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This is one of the few matches in the whole tournament that turned out how I wanted it to. As I'm in Washington, DC, and today is July 4, I was unfortunately unable to watch it :(. Congratulations to the Italians.
Now for Portugal to beat France and take the cup...
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Nintendo World Cup can have up to four people playing on two teams at once. That would be pretty hard for only one person to control, but it would make a crazy movie.
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Okay, here's the movie of the completed child portion (213 MiB). For some reason, the audio lags behind the video as the movie progresses :(. I have no idea why this happens, but I'll hopefully find out by the time of the final movie.
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I suspect that this might be an issue on my end, but it seems that the audio lags slightly behind the video when I capture an AVI, even after encoding. This became quite noticeable with the OoT WIP AVI that I just encoded last night (child portion completed), which was about 4 seconds behind at one point, and possibly went as high as 6 or 7 seconds behind by the end of the movie. As the numbers indicate, it appears that the lag increases with the length of the movie. Does anyone know if this is an issue with the emulator?
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mwl wrote:
For AVI encoding purposes, Dacicus, I suppose you could include everything from the beginning to frame #285150 (1h 19m 12.50s), since Ganondorf entered the Sacred Realm and claimed the Triforce when Link was still a child.
Should I make a new AVI of the current WIP with all these new findings, or just wait?
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I thought that the Brazil - France game was horribly slow in the first half. I would have enjoyed it more if they would have been running around as much as after France scored. Also, that looked like offside when Henry made the goal, but I guess it wasn't.
I'm hoping that Portugal will win, but Germany seems more realistic.
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About bombchu bowling: There's some variability in the location of the second of the three targets. It can be in three different spots. I made Mupen64 movies of getting through the bowling with the second target in each spot. You can get them and the necessary snapshots here. They might be useful for positioning Link. The shortest one was about 32 seconds, but they're not optimized, so I think it will be easy to get below 30 seconds with frame advance and by moving into position as quickly as possible.
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To all the people asking for AVIs:
The latest one was on page 42. I'll make them based on the segments on mwl's wiki, unless there's some reason not to, so the next one will be after the child portion is complete.
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AKA wrote:
I'm a little bit embassed to say this but how do you resume recording
Did you check the FAQ? In most cases, you make a savestate and then load it after you pass the point while playing back the movie. Make sure it's not on read-only playback, though.
So, if I make any more AVIs, should I force it to encode at some other FPS? I mean, if the game runs at 20 FPS, but the menu at 60, wouldn't it still be wrong for one or the other regardless what settings I used?
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nitsuja wrote:
I hope the codec figured out that the game actually runs at 20 fps nearly all of the time, and doesn't give media players the impression that they need to update at 60 fps to keep up.
I'm not sure if it did. Here's a small part of the output when I load the movie in mplayer (emphasis added):
VIDEO: [h264] 640x480 24bpp 60.000 fps 301.4 kbps (36.8 kbyte/s)
Yet another problem :(. I should stop making the AVIs.
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Tub wrote:
The Publisher Guidelines mention that the TAS-disclaimer should be positioned during gameplay, so it'll stay in the video even if someone cuts the intro off.
Foiled again :(. Anyway, I'll upload the video in about half an hour, after I finish watching it.
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Well, I've found out how to add the disclaimer. Thanks to everyone who helped with that. If anyone wants to download a 30-second clip and tell me if the disclaimer should say anything else, feel free to do so here. I'm planning to encode the full "segment 1" overnight and upload it tomorrow morning, if it's done by then.
There aren't any instructions for making AVIs from Mupen64 there. While I assume they would be similar to the other instructions, it appears that I'm missing subfont.ttf and that the fps of the logo seems to be emulator-specific. Does anyone know anything about those?
I'll probably be able to do the encoding overnight tonight at the earliest, assuming I find/get info about making the disclaimer by then, so it looks like the AVI won't be up until tomorrow morning.
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mwl wrote:
Someone should make an AVI of segment 1. To make it easy for whoever's converting, segment 1 will be defined as everything between frame 1 (0'00.0") and frame 124110 (34'28.5"), inclusive.
I'll work on this. It'll be uploaded somewhere by tomorrow afternoon (Eastern time) at the earliest.
BTW, there was a bit of trouble last time since I didn't put some sort of disclaimer in the video saying it was done with emulator assistance, etc. Unfortunately, I still have no idea how to do this...
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I'm glad that Ecuador won, but I'm sad that T&T lost, since I want them to advance. Guess I'll have to go against all of you guys from Sweden and hope England and T&T both win their next games by a large enough margin so that T&T can still advance.
The only game I care much about tomorrow is Netherlands - Côte d'Ivoire. I've already commented on that, though.
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TNSe wrote:
Sweden had a period where it was fun to watch, but T/T did their best to keep it a dull fight >_<
Surely you jest. I thought it was entertaining, and I only caught a few minutes of video (mostly read the Matchcast). The fact that no team scored makes the group more interesting. I mean, who seriously expected anything other than a loss for T&T? Maybe they'll be like Senegal was in 2002.
/me hopes for T&T > England
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Guess how many Goals brasil will do. My Guess is 8
I don't think you should underestimate the Croatians. While I don't think it very likely that they will win, they're not newcomers to the tournament. Therefore, I don't have any predictions for the score.
My other hopes, though probably unlikely:
Côte d'Ivoire > Netherlands (For keeping Romania from reaching the tournament)
Ghana > USA (I have a habit of rooting against the team from where I'm living)
Ghana > Czech Republic (See Netherlands)
Togo > France
Togo > Korea Republic
Okay, so I guess I'm somewhat biased toward African teams.