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Post subject: Re: #2649: sgrunt's DOS Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine "glitched" in 02:42.43
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TASVideoAgent wrote:
You will need to create two disk images using JPC-RR's Drives -> Import image utility:
  • The FreeDOS image normally distributed with JPC. The image is in the JPC source package, as resources/images/floppy.img. If you'd rather not do that, you can grab a prepared JPC-RR disk image for this from here (available under the terms of the GNU GPL v2).
  • The game (see the below section for more information about the disk image used).
Hmm, I encounter some problem for the first import. I go to Drives > Import Image, then I enter a new image name, I press the "Image file/directory" button and select floppy.img, but the Image Type textbox keep telling me <" No valid choice ">... Did I do something wrong?
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Heisanevilgenius wrote:
So am I, which is why I don't like runs like this that are speed-oriented to the point of them being boring. It's just "Hah, I beat it before all of you guys. Now to wait and do nothing for 40 seconds" rather than making something interesting of it.
Actually, I somewhat like it that way... I mean in this movie there a Salary Man that can do everything perfectly wathever how ridiculous is his job/situation in order to allow max-productivity for an unknow(?) enterprise. This cycle restart again and again, but it's just how redundant the life can be (once your set up with some random job). Also, I'm unsure if mz is aiming only for full speed, just as you say. Example: When running from girl, I think that he could just let his player dying along with the computer, but he decide to waste few frame for winning the race.
shallow wrote:
All the culture and humor aside, there are still some minigames I just don't understand. Like the one with the guy and the 3 buttons. Even if the movie description explained what was being said during this game, it still wouldn't make the minigame any more fun to watch.
I think the culture point of this movie is more about "you have to be PERFECT if you want to reach your goal" - the non-understandable are part of this. Just for this kind of particuliar perfectness humor, I feel like there something enough different from the other mini-game TAS and then, make it quite enjoyable. Yes vote.
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
If anybody would name a game
Here a bunch of random game that I picked here and there: Armagetron Battle for Wesnoth Bombic C-evo Dark Oberon FreedroidRPG GL-117 Glest Globulation 2 Mtp Target Hedgewars (better than Wormux ?) ManiaDrive Micropolis (should be the original SimCity - free since 2008) NetHack (might or might not look better with a graphic port) Open Sonic Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe Pingus Ri-li Secret Maryo Chronicles Super Tux Super TuxKart Torcs Wolfenstein 3D X-moto (would be a nice one) Yo Frankie! Zelda fan-games : Oni Link Begins / Return of the Hylian / Time to Triumph ..... Hm.. of course there quite a lot of other game, but I can't even say wich one is enough "mature" for a complete playthrough. Creating an another thread about potential open-source game, might sound like a better idea. Patching manually your game could be hard and very long... If your going to add TASing tool on a simple windows game, maybe you should ask this guys, if his project already support it first, before your work is wasted.
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I get an error when trying to run a script with some special UTF-8 formated character in it, somewhat annoying... : "script.lua:1: unexpected symbol near 'ï'" This message popup even if there no ï at all.
mz wrote:
BadPotato wrote:
I need to hold the "Show Framecounter" hotkey about 3 second or the display will just flash.
I can't reproduce that here. Not only it works fine here, but I don't think I've touched that code in years.
This happen to me on an another version too, then I manage to fix it but I can't remember how. Hmm, anyway I guess that I can try to solve this by myself again.
mz wrote:
BadPotato wrote:
The stop/run button status from the lua-script windows don't seem to update correctly, when using the "Reload lua-script" hotkey
They update fine here.
Ok, let say that you start your script: print("text") and you press the button run. The output is perfect. Then modify the script: print("321") save and press the "Reload lua-script" hotkey. Won't work on my side. But at least, the "run button" works.
mz wrote:
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Also, I would like to know if there could be new lua-script fonction like pcsx.exit().
Sounds like a good idea, I might add something like that if I have to release another version.
Cool :) The openGL plugin look nice... Later, I'll probably try a demo with Tenchu: Stealth Assassins.
Post subject: Re: Donkey Kong Country 2 102% (open source concept)
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Dooty wrote:
If I had to press left for 100 frames then press B, what difference will make if I copy-and-paste or enter the input manualy?
No Difference, despite the time you spend on it. This isn't like the date or any other hardcoded infos were written, while typing the input.
Dooty wrote:
I know the TAS is kinda open source already, but I don't want to be sued for using someone else's work on my TAS.
Just to clear the point, from the discussion of this topic, it sound like there no way to create a new licensing system(by either copyleft/right way) for a published input file, from this website. So, I think that you can submit anything to TASvideos with your full name there, without problem... just deal with the community after. Must time, as long as there improvement you can put your name on the input file, otherwise this should be debated in specific workbench submission, in my opinion. So, if you figured something to save some frames, just copy what you need to copy and go for it. Even if the new movie isn't fully perfect/maxed, your movie should have some good chance to be accepted... but I'll say make sure to show a suitable effort in your submission, sometime this is the hardest part.
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I just remember about some of the first stage, collecting items, etc... I don't know about any glitch. Does Mupen handle it?
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As usual, nice job woabclf. Don't worry about the bad comment, your gameplay look good. Some people are arguing about the hack quality, but keep in mind that there alway a place on this site for your hardwork... even if this means gruefood delight. I'm looking foward for your next TAS!
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Does the bounty system is the best way to motivate coder for better emulator: mupen64+, pcsx-rr(r?), bsnes, etc... ?
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Tuppenfall wrote:
but what about the input file? can't you just upload it? it's no big process...
He never post his full wip. At least.. I just hope that he keep a regular safe backup somewhere(email/private website).
antd wrote:
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antd wrote:
from what i have seen, in a normal battle, the enemy attacks when the lid is up
Actually it doesn't. I tested it myself, on my real PSX
I'm talking about the emulator. For whatever reason, opening the lid has no affect.
