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Posted: 11/6/2019 5:23 PM

Post subject: Re: Streaming encodes directly to Twitch.tv

Dacicus

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Masterjun wrote:

It is important to mention that this will stream the encode output, not the real time emulator: If you fast-forward, the stream will keep playing in regular console framerate.

This means that fast-forwarding will generate the same amount of data but over a shorter time period, right, just like dumping an AVI at various emulator speeds?

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Posted: 11/3/2019 7:03 AM

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The8bitbeast wrote:

Happy TASing from 🐻🐦 [image]

Those are the type of useful findings that we want on the game's resource page.

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Posted: 10/31/2019 7:34 PM
(Edited: 10/31/2019 7:39 PM)

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Actually, he gave us a choice, like the game gives you multiple paths to choose from:

EDIT: BTW, what are the contest rules regarding changing any of these settings?

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Posted: 10/31/2019 6:36 PM

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MUGG wrote:

It will probably be all for nothing because this will happen.

But "MMMM" didn't win DTC6...

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Posted: 10/30/2019 2:31 PM

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CPU players usually do not generate input in the form of button presses. Rather, they follow some algorithm that the programmers put in place to determine their behavior. You will likely need to analyze the game's code to find out if that trick is possible for a human to do.

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Posted: 10/26/2019 10:58 PM

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FilipeTales wrote:

Hello Dacicus, TiKevin83, negative seven-, may i join in your team?

Sure.

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Posted: 10/25/2019 11:22 PM

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TiKevin83 wrote:

Dacicus, negative_seven, and I (TiKevin83) will be teaming up as team "A Team Name" - GLHF everyone!

Confirming this.

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Posted: 10/17/2019 12:46 AM

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You beat me to hosting this. Anyway, I'm interested in participating. I don't have a team currently, so please put me in the individual list.

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Posted: 10/6/2019 12:34 AM

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Lil_Gecko wrote:

Now let's say that "blablabla" reaches the far right of the screen. Is there a way for the rest of the text to go automatically underneath blablabla

It sounds like you want the text to wrap to the next line automatically, but the reference for the current built-in Lua functions does not seem to have such an option.

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Posted: 10/4/2019 7:30 PM

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MUGG wrote:

As said, I'm checking if lines of A exist anywhere in file B. I tried with string.find(s, pattern) but pattern misbehaves if I want to search for characters like - * % $ [ ] etc.

Have you tried the additional arguments to string.find from the official documentation? I think that the plain argument might do what you want: string.find(s, pattern, 1, true)

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Posted: 10/4/2019 6:30 PM

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Probably not the most elegant solution, but this works with some test files I made:

Language: lua
local file_name_A = "C:\\path\\to\\A.txt"
local file_name_B = "C:\\path\\to\\B.txt"

local file_A, file_B, line_A, line_B

local matched_lines = {}

file_A = io.open(file_name_A, "r")
file_B = io.open(file_name_B, "r")

if (file_A ~= nil) and (file_B ~= nil) then
  file_A:close()
  file_B:close()  

  for line_A in io.lines(file_name_A) do
    for line_B in io.lines(file_name_B) do
      if line_A == line_B then
        table.insert(matched_lines, line_A)
      end
    end
  end

  file_A = io.open(file_name_A, "w")
  for i = 1, #matched_lines do
    file_A:write(matched_lines[i])
    file_A:write("\n")
  end
  file_A:close()
end

Also, please be aware of this issue regarding file reading.

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Posted: 10/4/2019 2:15 PM

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MUGG wrote:

I need a script that reads lines in text file A.txt, and checks if they are present in text file B.txt. If not, the lines are deleted from A.txt.

Does the order of the lines matter, or are you looking just for individual line matches between the files?

MUGG wrote:

I figured someone good can come up with a solution in 1 min so I don't have to spend 30 mins working on it. :P

You don't get better if you don't practice. :P

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Posted: 10/3/2019 6:23 PM

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In case you don't get many replies here, you might find more information at ROMhacking.net or in the SNES subforum at NesDev.com.

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Posted: 10/1/2019 2:07 AM

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The enthusiasm in your submission text inspired me to watch this, and I definitely found it entertaining. The banter among the players was hilarious in the context of what was happening, and it made up for the repetitive plays. LOL at those fumbles immediately followed by touchdowns. The CPU defenders made some really weird tackle attempts against you, like jumping straight ahead when your player was to the side. Obviously starting play so close to the end zone after a touchdown was not a good idea. Yes vote.

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Posted: 9/26/2019 7:25 PM

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The current record completes 1-1 with 370 on the timer, so your movie does have room for improvement. I don't know enough about SMB to tell you where you're losing time, but have you read through the game's resource page?

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Posted: 9/22/2019 6:19 AM

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I'll pre-claim this for publication.

