio crashes down, and now when we nuked them all, I add features and fix some silly (yet not simple!) bugs.

MAME-RR

Started with adding the read-only switch, then I took over entirely and even made a couple public releases (alpha and beta though), which resulted in mame-rr movies being accepted to tasvideos and published.

MAME

Not directly related to tasing, but my plan is to make adopting the mame core to bizhawk as easy as possible, so it needs some features a tas client would depend on. Originally mame could only put savestates to the disk, I added RAM based savestates. For easier testing of them I also added Rewind feature that uses such savestates. The plan is to wire RAM states in lua and then start porting the core over, probably using libretro layer.

JPC-RR

Hacked the emulator to put framerate into JMD dump, with the help from Ilari made it stop dumping impossible frames. This resulted in series of CFR segments in the dump instead of VFR frames. Hacked JPC-RR streamtools as well, to support this updated JMD format and generate segmented lossless video of it, also instead of VFR video it was providing. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20128

avifps

A tool that reads AVI files you drop onto it, reports their framerates, and calculates framerate that they will have in common if you multiply their framerates by some integers. Basically calculates the least common multiple of their framerates taken as fractions (numerator / denominator).

Resync workflow

It's the project of mine and BadPotato's, aimed for adding automation for resyncing TASes made on PCSX to play and be encoded with Eternal SPU plugin.

Reverse engineering

Not a pro at that, but did some extensive efforts for Ninja Gaiden 1, Genesis Adventures of Batman and Robin and Genesis Earthworm Jim 2, to display everything that a TASer would need out of what appears possible to debug.

I happened to have influenced changes in site rules and policies.

• Newcomer flag
• Unobsoletions
• "X glitch" versus "no X glitch" versus blank label
• Educational games