It did work on a previous version, but now look like that nothing happen :/
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Bisqwit wrote:
I clarify this "timing" thing, because it may be not obvious.
Hehe, look like that I missed some quite basic thought :P Sadly, I can't your algorithm... even on my linux station.
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Guernsey wrote:
Now how do I implement this thing?
Alright, try this script instead. Just copy/paste the code into an editor like notepad and save as...' PCSXrrFixFramerate.lua ' in your pcsx folder(make sure that the .lua extension is correct) After, you have to download some additional package, because the Lua scripting function from pcsxrr is lacking something to ask at the computer to wait(somekind of realtime timer ;) ). Download and extract luasocket in your pcsxrr folder. Now, you can start your game, press escape > LuaScripting > New Lua Script Windows. Browse and select "PCSXrrFixFramerate.lua" and run it. If the game is still to slow/quick you can open the script with a file editor and change the value for waitInMilliSeconde. Remember to restart the script. The side effect of this script is that you can't turbo the game, while the script is running. ps: The FPS display for the TAS graphic plugin should become crazy, just ignore this.
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I see, ok I'll note that... thanks ^_^ edith: So I suppose that someone should edith this part.
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I would like to know if the encode have to be 60FPS for the full movie is still a requirement? I know that aktan already did this, probably to save some space. Thought I'm unsure how he did this. Right now, I feel "ok" with this... must people prefer to trade FPS for better bitrate. If someone want to watch something accurate, he should simply replay the input file.
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If his new run beat this current one by more than 10-15minute, I see no raeson why it shouldn't be accepted, according to your logic... Then improvement to an another improvement, once the time saved isn't calculated in minute, but in second(or so)... I'll say that U rom > J rom, even with some minutes of difference, because of text.
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@theenglishman: You seem very dedicated... hope that I may help Do you think you could create a savestate about ~1 frame after that the game is supposed to crash? I'm not good to explain complexe stuff, but I'll give it a try: If you can manage to do this, I think that we could use some kind of script in order to load the crashless-savestate about ~1 frame before the crash. This way in the final encode, the result should that you avoid this emulator bug. Now, to create this savestate without any crash... -I think you could try some other sound/graphic plugin, or different option in the CPU setting. -You could try to change/fix value in the memory randomly, until you avoid this bug. -Try different version of pcsx, the savestate should load correctly as well in pcsxrr as any other pcsx-based(even pcsx-reload). Some people, might think that loading a savestate while running the is cheat, but I think this is the best you could do instead of waiting for a new SPU pluggin(that may ask to restart your whole run anyway, because it probably won't sync exactly frame-by-frame).
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Some minor issue: I need to hold the "Show Framecounter" hotkey about 3 second or the display will just flash. The stop/run button status from the lua-script windows don't seem to update correctly, when using the "Reload lua-script" hotkey or when the script end. Example:
print("Script Loaded !")
while emu.framecount() < 3000 do
	emu.frameadvance()	
end
print("Exiting script...")
Also, I would like to know if there could be new lua-script fonction like pcsx.exit(). The point would be to end pcsx correctly and let kkapture end the movie correctly. Actually my movie is so deadly long... I don't want to close the pcsx windows manually at the *right* time. I'm sure that this may help the other encoder as well. I did try os.execute("tskill pcsxrr-13a"), but this still too fast for kkapture.
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Guernsey wrote:
Oh and is there a way I can play the game I loaded at a reasonable speed, what is the default speed for normal game not speedruns?
It should be about 60fps, but must game are'nt emulated this well... I post a way to fix that with lua here.
Guernsey wrote:
Edit: How exactly can I record this with PCSX? I got KKcapture and I followed the instructions but I need how I can get this down to a science. I am trying to make AVI videos with XVid codecs.
I'm unsure to fully understand where you are stuck, but you have to create a .PXM with pcsxrr first, then use kkapture for replaying your input file.
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I updated the current route.. this should clear my mind a bit about everything I done before, from the beginning of the run: ---------------------- Goal/Challenge:
    [*]Manipulate Luck [*]Do not abuse programming error/unglitched [*]No uncouncious status/out of battle [*]Best Ending
---------------------- LEGEND: -!!!- : Those highlighted in red are mistake or something that I could improve. -???- : Those highlighted in blue are questions, suggestions, untesting stuff, information to fill etc.. ==> : Those highlighted in green are commentary or extra information. ---------------------- PS1 POWER ON * Title Screen > New game * Hero Name : A -!!!- Quite uncreative, I mean call the hero "B" or something else won't loose any time, since I have to give him an another different name at Greenhill. In fact, calling the hero "Riou"/"Ryo" isn't that bad either time-wise and this might help for general entertainement. * So Jowy talk with us... > choose sleep * Menu > Remove boots from the hero and jowy and set the dialog text "fast" -!!!- Removing boots for skipping the small Barbara gossip isn't a good idea, since we might want more extra boots for selling purpose(can sell them for 400potch each one). * _Leave the camp and go to north_ * Fight with highlanders > Get Medecine ==> Doing unite attack isn't the best idea, since the animation is quite long and it won't kill the "Commander soldier", so standard battle with multiple hit should be quicker(despite we use a FlamingArrow scroll, from Jowy). -!!!