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Posted: 9/21/2019 3:36 AM

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It's OK as far as "mario jumping backwards." A submission to the site, however, would need to complete the game and beat the current record, which is probably either this or this, depending on what branch you're going for. Please review these rules before submitting a movie.

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Posted: 9/20/2019 12:32 AM

Post subject: Experimental PCem setup

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There may be some progress toward TASing Java games via PCem. Similar to the Flash situation, I have been able to run games in Tiny Core 7.0, this time by using the OpenJDK 8 JRE. Both FreeJ2ME and MicroEmulator work to various degrees. Sound may not work, likely due to an error in how PCem emulates the ES1371 / Sound Blaster PCI 128 card. You can get the hard disk image for experimentation here (size approximately 67.5 MiB). See the readme file for a possible workaround for the sound issue. This is the process I've used to get games running:

After reaching the boot prompt, mount the device that contains the emulator and the game files. For example, sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom.
Create a file to run the emulator after the X server starts. For example, echo /usr/local/openjdk-8/jre/bin/java -jar /path/to/freej2me.jar > .X.d/java (tab completion is your friend)
Run xsetup to set up graphics and mouse options.
Run startx to actually start the X server.
Open the game's JAR file from within the emulator.

FreeJ2ME does take command-line arguments for loading games. It seems to expect an URI pointing to the JAR file, followed by optional numbers for the width and height of the display. Something along the lines of file://localhost/path/to/game.jar 100 200 should work to load game.jar with a width of 100 pixels and height of 200 pixels. So that echo line from above would become

echo /usr/local/openjdk-8/jre/bin/java -jar /path/to/freej2me.jar file://localhost/path/to/game.jar 100 200 > .X.d/java

The notes from this post still apply.

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Posted: 8/8/2019 4:54 AM
(Edited: 6/4/2022 5:06 PM)

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In case anyone is interested, I made another hard disk image with Tiny Core 7.0 here. This one has a few boot choices to load different sets of dependencies, which should make it easier to test things. Readme.txt has more details. As before, you need to provide the FP executable and SWF files.

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Posted: 5/17/2019 3:46 AM

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For the encode, what was your method for editing in the music?

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Posted: 5/4/2019 7:01 PM
(Edited: 6/4/2022 5:06 PM)

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The hard disk image is available here. It's actually closer to 36.5 MiB; the previous version did not include Xorg. The disk geometry is indicated in its name. The archive includes a Readme.txt explaining how I made the image. In order to get FP working, you need to enter this in the command line in the home directory:

echo /path/to/flashplayer /path/to/game > .X.d/fp

You can change fp to some other file name. You should set your screen resolution and mouse details by running xsetup. Then just type startx and have fun. A few notes:

Tiny Core works in RAM and does not save many things to the hard disk when powering off. This means that most graphics settings, game settings, files created, etc. will be gone the next time you boot. Read the documentation at https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/ to learn how to save things between sessions.
The CD drive is usually /dev/sr0 in PCem.
You need to use sudo to mount and unmount.
Shift+Alt+Q quits dwm.
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace exits the X server and gets you back to the command line.
Remember that FP11 probably needs a more advanced processor than any currently emulated by PCem.

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Posted: 5/2/2019 8:01 PM

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The premise seems interesting. Graphics department could have used some pointers from the guys who did that new Pikachu movie, though.

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Posted: 4/30/2019 5:44 AM
(Edited: 6/4/2022 5:06 PM)

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A correction: I got FP9 working in PCem. FP11 requires a CPU with SSE2 capabilities, and I don't believe PCem emulates any of those yet. FP10 also seems to require something more than PCem can handle. I did get FP11 working in QEMU using a hard disk image that I set up in PCem. This required the -cpu pentium3 argument to QEMU. FP10 required -cpu pentium2. EDIT: I've made a hard disk image with Tiny Core 7.0 installed and that includes the dependencies for both FP9 and FP11. It's about 30 MiB when archived with 7-Zip and expands to 200 MiB. By default, it loads the gtk2, Xprogs, Xvesa, and oss extensions that allow FP9 to work, including sound. The extensions and their dependencies are all available from the Tiny Core repository here. You'll need to provide FP itself and the game/movie. The image also loads a custom build of dwm 6.1 that defaults to the monocle layout so that FP (or whatever program) starts in a maximized window. The only change to dwm's source code was moving this line:

{ "[M]",      monocle },

before this one:

{ "[]=",      tile },    /* first entry is default */

in config.h. I also changed dwm's config.mk to say

FREETYPEINC = /usr/local/include/freetype2

as per the instructions available in this file, then commented out the OpenBSD FREETYPEINC line. I'll link the hard disk image unless someone has concerns about the legality of doing so. There will be a few steps necessary to set the screen resolution and actually start FP, but this should otherwise be ready for experimentation.

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