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Your new tricks make it easier to watch a run of this game. Maybe the music's not as bad as I originally thought: there are some syncopations I didn't notice before, and some songs like the ice stage's theme seem to follow some sort of progression.
Good effort, and good job uncovering all of those minor glitches.
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That was really cool! Lots of variety, fast movement speed, those wall glitches – there are a lot of good things about this run. Obvious yes vote.
The difficulty choice didn't bother me. This is a painstakingly-optimized piece of work that I think is great just how it is.
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jlun2 wrote:
I can't seem to upload my WIP since it went over 2MB.
You could go old-school and upload it to Microstorage. It appears to support movie files of up to 8 MB.
Does that Chapter 12 strategy really skip the boss entirely? That almost seemed too easy.
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Unfortunately, I don't think we would hear the song for very long if it's just on the title screen (a TAS would jump right into the main game).
I would really like to see a TAS of this one too though.
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Awesome work, guys! Swallowing Blade Knight (the sword guy) underwater was surprising, and the new wallclip looks smooth.
Make sure you don't forget to collide with an enemy at the end of 5-3 so you keep the UFO ability. It looks like Kirby loses it when he returns to the main map.
Also, I noticed that the UFO is the wrong color when you get it back in 5-3 (it's orange instead of pink). Is that because of the color palette of the current room, or something else?
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You go, Samsara! Cranking out these well-done TASes like nobody's business.
This was a nice run, and quite a bit more entertaining than the previous one. Voting Yes!
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This sounds promising. I'm not sure a Mac TAS emulator has even been attempted before, but you've come a long way with this and I hope the issues can get worked out and your emulator gets accepted here!
I have one MacOS game I think I would like to TAS; it's a 3D game, but it sounds like your program should be able to run such a game already.
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link_7777 wrote:
As an FYI that ~30 second run was using a level select code
I thought that might be the case since the uploader didn't share anything about how to trigger the "glitch". Thanks for setting the matter straight, link_7777.
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That was fun to watch! Nice to see what an Adventure Time game run looks like; once either Citra or Xenia is developed enough, the other ones can be TASed too. Yes vote!
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Voting Yes for Sarcasmsara. Actually, voting Yes mostly for this really fast TAS. No wonder it reminded me of Sonic, same game engine explains a lot. I'll have to rewatch those GG Sonic runs sometime.
Good job, Team SAD!
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Yeah, I'd say go for the second tunnel for now, as you can always cut it off later. Good research on the method for progressing in this game by the way, A2600 games can be tricky with that.
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The finishing move might get a little repetitive close to the end. If your opponent's health is in the "Danger!" zone, is there a different, possibly lighter final move you could do on them?
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I would be interested in at least seeing this happen. I love games and game development, and combining that with one of my favorite hobbies makes this a project I will not want to miss.
I plan to keep up with this thread, and if I think there's something I have the SKAs and time to contribute, I will let you know. It might be a little harder to commit to something this year since I'm going into my senior year of college though.
One thing that would help is if you or someone else could provide a list of specific things needed for the design and development of the game. Even if someone just has a grand vision for the game's story and gameplay, sharing it could help get things started.
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I think we should keep BIOS screens in so our encodes are more accurate both to the console's behavior and the movie length. It would look strange if the encoded movie always finished 15+ seconds faster than the listed movie time.
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JMC47 wrote:
Yeah, about the memory leak, would you mind explaining exactly what you're running into? I assume it's the problem where loading/saving state again and again in the same session is using up more and more memory, but I want to be sure before I go and bother someone to try and fix it.
For me, it doesn't seem to matter how many states I load/save, but how long I keep Dolphin open. A few times, I have left Dolphin 4.0-6870 paused for 2-3 hours while either away from keyboard or using another program, and the memory used by Dolphin will eventually rise to 2.0 GB or so according to Task Manager. This might be different than got4n's problem.
Really though, it's a minor bug in a great program. You and the other developers should be commended for bringing Dolphin such a long way since its inception.
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Just got around to watching this. I didn't find it very entertaining, though it was no fault of yours, and there really was quite a bit of lag.
Good job finishing this despite not having a lot of motivation though!