- Picking the medecine enemy drop is useless, MegaMedicine[x2] or the cape should a bit more worthfull to sold. * Accept to scratch the rock -???- I'm still very unsure if this could save some time to "don't scratch the rock". Actually we can see the the result of choice in a future flashback(when getting the true rune), but I don't know if there any other side effect. * Intro/Flashback cutscene * Viktor fishing us from death. * Some Polh jobs -!!!- Pushing the first two box looks cooler. * Polh ask for 2 boots, 3 flints and a bag of flour. * Don't talk to Barbara. -!!!- Uh oh, we can get some easy money here. Just ask for 2 boots, equip one on the hero... then ask for 3 more boots. (the hero can wear maximum 2boots) * Ask 3 flints to the blacksmith -???- There a way to keep 2 other extra flints in the items party... but this is probably useless, since we can sell this. * Talk to Polh for buying the missing flour in Ryube. * Gengen and tuta accept to help us and join the party. * Going for Ryube.. doing the floor quest and come back. -!!!- Remove any valuable items from Tuta and Gengen should be handy for getting more money. -???- Ryube Shop list (maybe there some item missing, this data are from my own testing and infos from GameFaqs): Ryube Item shop : Medecine[x6](100potch), EscapeTalisman(500potch), Antitoxin[x4](200potch) Ryube Item shop rare: MegaMedecine[x3](500potch)X4 FlammngArrows[x2](700potch)X6 Ryube Armor shop: Bandana[Def+1](50), LeatherHat[Def+2](100potch), Robe[Def+1](100), Tunic[Def+2](200potch), Leggings[Def+2](200potch) Ryube Armor shop rare: BrassArmor[Def+6](1000potch)X2 Weaponsmith: level 2 max ==> example: "FlamingArrows[x2](700)X6" The [x2] means that the quantity for one slot items is 2, (700) means that we can bought this for 700potch and X6 means that from my own testing we can have up to "6 remaining FlamingArrows scroll" from the rare item list. * Going back to MercenaryCamp(Gengen&Tuta leave the party, etc..) * Some Polh jobs again * Jowy manage to spot the hero and help getting out of here... it fail. * No big deal, the second escape attempt work. * Going to Ryube * Bolgan,Rina&Eilie join the party ==> When Eillie trow her knife in our face, that deal maxHP/2... If the hero has at 1hp should be set a 0hp, but won't be in uncouncious status, weird(minor glitch). -!!!- Remove the junk(boots, mega/medecine, etc) from the caracther, sell and buy as many FlamingArrows scroll as possible. I'm still unsure if the AngryBlow scroll(lightning) should be in the junk pot, as well. * Go to the Sparrow Pass aera. * Get the Fire Wall rune scroll from chest ==> Should help the DoubleHead Snake boss(I can get this item when comming back from kyaro, as well). * Fight with the Mist Shade boss(800hp) (weak against fire) -!!!- The caracther affinities should work fine with scroll as well. So a better strategie would be to spam FlamingArrows again and again(but keep at least one). Althought, this still need more test here and there. ==> The loot is about 2000potch with KindnessDrops[x4]. * Go to Kyaro town -!!!- Before Bolgan, Rina&Eilie leave the party we should remove from them any valuable item (do not sell the sacrifice jizo, since it's a requirement to recruit Adlai with his elevator) -???- Kyaro shop list: Kyaro Item shop : Medecine[6](100potch), Antitoxin[x4](200potch), EscapeTalisman(500potch), Glove[Def+2](300), CheekGuards[Def+3](1000) Kyaro Item shop rare: AngryBlow[x2](700)X5,Winged Boots[Def+14/Spd+10](10200potch)X? * Do not recruit Mukumuku, right now. ==> It's somewhat quicker to recruit Mukumuku in the path Greenhill-MuseBorder, because all you need is a free slot and he's instant join you. -???- Althought recruiting Mukumuku might still have few benefits, because he as an "E affinity with fire". This means that he could deal few powerfull attack with FlamingArrows/Fire wall against the DoubleHead Sneak(fire weakness)... Need some test to know how good is the ratio between the powerfull attack and the animation time with fire rune. * Meet Nanami behind the grandpa dojo (she join the party). * Get the genkaku famous vase(medium) : value 3000potch -???- Easy money, but this require some time for appraising, does this worth? * Fight with highlanders(use FlamingArrows scroll) > Get hazy rune (sold for 2500potch) * Flik and Viktor come save us (they join the party) * Jowy ask for going to save nanami... deny.. 3time(timesaver) ==> This is a timesaver and anyway, she should show up after we got the true rune(with Mukumuku, if we recruit him before). * Going to Sparrow Pass * Get an Celadon urn from the BonBons (a requirement for Lebrante) -!!!- It sound like we can buy a Celadon urn for about 7666potch in Gregminster... This way, I suppose that we can recruit him after killing Luca Blight. * Get 7 double beat rune from the CutRabbit -???- 2-3 runes should be enough? Now luck manipulation should be easier/quicker with lua-script. * Get 3 Peeing boy ornament from BanditC. (sold them in a tradder post for about 31998potch in SouthWindows --> instant recruit for Gordon) -???- Get all those items is long and painfull... I heard that there a way to raise the market value for the "Crystall ball" in the Kobold village for a hillarous price... but I still need to test this further, since the might ve ancient text better. * Get an EscapeTalisman in the chest and FlamingArrows from Killerbee. -!!!- Probably my biggest error in the run... just don't do this. Those item are quicker to just bought them. * Going to MercenaryCamp ( Fliktor leave and now we can recruit people) -???- Mercenary Camp shop list: Mercenary Camp Item shop : Medecine[x6](100potch), Antitoxin[x4}(200potch), EscapeTalisman(500potch), Cheeks Guards(1000potch) Mercenary Camp shop rare: Gautlet[Def+4](1700potch)X2 Weaponsmith: level 3 max * Going to Ryube * Pay some food to Rikimaru(3000potch) and recruit him. -!!!- Instead, it sound like it would be better to directly fix the bird's ness in the forest, since we have to spare some before Kinnison&Shiro show up. * Talk to Millie and accept to help her. -!!!