I just finished watching the first one, and it was great. You're really good at getting those super kicks in with W. Germany. I find it hard to do that, so I don't really like playing with them. BTW, why did your cousin do those two own goals?
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Here's me beating Argentina and W. Germany in Nintendo World Cup (about 30 minutes total). You'll notice that I missed quite a few shots or got tackled near the bottom right corner of the screen. I was trying to get the opposing GK out of the box so that I could tackle him. It's possible to knock out the GK that way, but it would probably take an entire half with re-records for the positioning to work out correctly against those later teams.
http://www.savefile.com/files/459906
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Tub: You play Zelda for its story?
What's wrong with that? Sadly (?), I have become rather disappointed with the series for various reasons, so I'm mostly following it now to find out the timeline.
I remember when the OoT2D project was started with Game Maker. There was at least one demo where you could walk around an area, but there weren't any usable items that I can remember. I don't think it's a hoax, but I wouldn't be surprised if it took a while to actually be released.
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I agree with JXQ's points, but it's really not so easy to encode movies. I've tried a few times and failed spectacularly. From reading the documentation of mplayer/mencoder, I get the impression that you should know [a lot] about audio and video formats and compression, which I do not.
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The aspect that I currently do not know how to accomplish is the inserting of logo/subtitle and the wiki does not address that at all. I know there are many ways but providing a single way would be beneficial.
I ran into the same issue in my many failed encoding attempts, so I finally decided upon probably the most time-consuming method of making a logo. Namely, I made a ROM that gave the necessary info (I hope). It's for the NES, and it just says, "This is a tool-assisted emulator movie. See http://TASvideos.org/ for more information." The text color is supposed to be yellow, but it shows up as a sickly green for some reason. Anyway, if you want it, I could upload it somewhere.
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It seems like the fire alarm pulling has just started here. There really weren't many problems during the school year, but there have been two alarms in two or three days during this finals period. One of them was at around 2:30 A.M. today, which was very annoying and somewhat confusing when I woke up. Hopefully that'll be the last of them...
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comicalflop wrote:
iron gauntlets
comicalflop wrote:
iron guantlets
Ahem... GANNON-BAN. You should be glad you got off with only one: Not only did you call them the wrong name, but you even misspelled it.
comicalflop wrote:
for skippable stuff in Spirit temple, I vaguely remember at some point on youtube seeing a vid of bomb staircasing and somehow bypassing the huge grey block that needs the iron gauntlets to enter the adult section...
I think I know the video you remember. It was by Acryte, iirc, and he did it as an adult. I'm not sure if it's possible as a child. I'll try to find it, if it's still up.
EDIT:
Is it this video? The trick was discovered by Kazooie. You apparently need the hover boots, so it's an adult-only trick.
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Very nice movie. Yes vote. I had disabled sound the first time I started watching it, so it was going at some ridiculously fast speed. That was surprising, to say the least.
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Can someone be nice and post some Twiiiiiiilight Princess spoilers? I'm mostly interested in the story, so you don't need to bother with how cool/sucky the controller is, etc.
Thank you very much.
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I remember one time last year when someone pulled a fire alarm at like 3:00 AM. It was a Saturday morning, which normally wouldn't have been so bad, but I had a practice MCAT that day. On top of that, the security/fire people decided to let us stay out for a bit longer than normal because we had had some other instances of that happening. At least, I think that's why it took so long. Or maybe that was the time someone on the second or third floor managed to turn on the sprinkler in his/her (I think it was a girl) room.
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Okay, I guess I'll try 0.98.15. Just like Maza reported earlier, the AVI that I got from 0.98.16 was all black, but the audio was fine.
EDIT:
The AVI from 0.98.15 turned out fine.
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I ran into an interesting situation today. I tried to capture an AVI of a Nintendo World Cup movie that I recorded a while ago. Since I would be away from the computer for a while, I set the playback speed at 12%. When I played back the AVI, the video looked fine, but the audio seemed to be going really slowly. I'm assuming it was that 12% speed that I had the emulator set at. Does anyone know what could have caused this? I was using the 0.98.13 version with x264 encoding. I'll run the latest version overnight and see if the same thing happens.
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I also find myself abusing save states/playing games just to beat them. Often, this is because I play games just for the story (i.e., the later Zelda games). Since I'll get all the "essential" parts of the story from beating the required level/dungeons/whatever, I don't bother with [most of] the side quests. Another part of the reason I use save states on older games is that they don't have any other way to save the game, and I don't have the time or want to devote the time to beat them in one sitting.
The only NES game I can remember beating on an emulator without using save states was LoZ. After finally finding out the locations of all the dungeons in the second quest online--I was looking for the third one since 3rd or 4th grade, and I beat the game in college--I decided to beat it using an emulator because my cartridge's battery was anything but trustworthy. I was going for a no-death completion of both quests, so I ended up using the Up+A trick a lot, but I considered that acceptable since it works on the real system.
Recently, I've been playing matches against Argentina in Nintendo World Cup to see how badly I could beat them without using save states. It's been pretty fun, but I sometimes think about how boring the goals look compared to some of the ones in that playaround I recorded some time ago. So, save states have somewhat ruined my fun in that game.
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Here's my current WIP (expired link removed). I haven't worked on it in quite a while, possibly a few months. It completes the first 11 levels. I have an idea that might possibly improve level 11, but I think it'll take a ton of work to test if it's even possible (frame-by-frame testing, pretty much), so I've been slacking.
You can find probably find more recent versions here. Just check out the "Art of Assembly" link.
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Actually, it's like you (the programmer) are a professor and you have to teach something to an extremely idiot student (the CPU). The main problem is that you must do that in his own idiot language...
I find assembly quite logical, actually. You have to do everything one step at a time, like a proof or something.
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upthorn wrote:
The death of the outraged will only leave us with noone to protest.
Well, if they kill themselves, no one will be able to accuse the government of genocide.
ON A SERIOUS NOTE:
Serj, you really should give more thought to your actions. Surely your life doesn't just rely on online gambling or whatever for meaning. BTW, what are you scared about?