Collection isn't counted in any way except points, which are given for all kinds of other things so it's pretty arbitrary. Why not the hammers too then?
Then I looked into other publisher's latest encodes, and it appears some of them are in fact doing it right! They are using http! Guys, are you doing it manually each time you copy the direct link?
Any chance getting the Stage Comparison encode added to the publication description as per MUGG's suggestion above?
Fair enough but this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. PC is on e of the biggest platforms however there only exists one tas software which is incompatible with most games... is it because of mouse inputs? Also I have seen some TASes done on the original game - is that using mods and editing, all done real time? Here is an example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5nRqHm9Ng
<turska> there was a hourglass run that had sound effect, but was missing music due to hourglass not having MIDI support <turska> I would've accepted it even with that, but natt hacked midi support and got music dumped so it became a moot point <adelikat> we should be strict wtih hourglass <adelikat> missing audio SHOULD be rejected <adelikat> but if there's midi support now, and the run syncs with that, and we can make a good encode, then it can be unrejected just as I stated <adelikat> if it is natt hackery that makes it possible that's still acceptable <Anty> MIDI is the problem? <turska> it was for that game IIRC, but it may or may not be that in gamemaker's case <natt> It was the problem in a very specific case and had a very specific solution; I couldn't say here, having not examined the submission. <turska> and the music was missing in that one - sound effects were still all in <adelikat> make a good encode, and we'll talk about unrejecting <adelikat> 3193S was intended to set a precedent, that I woudl like to see followed
Unfortunately, it looks like an efficient TAS of this game still can't be made yet. For one, Hourglass (r81) doesn't capture audio from Game Maker games in encodes, which is basis for submission rejection.
Why don't we look at a simpler premise: can anyone extract the opening book from Chessmaster? If we can find an error -- a line that leads directly to a forced mate, ideally -- then we can exploit it, most of the CPU's moves will be instantaneous, and we won't need to dumb it down in order to get a quick win. Beating the game on Newcomer/1 difficulty (as in the run posted earlier) establishes a "fastest possible" run, I suppose. But I'd like to see the CPU taken down at its best by exploiting its flaws (and no, the menu command that tells it to move immediately isn't one of them).
Most consoles have slight differences in loading times anyway.
Well, yeah, it can only be activated while on the ground as morph ball. My guess is he had done exactly that, and only noticed the glitch had triggered once he started jumping. Maybe there's another explanation, but I'm kind of doubtful.
The dolphin blog said that accurate load time emulation based on disc rotation was implemented in November https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/ba1a8d2ef3e5dd602fa9ac054bcc787d7b400b16/ https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2014/12/01/dolphin-progress-report-november-2014/
This link should be in a really huge red font at the top of every page... This question gets asked almost everyday.
Does that mean I need to reflip it when watching? Also that log only says the video file was changed. No notation about the reason.
Is there a system in place for noting what the actual "updates" were?