- Before we doing this, we should buy some addionnal FlamingArrows in the item shop and then recruit Rikimaru. ==> By the way, Millie is alway located at NorthEast of Ryube... the only time where she's walking around south is while we have to bought flour with Genen&Tuta. * Once in the forest we can start to enter in some random battle and fleeing them. ==> We have to flee from 50battles in order to recruit Stallion and we have to spare some time for Kinisson&Shiro, so let's just flee, flee, flee. * Fight with bonaparte(600 hp) (weak against fire) ==> The hero have to knockdown the monster(once each turn, beside the last one), whileJowy&Millie should use some FlamingArrows scroll, since they can deal some extra domage their excellent affinity. * Got 3 killer rune(easier for critical hit) -!!!- There no time to get such items. * Spare time with random/fleeing battle. * Recruit Kinnison&Shiro * Leave the forest * Enter in the Inn ask for saving, leave and repeat once again ==> This way, Pilika should show up quicker... * Go to Toto village(metting Pilika event) -???- Toto Shop list : Toto Item shop : Medecine[x6](100potch), EscapeTalisman(500potch), Cape[Def+1](400potch), Wooden Shoes[Def+1](100potch) Toto Item shop rare: Antitoxin[x4](200potch)X3, Feathered Hat[Def+3,SPD+3,Wind resist](500potch)X2 Appraiser : 50potch * Appraise item if there any. * Talk with pilika in her house and accept to bought an amulet for her dad. * Go to Muse City -???- Muse Shop list: Muse Item Shop: Medecine[6](100potch), Antitoxin[x4](200potch), Needle[x4](200potch), ThroatDrops[x4](200potch), EscapeTalisman(500potch), SacrificialJizo(5000potch) Muse Item Shop rare: Leggings[Def+2](200potch)X3,FlamingArrows[x2](700potch)X5, SunBadge[Def+4,Regen](3700potch)X1 Muse Armor Shop: Bandana[Def+1](50potch), Feathered Hat[Def+3,SPD+3,Wind resist](500potch), Tunic[Def+2](200potch), LeatherCoat[Def+4](700potch), BrassArmor[Def+6](1000potch), WoodenShield[Def+2](300potch), Boots[Def+3](800potch) Muse Armor Shop rare: PointedHat[Def+5,prevents ballon](12000potch)X5, GuardRobe[Def+7](1700potch)X2, Circuret[Def+7](3500potch)X1 Muse Rune Shop: Fire(6000potch), Earth(4000potch), Titan(6000potch), Unicorn(6000potch) Muse Rune Shop rare: Water(7000potch)X2, Fury(15000potch)X1 Appraiser: 100potch Blacksmith: Closed * Sells 1 Peeings boys, genkaku vase, Jowy Astreide ring and any other items. Then bought the wooden amulet. -!!!- I made a little mistake.... do not sell the SacrificeJizo (required in order to recruit Adlai). -???- I'm still unsure if I should buy some fury rune... those a quite expensive(15000potch). * Get out of Muse and walk to Toto Village. * The village is already ruined. Talk with Pilipka&Apple * Go to Mercenary Camp * Talk with Fliktor * Ask the blacksmith to raise the hero's level weapon up to 3. ==> I made few test and I feel like sharpening won't help to deal more domage in dual. Althought, there aren't any lost time there, since you have to sharpen your weapon up to level 16, in order to recruit Genshu. * Accept to bring the FireSpear(+2000potch) * Go to Ryube, enter into the forest and meet Tsai * Back to Ryube, the place is burned up by Luca Blight. * Come back to Mercenary Camp. * Dual with Flik * New Army Name > A * First tactical wars(7 combat animations) ==> The main strategie is to manipulate luck... sometime you can have different result if you let Apple handle your turn. * Second tactical war(0 combat animation) ==> Just move the hero unit outside of the Mercenary Camp. * The Highlander are in the forteress. * Talk to Jowy and accept to rescue Pilika. * Fight with Highlander > Get MegaMedecine[x2] -!!!- This is probably an useless item. * Go in the main office and escape the aera with Pilika. * Once outside, the new team should be: Shiro, Rikimaru, Jowy, Hero and Millie (require some luck there and Zamza isn't aivable). * Go to Toto village * Recruit Hanna * Get the true rune -???- There it's possible to recruit Templeton at the Mercenary Camp or just wait to recruit him next him your around the place(this should be after beating Luca Blight). If you do not recruit him now, you have to get every other possible recruit, in order to have the Castle level 3, before the first visit at ToranRepublic. * Go to MuseCity and talk with the Guard. * Meet Nanami and her in the party. ==> If you did recruit Mukumuku before, you have to remove someone else from the party. * Go in the WhiteDeerInn.. sleep there and accept to explore the SindarRuin with Alex. WhiteDeerInn Item shop: Medecine[x6](100), ThroatDrops[x4](200), LeatherCape[Def+5](1300), Leggings[Def+2](200) WhiteDeerInn rare Item shop: SacrificalJizo(5000)X2, ??? WhiteDeerInn Rune shop: Fire(6000), Earth(4000), Pixie(4500), Kite(8000) WhiteDeerInn rare Rune shop: ??? * Attach few rune on the teams. -!!!- If you forget to keep the SacrificalJizo, you can buy another one here, but this is quite an anooying error. ==> Millie have to be level 12, at least to get a new rune slot. * Enter into the SindarRuins * Get the AngryBlow scroll in the chest !!!- This scroll is about the animation duration and deal about the same domage(with the magic user) as FlamingArrows Scroll against DoubleHeadSneak... but the time to get this item is quite long too, this should be skipped. * Get the FireLizard rune in the chest. -???- This is a good items, but it's possible to have another one in a random battle... so how many are enough? * Get a random battle against salamander and rape them with TwinklingBlade(30%SuddenDeath) with Jowy Blackrune. ==> This battle should help Jowy to unlock his third rune attack(level 13)... this should deal about 700DMG to 1 enemy. -!!!- The enemy can drop a FireLizard rune with the right luck, might be nice to get one next time. -???- There is a MagicDrain rune that can be found in a chest(sell value is 15000potch). Might worth a detour. * Fight with DoubleHeadSneak(2500hp) (weak against fire) > Drop Spark -!!!- The some long/weak attack that can be removed like the multiple Nanami hit or ShinningLight from the Bright rune. -???