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URElephant wrote:
In other words, what do I, as a stranger, need to know in order to appreciate what you're doing?
This depends on the game. Anyone who sees the SMB3 movie will say that it is amazing. However, some movies are not appreciated fully until you've played the game. Sometimes, its just so that you know how incredibly hard some parts are. Then, when you see them being played making them look so easy, it makes the movie that much more awesome. The other part has to with route exploitation. A great example of this is the metroid games. If you have never played a metorid game, and saw one of the runs, for it, you might say that it is pretty cool. Though when you this, you have no idea what so ever how much of the game they are skipping by taking crazy routes. One of my favorite movies (using an emulator or not) is the Metroid Prime movie. If you have ever played the game, it is amzing to watch, even though it is not played perfectly. When I saw the movie, and I saw the player get the space jump boots one minute after landing on the planet, I knew that the movie was going to be amazing, and it was.
Edit: Whoops >_< Didn't see your last post. Well, I'm not going to delete it since its already written.
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Eric Stratmann. 16. I have completed Kid Icarus, Deadly Towers, Umihara Kawase(as few levels as possible, and as many levels as possible(waiting to be reviewed)). I am working on Super Mario Bros. warpless and Legend of Zelda swordless.
URElephant wrote:
What makes a movie interesting?
Beating a game in fastest time is not always interesting. There are many platform games, that while beaten in record time, are just not fun to watch. There are of course many things that make a run interesting, but some of them are: Exploiting clever or hard to pull of glitches, doing nearly impossible stunts(SMB3 bullet jumping for example), doing things totally unexpected, taking crazy shortcuts, and pulling off crazy manuveurs.
URElephant wrote:
Can you explain a little more about talent and commitment?
As it has been put, making these runs takes not so much talent, but cleverness and knowlege. While it may seem incredibly easy to make these movies, it is very hard to find the fastest route in some places. While it may seem that it is quite easy to figure out, this is far from the truth. One example is the zelda games. There are 8 dungeons, which you can visit in pretty much any order(there are a few exceptions). It took pages and pages and pages of planning to figure out what was the fastest route to take. They had to some clever things to figure it out(did you know that its faster to beat that game with out getting the master sword(or whatever its called)?). It also takes cleverness to do things that most people would never think about. Like in Castlevania, if you hit a boss at the same time that its hits you, you do mega damage.
Edit: Stupid typos
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What about only one vote total per ip per week or so? I don't want to see someone come and enter 100 games entitled:
Youguyssuck
thisislame
diediedie
etc...
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Or we could just make a topic...
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existentialist? yes
nihilist? no way
Only crazy people are nihilists. Sure Nietzche was interesting to read, but he was crazy as well. I happen to be agnostic.
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That game was awesome. I need to play it again. But I have yet to try and find and emultor or roms for the system so I don't know. They must be pretty rare though.
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Yeah, they did not just pick you out specifically. They just saw that you came from here and automatically banned you. It had nothing to do with your post.
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No, it just means there is more bytes. An nes controller has 8 buttons. Conviniently, 2^8 equals 256, the size of one byte. Thus every possible conbination of button presses for one frame can be saved in one byte. However, once you have 2 controllers, it is impossible to save all the data in one byte per frame. So, 2 must be used. So, that program should make every other byte after the header 0x00, meaning that no button is pressed. I imagine that the way that it works is that each bit in the byte corresponds to one button. A value of 1 means it is pressed, 0 means it is not pressed.
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Heh. So of course, the pages are put back up(see the forums). The only pages that I really didn't like were the information on cheaters page and the hitler one. At least the info on cheaters is gone, but the hitler one is still there.
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Thats seems rather off. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I see it:
The average number picked will be 128. Thus, (counter/256) must be less than 128 to do a battle (on average) So,
counter/256<128
Multiply both sides to get
counter < 32768
Lets say that we are on the overworld. In which case, counter=steps*192
Substitue this in the original equation and you get
steps*192<32768
or
steps < 170.6...
So, this is saying that average number of steps for a battle needed is 170.6... I haven't played the game in a while, but this seems way off.
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Gamecube, which I play semiregularly, although not as much as I used to. Just picked up Tales Of Symphonia, so I've been playing it more than usual. Otherwise maybe an hour or two per week.
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The first question I don't know, but it has already been answered...somewhere in these forums.
And which kid icarus run are you talking about? Sleepz's? Anyway, you get powered up by going into the rooms with arrows.