- I think there could be a way to cast an extra FireWall attack, if we get Mukumuku earlier and we attach to him a FireRune. Althought, recruit him is quite long too. Need more testing there. * Open the treasure chest and get back to the WhiteDeerInn with an EscapeTalisman. * Accept to help Hilda to cure her sickness. * Get the HeallingHerb and bring them back. * Go to MuseCity and talk to the guard in order to enter in city(prison isn't a problem, we just want to go in). * Once in the city go in the tavern and leave Pilika there. * Meet Elza&Clive * Enter in the City Hall and talk with Anabelle * Talk to Jess and accept to become a spy for the union-state. * Come back to the Muse tavern ==> It's possible to recruit Tuta there, but there seriously no need since she should join us automatically, once we got our castle and the hero is the official leader. * Talk to Leona to fix the teams(Hero, Nanami and Jowy are enough). * Talk to Anita(first time). * Leave Muse city ==> While doing this, Elza should appear and give a SoundSet#1 as gift (required in order to recruit Connel). * Go to the HighlandBorder and let's infiltrate the camp. * Answer yes to the guard. * Before leaving the place, get the FireSealing rune in the chest and enter into the Jillia hut for tea time. Once over flee the aera. * First fight with Highlander * Jowy leave the party. * Second fight with Highlander > Silence rune(selling value 4500potch) -???- I'm still unsure if there some good use for this rune, but since it's the only one in the game... why not? ==> The Hero and Jowy leve should grow up 22, while Nanami is about 30. Proof that this game don't need any glitch to become powerfull. * Let's go back to MuseCity and visit the City Hall. * Go at the pub and talk with Flik&Viktor. * Talk to Anita(second time) * Once again proceed at the City Hall and talk to Anabelle about the spying report. * Talk to Nanami at the gate of Muse City and deny to stay with her. * Keep waiting at the tavern and Nanami should bring Jowy back. * Talk to anita(third time) and recruit her. * Go in Jowston Hill and accept to watch the discussion between the union-state leader... * Talk to Viktor and agree about helping them with Muse defense. * Tactic war(16 battles animations) > Keep Gilbert alive(wounded is ok). ==> I feel like the main strategie is just let our allie/enemy kill themself. Once an unit is dead, he can't play anymore and waste all the turn with those battle animation. * Once the skirmish's over go to sleep (while this time, Jowy is talking with Kage). * Go to the City hall and speak with Anabelle. * Come back at the tavern and Jowy leave the party. ==> Remove all valuable items from him. * Talk to Jowy in front of the City Hall. * Now there should be nightfall, go at the City Hall and enter in the Anabelle room. * Talk to Anabelle for the last time. * Go at the tarvern and bring Pilika in the convoy party. * Flee the city. * Go to Coronet. * Talk to the Highlander near the boat(south of the city). * Meet Bolgan, rina and Eilie at the Inn. * Talk with Tai ho and Yam koo in there house. Challenge them at the Chinchirorin mini-game and win. ==> It's impossible for Tai ho lost at start, right at the start or slip the dice outside of the bowl. * Talk to Bolgan,Rina&Eilie about the boat, come back at the docks. * Accept to get in the boat and travel to Kuskus. Kurkus Armor shop: ?? Kurkus Item Shop: ?? * Talk with the blacksmith * Raise Hero weapon to level 6. * Raise nanami weapon to level 6 and embed it FireLizard. * Talk to the old women near the bridge(must to be done to recruit Oulan) * Go to South Windows and talk with Viktor. SouthWindows Item shop: ?? SouthWindows Armor shop: ?? SouthWindows Rune shop: ?? SouthWindows trader shop: ?? * Go in the Inn and recruit definitely Flik&Viktor. * Sells 2 PeeingBoys in the tradding post(31995potch x2) * Buy a CrystalBall -!!!- I was doing some testing and I didn't remove this from the run. -???- Althought, if we bought a bit more of these CrystalBall, I heard that it's possible to get a ridiculous high price in the kobold village with the market balence. * Go in the SouthWindows CityHall and talk with Granmeyer. -!!!- The a Frienship rune in one those bonzai(selling value 17500potch), this should be picked up now. * Accept to investigate NorthWindows with Freed Y. in the group. * Buy a wooden shield in the armor shop, in order to recruit Adlai later. -!!!- There no need to bought this, because we can simply remove the wooden shield from Freed Y. (his shield slot is unlocked). * Get the final team at the Inn.. (Hero, Nanami, Viktor, Freed Y, Eilie) * Go at the rune shop and attach DoubleBeat to Viktor&Freed Y, Fire on Eilie and FireSealing on Nanami. -!!!- I forgot to buy a wind rune(required in order to recruit Adlai) and some Lightning rune(should be usefull against the PestRat). * Go to North Windows, then talk Neclord and choose to run away! * Go to the Cave of the Wind. * Open the chest with 3000potch and the one with the BlueGate rune, shoud be very usefull. (the last one is medecine..) * Talk to Kahn and let him join the party(he have some good item on like FirewallWall x3) * Fight against the StarDragonSword (2500hp) * Go to North Windows and enter in the castle. * Get the Darkness rune * Heal the teams and fight against the abomination (4000hp) -!!!- While in the menu, we should remove the wooden shield from Freed Y. * Once the monster dead, Kahn leave the party. * The other friend remaining from SouthWindows popup and talk about SouthWindows is now under SolonJhee/Highland control. * Talk with Flik,Viktor&Apple and accept to look for recruiting Shu, as last hope. (Apple join the convoy party) * Go to Kuskus and recruit Oulan next to the Bridge. ==> The party have to be 100% girl, despite the hero. Kurkus Armor shop: ?? Kurkus Item Shop: ?? * Go to Raddat Raddat Item Shop: ?? * Meet Shu in his house * Go in the tavern and keep the arrassing Shu... * Talk with Richmond and give him 1500potch. * Sleep at the Inn and meet Richmond again. * Talk to shu at the city bridge. * Challenge Amada into a dual. * Search for the lost piece and recruit Shu. * Come back to NorthWindows and head for the HeadQuarter room. * Talk with Viktor and Shu, then go to sleep. * Go in the HeadQuarter room and listen the Shu strategy. * Tactical war against SolonJhee(18 combat animation) -!!!- This is quite hard luck manipulate, but I think there could be some large improvement there. * After winning the battle, Shu ask us to become leader. * Go to sleep. ==> At this point, it's possible to have an extra plot scene about Genkaku background. * Go in the HeadQuarter room and become the new and official leader of Liberation army. * Recruit Tuta and doctor Huan * New castle name > "A". -!!!- This name is somewhat non-entertaining... * Leknaat will appear... recruit Luc then got to sleep. * Meet fitcher by the castle entry. * Come back to the HeadQuarter room and accept to help TwoRiver. But we need a boat first. * Go to the tavern and fix the team: Hero, Nanami, Freed Y. * Get out of the castle and go to Raddat Raddat Item Shop: ?? * Recruit Yoshino ==> Freed Y. must be in the team. * Challenge and defeat Amada ahin, then recruit him. * Play/loose one time against the Richmond game. ==> We have to play at least once to recruit him. * Go to SouthWindows * Recruit Alex&Hilda * Recruit Zamza * Go to ==>we cant recruit Clive for now, we have to escort amada at our castle first * Recruit Alex and his wife.. * Recruit Zamza * Go to the rune shop and buy about 5 Lightning rune and 1 Wind rune. * Recruit Adlai then we are *teleported* at our castle. * Go to the HeadQuarter room and accept to escort Fitcher. * Add some character in the party. ==> At this point we can use : Rikimaru, Nanami, Eilie, Rina, Bolgan, Tuta, Hanna, Millie, Shiro, Zamza, Gengen, Kinnison, Freed Y, Anita, Oulan, Tsai, Luc, Yoshino. (Flik and Viktor aren't aivable) * The new team should be : Hero, Nanami, Zamza, Rina, Yoshino and Luc. ==> I choose Yoshino, because she have a strong affinity with the Lightning rune. * Sail the boat and go to Lakewest -???- Lakewest shop list: Lakewest item shop: ?? * Get the Kindness rune in the backet (Selling value: 11000potch). * Go to TwoRiver and let Chaco steal all our potch. Two River[human district] Item shop: ?? Two River[human district] Rune shop: ?? Two River[winger district] Item shop: ?? Two River[kobold district] Item shop: ?? Two River[kobold district] Armor shop: silver hat, ?? * Sell the kindness rune at the HumanDistrict Item shop. * Go to the WingerDistrict and chase Chaco. * Come back to the HumanDistrict and talk to Fitcher * Enter in CityHall and talk to Makai&Ridley * Go to the Inn, recruit Hans and sleep -???- It's possiblie to have about 30 000potch or 300 000potch from him, before recruting him, but it would be nice to know how long exactly we have to wait. (Let's say that after Luca Blight is down, the money isn't that important anymore). * Go to the CityHall, talk to Makai and accept help him with the Kobold discussion. * Go the rune shop. * Attach the Lightning, Darkness and BlueGate rune... * Head for the KoboldDistrict and talk with guard. * Return to the WingerDistrict and chase Chaco again. * Enter in the sewer * Get the Resurrection Rune in the chest. * Chase Chaco... try to get back money and his reference. * Fight against the PestRat (5000HP) > Poison rune is dropped. * Get out of the sewer and talk to Ridley * Come back to HumanDistrict and meet Kiba&Klaus. * Go in the CityHall and talk to Makai. * Go to the Inn and sleep. * Fight and defeat the Highlanders. * After all the battle, talk to Shu in the CityHall. * Recruit Chaco and leave 2River. * Head for Lakewest and sail the boat. * Come back to Castle, then go in the HeadQuarter Room, then sleep. * The next day, go to the HQ room and accept to help with reconnaissance mission atGreenHill university. ==> Once we accept that mission, we aren't enable to recruit anyone... * New squad: Hero, Flik, Nanami, Gengen, Luc ==> We need 1 free slot in order to recruit Mukumuku, after clearing up GreenHill and Gengen is required by Gabocha. * Take the boat and sail to LakeWest * Talk to Hix&Tengaar in the Inn(first time). * Pass thought TwoRiver and go to GreenHill. * Meet Fitcher there and enter in greenhill city as a "student". * New "Hero" name: "AA" * New Nanami name: "A" * Flik name: "Blueno" (no difference, he keep his name) * Visit the aera and Meet Nina * Go in the University and talk to Emilia and recruit her. * Go to sleep in the dormitory. * Look for what the Highlander are doing in Inn and come back to sleep in the dormitory. * Talk to Nina in the university(the shadow corner) * Go to the south at the main square and rescue Fitcher from the villagers. * Sleep at the dormitory. * Look for the ghost upstair and downstair. * Chase Flik and open the backdoor. * Run thought the forest and meet Shin&Teresa * Once the discussions are overs we should be *Teleported* back to our dormitory. * Go to the main square and try to talk with Jowy. * Come back to Teresa hideout, while raping the Highlander. * Talk to Teresa. * Come back to the campus place and fight some other Highlander. * Take Teresa with us and escape thought the forest. * Talk to Jowy in the forest. * Once outside walk on the route between Greenhill-MuseCheckpoint and recruit Mukumuku. * Go to the MuseCheckpoint and recrut Meg&Gadjet. * Go to TwoRiver * Buy some KoboldPie, FriedTacos, DarkChowder in the KoboldDistrict item shop. -???- I'm still doing some test with KoboldPie/DarkChowder. I think there could be some way to use the Panic/Boost status to our advantage... but I need to do more test about this. * Recruit Gabocha in his house. * Recruit Jeane in the HumanDistrict rune shop. * Leave TwoRiver and go to the KoboldVillage. * Talk to Hix and accept to help him to cure Tengaar from the "Curse of the Unicorn". We have o bring a BlueStone first. * Get the Exertion rune in the LargeMortar and leave the place. * Eat some FriedTacos and go to LakeWest. * Recruit Taki in her house. * Recruit Tetsu in his house. * Get in the boat and sail to Kurkus. * Recruit TaiHo&YamKoo * Go to Raddat and recruit Stallion. * Get a coin from the guy in the tavern and recruit Richmond. * Go to SouthWindows and recruit Clive. * Get the BlueStone at the item shop. * Come back to the Castle and talk to Shu in the HQ room, then sleep. * Return to the HQ room and accept the invitation to the Matilda Kingdom. * New teams: Hero, Flik, Stallion, Luc (and keep Nanami in the convoy party). * Sail the boat to LakeWest and recruit Shilo in the Inn. * Head to the KoboldVillage, get Hix the party, give the BlueStone to the Kobold chef and accept to bring a RedFlower. * Leave the place, pass thought TwoRiver and walk between the path to TwoRiver-GreenHill to recruit Makumaku. * Go to Forst Village. * Recruit Wakaba -???- It's possible to get the IronHammer in the armory for about 2000potch, I'm unsure if this is usefull. * Recruit Tony. * Leave the place and go to the GreenHill-Matilda Checkpoint. * Pass thought the forest, but do not recruit Viki, right now! ==> Because we still have Hix in our party and we can get the RedFlower while been teleported by Viki. But once we want to teleport back to Rockaxe castle, this isn't possible because we never explore this aera. * Meet Milkotov at the end of the forest and let him escort us to Gorudo in the Rockaxe castle. * Talk to Gorudo and go to sleep. * Go to the royal room, talk to Gorudo and accept to help them with the refugee. * Tactical war(7 battle animations) * Once the war's over, go out of the castle and get the Violence rune in the Appraiser Shop. ---------| The folowing route is still under testing |--------- * Sell any useless items to free up some place in the inventory. * Buy about 5 Down rune(25 000potch each one) ==> Allow knockdown 30%. The rune must be embeded on a weapon. * Aller au rune master et acheter environs 5 runes "Down" (pour faire des knockdown plus facillement... doit être "embeded" sur l'arme en allant voir un blacksmith). * Attach some rune (Fire/Resurrection/Double-Beat/Killer/Spark/Violence) that might help for the fight against the Harpy. -???- I'm still unsure about the rune strategy, because for some raeson I'm unable to knockdown the Harpy. I might need more testing. * Go to HighWay Village, talk with Humphrey/Futch, but do not accept to help them right now. ==> There is some time to spare, because the Viki timer have to spend some time, before she show up again. * Go to the forest, meet Viki, recruit her and accept to teleport back to the castle. * Once in the castle, ask Viki to teleport us to the Cave of Wind. * Get the RedFlower * Go back to the castle -???- I'm still unsure if the teams are ok, so we still have an another chance change this. * Talk to Viki and ask her to teleport us to Rockaxe Castle * Go to the Matilda-Muse Border. * Talk to Miklotov, accept to help him with the Muse investigation and put him in the Convoy Party. -???- The enemy from this aera can drop some Double-Stricke rune... should I get some? * Enter in Muse, kill the soldier near the JowstonHill door. * Leave Muse * Go to Coronet and embed some "Down rune"(or exertion) on some characters. * Come back to Matilda-Muse Border and head for the Rakutai Mountain. -???- I'm unsure if the chest are worth for something good. * Fight the Harpy(7400HP - no weakness) -???- As I said earlier, I'm still unsure how I can beat this, since I'm unable to knock her down. (knockdown status).. I still didn't do any brute force bot for this, so I'll give some other testing, before working on an another route. * Once the monster is killed, recruit Humphrey&Futch * Go to the Rockaxe Castle. * Talk to Camus,Miklotov&Gorudo * Recruit Camus&Miklotov and flee by the forest. * Talk to Shu and we are *teleported* once again in our castle. * Go to the HQ room, and go to sleep. * Return to the HQ room; Victor/Shu explain Raddat is under the Kiba/Highland control. Accept to invistigate Raddat. * New team : Riou, Stallion, Victor, Chaco. * Talk to Viki and ask her to teleport us to the KoboldVillage. * Get Hix back in the teams, give the RedFlower to the KoboldChef.. then accept to bring him the GreenBell. * Go to Two-River City * Pass thought the sewer and recruit Sid in his hideout. * Get the GreenBall and leave the place ==> Sadly, it seem that the EscapeTalisman aren't working in this place. * Leave TwoRiver and head back to the KoboldVillage. * Talk to the KoboldChef, enter in the forest and retrieve Tengaar. * Recruit Hix&Tengaar. * Return to the Kobold Village * Talk to Yuzu, accept to help her and recruit. * Go to LakeWest * Take the boat, enter in our caslte and talk to Wiki for teleport to Raddat. * The place is full of Highlander... leave the place * Come back to the Castle * Go to the terrace and recruit the cook Hai Yo ==> This way, we don't have to pass by the main hall(this allow to skip an extra cutscene with Eilie) * Go to the HQ room. * Talk to Shu and accept to deploy army and attack Raddat. * Tactical war(0 battle animation) > Withdraw ==> This the battle where the kobold are leaving the battlefield, because they are on frontline) * Talk to Shu and accept to deploy army near forest next to the castle. * Guerre tactique: Le but est de résister à l'envahisseur pendant un * Tactical war (? battle animation) > Victory * Accept to free Kiba&Klaus and recruit them. ==> Now, we should have enough character to get the castle level 3, if my calculation are correct. * Go on the side of our castle to see Sheena running off on the back of some girls. * Come back to the HQ room. * Talk with Shu and accept an Alliance between Union-States&Toran * New team: Riou, Viki, Victor, ...?????? (Freed Y in the convoy party?) **** Finish this, I got a bit lazy to fill information for item shop, etc...(sometime GameFaqs have some wrong info, it's sound like they use info from the japanase guide, but for some raeson this isn't alway trustable) ------------------------------------- Time: ~3h42 In-Game time: ~3h47 Erf, about half of the game? WIP: ==> http://suikoden2.googlecode.com/svn-history/r48/trunk/suiko2.pxm So actually, I'm in the Mathilda aera and I try to figure a way to knockdown the Harpy with the down rune(should be possible). I'll try to manipulate luck harder and from diffrent way and see what happen... Beside that, I made a lua-script that allow to reading thought the movie with the Eternal SPU(or any sound plugin): First, download this collection of desynchless savestate (mirror) and uncompress in the sstates folder(from pcsxrr folder). If you have some doubt about my savestate package, you can also run this script, that is going to create all the savestate, but make sure that movie synch well, before. After, you can uncheck the movie synch mode(or use a better sound plugin), then just download(save in the pcsxrr folder) and run this script for watching the full wip without the sound issue(or almost). Yeah!! Writting these script probably take less time, than encoding manually with the SPU plugin... so, I'll encode this, once I got more action in the run. edit: note : Recently I've been wondering if there could be any glitch with the Chimera Rune, that pretty much transfer positive/negative status to someone else... I'll should look at this later.
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jlun2 wrote:
Voting no because ofthis.
There no luck manipulation in this run, this means there still some hope. So you have to kill yourself, if you don't want to wait for the score..? I like this challenge. The overall optimisation seem midly good. I suppose that 0 friction is hardest setting, but I would like to know if this run could be faster with an another friction value?
Post subject: Re: Announcement
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Nach wrote:
adelikat: You writing up an announcement? We can't keep putting this off forever, especially if we're shutting the server at the end of April.
I made a donation in 2009, I suppose that I can give an another 12$(CAD) as long as you don't give this as another Color the Dinosaur TAS award.
adelikat wrote:
Why bother backing up these files? They are a bunch of pointless files of people cheating and claiming it can be done on a console, who cares? If I were a stronger person, I'd delete them from the server right now :/
Your talking about this page ? Updating this damn page, sound like a bit to much like an ....apri....
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mz wrote:
If I were you, I'd modify the emulator to make savestate.create() accept a "filename" argument, so you could have something like savestate.create("saveState/suiko2.pxm.000").
I suppose that I need to edith something near these lines, then compilling(sigh, have to download all the depedance for cygwin), but I have no idea what and how.
mz wrote:
Otherwise, I think you can maybe do something like this "........"
I know what you mean and I like the idea :) I'm still trying this right now, but I don't have the expected result:
saveStateFile = io.open ("saveState/suiko2.pxm.000", "rb")

line = saveStateFile.read(saveStateFile)
save = line

while line do -- Look like that read() won't read all the file even if this is the binairy mode...
	line = saveStateFile.read(saveStateFile)
	if(line) then
		save = save .. line
	end
end

loadStateFile = io.open ("../sstates/suiko2.pxm.000", "wb")
loadStateFile:write(save) -- Looks like this how using write in lua.
io.close(loadStateFile) --  hm but, the file is like 474ko, and the other "normal savestate" are about ~4300ko

CheckPoint = savestate.create(1)
savestate.load(CheckPoint)

while true do
   emu.frameadvance()
end
edith: Oh boy, ok now it work
saveStateFile = io.open ("saveState/suiko2.pxm.000", "rb")

save = saveStateFile:read("*all")

loadStateFile = io.open ("../sstates/suiko2.pxm.000", "wb")
loadStateFile:write(save) -- Looks like this how write in lua.
--io.close(loadStateFile) --  hm but, the file is like 474ko, and the other "normal savestate" are about ~4300ko

CheckPoint = savestate.create(1)
savestate.load(CheckPoint)

while true do
   emu.frameadvance()
end
.. or I could do :
os.execute('COPY /Y "saveState/suiko2.pxm.000" "../sstates/suiko2.pxm.000" ')
but there a window prompt that keep poping up... so the previous code is better.
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Brushy wrote:
But it looks so ugly and sloppy and unentertaining.
Yeah, but this a first submission, not an improvement. Even if the entertainement isn't maxed, there still enough decentness for the average viewer, right?
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Ok, I'm unsure if it's possible, but actually I want to load a savestate from my hard disk with lua. In fact, my goal here is to create a high quality encode with Eternal SPU plugin. So when I playback the game, once the movie reach a "desynch frame" it should loadstate a "checkpoint savestate"(they are on my hard disk)... Do you see what I mean?
saveStateFile = io.open ("saveState/suiko2.pxm.000", "rb") -- Should open in binary mode?

save = saveStateFile.read(saveStateFile)

CheckPoint = savestate.create()
CheckPoint = save -- <== ahh, probably won't work!


savestate.load(CheckPoint); -- Crash

while true do
	emu.frameadvance()
end
edith: code fixed
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Since this game doesn't look to be rated just like the other game, here some criteria proposition for any future submission. - "If the new submission isn't about framewar(~2-5minute max?)": then accept the run wathever the language is. ==> In this kind of submission, there should be new interesthing glitch... keep everything fully optimized is optionnal. - "If the new submission is about framewar(~2-5minute max?)": The US version should have an extra entertainement bonus toward the general audience. ==> In this kind of submission, the (U) rom don't have to beat the old (J) rom run, even if the public interest/request for the run is probably lower than something new. - "If the new submission don't beat an old non-assisted run": refuse the submission. I feel like a huge miserstanding never been enough clarified about how this game is judged by the staff... might be something important for the OoT TASer.
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I found funny that blademan is into megaman 10 into a different form. Great run, I might watch it again.
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